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: 1 hit
- … 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 [before 7 July 1838] …
To Charles Lyell 9 August [1838]
Summary
Comments on receiving copy of Lyell’s Elements [of geology]. Much is new to CD, and he is copying out notes and references.
Criticises geological work of John Phillips.
Describes expedition to Glen Roy, about which he is writing a paper ["Parallel roads of Glen Roy" (1839), Collected papers 1: 87–137].
Enjoys the Athenaeum Club.
Criticises entomological work of F. W. Hope.
Asks Lyell to obtain for him a copy of barometric readings made at Leith.
Asks him to ascertain altitude of several Scottish lochs.
Comments on FitzRoy’s character.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 9 Aug [1838] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-424 |
To the Geological Society of London 4 October 1842
Summary
Papers by T. J. Newbold [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1842): 702–5], T. C. Hunt [3 (1842): 565–6] and J. Phillips [3 (1842): 705–6] need not be printed in Transactions of the Geological Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Geological Society of London |
| Date: | 4 Oct 1842 |
| Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/130) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-647 |
To Charles Lyell 28 March [1859]
Summary
Has heard that CL has spoken to John Murray about publication [of Origin]. Encloses prospective title-page. Asks whether he ought to tell John Murray about unorthodoxy of the book.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 28 Mar [1859] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.163) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2437 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1838 . CD owned copies of the third (1851) and fifth (1855) editions, now in the Darwin Library–CUL. For CD’s previous estimates of the size of his forthcoming volume, see letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1858] . Lyell was writing up the results of his geological tour in Italy made in the summer and autumn of 1858 (see K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 285–315). See letter to John Phillips, …
From Asa Gray to J. D. Hooker 6 July 1863
Summary
Includes comments about George Bentham’s anniversary address to the Linnean Society with particular notice of the favourable attention to Darwin, except for Natural Selection, and to AG’s essay in the Atlantic Monthly.
He defends [W. B.] Carpenter and [Jeffries] Wyman against [Richard] Owen.
Gossip about scientific honours and other matters.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 6 July 1863 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray correspondence: 328–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4232F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Phillips Bond . Frances Harriet Hooker . Jane Loring Gray’s great aunt, ‘one of the country kin in Connecticut’ ( Dupree 1959 , p. 332), has not been further identified. In collaboration with John Torrey , Gray had first begun work on a planned flora of North America in 1833. A portion of the work was published between 1838 …
| letter | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Bostock, John | (1) |
| Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
| Buckland, William | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Geological Society of London | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Spring Rice, Thomas | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Lyell, Charles | (3) |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Bostock, John | (1) |
| Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
