Christophe Stickel Autographs (dealer), Pacific Grove, California, USA
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Stutchbury, Samuel (1798–1859)
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- … Geologist and naturalist. Naturalist to the Pacific Pearl Fishery Company’s commercial …
- … expedition to New South Wales and the Pacific islands, 1825–7. Curator of the museum of …
- … and New York: Cambridge University Press. 1966–96. 4,7 Pacific Pearl Fishery Company …
- … museum Bristol Philosophical Institution Pacific New …
- … South Wales Pacific islands Bristol Australia England coalfields coal Geologist naturalist …
From J. D. Dana 21 July 1874
Summary
Thanks CD for Coral reefs [2d ed. (1874)].
JDD will correct his misunderstanding of CD on one point in the next edition of his book [Corals and coral islands].
Suggests CD consult Charles Wilkes’s Narrative [1844] for more accurate observations on Pacific islands.
Author: | James Dwight Dana |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 69: A71–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9556 |
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- … Charles Wilkes’s Narrative [1844] for more accurate observations on Pacific islands. …
- … 1842. Remarks upon coral formations in the Pacific; with suggestions as to the causes of …
- … 1994. ‘This coral episode’: Darwin, Dana, and the coral reefs of the Pacific. In Darwin’s …
- … theory and natural history in the Pacific , edited by Roy Macleod and Philip F. Rehbock. …
- … islands & others bordered by reefs in the Pacific. Wilkes did not believe in your theory …
- … characters of some of the islands of the Pacific. He made his observations when connected …
- … s Remarks upon coral formations in the Pacific ( Couthouy 1842 ). Charles Wilkes commanded …
- … to 1842; its mission was to survey the Pacific Ocean and surrounding lands. Six ships were …
- … chain of volcanic islands in the South Pacific near Fiji. Wilkes’s description of the …
Stoddart, David R. 1994. ‘This coral episode’: Darwin, Dana, and the coral reefs of the Pacific. In Darwin’s laboratory: evolutionary theory and natural history in the Pacific, edited by Roy Macleod and Philip F. Rehbock. Honolulu, Hawai’i: University of Hawai’i Press.
‘Elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans’: On certain areas of elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, as deduced from the study of coral formations. [Read 31 May 1837.] By Charles Darwin. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 2 (1838): 552–4. [Shorter publications, pp. 37–9.]
From Alfred Tylor 19 November 1868
Author: | Alfred Tylor |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 198 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6467 |
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- … respecting our Coral formations in the Pacific I have looked through your works carefully …
- … recent coral beds have been elevated in the Pacific and no section of these is given. …
- … an article, ‘Elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans’ , that appeared in …
- … Longmans. ‘Elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans’: On certain areas …
- … of elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, as deduced from the study of …
- … when it surveyed in the Coral Sea (the Pacific Ocean between Australia, New Guinea, and …
- … Professor Huxley has also visited the Pacific and seemed to consider that the ground …
To J. D. Hooker [June 1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [June 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 222b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2198 |
To William Lonsdale [May? 1837]
Summary
Sends an abstract made by J. F. Royle of CD’s paper ["On certain areas of elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans"]. G. B. Greenough will have problems with the altered references in the coral island section.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Lonsdale |
Date: | [May? 1837] |
Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/3/169) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-383A |
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- … areas of elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans"]. G. B. Greenough will …
- … areas of elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans’ ( Collected papers 1: …
- … Press. 1977. ‘Elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans’: On certain areas …
- … of elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, as deduced from the study of …
Burney, James. 1803–17. A chronological history of the discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean. 5 vols. London.
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- … history of the discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean. 5 vols. London. 1 …
To J. D. Hooker [6 March 1844]
Summary
Affinity of Galapagos with nearest Pacific islands. Relationship between ranges of species in time and space. Comparison of Malden Island and Galapagos plants. Affinities of Oceania plants with continental floras.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [6 Mar 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-738 |
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- … Affinity of Galapagos with nearest Pacific islands. Relationship between ranges of species …
- … with the Galapagos, though one of the nearest Pacific isl ds . — A genus of birds, which I …
- … Low Archipelago Islands. — Shall you study the Pacific Flora. — Lesson, I remember remarks …
- … of the Flora of the islands of the Pacific, but whether this uniformity was of species or …
- … he is no authority. — If you ever work the Pacific Flora, you will find the Appendix to my …
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Beagle voyage networks in Commentary
Conrad Martens
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Conrad Martens was born in London, the son of an Austrian diplomat. He studied landscape painting under the watercolourist Copley Fielding (1789–1855), who also briefly taught Ruskin. In 1833 he was on board the Hyacinth, headed for India, but en route in…
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- … an end, during his voyage from South America via a number of Pacific Ocean islands to New Zealand …