To the Geological Society of London [c. 28 December 1863]
Summary
Recommendation of the admission of George Maw to the fellowship of the Geological Society of London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Geological Society of London |
Date: | [c. 28 Dec 1863] |
Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/F/1/6 No.2179) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4360F |
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- … No.2179) Charles Robert Darwin unstated [c. 28 Dec 1863] Geological Society of London …
- … To the Geological Society of London [ c. 28 December 1863] …
To George Maw 12 May [1863]
Summary
Believes GM’s human bones from Gibraltar must be of very doubtful age. Lyell agrees, but feels any skull found should be forwarded to George Busk or Hugh Falconer.
Suggests GM look carefully for shells in the drift.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Maw |
Date: | 12 May [1863] |
Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4157 |
From Hugh Falconer 10 September 1863
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Sept 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4298 |
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- … of the Geological Society of London 19 (1863): xviii). CD was undergoing treatment at …
- … secretary of the Geological Society of London on 20 February 1863 ( Quarterly Journal …
To Joseph Prestwich 3 January 1880
Summary
JP is right; CD gave up [Glen Roy theory] when he read T. F. Jamieson ["On the parallel roads of Glen Roy", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 19 (1863): 235–58].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Prestwich |
Date: | 3 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 253 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12397 |
From John Coghlan 13 July 1871
Summary
JC offers to collect information under CD’s guidance.
Gives some notes on the colours of different horse breeds.
Mentions a wild duck that appears to be polygamous
and his observations on male ostriches with broods of young.
Author: | John Coghlan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 July 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 164 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7864 |
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- … 1862. ] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 19 (1863): 68–71. [ Shorter …
To J. V. Carus 17 January 1877
Summary
JVC’s publisher [Schweizerbart] must decide soon how many copies of two maps in Volcanic islands and South America are needed.
Has sent new edition of Orchids – greatly altered, but he hopes improved.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 17 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 156–157) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10799 |
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- … 1862. ] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 19 (1863): 68–71. [ Shorter …
From S. P. Woodward 5 June 1863
Summary
Has been writing a notice of H. W. Bates’s "capital book" [Naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)].
P. M. Duncan’s coral paper [J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 29 (1863): 406–58] strengthens SPW’s belief in the general diffusion of marine forms westward in the course of time.
Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 June 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4204 |
To J. V. Carus 23 November 1876
Summary
Tells JVC what changes have been made in the new edition of his geological book [Volcanic islands and South America].
Does not know why he doubted about the Atlantic dust paper – now thinks it worth translating.
Glad JVC has not found Cross and self-fertilisation as intolerably dull as CD feared. Answers his queries about Cross and self-fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 23 Nov 1876 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 150–151) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10686 |
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- … 1862. ] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 19 (1863): 68–71. [ Shorter …
To T. F. Jamieson 24 January [1863]
Summary
Impressed with TFJ’s Glen Roy paper.
TFJ has treated CD’s errors very gently.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Francis Jamieson |
Date: | 24 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | McConnochie 1901, pp. 236–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3941F |
To the Geological Society of London 5 May 1876
Summary
Asking to borrow three wood blocks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Geological Society of London |
Date: | 5 May 1876 |
Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/19/188) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10496F |
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- … 1862. ] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 19 (1863): 68–71. [ Shorter …
From Emile Alglave 13 January 1877
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Asks whether CD has any observations to make on J. R. L. Delboeuf’s article ["Les mathématiques et la transformisme"] in Revue Scientifique [2d ser. 29 (1877): 669–79]. He would be pleased to receive a letter or article for publication.
Author: | Émile Alglave |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10786 |
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- … 1862. ] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 19 (1863): 68–71. [ Shorter …
From Thomas Francis Jamieson 28 January 1863
Summary
Grateful for CD’s commendation of his Glen Roy paper ["Parallel roads of Glen Roy", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 19 (1863): 235–59].
Reading Justus Liebig [trans. William Gregory, Animal chemistry or organic chemistry (1842)] has suggested that pattern of evolutionary succession might depend on differential need for soil minerals.
