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To Charles Lyell   [18 November 1849]

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Criticises Élie de Beaumont’s view of a right angle junction of a stream of lava and a dike.

Mentions his misgivings in voting to recommend J. D. Forbes for Royal Medal.

Notes Daniel Sharpe’s work on mica schist.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  [18 Nov 1849]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.84)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1271

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  • 1838, pp.  148–50. CD’s copy of this volume, with notes on this and other passages, is in the Darwin Library–CUL. CD evidently had discussed élie de Beaumont’s views with Lyell in the interval between this letter and letter to Charles

To J. D. Dana   8 May [1852]

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Gratified by JDD’s opinion of his work.

Discusses problem of homologies of cirripede larva in first stage and reasons for his view.

JDD’s information on corals was just what CD needed.

Would like specimen of blind cave rat described by B. Silliman [Jr] ["On the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 11 (1851): 336] for Waterhouse to examine.

Discusses origin of Australian valleys; he disagrees with JDD’s river-erosion hypothesis.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Dwight Dana
Date:  8 May [1852]
Classmark:  Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1481

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  • Charles Lyell, 4 December [1849] . For his earlier correspondence with Thomas Livingstone Mitchell on Australian valleys, see Correspondence vol.  2, letter to T.  L. Mitchell, [1838]. …

From J. D. Hooker   17 March 1862

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JDH has probably influenced Bates by pointing out applicability of CD’s views to his cases.

Is greatly puzzled by difference in effect of external conditions on individual animals and plants. Cannot conceive that climate could affect even such a single character as a hooked seed.

Does not think Huxley is right about "saltus".

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Mar 1862
Classmark:  DAR 101: 23–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3474

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  • Charles Lyell, [15 September 1861] ( Correspondence vol.  9). Hooker refers to Edward James Herbert , third earl of Powis. The family was known to the Darwins (see Correspondence vol.  2, letter to Susan Darwin, [26 April 1838] ). …

From B. J. Sulivan   29 November 1881

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BJS is looking forward to reading the life of Lyell [K. M. Lyell, Life, letters and journals of Sir Charles Lyell, 2 vols. (1881)].

Author:  Bartholomew James Sulivan
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 Nov 1881
Classmark:  DAR 177: 316
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13519

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  • Charles Darwin. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 2 (1838): 552–4. [ Shorter publications , pp. 37–9. ] Hazlewood, Nick. 2000. Savage. The life and times of Jemmy Button. London: Hodder and Stoughton. Lyell, …

To Charles Lyell   [15 September 1861]

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Discusses CL’s correspondence with T. F. Jamieson. Comments on Jamieson’s theory that the roads of Glen Roy were formed by a glacial lake. Discusses elevation of Scotland during the glacial period.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  [15 Sept 1861]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.264)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3254

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  • 1838 (see Correspondence vol.  2). For a fuller account of CD’s views of the evidence supporting the glacier-lake theory, and his reasons for believing that it failed to explain a number of important points, see Correspondence vol.  4, letters to Charles Lyell , …

From T. F. Jamieson   3 September 1861

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Observations from a fortnight in Lochaber. Found the entrance to Loch Treig to present the clearest evidence of intense glacial action. States, in contradiction of David Milne-Home, that there is glacial scoring in Glen Spean, as Louis Agassiz described, and moraine around the mouth of Loch Treig. There is little sign of water erosion on the rocks crossed by the lines in Glen Roy. Believes the smoothed rocks at the eastern end of Loch Laggan are due to flow from the lake and not tidal action. The lines in Glen Roy are too neat for a lake shore subject to tides. Given the glacial scoring sweeping round from Glen Spean into Glen Treig, and all the boulders, TFJ is astonished that anyone could deny that there had been glaciers there. [See 3247.]

Author:  Thomas Francis Jamieson
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Sept 1861
Classmark:  The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/7: 75–92)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3242A

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  • Charles Lyell’s journal and headed: ‘Letter from Mr.  Jamieson of Ellon to Cha s . Darwin’. It is also printed in Wilson ed.  1970, pp.  518–23. Lochaber is a district in southern Inverness-shire, near Fort William, Scotland; see map, p.  248. CD had visited the region in June 1838  …

To Charles Lyell   [21 February – 4 April 1841]

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Answers a number of queries from Lyell concerning geography and geology of Chiloé Island and its relationship to the Cordilleras.

Asks about "perched rocks" on Jura and notes their relevance to Louis Agassiz’s theory. Discusses Agassiz’s view on Jura.

Mentions seeing Robert Brown.

Notes R. I. Murchison’s discovery of shells in central England.

Weakness of negative evidence.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  [21 Feb – 4 Apr 1841]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.26)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-590

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  • Lyell, Charles. 1841. Elements of geology. 2d ed. 2 vols. London. [Vols. 2,9] Murchison, Roderick Impey. 1838. …

To Thomas Bridges   6 January 1860

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Queries on expression among Fuegians and Patagonians.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Bridges
Date:  6 Jan 1860
Classmark:  DAR 185: 72
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2640

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  • 1838, he began to record and make observations on expressions, noting the behaviour of animals as well as the development of his own children in this respect (see Correspondence vol.  4, Appendix III). See also the letter to Charles Lyell, …

To A. R. Wallace   28 [May 1864]

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Response to ARW’s papers on Papilionidae ["On the phenomena of variation and geographical distribution", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 25 (1866): 1–71; abstract in Reader 3 (1864): 491–3],

and man ["The origin of human races", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].

The former is "really admirable" and will be influential.

The idea of the man paper is striking and new. Minor points of difference. Conjectures regarding racial differences; the possible correlation between complexion and constitution. His Query to Army surgeons to determine this point. Offers ARW his notes on man, which CD doubts he will be able to use.

