From Charles Lyell [before 20 November 1860]
Summary
Discusses the possibility of a land-bridge connecting Biscay with Ireland and the consequent occurrence in southern Ireland of Asturian plants which are absent from England.
Asks if Hooker or anyone has criticised Edward Forbes’ botanical migration of five floras in the British Isles ["On the connexion between the distribution of existing fauna and flora of the British Isles, and the geological changes which have affected their area", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846): 336–432].
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 20 Nov 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 170.2: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2902 |
Matches: 1 hit
To Charles Lyell 18 May [1860]
Summary
Comments on enclosed letters from Asa Gray and Wallace [missing].
Discusses hybrid fertility in rabbits and hares, and pheasants and fowls.
Asks about paper by Hermann Schaaffhausen ["Über Beständigkeit u. Umwandlung der Arten", Verh. Naturhist. Ver. Preuss. Rheinlande 10 (1853): 420–51].
Mentions criticism by Sedgwick and William Clark at Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Notes importance of CL and Hooker in defending Origin.
Comments on papers by D. A. Godron ["Considérations sur les migrations des végétaux", Acad. Stanislas Mem. Soc. Sci. Nancy (1853): 329–67].
Mentions receiving anonymous verses.
A Manchester newspaper lampoon shows CD has proved "might makes right" to be a universal law.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 18 May [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.212) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2806 |
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 | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Babbage, Charles | (1) |
Bostock, John | (1) |
Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Spring Rice, Thomas | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Lyell, Charles | |
Babbage, Charles | (1) |
Bostock, John | (1) |
Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
Buckland, William | (1) |
Clift, William | (1) |
Compton, S. J. A. | (1) |
Hamilton, W. J. | (1) |
Murchison, R. I. | (1) |
Owen, Richard | (1) |
Phillips, John | (1) |
Roget, P. M. | (1) |
Sedgwick, Adam | (1) |
Spring Rice, Thomas | (1) |
Stanley, Edward | (1) |
Stokes, Charles | (1) |
Taylor, John | (1) |
Whewell, William | (1) |