To Richard Owen [March? 1840]
Summary
Sends a proof title page and asks RO to send a list of plates and contents [of Fossil mammalia] to the printer, Mr Stewart.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [Mar? 1840] |
| Classmark: | Christie’s, New York (dealers) (29 October 1993) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-559F |
Matches: 15 hits
- … RO to send a list of plates and contents [of Fossil mammalia ] to the printer, Mr Stewart. …
- … the temporary title, now affixed to no. I of Fossil Mammalia. Please to observe that it is …
- … whole work, & matches the general one to Mammalia (which was given in last no. of birds). …
- … manuscript of the final number of Fossil Mammalia by the end of the first week of March. …
- … of publication of the last number of Fossil Mammalia was 1 March; it was not, however, …
- … London directory ). The plates for Fossil Mammalia were the work of George Scharf (see …
- … was 1 March. The final number of Fossil Mammalia was published in April 1840 ( Freeman …
- … 1977 ). Fossil Mammalia , by Richard Owen , contained four of the nineteen numbers that …
- … s Zoology. The first number of Fossil Mammalia appeared in February 1838 with a temporary …
- … of Zoology , the final number of Fossil Mammalia was issued with a title page (to which CD …
- … of all the separate numbers of Fossil Mammalia in a single volume as Part I of Zoology. …
- … above the title and author of the part. Mammalia , by George Robert Waterhouse , is Part …
- … 1839, before Part I. The title page of Mammalia , issued in September 1839 with the last …
- … On the published title page of Fossil Mammalia , Owen’s titles are given as ‘professor of …
- … s text of the final number of Fossil Mammalia (see n. 1, above). The original scheme, …
From Charles Lyell 28 August 1860
Summary
Objections to Origin which Owen and Wilberforce could have used. Why have incipient mammalian forms not arisen from lower vertebrates on islands separated since Miocene period? Knows CD would not derive Eocene Mammalia from higher reptiles, but would bats not be modified into other mammalian forms on an ancient island? This is not the case in New Zealand. Why have island seals not become terrestrial? Assumes rate of change is greatest in mammals. Difficulties are small compared with ability to explain absence of Mammalia in pre-Pliocene islands. Asks about descent of Amblyrhynchus. Believes objections apply equally well to independent creation of animal types, but not if the First Cause is allowed completely free agency.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Aug 1860 |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/6: 164–71) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2900A |
Matches: 14 hits
- … come into play, it may be said that no mammalia were wanted because it was foreseen that …
- … period? Knows CD would not derive Eocene Mammalia from higher reptiles, but would bats not …
- … compared with ability to explain absence of Mammalia in pre-Pliocene islands. Asks about …
- … discussed the geographical distribution of Mammalia and batrachians in Origin , pp. 393– …
- … The grand argument from absence of mammalia & batrachians in Oceanic islands is probably …
- … they must have retained some of the smaller mammalia. Also if atolls be remnants of sunk …
- … would prefer I conceive to derive Eocene mammalia from the Microlestes of the Trias rather …
- … ancient the bats would be modified into mammalia of other genera & orders long before any …
- … a dominant mammalian volant fauna & some lose their wings & become non-volant mammalia? …
- … Or why did not seals & marine mammalia turn terrestrial in their habits if they had such a …
- … in as much as the rate of change in mammalia is more rapid than in inferior grades & …
- … there have been in Europe several changes of mammalia since the Upper Miocene period. The …
- … shells would change much more slowly than mammalia. Still I grant that the conversion of a …
- … transmutation in the case of absence of mammalia & frogs from remote islands while they …
Dawkins, William Boyd. 1878. A preliminary treatise on the relation of the Pleistocene Mammalia to those now living in Europe. Part A of The British Pleistocene Mammalia, by William Boyd Dawkins. Palaeontographical Society vol. 32. London: Palæontographical Society.
Waterhouse, George Robert. 1846. A natural history of the Mammalia. Vol. 1, Marsupiata or pouched animals. London.
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- … Robert. 1846. A natural history of the Mammalia. Vol. 1, Marsupiata or pouched animals. …
Waterhouse, George Robert. 1846–8. A natural history of the Mammalia. 2 vols. London: H. Baillière.
