To William Whewell [10 March 1837]
Summary
CD seeks to decline the Secretaryship [of the Geological Society] by citing his obligation to FitzRoy to write his volume of the narrative of their expedition. His youth, inexperience, and ignorance of English geology.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Whewell |
| Date: | [10 Mar 1837] |
| Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-347 |
To William Whewell 18 June [1837]
Summary
Asks Whewell questions on earthquake wave action.
Thanks him for signature [to CD’s request to Chancellor of the Exchequer for funds for Zoology].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Whewell |
| Date: | 18 June [1837] |
| Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-361 |
To William Whewell 4 [January 1839]
Summary
Informs him of J. B. Jukes’s plans concerning the Newfoundland survey post.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Whewell |
| Date: | 4 [Jan 1839] |
| Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-483 |
To William Whewell 16 February [1839]
Summary
Asks WW to alter, before printing, the passages in WW’s Presidential Address to the Geological Society [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1839): 93] which pointedly allude to the delay in publication of CD’s Beagle journal; they might annoy FitzRoy, who, as Captain, has a right to first use of the papers of all officers on board.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Whewell |
| Date: | 16 Feb [1839] |
| Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-496 |
To William Whewell 16 April [1839]
Summary
Thanks WW for wedding gift.
Expresses admiration for his History of the inductive sciences [1837].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Whewell |
| Date: | 16 Apr [1839] |
| Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-506 |
