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From J. L. Stokes   6 November 1846

Summary

Is upset by what has happened [see 1017], but does not know how CD’s note reached Grey.

Author:  John Lort Stokes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Nov 1846
Classmark:  Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (1))
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1019

From J. D. Hooker   [24 November 1846]

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Thanks for reading paper. Accepts CD’s criticisms; discussion of some points.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [24 Nov 1846]
Classmark:  DAR 100: 77–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1032

From J. E. Gray   [1846–54]

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Lateral teeth in Arcadae.

Author:  John Edward Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1846–54]
Classmark:  DAR 205.5: 216 (Letters)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13814

From Roderick Impey Murchison   [1846?]

Summary

Gives CD page references [in The new statistical account of Scotland, vol. 14, pp 446, 507] for information regarding parallel roads.

Author:  Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1846?]
Classmark:  DAR 171: 319
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13830

From W. D. Fox   [1 June 1846]

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Hybrid geese.

Author:  William Darwin Fox
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1 June 1846]
Classmark:  DAR 205.7: 280
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-588

From G. B. Sowerby   [1846]

Summary

Note on editorial details concerning names of fossil shells [for South America, appendix]. The Latin for "Darwin" is "Darvinius".

Author:  George Brettingham Sowerby
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1846]
Classmark:  DAR 43.1: 5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-939

From G. B. Sowerby   17 January 1846

Summary

Describes his reasoning in classifying CD’s Turritella ambulacrum specimens into two sorts. GBS holds that distinguishing characters, whether of species or varieties, should always be noticed. [See South America, appendix, pl. III, fig. 49.]

Author:  George Brettingham Sowerby
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Jan 1846
Classmark:  DAR 43.1: 1c–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-943

From A. C. V. D. d’Orbigny   31 January 1846

Summary

Sends identifications of CD’s Bahia Blanca fossil shells [see 830].

Author:  Alcide Charles Victor Dessalines (Alcide) d’Orbigny
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  31 Jan 1846
Classmark:  DAR 39.2: 128–9, DAR 43.1: 66–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-946

From J. D. Hooker   1 February 1846

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Goes on the assumption that each species has one origin, is immutable, and migrates.

Disagrees with Gaudichaud[-Beaupré] that volcanic island species are polymorphous.

Some mundane genera vary, others do not (Senecio vs Gnaphalium).

John Lindley’s doctrine of longevity of trees is amazing.

Edward Forbes’s health is better.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 Feb 1846
Classmark:  DAR 100: 60–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-947

From G. B. Sowerby   7 February 1846

Summary

Gives his opinion on the tropical character of fossil shells listed by CD. The shells of Navidad [Chile] are not particularly tropical.

Author:  George Brettingham Sowerby
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Feb 1846
Classmark:  DAR 43.1: 3–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-949

From Edward Forbes   [25 February 1846]

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Answers CD’s objections with botanical and geological arguments supporting the existence of an ancient post-Miocene land extending over what is now the Mediterranean and past the Azores in the Atlantic [EF’s "Atlantis" theory in "On the connexion between the distribution of the existing fauna and flora of the British Isles and the geological changes which have affected their area", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846): 336–432].

Author:  Edward Forbes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [25 Feb 1846]
Classmark:  DAR 164: 151
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-956

From J. D. Hooker   2 [March] 1846

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Thanks for Edward Forbes’s letter. Botanical evidence conflicts with parts of his theory but supports others. Is becoming more of a migrationist.

Bentham agrees with JDH on polymorphism.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 [Mar] 1846
Classmark:  DAR 100: 63–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-958

From C. G. Ehrenberg   11 March 1846

Summary

Describes Infusoria in Rio Gallegos samples.

"Fluthgebiete" means estuary deposit.

Discusses dust samples from Malta. Asks for further samples.

Author:  Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Mar 1846
Classmark:  DAR 39: 62–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-960

From J. D. Hooker   [25 March 1846]

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JDH recognises the existence of "altered states" of continental species in island floras. The botanists’ difficulty in determining a new species is no grounds for dismissing the important question of altered forms.

Will look for Ascension plants for Ehrenberg.

French Galapagos collections confirm JDH’s view that plants arrived from north.

Cannot agree with Forbes on North Atlantic flora.

Botanical definition of "highness" and "lowness" usually means complexity and simplicity.

Some plants, such as aquatic ones, are cleistogamous. Cannot see why they should not be.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [25 Mar 1846]
Classmark:  DAR 104: 188–91
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-964

From J. D. Hooker   [11–15 April 1846]

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Hugh Falconer gives no specific objections to Forbes’s views.

Botanical contrast between Cape of Good Hope and the rest of Africa is as strong as that between Australia and India.

Wishes CD would leave off snuff.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [11–15 Apr 1846]
Classmark:  DAR 104: 205
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-966

From J. D. Hooker   30 March 1846

Summary

Sends specimens of grasses from Ascension Island for CD to forward to Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg.

Includes list of indigenous flowering plants of Ascension Island.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  30 Mar 1846
Classmark:  Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN/HBSB, N005 NL Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Nr. 123 Bl. 9)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-967F

From G. R. Waterhouse   [30 March 1846]

Summary

Sends a list of mammalian remains found in the Buenos Aires district and purchased by the British Museum.

Author:  George Robert Waterhouse
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [30 Mar 1846]
Classmark:  DAR 39: 64–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-968

From William Hopkins   27 April 1846

Summary

Writes concerning CD’s "geometrico-geological problem". Attempts to square some of CD’s observations with certain geometrical theories concerning geological elevation.

Author:  William Hopkins
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 Apr 1846
Classmark:  DAR 39: 54–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-975

From William Hopkins   5 May 1846

Summary

Discussion of CD’s geological problem, relating to elevation of laminated beds around a rising granitic ridge.

Author:  William Hopkins
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 May 1846
Classmark:  DAR 39: 57–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-978

From George Grey   10 May 1846

Summary

Returns letter from CD to J. L. Stokes [see 940 and 1030].

Author:  George Grey
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 May 1846
Classmark:  DAR 144: 121c
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-979
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