Matches: 1 hit
- … George Robert. 1846–8. A natural history of the Mammalia. 2 vols. London: H. Baillière. RB …
Marshall, John. 1849. On the development of the great anterior veins in man and mammalia; including an account of certain remnants of foetal structure found in the adult, a comparative view of these great veins in the different mammalia, and an analysis of their occasional peculiarities in the human subject. [Read 21 June 1849.] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 140 (1850): 133–70.
From James Murphy 10 May 1876
Summary
A reader of Descent offers two items: 1. Masters observed a pericardial fold in humans and other mammals which is a vestigial left superior vena cava;
2. JM suggests the frenum of the human penis became necessary for vis-à-vis copulation when man became bipedal.
| Author: | James Murphy |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 323 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10503 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … has described (“On the development of Man & Mammalia” Philosoph. Trans. 1850) “a vestgial …
- … Marshall refers to ‘Marsupials and some other Mammalia’ ( J. Marshall 1849 , p. 160), not …
- … of the great anterior veins in man and mammalia; including an account of certain remnants …
- … view of these great veins in the different mammalia, and an analysis of their occasional …
- … penis was without a frænum—as most of the Mammalia) copulation took place vis-a-dos but …
Horsfield, Thomas. 1851. A catalogue of the Mammalia in the museum of the Hon. East-India Company. London: W. H. Allen & Co.
Matches: 1 hit
- … Horsfield, Thomas. 1851. A catalogue of the Mammalia in the museum of the Hon. East-India …
Linnaeus, Carolus (Carl von Linné). 1761. Fauna Suecica sistens animalia Sueciæ regni: mammalia, aves, amphibia, pisces, insecta, vermes. 2d ed. Stockholm.
Matches: 1 hit
- … Suecica sistens animalia Sueciæ regni: mammalia, aves, amphibia, pisces, insecta, vermes. …
Owen, Richard. 1846d. On the geographical distribution of extinct Mammalia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 17: 197–200.
Matches: 1 hit
- … the geographical distribution of extinct Mammalia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History …
Owen, Richard. 1871. Monograph of the fossil mammalia of the Mesozoic formations. London: Palaeontographical Society.
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- … Owen, Richard. 1871. Monograph of the fossil mammalia of the Mesozoic formations. London: …
Blyth, Edward. 1864. Notes on sundry Mammalia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1864): 482–86.
Matches: 1 hit
- … Blyth, Edward. 1864. Notes on sundry Mammalia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of …
Waterhouse, George Robert. 1843. Observations on the classification of the Mammalia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12: 399–412.
Matches: 1 hit
- … Observations on the classification of the Mammalia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History …
Erxleben, Johann Christian Polycarp. 1777. Systema regni animalis per classes, ordines, genera, species, varietates cum synonymia et historia animalium. Classis I. Mammalia. Leipzig: Weygand.
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- … cum synonymia et historia animalium. Classis I. Mammalia. Leipzig: Weygand. BHL 24 …
To Richard Owen 24 [February 1840]
Summary
Asks RO whether he has any MS [of Fossil Mammalia, no. 4] ready and to see that the plates are finished.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 24 [Feb 1840] |
| Classmark: | The Royal College of Surgeons of England (MS0025/1/5/11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-557 |
To Annals and Magazine of Natural History [December 1846]
Summary
Discusses enclosed MS of CD’s review [of G. R. Waterhouse, A natural history of the Mammalia, vol. 1 (1846); Collected papers 1: 214–17].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Annals and Magazine of Natural History |
| Date: | [Dec 1846] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.56) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1000 |
To Richard Owen 28 [December 1837]
Summary
Sends perfect revise of "Toxodon" [Fossil Mammalia] which he has read and marked.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 28 [Dec 1837] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/209) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-395 |
To A. Y. Spearman 16 February 1838
Summary
Encloses the account of Smith, Elder & Co. for the first part of "The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle" [Fossil Mammalia].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1838 |
| Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-402A |
Cantor, Theodore Edward. 1846. Catalogue of Mammalia inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula and Islands. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 15, pt 1: 171–203, 241–279.
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- … Cantor, Theodore Edward. 1846. Catalogue of Mammalia inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula and …
Catalogue of the fossil Mammalia in the British Museum (Natural History). By Richard Lydekker. 5 vols. London: Taylor and Francis. 1885–7.
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- … Catalogue of the fossil Mammalia in the British Museum ( Natural History ). By Richard …
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Geology in Commentary
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
Summary
This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…
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- … —A sketch of the deposits containing extinct Mammalia in the neighbourhood of the Plata. …
