To William Whewell 4 [January 1839]
Summary
Informs him of J. B. Jukes’s plans concerning the Newfoundland survey post.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Whewell |
Date: | 4 [Jan 1839] |
Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-483 |
To William Whewell 16 April [1839]
Summary
Thanks WW for wedding gift.
Expresses admiration for his History of the inductive sciences [1837].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Whewell |
Date: | 16 Apr [1839] |
Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-506 |
To William Whewell [10 March 1837]
Summary
CD seeks to decline the Secretaryship [of the Geological Society] by citing his obligation to FitzRoy to write his volume of the narrative of their expedition. His youth, inexperience, and ignorance of English geology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Whewell |
Date: | [10 Mar 1837] |
Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-347 |
To William Whewell 18 June [1837]
Summary
Asks Whewell questions on earthquake wave action.
Thanks him for signature [to CD’s request to Chancellor of the Exchequer for funds for Zoology].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Whewell |
Date: | 18 June [1837] |
Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-361 |
To William Whewell 16 February [1839]
Summary
Asks WW to alter, before printing, the passages in WW’s Presidential Address to the Geological Society [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1839): 93] which pointedly allude to the delay in publication of CD’s Beagle journal; they might annoy FitzRoy, who, as Captain, has a right to first use of the papers of all officers on board.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Whewell |
Date: | 16 Feb [1839] |
Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-496 |
From William Whewell 11 April 1839
Author: | William Whewell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Apr 1839 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 175 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-504 |
From William Whewell 2 January 1860
Summary
Thanks CD for the Origin. WW is not yet a convert but there is so much "of thought and of fact" in what CD has written that "it is not to be contradicted without careful selection of the ground and manner of the dissent".
Author: | William Whewell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2634 |
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 |
To Asa Gray 3 July [1860]
Summary
Origin has "stirred up the mud with a vengeance"; AG and three or four others have saved CD from annihilation and are responsible for the attention now given to the subject. Reports events at Oxford BAAS meeting.
New evidence supports AG’s view of a warm post-glacial period.
Discusses his recent orchid observations.
Poses AG a question on design in nature.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 3 July [1860] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (41) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2855 |
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