To J. D. Hooker [31 October 1847]
Summary
CD very ill; tries to arrange departure meeting with JDH.
CD’s guess at composition of Maldive flora.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [31 Oct 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 111 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1131 |
To J. D. Hooker [6 November 1847]
Summary
Now plans to come to Kew for an hour’s farewell if his stomach permits.
Congratulations on JDH’s Flora Antarctica [1847].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [6 Nov 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 109 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1133 |
To J. D. Hooker [8 November 1847]
Summary
CD too unwell to see JDH. Encloses Emma’s farewell note.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [8 Nov 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 110 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1134 |
To George Grey 13 November 1847
Summary
Responding to GG’s offer to aid CD’s natural history researches on New Zealand, CD suggests that limestone caverns should be examined for fossils and that observations on the presence and range of erratic boulders in New Zealand would be very valuable.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Grey |
| Date: | 13 Nov 1847 |
| Classmark: | Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (2)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1135 |
To Henri Milne-Edwards 18 November [1847]
Summary
Offers HM-E some specimens of Lernaea, a crustacean parasite on Balanus elongatus.
Mentions opinion of Harry Goodsir about a form CD believes to be the larva of Lernaea.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henri Milne-Edwards |
| Date: | 18 Nov [1847] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.66) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1136 |
To Abraham Clapham [29 October 1847?]
Summary
Accepts AC’s offer to conduct hybridisation experiments, and offers suggestions.
Sends book [Journal of researches, 2d ed. (1845)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Abraham Clapham |
| Date: | [29 Oct 1847?] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.47) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1137 |
To John Higgins 11 December [1847]
Summary
Discusses account. Glad that all is prosperous.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 11 Dec [1847] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1138 |
To J. E. Gray 18 December 1847
Summary
Seeks permission from the Trustees of the British Museum to borrow the cirripede specimens in the public collection. Explains his intention to produce a monograph of the Cirripedia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
| Date: | 18 Dec 1847 |
| Classmark: | British Museum (Central Archive ‘Original Papers’, vol. XXXVIII) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1139 |
To J. C. Ross 31 December 1847
Summary
Asks JCR to collect cirripedes for him on forthcoming expedition [to the Arctic in search of Sir John Franklin].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Clark Ross |
| Date: | 31 Dec 1847 |
| Classmark: | The Royal Society (Sa: 384) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1140 |
To John Edward Gray [18 December 1847]
Summary
Discusses loan of cirripede specimens from the British Museum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
| Date: | [18 Dec 1847] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.71) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1146 |
To William Baxter 2 October [1847?]
Summary
Reorders six 2–oz bottles with corks.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Baxter |
| Date: | 2 Oct [1847?] |
| Classmark: | Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13775 |
To Charles Lyell [1847 or 1848]
Summary
Replies to note from CL asking about views of glaciers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [1847 or 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 329 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13825F |
To Richard Owen [November 1847–51]
Summary
"I had not heard before of Whench [Whewell?] having scolded you; I am rather glad of it …
What a grand number of novelties Hooker no doubt will bring home".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [Nov 1847–51] |
| Classmark: | John K. Lattimer (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13833 |
To Richard Owen 23 December [1847–54]
Summary
Is searching for a tooth of Carcharias which he might have left with RO.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 23 Dec [1847-54] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13834 |
To Adolf Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe 5 May [1847]
Summary
Sends parcel of specimens for R. W. Bunsen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Adolf Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe |
| Date: | 5 May [1847] |
| Classmark: | Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (Briefsammlung Viewig 346, 346a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1569 |
To Richard Owen [6 March 1847]
Summary
A specimen of Machairodus offered for sale by F. J. Muñiz.
Discusses possible publication in England of paper by Muñiz describing the skeleton.
Sends pamphlet on scarlatina in the Pampas.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [6 Mar 1847] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/192) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-938 |
To Leonard Jenyns 21 [January 1847]
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of [The naturalist’s pocket] almanack edited by LJ. Suggests some improvements.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | 21 [Jan 1847] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1055 |
To Mary Elizabeth Lyell [4 October 1847]
Summary
Thanks Mrs Lyell for barnacle specimens.
Mentions Agassiz’s classification of saurians.
Discusses letter from Chambers on "roads" in Scottish glens; views of Agassiz and Buckland on the glens.
Is reading Hugh Miller [First impressions of England and its people (1847)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mary Elizabeth Horner; Mary Elizabeth Lyell |
| Date: | [4 Oct 1847] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.63) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1122 |
To Emma Darwin [31 October 1847]
Summary
Has had two bad days with boils.
Is reading Last days of Pompeii [Edward Bulwer Lytton (1834)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [31 Oct 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1132 |
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| Hooker, J. D. | (34) |
| Lyell, Charles | (8) |
| Owen, Richard | (5) |
| Royle, J. F. | (4) |
| Studer, Bernhard | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (99) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (34) |
| Lyell, Charles | (8) |
| Owen, Richard | (5) |
| Royle, J. F. | (4) |
