From Adam Sedgwick 4 September 1831
Author: | Adam Sedgwick |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Sept 1831 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-116 |
From Adam Sedgwick 18 September 1831
Summary
Is glad of CD’s appointment and hopes it will be a source of happiness and honour.
Answers a query about books.
Suggests CD go to Geological Society, present himself, as AS’s friend, to William Lonsdale and study the Society’s collection.
Tells CD of his work in Wales; includes a diagram and explanations.
Ramsay’s death a grievous loss.
Author: | Adam Sedgwick |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Sept 1831 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-129 |
From Adam Sedgwick 24 November 1859
Summary
Thanks CD for the Origin; AS has read the book "with more pain than pleasure". CD has deserted "the true method of induction" and many of his wide conclusions are "based upon assumptions which can neither be proved nor disproved". His "grand principle – natural selection" is "but a secondary consequence of supposed, or known, primary facts".
Author: | Adam Sedgwick |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Nov 1859 |
Classmark: | DAR 98: B17–18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2548 |
From Adam Sedgwick to the Geological Society of London 10 July 1837
Summary
Referee’s report on "Elevation on the coast of Chili" [(1838), Collected papers 1: 41–3] and paper by Alexander Caldcleugh on same subject. Recommends printing CD’s in Transactions and shortening Caldcleugh’s. [W. Lonsdale’s note shows CD’s paper withdrawn 15 Nov 1837, Caldcleugh’s ordered not printed 15 Nov 1837.]
Author: | Adam Sedgwick |
Addressee: | Geological Society of London |
Date: | 10 July 1837 |
Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/49) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-365 |
From Adam Sedgwick to the Geological Society of London [after 15 May 1838]
Summary
Referee report on CD’s "Volcanic phenomena in South America" [Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Deductions incontrovertible, but theoretical remarks not clearly stated.
Author: | Adam Sedgwick |
Addressee: | Geological Society of London |
Date: | [after 15 May 1838] |
Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/48) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-414 |
From Adam Sedgwick 11 October 1868
Summary
Congratulates CD on election of his son [George] as a Fellow of Trinity College.
Describes his ill health.
Invites CD to visit Cambridge.
[Letter dated November in error.]
Author: | Adam Sedgwick |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 129 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6416 |
From Adam Sedgwick 30 May 1870
Author: | Adam Sedgwick |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 May 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 128 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7209 |
To Thomas Spring Rice [before 7 July 1838]
Summary
Express their concern that the offer for sale to the British Museum, by G. A. Mantell and Thomas Hawkins, of two valuable collections, has been declined.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; William Buckland; Adam Sedgwick; John Phillips; William Whewell; Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Charles Stokes; William John Hamilton; Edward Stanley; Richard Owen; William Clift; Charles Babbage; John Bostock; Peter Mark Roget; John Taylor; Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2d Marquess of Northampton; William John Broderip |
Addressee: | Thomas Spring Rice |
Date: | [before 7 July 1838] |
Classmark: | House of Commons papers; accounts and papers, 1837/38, XXXVI, 307 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-421F |
letter | (8) |
Sedgwick, Adam | |
Babbage, Charles | (1) |
Bostock, John | (1) |
Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
Buckland, William | (1) |
Clift, William | (1) |
Compton, S. J. A. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Hamilton, W. J. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Murchison, R. I. | (1) |
Owen, Richard | (1) |
Phillips, John | (1) |
Roget, P. M. | (1) |
Stanley, Edward | (1) |
Stokes, Charles | (1) |
Taylor, John | (1) |
Whewell, William | (1) |
Sedgwick, Adam | (8) |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Geological Society of London | (2) |
Babbage, Charles | (1) |
Bostock, John | (1) |