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 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … John Phillips William Whewell Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet Charles Lyell, 1st …
- … Sedgwick, Adam Phillips, John Whewell, William Murchison, R. I. Lyell, Charles Stokes, …
- … John Phillips , Professor of Geology in King’s College, London. W. Whewill , Pres. G. S. Rod. Murchison , Vice Pres. Geol. Soc y . Charles Lyell , …
[Phillips, John.] 1863. [Review of Antiquity of man, by Charles Lyell.] Quarterly Review 114: 368–417.
From W. B. Dawkins 1 December 1875
Summary
Asks CD to sign papers for Royal Society candidacy of W. B. Clarke.
| Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 131 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10285 |
From J. W. Salter 18 June 1867
Summary
Offers to send parts of J. Syme, English botany [1863–86] in appreciation of CD’s aid.
Comments on CD’s species theory.
Will exhibit Cambrian fossil at next meeting of Geological Society.
| Author: | John William Salter |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 June 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5571 |
To J. D. Hooker [20–]22 February [1864]
Summary
Does not know Scott’s qualifications to be curator at Kew.
Frankland’s theory of glaciers is absurd.
Has JDH heard claim that plants in Northern and Southern Hemispheres turn in opposite directions?
Are there plant families with no twining and climbing plants?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [20–]22 Feb [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 221a–c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4412 |
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 |
From F. H. Hooker 22 September [1865]
Summary
J. D. Hooker is recovering from his ill health.
| Author: | Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Sept [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 237–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4898 |
To John Phillips 21 January [1859]
Summary
Acknowledges the honour that the Council [of the Geological Society] have conferred upon him [award of Wollaston Medal]. Will attend the anniversary meeting if his health permits, but cannot attend the dinner.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Phillips |
| Date: | 21 Jan [1859] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Geological collections) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2402 |
From J. D. Hooker 9 [March] 1864
Summary
Reception of Scott’s paper.
Difficulty of writing Boott’s obituary.
Critical of Edward Frankland’s glacial theory.
Falconer’s and Ramsay’s views on Himalayan lakes lack support of basic evidence.
Taxonomic distribution of climbing plants.
Huxley picks quarrels with minor figures and thus magnifies them.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 [Mar] 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 189–92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4404 |
To Charles Henry Lardner Woodd 4 March 1850
Summary
Comments on paper by CHLW.
Considers effect of heat on bending of strata, and producing volcanoes and elevation.
"I can have no doubt that speculative men, with a curb on, make far the best observers."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Henry Lardner Woodd |
| Date: | 4 Mar 1850 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 375 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1307 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John Phillips , [November 1840] ( Correspondence vol. 2), and to Adolf von Morlot, 10 October [1844] ( Correspondence , vol. 3). Moreover, his Glen Roy hypothesis had been criticised by David Milne and, though CD had not given it up, he had been badly shaken. See his letter to David Milne, 20 [September 1847] . Most recently he had revised his views on ‘craters of elevation’ in Volcanic islands , pp. 93–6, as a result of Charles Lyell’ …
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