To Charles Lyell [1 September 1844]
Summary
Asks about CL’s new book [Travels in North America (1845)].
Discusses views of A. D. d’Orbigny on elevation.
Mentions reading W. H. Prescott [History of the conquest of Mexico (1843)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [1 Sept 1844] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.39) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-773 |
To Leonard Horner 29 August [1844]
Summary
Thanks Horner for his letter [about Volcanic islands].
Discusses craters of elevation with respect to the views of Leopold von Buch and Élie de Beaumont. Compares Lyell’s views to those of continental geologists. Mentions reading A. D. d’Orbigny [Voyage dans l’Amérique méridionale (1835–47)].
Encloses note from Emma to Mrs Horner, inviting the Horners to visit Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Horner |
Date: | 29 Aug [1844] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.38) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-771 |
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- … in 1842. See letter to Charles Lyell, [1 September 1844] . CD borrowed the book from the …
- … 1844 ( The Publishers’ Circular ). CD discussed ‘craters of elevation’ in Volcanic islands , pp. 93–6. According to Christian Leopold von Buch (1836) and Jean Baptiste Armand Louis Léonce Élie de Beaumont (1838), volcanoes were caused by pressure from below which arched the strata into a dome-like formation until the centre collapsed and a vent was formed. Charles Lyell ( …
To Baden Powell 18 January [1860]
Summary
To avoid possible misundertanding of his letter [2654] of that morning, CD wishes to make clear that he did not wish to imply that BP’s essay and the Vestiges of creation were in the same class. The more he thinks of it the more difficult he feels it would be to give a fair account of the authors who have maintained the modification of species. CD finds that he referred to BP’s views in the preface to his larger work [Natural selection], which was replaced by the Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Baden Powell |
Date: | 18 Jan [1860] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2655 |
To [unidentified] 12 September [1838]
Summary
Seeks permission to make another visit to Addiscombe [Military College] to see again the model of St Helena. He needs to correct proportion of some geological sections in his Geology [see Volcanic islands, ch. 4].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 12 Sept [1838] |
Classmark: | The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Gordon N. Ray Collection MA 13958) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-427 |
To M. E. Lyell [24 October 1849]
Summary
Asks MEL to translate page of paper by Sven Lovén ["Ny art af Cirripedia", Ofvers. K. Vetensk. Acad. Forh. Stockholm 1 (1844): 192–4]. CD is "dreadfully interested" in the barnacles [Alepas squalicola] described.
Hopes Charles Lyell’s "craters of Denudation" prosper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mary Elizabeth Horner; Mary Elizabeth Lyell |
Date: | [24 Oct 1849] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 332 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1266 |
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- … 1844): 192–4]. CD is "dreadfully interested" in the barnacles [ Alepas squalicola ] described. Hopes Charles Lyell’ …
- … 1844 ) in his letter to Albany Hancock, 29 September [1849] . See letter to Sven Lovén, 12 November 1849 . Hugh Miller’s Foot-prints of the creator ( Miller 1849 ). See letter to Swale and Wilson, [on or before 24 October 1849] . Charles Lyell’ …
To Charles Lyell [1 November 1849]
Summary
Discusses CL’s refutation of CD’s concept of "craters of elevation" and CL’s new concept of "craters of denudation". Mentions examples of such craters. Admits that his own concept of these craters was unsatisfactory. Urges CL to publish article ["On craters of denudation", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 6 (1850): 207–34].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [1 Nov 1849] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.83) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1264 |
To Roderick Impey Murchison 1 May [1860]
Summary
Much obliged for note from Alexander von Keyserling. Geologist going one inch with CD more important than naturalist going two or three.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet |
Date: | 1 May [1860] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 7400) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2779 |
From J. D. Hooker 4 August 1856
Summary
JDH’s arguments against transmutation: 1. Plants do not show the confusion he would expect; 2. Under clearly similar physical conditions we do not find same species.
JDH’s argument against migration: commonality of alpine species. Believes migration opposes facts of botanical distribution in Van Diemen’s Land and New Zealand; prefers continental extension theory.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 100–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1937 |
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [January? 1860]
Summary
Prepared to think world infinitely old, but not that life originated with a single cell. Questions whether geological evidence supports gradual progress in organisation. HW thought scientific opinion during Vestiges debate was against this hypothesis. Argues that presence of same senses in lower animals and vertebrates does not imply descent; assumes resemblance is due to living in same world and thus having organs for the same purposes. Wants CD to know how others may see these questions.
Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Jan? 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 48: 83–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2389 |
To J. D. Hooker [13 or 20 November 1843]
Summary
Congratulations on JDH’s safe return.
Henslow has sent CD’s S. American plants to JDH for examination.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [13 or 20] Nov 1843 |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-714 |
To John Murray 17 March [1845]
Summary
CD has heard from Lyell that JM is inclined to publish a second edition of Journal of researches. His agreement with Henry Colburn leaves CD free to publish with anyone. Will have no further relations with Colburn. Discusses details of proposed revisions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 17 Mar [1845] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.354–355) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-841 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 February – 6 March 1844]
Summary
Island floras; relationships with mainland. Ranges of species in mundane genera.
Galapagos plants one-third done.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Feb – 6 Mar 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 10–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-737 |
To ? 20 June [1861–8]
Summary
Sends a copy of the paper [with A. R. Wallace, "On the tendency of species to form varieties" (1858), Collected papers 2: 3–19] about which his correspondent asked; CD’s parts were written years ago and not intended for publication; he gave permission for publication of the extracts. Wallace’s paper seems to him excellent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 20 June [1861-8] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13879 |
To J. D. Hooker [18 April 1847]
Summary
Thanks for H. C. Watson’s interesting letter. Disagrees with him on intermediate varieties.
CD has read latest numbers of JDH’s The botany of the Antarctic voyage [pt I, Flora Antarctica (1844–7)]; notes several sentences against "us Transmutationists".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [18 Apr 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1082 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 July [1856]
Summary
Troubled by JDH’s connection between Antarctic island flora and Fuegia, which CD sees as part of a general relation to southern circumpolar flora. Encloses list [not found] of plants from Tristan d’Acunha.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 July [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1919 |
From W. H. Harvey 8 October 1860
Summary
Thanks CD for his patience and good-nature; does not want a controversial correspondence but wishes to reply to matters in CD’s letter, and does.
Author: | William Henry Harvey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Oct 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 54–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2943 |
To J. D. Hooker [29 June 1858]
Summary
JDH wants papers at once. CD sends Wallace’s paper and CD’s abstract of his letter to Asa Gray. Sends [species] sketch of 1844 with JDH’s notes to assure JDH he had read it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [29 June 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 240 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2298 |
To William Benjamin Carpenter 6 December [1844]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | 6 Dec [1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 114 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-797F |
To Sven Lovén 12 November 1849
Summary
To make his monograph on cirripedes complete, would appreciate a specimen of Alepas squalicola, which CD is sure is a new genus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Sven Ludvig (Sven) Lovén |
Date: | 12 Nov 1849 |
Classmark: | Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (Sven Lovéns arkiv, Inkommande brev, vol E1:3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1269 |
From S. P. Woodward 2 May 1856
Summary
Proportion of molluscan species to genera in various periods. The difficulty of determining species increases with the number of species per genus. Identifying species within a genus is most difficult in that period in which the genus shows its greatest development.
Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 May 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 153 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1864 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (16) |
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