To Bernhard Studer 4 July [1847]
Summary
Glad BS intends to visit England. Fears there will be few geologists in London in August. Would be truly glad to see BS at Down, but cannot offer much geological information respecting England.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bernhard Studer |
Date: | 4 July [1847] |
Classmark: | Burgerbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1102 |
To Henry Denny 21 July [1847]
Summary
Regrets not seeing HD at Oxford meeting [of BAAS].
He may keep duplicates of parasitic insects from CD’s collection. Lyell has collected Pediculi for HD from Negroes in North America.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Denny |
Date: | 21 July [1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 383 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1103 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 July [1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 July [1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 99 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1104 |
To J. D. Hooker [4 August 1847]
Summary
Wants to go over remainder of species sketch when he sees JDH.
Urges JDH to go to Scotland.
Pleased JDH works on geographical distribution of Van Diemen’s Land flora.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [4 Aug 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1105 |
To J. D. Hooker [12 August 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [12 Aug 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1106 |
To Bernhard Studer 13 August [1847]
Summary
Invites BS to visit Down. Advises him to call on Daniel Sharpe. Suggests he see the work of the Ordnance Survey in Wales.
Offers to lend him Murchison’s The Silurian system [3 vols. (1839)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bernhard Studer |
Date: | 13 Aug [1847] |
Classmark: | Burgerbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1107 |
To J. F. Royle 14 August [1847]
Summary
CD thanks JFR for remembering about the work he wanted to borrow [Trans. Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India].
Does JFR have Ambrose Blacklock, Treatise on sheep [1838]?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Forbes Royle |
Date: | 14 Aug [1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 401 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1108 |
To Josiah Wedgwood III 14 August [1847]
Summary
Sends a letter for JW to forward to Charles Stokes concerning the purchase of Leeds and Bradford railway shares for Emma Darwin’s trust fund.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, III |
Date: | 14 Aug [1847] |
Classmark: | Alan Wedgwood (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1108F |
To John Forbes Royle [12 April – 17 May 1847]
Summary
Will send village carrier for volumes [of the Trans. Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Forbes Royle |
Date: | [12 Apr – 17 May 1847] |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 12879) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1109 |
To J. D. Hooker [18 August 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [18 Aug 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1110 |
To H. T. De la Beche 19 August [1847]
Summary
Bernhard Studer has been at Down. Studer will not be able to join HDelaB’s Ordnance Survey working party.
CD is glad to hear about very old rocks under Silurians. "There is something grand and mysterious at these depths."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Thomas De la Beche |
Date: | 19 Aug [1847] |
Classmark: | National Museum of Wales, Department of Natural Sciences (De la Beche) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1111 |
To Josiah Wedgwood III [22 August? 1847]
Summary
Writes concerning Charles Stokes’s purchase of stock in the Leeds and Bradford Guaranteed Railway.
Is glad that JW III is settled for life at Leith Hill Place.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, III |
Date: | [22 Aug? 1847] |
Classmark: | Alan Wedgwood (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1111F |
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 |
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Chambers, Robert | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (99) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Royle, J. F. | (1) |
Sharpe, Daniel | (1) |
Wedgwood, H. A. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (34) |
Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
Lyell, Charles | (8) |
Owen, Richard | (5) |
Royle, J. F. | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (38) |
Lyell, Charles | (8) |
Owen, Richard | (5) |
Royle, J. F. | (5) |
Studer, Bernhard | (4) |
Wedgwood, Josiah, III | (4) |
Chambers, Robert | (3) |
Higgins, John | (3) |
Sharpe, Daniel | (3) |
Gray, J. E. | (2) |
Ross, J. C. | (2) |
Whitby, M. A. T. | (2) |
Allen, John | (1) |
Baxter, William | (1) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
Clapham, Abraham | (1) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
De la Beche, H. T. | (1) |
Denny, Henry | (1) |
Dieffenbach, Ernst | (1) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
Grey, George | (1) |
Harvey, W. H. | (1) |
Horner, Leonard | (1) |
Horner, M. E. | (1) |
Hutton, Robert | (1) |
Jenyns, Leonard | (1) |
Jukes, J. B. | (1) |
Kolbe, A. W. H. | (1) |
Leonhard, Gustav von | (1) |
Lyell, M. E. | (1) |
Milne Home, David | (1) |
Milne-Edwards, Henri | (1) |
Muñiz, F. J. | (1) |
Nichols, Charles | (1) |
Patterson, Robert | (1) |
Russell, John | (1) |
Salt, Thomas | (1) |
Stokes, J. L. | (1) |
The Scotsman | (1) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
Wedgwood, H. A. | (1) |