To M. J. Berkeley [March 1841]
Summary
Looks forward to the paper on CD’s edible fungus specimen from Tierra del Fuego [read 16 Mar 1841; Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 19 (1845): 37–43].
Sends a correction: Fagus betuloides, not F. antarctica, is the common tree of Tierra del Fuego.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Miles Joseph Berkeley |
Date: | [Mar 1841] |
Classmark: | Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/134/47) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-591 |
To Charles Lyell [March 1841]
Summary
Discusses the role of ice in determining the geological features of the Jura. Mentions view of Agassiz. Objects to idea of "a [sea of ice] carrying rocks". Notes Agassiz’s earlier view of "ice expanded in the line of the Great Swiss Valley". Comments on Pentlands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [Mar 1841] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.27) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-592 |
To Louis Agassiz 1 March [1841]
Summary
Has enjoyed reading LA’s book [Études sur les glaciers (1840)].
Hopes LA will pardon manner in which CD has alluded to his work on glaciers in his Journal of researches, of which he sends a copy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz |
Date: | 1 Mar [1841] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1419: 280) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-593 |
To Charles Lyell [9 March 1841]
Summary
Defends his theory [in "Parallel roads of Glen Roy" (1839), Collected papers 1: 87–137] against the view that the "roads" were formed by glacial action.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [9 Mar 1841] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.23) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-594 |
To Charles Lyell [12 March 1841]
Summary
Discusses at length Louis Agassiz’s book [Études sur les glaciers (1840)] and Agassiz’s explanation of moraines. Defends his own theory of the importance of floating ice. Relates glacier theory to his own interpretation of Glen Roy.
Mentions a paper he is writing on South American boulders and till [Collected papers 1: 145–63].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [12 Mar 1841] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.25) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-595 |
To A. Y. Spearman 27 March 1841
Summary
The Smith, Elder & Co. account for the now published fifth number of the third part of the Zoology is presented.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet |
Date: | 27 Mar 1841 |
Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4585 paper 10688) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-595A |
From Leonard Jenyns [c. 30 March 1841]
Summary
LJ has had a letter from R. T. Lowe in Madeira who thinks Scorpaena histrio, a species from Galapagos described in no. 1 [of Fish], is the same as the one in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. LJ does not think it is possible.
Author: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 30 Mar 1841] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 279 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-596 |
Lyell, Charles | (3) |
Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
Berkeley, M. J. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Spearman, A. Y. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Lyell, Charles | (3) |
Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
Berkeley, M. J. | (1) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |