To Charles Lyell [21? June 1848]
Summary
Comments on apology by Chambers for using some of CD’s material without acknowledgment in discussing Glen Roy. His opinion of Chambers’ book [Ancient sea-margins (1848)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [21? June 1848] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.75) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1181 |
To Charles Lyell [24 September 1848]
Summary
Congratulations on CL’s knighthood.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [24 Sept 1848] |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection AIL Coll 203 B) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1198 |
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To Charles Lyell [16 June 1848]
Summary
Comments on Ann Susan Horner’s escape in a dangerous incident at sea.
Compares addresses by William Buckland and CL, delivered at recent meeting of the Geological Society.
Discusses the views on Glen Roy in Chambers’ Ancient sea-margins [1848].
Speculates that Chambers wrote Vestiges [of creation (1844)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [16 June 1848] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.73) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1186 |
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- … Mss.B.D25.73) Charles Robert Darwin Down [16 June 1848] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … Ann Susan (Susan) Horner, daughter of Leonard Horner , was Charles Lyell’s sister-in-law. …
- … 1848 , pp. 182–90. See letter to Charles Lyell, [11 October 1847] , in which CD is …
- … Charles James Fox Bunbury , her sister and brother-in-law, and on her return was shipwrecked in the Ariel off the Vado Rocks, near Livorno (K. M. Lyell …
To John Russell [10 July 1848]
Summary
Ask JR to advise the Queen to issue Her Royal Commission of Inquiry into the best methods of securing the improvement of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Nassau William Senior; John Stevens Henslow; Baden Powell; Bonamy Price; Thomas Jodrell Phillips; Thomas Jodrell Phillips-Jodrell; James Heywood; Edmund Walker Head, 8th baronet; Thomas James Agar Robartes; Philip le Breton; George Nugent Grenville, 2d Baron Nugent of Carlanstown; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Harry Calvert, 2d baronet; Harry Verney, 2d baronet; Peter John Locke King; Henry Galgacus Redhead Yorke; Joseph Kay; Edward France Percival; Edward Horsman; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Hensleigh Wedgwood; Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | John Russell, 1st Earl Russell |
| Date: | [10 July 1848] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge Pamphlets, Folio Series, vol. 4: CUL Cam.a.500.5/124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1188F |
To Emma Darwin [25 May 1848]
Summary
Anxiety about R. W. Darwin’s health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [25 May 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1179 |
To Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz 22 October 1848
Summary
Thanks LA and sends thanks to A. A. Gould for specimens. Describes principal findings of his research on cirripedes. Is obliged for information Joseph Leidy gave about cirripede eyes. Describes anatomical features and chief aspects of growth. Describes discovery of parasitic males and a species parasitic upon other cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz |
| Date: | 22 Oct 1848 |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1419: 274) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1205 |
To Augustus Addison Gould 3 September [1848]
Summary
Describes his research on cirripedes. Asks to borrow specimens. Comments on previous work on the subject.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Augustus Addison Gould |
| Date: | 3 Sept [1848] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Augustus A. Gould papers, 1831–66 MS Am 1210: 224) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1200 |
To Robert Chambers [14 February – 20 March 1848]
Summary
Thanks RC for information on hand-level; he has recommended it in his "Instructions" ["Geology", Collected papers 1: 227–50].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Chambers |
| Date: | [14 Feb – 20 Mar 1848] |
| Classmark: | Watt Library, Greenock |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1160 |
To Edward Cresy [5 or 12 July 1848]
Summary
Has written to William Buckland, recommending EC for position.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Date: | [5 or 12] July 1848 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 306 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1188 |
To Robert Chambers [June 1848]
Summary
Congratulates RC on his work on Scottish sea-margins [Ancient sea-margins (1848)].
Discusses Glen Roy; Milne staggered him in favour of the glacier view, but now his opinion has reverted.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Chambers |
| Date: | [June 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 50: C1–C2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1182 |
To Andrew Crombie Ramsay 4 February [1848]
Summary
Invites him to dinner on Saturday the 12th. Charles and Mrs Lyell, Edward Forbes, Richard Owen, and Thomas Bell coming also.
"Will you bring your map of S. America … and we will have a talk over it."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
| Date: | 4 Feb [1848] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1152 |
To J. F. W. Herschel [21 March 1848]
Summary
Sends MS of his chapter on geology for Manual [Collected papers 1: 227–50]. Fears it may be too long. Does not much like it but can do no better. After hesitation, has recommended books. Defends his point that mere collection of rock specimens is "of hardly any use to Geology".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Frederick William Herschel, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [21 Mar 1848] |
| Classmark: | The Royal Society (HS6: 14) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1164 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 October [1848]
Summary
CD makes progress with barnacles. Describes "supplemental" males in detail. In working out metamorphosis, their crustacean homologies followed automatically.
CD opposes appending first describer’s name to specific name.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 6 Oct [1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 112a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1202 |
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| Calvert, Harry | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (3) |
| Chambers, Robert | (2) |
| Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
| Lyell, Charles | (4) |
| Chambers, Robert | (2) |
| Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
| Breton, Philip le | (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 …
