To John Higgins 28 February [1848]
Summary
Arranges to pay subscription on 15 Feb and 16 Aug as requested by Mr Mason.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 28 Feb [1848] |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1159 |
To Robert Chambers [14 February – 20 March 1848]
Summary
Thanks RC for information on hand-level; he has recommended it in his "Instructions" ["Geology", Collected papers 1: 227–50].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Chambers |
Date: | [14 Feb – 20 Mar 1848] |
Classmark: | Watt Library, Greenock |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1160 |
From John Higgins 1 March 1848
Summary
Agrees to pay Mr Mason as requested.
Author: | John Higgins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1848 |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1161 |
To John Phillips 7 March [1848]
Summary
JP’s reference was clear, but seems to be different from the case cited by W. Hopkins about erratic conglomerate boulders. Asks for more details on the latter. CD does not think much of Hopkins’ paper ["Elevation and denudation of the district of the lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 4 (1848): 70–98].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Phillips |
Date: | 7 Mar [1848] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections (John Phillips collection)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1162 |
To John Phillips [12? March 1848]
Summary
Thanks JP for his note and reference. CD’s paper will not deal with the general question of erratics but only their transportal from a lower to a higher level ["The transportal of erratic boulders", Collected papers 1: 218–27]. His notion is that the boulders were transported by coast-ice, not drifting icebergs, and that during the period of transportal the land was subsiding. Can JP tell him whether the raised conglomerate boulders he observed were rounded or angular?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Phillips |
Date: | [12? Mar 1848] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections (John Phillips collection)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1163 |
To J. F. W. Herschel [21 March 1848]
Summary
Sends MS of his chapter on geology for Manual [Collected papers 1: 227–50]. Fears it may be too long. Does not much like it but can do no better. After hesitation, has recommended books. Defends his point that mere collection of rock specimens is "of hardly any use to Geology".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Frederick William Herschel, 1st baronet |
Date: | [21 Mar 1848] |
Classmark: | The Royal Society (HS6: 14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1164 |
To Robert Ball 25 March [1848]
Summary
Cannot give information about hook. Fuegian women fish without hooks.
Robert Mallet’s suggestion about space for specimens on board men-of-war forwarded to Sir J. Herschel.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Ball |
Date: | 25 Mar [1848] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (Fellows' Papers 54.i) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1165 |
To Richard Owen [26 March 1848]
Summary
Describes his new microscope and its advantages for dissecting. Suggests RO might discuss topic [in his contribution to J. F. W. Herschel, ed., Manual of scientific enquiry (1849)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | [26 Mar 1848] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1166 |
To William Alexander Baillie Hamilton 28 March [1848]
Summary
Sir John Herschel has not received the parcel of "Scientific Instructions", which was posted on the 15th. He requests an accurate search at the Admiralty.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Alexander Baillie Hamilton |
Date: | 28 Mar [1848] |
Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (ADM/5580 009075) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1166A |
To John Stevens Henslow [1 April 1848]
Summary
Thanks JSH for his address [Address delivered in the Ipswich Museum on 9th March 1848]. Questions a sentence which implies that only the practical use of a scientific discovery makes it worth while. The instinct for truth justifies science without any practical results. Cites his work on cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [1 Apr 1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1167 |
To Richard Owen [2 April 1848]
Summary
Apologises for length of notes of advice for microscopic work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | [2 Apr 1848] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Hyde 77: 2. 82. 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1167F |
To A. C. Ramsay 7 April [1848]
Summary
Asks ACR to establish height of Moel Tryfan in Caernarvonshire; "in my notice on this hill [""Ancient glaciers of Caernarvonshire"" (1842), Collected papers 1: 163–71] I give a very much less height than others". [See also another mention of the elevation of Moel Tryfan in "On the transportal of erratic boulders" (1848), Collected papers 1: 218–27.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 7 Apr [1848] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1168 |
To H. T. De la Beche 7 April [1848]
Summary
CD discusses questions about his coral reef theory that were raised by HTDlaB [in his Geol. Soc. Anniversary Address (1848)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Thomas De la Beche |
Date: | 7 Apr [1848] |
Classmark: | National Museum of Wales, Department of Natural Sciences (De la Beche) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1169 |
To John Phillips [7 or 14 April 1848]
Summary
Some geologists (especially H. T. De la Beche) doubt boulders have really been carried above their parent rock, but rather thought they were left behind as a result of denudation. Asks JP’s view of this, which he can quote. Supposes he will be well abused for his paper, but is resolved "not to show a white feather".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Phillips |
Date: | [7 or 14] Apr 1848 |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections (John Phillips collection)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1170 |
To Edward Cresy [May 1848]
Summary
May go to Paris next summer about barnacles.
Unable to appreciate second volume of Alexander von Humboldt’s Cosmos [1848].
Recommends review by Sir John Herschel [Edinburgh Rev. 87 (1848): 170–229].
Recommends book by Mary Somerville [Physical geography (1848)].
Mentions article [on species] by M. E. Chevreul [Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 3d ser. 6 (1846): 142–214].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | [May 1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 305 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1171 |
To John Innes [8 May 1848]
Summary
Encloses his £3 subscription to JBI’s Sunday School. Asks to reduce it in the future to £2 per annum.
Has been unwell.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | [8 May 1848] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1172 |
To J. F. W. Herschel 7 May [1848]
Summary
Sends MS of "Geology" for Manual [Collected papers 1: 227–50]. First parcel lost. Asks JFWH to give advice on an unclear note, translated from Élie de Beaumont, on measuring incline of lava-flows.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Frederick William Herschel, 1st baronet |
Date: | 7 May [1848] |
Classmark: | The Royal Society (HS6: 15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1173 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 May 1848
Summary
Confident of species theory as result of applying it to cirripede sexual systems.
CD’s opinion of E. Blyth. JDH should meet Blyth, inquire about domesticated varieties, study insular flora, solve coal-plant problem.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 May 1848 |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1174 |
To J. F. W. Herschel 11 May [1848]
Summary
Describes colour changes from blue to red in valves of operculum of the cirripede genus Ibla.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Frederick William Herschel, 1st baronet |
Date: | 11 May [1848] |
Classmark: | The Royal Society (HS6: 12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1175 |
To Emma Darwin [20–1 May 1848]
Summary
Reports on his father’s health, and Catherine’s. CD, himself, has been a little sick.
Hensleigh [Wedgwood] thinks he has settled the free-will question – "we have none whatsoever".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [20–1 May 1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1176 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Darwin, Catherine | (2) |
Langton, Catherine | (2) |
Breton, Philip le | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (6) |
Darwin, Emma | (6) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (6) |
Herschel, J. F. W. | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | (85) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (6) |
Darwin, Emma | (6) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (6) |
Gray, J. E. | (5) |