To W. B. Clarke 25 October [1861]
Summary
Thanks WBC for his account of glacial action in Australia. A mundane cooler period would throw a flood of light on geographical distribution. Has sketched a large MS on subject but does not know whether he will live to publish it.
Questions WBC on striated granite boulders.
Asks him to make a botanical experiment on insect fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Branwhite Clarke |
Date: | 25 Oct [1861] |
Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 139/36X, pp. 263–72) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3298 |
From William Branwhite Clarke [August 1861]
Summary
Evidence of glacial action in Australia. [See Origin, 4th ed., p. 443.]
Author: | William Branwhite Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Aug 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 171 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3222 |
From William Branwhite Clarke 16 January 1862
Summary
Answers CD’s questions on Australian flora, bees, geology.
Author: | William Branwhite Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 172 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3392 |
From W. B. Clarke 21 January 1862
Summary
Seeks to define oldest fossil cirripede.
Author: | William Branwhite Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 173 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3401 |
From W. B. Clarke 20 June 1862
Summary
Has received Australian government grant to collect and publish on fossils. Has collected thousands of fossils.
Author: | William Branwhite Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 June 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 174 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3616 |
From W. B. Clarke 20 September 1862
Summary
Acknowledges presentation copy of Orchids.
Asks advice on what to do with all his fossils. Sending various specimens.
Author: | William Branwhite Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 175 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3733 |
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