On sexual selection in "our aristocracy"; primogeniture is a scheme for destroying natural selection.

[Letter incorrectly dated March by CD.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  28 [May 1864]
Classmark:  The British Library (Add. MS 46434: 39)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4510

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  • 1838 or 1839 on the struggle between races, see Notebooks , Notebook E, 63–4; for CD’s general notes on natural selection applied to humans, see n.  19, below. See Gruber 1981 , pp.  181–5, and Browne 1995 , pp.  234–53, for CD’s views of human racial differences; see also Correspondence vol.  7, letter to Charles Lyell, …

From Daniel Mackintosh   8 December [1867]

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Thanks CD for information on inclined terraces in S. America, which DM thinks applies to the chalk downs of S. England. CD’s definition that the sea widens and fresh water deepens is key to the subject.

Author:  Daniel Mackintosh
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Dec [1867]
Classmark:  DAR 171: 6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5711

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  • Charles Darwin. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 2 (1838): 446–9. [ Shorter publications , pp. 32–5. ] Greenwood, George. 1866. Rain and rivers; or, Hutton and Playfair against Lyell

From J. D. Hooker   16 September 1864

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Rejoices that CD is beginning "the book of books", Variation.

Suggests that changes in colour of pollen, stigma, and corolla, as Scott reports in his Primula paper, may be related to changes in the insects required for pollination.

Supports Gärtner translation by Ray Society.

Comments on recent addresses by Lyell [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): lx–lxxv], Bentham [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 8 (1864): ix–xxiii], and Murchison [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): 130–6].

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Sept 1864
Classmark:  DAR 101: 243–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4614

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  • 1838 to June 1886, of the Linnean Society. London: Linnean Society of London. 1888. Hevly, Bruce. 1996. The heroic science of glacier motion. Osiris 11: 66–86. Lyell, Charles. …

To Armand de Quatrefages   23 August [1870]

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Thanks QdeB for his continued support of CD’s election to French Academy.

Discusses views of Milne-Edwards on species.

Comments on views of Élie de Beaumont.

"I fear my next book [Descent] … will greatly displease you."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:  23 Aug [1870]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.382)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7308

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  • 1838 ; see also Correspondence vol.  3, letter to Leonard Horner, 29 August [1844] ). He also refers to Elie de Beaumont’s theory that the orientation of a mountain chain was determined by the age of its formation ( Elie de Beaumont 1831 ). In his Principles of geology ( Lyell 1830–3 ), Charles

To Caroline Darwin   27 February 1837

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Has just given a paper [on "Sand tubes"] at Cambridge Philosophical Society and exhibited some specimens. It went well, with Whewell and Sedgwick taking an active part.

Herschel thinks 6000–odd years since the creation not nearly long enough to explain the separations from a single stock.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:  27 Feb 1837
Classmark:  DAR 154: 51
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-346

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  • 1838): 446–9. [ Shorter publications , pp. 32–5. ] Ticknor, George. 1876. Life, letters, and journals of George Ticknor. Edited by George Stillman Hillard. 2 vols. Boston: Osgood. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. Wilson, Leonard Gilchrist. 1972. Charles Lyell. …

From J. D. Hooker   [24 March 1863]

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Has been looking at separation of sexes in poplars.

Interested in reversion.

Does not understand all CD said on inheritance.

JDH now remembers that Origin was "published" some time before it was "distributed" and therefore appeared prior to his own essay [see also 2478].

Impossible to say whether some Dipterocarpaceae survived a cold period or have developed since.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [24 Mar 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 100: 154, DAR 101: 123–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2027

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  • 1838 to June 1886, of the Linnean Society. London: Linnean Society of London. 1888. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1859. On the flora of Australia, its origin, affinities, and distribution; being an introductory essay to the flora of Tasmania. London: Lovell Reeve. Lyell, Charles. …

From James Shaw   [6–10 February 1866]

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Memorandum of a meeting of the Natural History & Antiquarian Society held in Dumfries on Tuesday 6 February 1866.

Author:  James Shaw
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [6–10 Feb 1866]
Classmark:  DAR 84.1: 14–17
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5003F

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  • Charles Lyell, 22 January [1865] , and letter from James Shaw, 20 November 1865  and n.  7. For a commentary on the tensions between religion and science in CD’s philosophy of nature, see Sloan 2001 ; for a Christian perspective on beauty as a product of the evolutionary process, see, for example, Haught 2000 , pp.  126–37. Shaw refers to Thomas Carlyle and to Sartor resartus ( [Carlyle] 1838 ). …

To J. D. Hooker   [10 February 1846]

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Thinks JDH’s explanation of polymorphism on volcanic islands is probably correct.

Proposes experimental test to see whether alpine form of a plant is inherited like a true variety.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [10 Feb 1846]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 54
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-951

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  • Lyell, Charles. 1830–3. Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth’s surface, by reference to causes now in operation. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Smith, James. 1846. On the geology of Gibraltar. [Read 20 November 1844]. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 2: 41–51. Vorzimmer, Peter J. 1977. The Darwin reading notebooks (1838- …

From J. D. Hooker   [23 February – 6 March 1844]

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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

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  • 1838–43. Augustin Pyramus de Candolle , whose Prodromus systematis naturalis was an authoritative botanical text, see A.  P. de Candolle and A.  de Candolle 1824–73 . Both Cycadeæ and Coniferæ are very ancient groups of plants. Paul Edmund de Strzelecki , who had explored parts of the Australian interior and Tasmania (Van Diemen’s Land) in 1839–40. He returned to Britain in 1843. Charles Lyell
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