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To J. D. Hooker   22 June [1876]

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Returns Mrs Lyell’s versions of Lyell memorial inscription. Disapproves of religious tone.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  22 June [1876]
Classmark:  DAR 95: 413–14
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10543

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  • … Bibliography Lyell, Charles. 1830–3. Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain …
  • … this stone are the remains of Sir Charles Lyell | Author of Principles of Geology Born  …
  • … s suggestions for inscriptions on Charles Lyell’s memorial in Westminster Abbey; Hooker …

From J. D. Hooker   20 June 1876

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JDH’s suggested text for Lyell’s tablet in Westminster Abbey.

Vigner[?] separates digestive principle from Nepenthes, disproving R. L. Tait.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 June 1876
Classmark:  DAR 104: 57–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10540

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  • … 1846–1946. Gloucester: J. Bellows. Lyell, Charles. 1830–3. Principles of geology, being an …
  • Charles Lyell died in 1875. Katherine Murray Lyell was his sister-in-law. Arthur Penrhyn …

To J. D. Hooker   21 June [1876]

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CD and family suggest inscriptions for Lyell memorial at Westminster Abbey.

CD communicating H. Airy’s paper on phyllotaxis to the Royal Society.

Frank observes pod-like emanations from glands of insectivorous plant ingesting solid insect particles [see 10520].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  21 June [1876]
Classmark:  DAR 95: 408–12
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10542

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  • … Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Lyell, Charles. 1830–3. Principles of geology, being an …
  • … asked to suggest an inscription for Charles Lyell’s memorial in Westminster Abbey. Someone …
  • … for the memorial was as follows: Charles Lyell Baronet F.R.S. Author of ‘The Principles of …

To G. H. Darwin   2 May [1876]

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Comments on the reaction of geologists to GHD’s work on elevation of continents.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Howard Darwin
Date:  2 May [1876]
Classmark:  DAR 210.1: 53
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10493

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  • … Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Lyell, Charles. 1872. Principles of geology or the …
  • … from G.  H.  Darwin, 1 May 1876 ). Charles Lyell had pointed out that if the globe was …

To Fritz Müller   11 December 1876

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FM’s new position in Rio.

CD interested in nature of surface deposits at Rio.

Sends a copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:  11 Dec 1876
Classmark:  The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 40) (EH 88205870)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10709

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  • … pp. 21–43), and corresponded with Charles Lyell about Agassiz’s work on it (see …
  • … Correspondence vol. 14, letters to Charles Lyell , 7 February [1866] and 8[–9] September [ …

From J. D. Hooker   [24 September 1876]

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JDH again expresses his condolences.

The Glasgow BAAS meeting was good, except for Tait’s shameful attack on Tyndall.

Immensely impressed on Scottish geological and glacial features. Is CD aware that the earth beneath Glen Roy roads was found to contain freshwater diatoms?

Recounts the itinerary of his honeymoon in Scotland.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [24 Sept 1876]
Classmark:  DAR 104: 62–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10605

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  • … Georgina Lyell was a sister of the late Charles Lyell . William Samuel Symonds was Hooker’ …
  • … with Rosamund, Arthur, Miss Lyell (Sophy, Sir Charles’ youngest sister & Mr Symonds. We …

To A. R. Wallace   5 June 1876

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Response to ARW’s "grand and memorable work" [Geographical distribution (1876)]. Most interesting part to CD is ARW’s "protest against sinking imaginary continents".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  5 June 1876
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10531

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  • … breathing snails and slugs. CD complained to Charles Lyell about the submerged continents …
  • … Correspondence vol. 15, letter to Charles Lyell, 31 October [1867] . In his Experimental …

To James Geikie   26 October 1876

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Comments on JG’s book [The great ice age and its relation to the antiquity of man, 2d ed. (1877)]. Recalls erratic boulder he knew in Shropshire as a boy.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Murdoch (James) Geikie
Date:  26 Oct 1876
Classmark:  DAR 144: 330
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10655

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  • … Cotton (see ‘Recollections’ , p. 373). Charles Lyell had discussed the role of floating …

From J. W. Judd   15 November 1876

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Thanks for new edition of Coral reefs [1874]

and Volcanic islands [1876].

His travels and studies confirm CD’s explanation of the banded structure of lavas.

Author:  John Wesley Judd
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Nov 1876
Classmark:  DAR 168: 82
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10674

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  • … Correspondence vol. 22, letter from Charles Lyell, 25 September 1874 ). Second editions of …

To A. B. Buckley   11 February [1876]

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Comments on her new book [A short history of natural science (1876)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:  11 Feb [1876]
Classmark:  DAR 143: 179
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10387

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  • … pp. 223–4). Buckley discussed Charles Lyell’s work in establishing the uniformitarian …

To J. V. Carus   21 March 1876

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Glad to hear that [German edition of] Insectivorous plants is published.

Thanks for errata in Climbing plants [2d ed.].

Sends list [missing] of his papers, with those certainly not worth translating marked with a red line.

Reports on work in progress.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Julius Victor Carus
Date:  21 Mar 1876
Classmark:  Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 139–140)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10422

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  • … Correspondence vol. 22, letter from Charles Lyell, 25 September 1874 , and this volume, …

From A. B. Buckley   12 February 1876

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Thanks CD for letter complimenting her book. Responds to his comments on botany and geology in book.

Author:  Arabella Burton Buckley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Feb 1876
Classmark:  DAR 160: 365
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10389

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  • … 1879 , p. 332). Buckley had been Charles Lyell’s secretary from 1864 until his death in …
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Darwin in Conversation exhibition

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Meet Charles Darwin as you have never met him before. Come to our exhibition at Cambridge University Library, running from 9 July to 3 December 2022, and discover a fascinating series of interwoven conversations with Darwin's many hundreds of…

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  • … 9 July – 3 December 2022 Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University …