To Alexander Agassiz 1 [June] 1881
Summary
Thanks AA for letter on coral reefs. "I used to think … that areas of elevation and of subsidence must – as a general rule be separated by a single great line of fissure, or rather of several".
Suggests that AA urge again his views on reappearance of old characters.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Agassiz |
Date: | 1 [June] 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12965 |
To Alexander Agassiz 5 May 1881
Summary
Responds to comments on geology of Florida.
Discusses coral reefs and paper by John Murray ["On the structure and origin of coral reefs and islands", Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh 10 (1880): 505–18].
Comments on AA’s paper ["Paleontological and embryological development", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 29 (1880): 389–414].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Agassiz |
Date: | 5 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13145 |
To Alexander Agassiz [23 October 1870?]
Summary
Suggests time for AA to visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Agassiz |
Date: | [23 Oct 1870?] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6595 |
To Alexander Agassiz 1 June [1871]
Summary
Discusses homologies in various animal groups.
Comments on Mivart [Genesis of species].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Agassiz |
Date: | 1 June [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7793 |
To Alexander Agassiz 28 August [1871]
Summary
Thanks AA for a ‘splendid case of gradation of structure’.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Agassiz |
Date: | 28 Aug [1871] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (13 December 2018, lot 236) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7918G |
To Alexander Agassiz 10 September [1871 or 1873]
Summary
Discusses exchange of books.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Agassiz |
Date: | 10 Sept [1871 or 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7932 |