From Thomas Stanley 24 January 1872
Tullamore
24 Jan 1872
Sir
In your origin of Species I find an allusion to the glacial Researches of Doctors Haast and Hector in New Zealand.1 I take some interest in antient glaciers, and would be much obliged, if you will say, are the researches published in our language?2 and if they are, what is the title of the book? and is it possible for me to obtain it through a bookseller?
In Procuring a copy of your “naturalists voyage”, I had some faint hopes of the subject being adverted to again.3 You give maories, and missionaries, but none of the ices of the antipodes; nor so much of a stone as a would be geologist dare to sit upon
I had no expectations from Jukes, consequently am not disappointed in his “Letters”.4 He deplores the conduct of gentry of supposed amiability, to whose good guardianship he had consigned his lady relatives in England. As he was a devotee of the glacial and fossil religion, He should have ballasted his correspondence with a few ices and lithological speciemens from that other hemisphere, the would have served my turn, and they should be of immense service to amity in her administrations of cool admonition to His Excellency and others, when they forgetful of their dignity, turned to rend the lambs on her pastures, and devour the eggs on her hen-coops
Hoping to be excused for this intrusion | I remain your obedient Servant | Thomas Stanley
Footnotes
Bibliography
Browne, C. A. ed. 1871. Letters and extracts from the addresses and occasional writings of J. Beete Jukes. London: Chapman and Hall.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Journal of researches 2d ed.: Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of HMS Beagle round the world, under the command of Capt. FitzRoy RN. 2d edition, corrected, with additions. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1845.
Origin 5th ed.: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. 5th edition, with additions and corrections. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1869.
Summary
Wants references to the work of Julius von Haast and James Hector on New Zealand glaciers, which CD mentions in the Origin [6th ed., p. 335].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8177
- From
- Thomas Stanley
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Tullamore
- Source of text
- DAR 177: 246
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8177,” accessed on 28 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8177.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20