To Charles Lyell [19 December 1837]
Summary
Responds to Lyell’s query [missing] about northern and southern limits of coral islands of the Pacific. Warns that coral islands are much more thinly distributed than people realise and cites examples. Comments on views of Matthew Flinders. Reading work of É[lie] de B[eaumont]. Notes difficulty of setting an east-west boundary to coral islands.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [19 Dec 1837] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-394 |
From the Misses Horner [17 March 1837 – 28 December 1838]
Summary
“The Botanists” and “The learned Linguists” give thanks for book and assistance.
| Author: | Anne Susanna (Susan) Horner; Leonora Horner; Leonora Pertz; Joanna Baillie Horner; Frances Joanna Horner; Frances Joanna Bunbury; Katharine Murray Horner; Katharine Murray Lyell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Mar 1837 – 28 Dec 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 1a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-350 |
To Caroline Darwin 27 February 1837
Summary
Has just given a paper [on "Sand tubes"] at Cambridge Philosophical Society and exhibited some specimens. It went well, with Whewell and Sedgwick taking an active part.
Herschel thinks 6000–odd years since the creation not nearly long enough to explain the separations from a single stock.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 27 Feb 1837 |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-346 |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Bunbury, F. J. | (1) |
| Horner, F. J. | (1) |
| Horner, J. B. | (1) |
| Horner, K. M. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Bunbury, F. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
| Horner, F. J. | (1) |
| Horner, J. B. | (1) |