Author: | Thomas Francis Jamieson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3952 |
To Andrew Crombie Ramsay 29 April [1863]
Summary
Interested in ACR’s Presidential Address [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 19 (1863): xxix–lii] on the breaks in succession (of formations). Hopes ACR will provide a diagram of breaks, with the percentage of fossils that "pass upwards", i.e., continue to appear.
Horrified at Huxley’s geology.
Wishes ACR would discuss "creeps".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 29 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.9: 1 (EH 88205974) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4131 |
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- … address to the Geological Society of London on 20 February 1863; it was printed in the …
To A. C. Ramsay 14 December [1862]
Summary
Thanks ACR for Catalogue; pleased some of his volcanic specimens have been included.
Will review T. F. Jamieson’s paper on Glen Roy. Knows the facts and knows too well that he [CD] is everlastingly smashed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 14 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.9: 5 (EH 88205978) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3860 |
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To Asa Gray 14 July [1862]
Summary
Adaptations of orchid flowers. Believes the structure of all irregular flowers is adaptation to insect fertilisation.
Linum grandiflorum distinguishes its own pollen so that when placed on stigma of same flower the pollen-tube is not even exserted.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 14 July [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (70) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3656 |
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- … 1862 ( Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 19 (1863): xxxii). ‘Dimorphic …
From E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 11 July 1862
Author: | E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3654 |
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- … 62 ( Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 19 (1863): xxxiii). Bronn was …
To T. F. Jamieson 21 November 1862
Summary
CD expresses his high opinion of TFJ’s scientific qualifications for lecturing on agriculture.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Francis Jamieson |
Date: | 21 Nov 1862 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (MS.5406:171–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3818 |
To William Buckland [November 1840 – 17 February 1841]
Summary
He encloses an unidentified paper received from R. I. Murchison the previous day.
Is unable to provide information about Dr Du Gard.
Appreciates the maps of Glen Roy sent by WB. Would welcome the opinions of WB and Louis Agassiz concerning the parallel roads but cannot give up the idea of their marine origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Buckland |
Date: | [Nov 1840 – 17 Feb 1841] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Buckland papers, Glaciation /4 (iv)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-641A |
From George Maw 1 June 1865
Summary
Reports a monstrous pig that looks like an elephant. It was born of a pregnant sow which had been frightened by a circus elephant. He offers the monster, which died at birth, to any London museum.
Author: | George Maw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 June 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4847 |
To Charles Lyell 23 [October 1861]
Summary
Comments especially on the "intermediate shelf" problem of Glen Roy; views of Jamieson and Milne. CD "cannot help a sneaking hope that the sea might have formed the horizontal shelves".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 23 [Oct 1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.269) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3295 |
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Phillips, John | (1) |
Prestwich, Joseph | (1) |
Ramsay, A. C. | (4) |
Salter, J. W. | (1) |
Tyndall, John | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (38) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Ramsay, A. C. | (6) |
Jamieson, T. F. | (5) |
Carus, J. V. | (2) |
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
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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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- … This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the …
Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network
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The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but he broadened his continuing investigations into the nature and origin of species. Far from being a recluse, Darwin was at the heart of British scientific society,…
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Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … In 1865, the chief work on Charles Darwin’s mind was the writing of The variation of animals and …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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- … On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July …
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
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- … As the sheer volume of his correspondence indicates, 1862 was a particularly productive year for …
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
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Thomas Henry Huxley
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Dubbed “Darwin’s bulldog” for his combative role in controversies over evolution, Huxley was a leading Victorian zoologist, science popularizer, and education reformer. He was born in Ealing, a small village west of London, in 1825. With only two years of…
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- … Dubbed “Darwin’s bulldog” for his combative role in controversies over evolution, Huxley was a …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and …
How old is the earth?
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One of Darwin’s chief difficulties in making converts to his views, was convincing a sceptical public, and some equally sceptical physicists, that there had been enough time since the advent of life on earth for the slow process of natural selection to…
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- … One of Darwin’s chief difficulties in making converts to his views, was convincing a sceptical …
Robert FitzRoy
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Robert FitzRoy was captain of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men lived in the closest proximity, their relationship revealed by the letters they exchanged while Darwin left the ship to explore the countries visited during the…
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Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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- … Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his …