From J. D. Hooker [7 February 1875]
Summary
Has met Capt. George Strong Nares of the Challenger expedition at Huxley’s.
Huxley much at a loss to explain red clay at deep sea-bottom.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [7 Feb 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 11–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9843 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … dear Darwin You have no doubt heard of Col. Lyells death Harriet & I have just called on …
From Oswald Heer 1 March 1875
Summary
Comments on his Flora fossilis Arctica [vol. 3 (1875)]. Discusses successive appearance of plant families in geological periods. Relates plant development to rise of herbivorous mammals.
Comments on death of Charles Lyell.
| Author: | Oswald Heer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Mar 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 130 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9876 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bäume u. Sträucher als vom Gras. Durch den Tod Lyells ist mir eine grosse Freude zu nichte …
| Heer, Oswald | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Heer, Oswald | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
Summary
At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
Summary
In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
Matches: 1 hits
- … ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [29 July 1865] ): Lyells corrected pages came when I was …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
Matches: 4 hits
- … sur les Glaciers [Agassiz 1840] —— 30 th Lyells Principles. 3. Vol. 6 th Edit [Lyell …
- … ] all——3 vols.——well abstracted 22 d Lyells Elem. 2 d Edit. [Lyell 1841] d[itt]o.— …
- … 1841–54]. slightly skimmed Miserable Aug. 5 th Lyells Travels in N. America [Lyell 1845] …
- … Tribe &c by George Vasey. 1851 [Vasey 1851]. May 28. Lyells Elements 5 th . Edit [Lyell …
Visiting the Darwins
Summary
'As for Mr Darwin, he is entirely fascinating…' In October 1868 Jane Gray and her husband spent several days as guests of the Darwins, and Jane wrote a charming account of the visit in a sixteen-page letter to her sister. She described Charles…
Matches: 1 hits
- … on Saturday— I have appointed next Monday to call on the Lyells; & mean to try & persuade Dr …
