To J. F. Royle 1 September [1847]
Summary
Returns JFR’s copies of Transactions [Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India]. Has not found quite as much as he thought he might on varieties of Indian domestic animals and plants; "the attempts at introduction have been too recent for the effects, if any, of climate to have been developed". Is impressed by the work of the English in India.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Forbes Royle |
Date: | 1 Sept [1847] |
Classmark: | Heritage Auctions (dealers) (11 April 2013) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1112 |
To Mary Anne Theresa Whitby 2 September [1847]
Summary
Questions Mrs W on difference in flight capacity of male and female silkworm moths and asks her for results of experiments he suggested she do with silkworms to determine hereditariness of dark "eyebrows". [See Variation 1: 302.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mary Anne Theresa Whitby |
Date: | 2 Sept [1847] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.61) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1113 |
To Charles Lyell 8 [September 1847]
Summary
Discusses David Milne’s Glen Roy paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber", Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. Rejects Milne’s theory that outlet of Glen Roy is blocked by detritus. Impressed by Milne’s discovery of an outlet at the level of the second shelf. Believes this strengthens theory that lakes were formed by glacier blocking Glen Roy. Offers arguments against glacier theory.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 8 [Sept 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 50: C3–C6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1116 |
To John Higgins 10 September [1847]
Summary
Agrees to lease land to Mr Mason. Discusses arrangements for bank draft.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 10 Sept [1847] |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1117 |
To J. D. Hooker [12 September 1847]
Summary
David Milne’s attack on his Glen Roy paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber", (1847) Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418] made CD horribly sick.
Wants Thomas Thomson to establish geographical range of erratic boulders in India.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [12 Sept 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1118 |
To Robert Chambers 11 September 1847
Summary
Comments on David Milne’s paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. CD still believes in marine origin. Rejects barrier of detritus at mouth of Glen Roy. If roads were formed by lake, it must have been ice-lake.
Comments on evidence of glaciers and icebergs in North Wales. Thinks pass caused by tidal channel, not river. Suggests that RC make altitude measurements at various points.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Chambers |
Date: | 11 Sept 1847 |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1119 |
To David Milne 20 [September 1847]
Summary
Comments on paper by DM ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber", (1847) Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. "I am not in the least convinced about the Barriers … [but] I am very much staggered in favour of the ice-lake theory of Agassiz & [William] Buckland." Will "send a letter to the Scotsman, in which I give briefly my present impression".
Cites facts mentioned in South America possibly of use to DM.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | David Milne Home |
Date: | 20 [Sept 1847] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (MS.3813) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1120 |
To the Scotsman [after 20 September 1847]
Summary
Comments on article by David Milne ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. Refers to his paper on Glen Roy [Collected papers 1: 87–137]. Comments on Louis Agassiz’s article ["The glacial theory and its recent progress", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 33 (1842): 217–83]. Cites his own observations on glaciers in N. Wales. Discusses possibility of ice barrier creating lake. Notes objections to theory of an ice barrier. Defends his own theory that the roads are sea-beaches. Suggests questions for further investigation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | The Scotsman |
Date: | [after 20 Sept 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 50: B1–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1121 |
letter | (8) |
Chambers, Robert | (1) |
Higgins, John | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Milne Home, David | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Chambers, Robert | (1) |
Higgins, John | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Milne Home, David | (1) |
Royle, J. F. | (1) |
The Scotsman | (1) |
Whitby, M. A. T. | (1) |