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 Charles Babbage [June – September 1837]
Summary
At Lyell’s request sends his copy of Whewell’s History of inductive sciences [1837] to CB.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Babbage |
| Date: | [June – Sept 1837] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 37190: 322) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-358 |
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 |
To Caroline Darwin 27 February 1837
Summary
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 |
To Richard Owen [November 1847–51]
Summary
"I had not heard before of Whench [Whewell?] having scolded you; I am rather glad of it …
What a grand number of novelties Hooker no doubt will bring home".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [Nov 1847–51] |
| Classmark: | John K. Lattimer (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13833 |
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- … William Whewell’s ‘scolding’ has been found. Whewell and Owen had been schoolfellows at the Blue School, Lancaster, and were lifelong friends. Dated by CD’s reference to Joseph Dalton Hooker’s expedition to India, 1847–51. ‘I had not heard’ was inserted preceding ‘before’, presumably by Richard Owen . This may refer to Whewell’s reaction to those who wanted to reform the university curriculum to provide a greater emphasis on the study of science at Cambridge. Whewell had earlier criticised Charles Lyell’ …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
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| Bostock, John | (1) |
| Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
| Buckland, William | (1) |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Owen, Richard | (1) |
| Spring Rice, Thomas | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Babbage, Charles | (2) |
| Owen, Richard | (2) |
| Bostock, John | (1) |
| Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
