To Charles Lyell [1847 or 1848]1
Down. Bromley.
Tuesday.
My dear Lyell.
I happen to be in a great bustle—but just send one line in answer to your note2 to say that in Fitz Roys volume Vol II p 359 there is a very good (i.e. very faithful) representation of a glacier entering the sea, viewed from a distance.—3 I am sure I have somewhere seen a nearer view.— There is a distant one, but very poor in Scoresby.4
I think Gaimards Great Expedition to the North is published (perhaps in the Athenaeum Club)5 & that would be sure to have drawings, taken for very geological object, as the naturalist Martens has written, as you know, on subject.—6
I am not well acquainted with Parry Franklin, or Ross’7 works.
Farewell for present. | C. Darwin.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Franklin, John. 1823. Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819, 20, 21, and 22. London: John Murray.
Ross, James Clark. 1847. A voyage of discovery and research in the southern and Antarctic regions, during the years 1839–43. 2 vols. London: John Murray.
Ross, John. 1835. Narrative of a second voyage in search of a North-west passage: and of a residence in the Arctic regions during the years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833: including the reports of Commander, now Captain, James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. and the discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole. London: A. W. Webster.
Scoresby, William. 1820. An account of the Arctic regions, with a history and description of the northern whale-fishery. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh, and Hurst, Robinson and Co., London.
Summary
Replies to note from CL asking about views of glaciers.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13825F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 146: 329
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13825F,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13825F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13 (Supplement)