To A. C. Ramsay 10 October [1846]
Summary
Thanks ACR for paper and comments on it ["On the denudation of South Wales", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846): 297–335].
Sends copy of South America.
Discusses action of the sea.
Criticises ACR’s views on sudden elevation of mountain chains.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
| Date: | 10 Oct [1846] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1008 |
To J. D. Hooker [December 1846 – January 1847]
Summary
Can JDH come on 16 Jan? CD will ask the "old set" to come and also the Lyells.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [Dec 1846 – Jan 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1036 |
To Catherine Darwin [22 November 1846]
Summary
Concerned about Father’s health.
Forwards a letter from FitzRoy.
Dr Erasmus Darwin’s scientific prophecies are the talk of London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Date: | [22 Nov 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A1–A2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1029 |
To J. D. Hooker [3 September 1846]
Summary
Has nearly finished South America.
Pleased to hear JDH has worked out identical and representative species of N. Temperate and Antarctic regions.
Geoffroy Saint Hilaire’s "loi du balancement" as applied to plants.
CD jaded by, but has nearly completed, South America.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [3 Sept 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-996 |
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- … Charles Lyell evidently thought Edward Forbes’s reply was ‘sufficient’ and had no wish to enter into controversy with Forbes, see K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 105–13. CD refers to Hooker’s comment that Thomas Edmondston’s Galápagos collection contained some mainland species from Guayaquil, see letter …
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| Darwin, Catherine | (1) |
| Langton, Catherine | (1) |
| Ramsay, A. C. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (1) |
| Langton, Catherine | (1) |
| Ramsay, A. C. | (1) |
Darwin in Conversation exhibition
Summary
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 …
