From John Higgins 1 March 1848
Summary
Agrees to pay Mr Mason as requested.
Author: | John Higgins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1848 |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1161 |
To John Phillips 7 March [1848]
Summary
JP’s reference was clear, but seems to be different from the case cited by W. Hopkins about erratic conglomerate boulders. Asks for more details on the latter. CD does not think much of Hopkins’ paper ["Elevation and denudation of the district of the lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 4 (1848): 70–98].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Phillips |
Date: | 7 Mar [1848] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections (John Phillips collection)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1162 |
To John Phillips [12? March 1848]
Summary
Thanks JP for his note and reference. CD’s paper will not deal with the general question of erratics but only their transportal from a lower to a higher level ["The transportal of erratic boulders", Collected papers 1: 218–27]. His notion is that the boulders were transported by coast-ice, not drifting icebergs, and that during the period of transportal the land was subsiding. Can JP tell him whether the raised conglomerate boulders he observed were rounded or angular?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Phillips |
Date: | [12? Mar 1848] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections (John Phillips collection)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1163 |
To J. F. W. Herschel [21 March 1848]
Summary
Sends MS of his chapter on geology for Manual [Collected papers 1: 227–50]. Fears it may be too long. Does not much like it but can do no better. After hesitation, has recommended books. Defends his point that mere collection of rock specimens is "of hardly any use to Geology".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Frederick William Herschel, 1st baronet |
Date: | [21 Mar 1848] |
Classmark: | The Royal Society (HS6: 14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1164 |
To Robert Ball 25 March [1848]
Summary
Cannot give information about hook. Fuegian women fish without hooks.
Robert Mallet’s suggestion about space for specimens on board men-of-war forwarded to Sir J. Herschel.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Ball |
Date: | 25 Mar [1848] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (Fellows' Papers 54.i) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1165 |
To Richard Owen [26 March 1848]
Summary
Describes his new microscope and its advantages for dissecting. Suggests RO might discuss topic [in his contribution to J. F. W. Herschel, ed., Manual of scientific enquiry (1849)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | [26 Mar 1848] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1166 |
To William Alexander Baillie Hamilton 28 March [1848]
Summary
Sir John Herschel has not received the parcel of "Scientific Instructions", which was posted on the 15th. He requests an accurate search at the Admiralty.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Alexander Baillie Hamilton |
Date: | 28 Mar [1848] |
Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (ADM/5580 009075) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1166A |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Higgins, John | (1) |
Phillips, John | (2) |
Ball, Robert | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Hamilton, W. A. B. | (1) |
Herschel, J. F. W. | (1) |
Ball, Robert | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Hamilton, W. A. B. | (1) |
Herschel, J. F. W. | (1) |
Higgins, John | (1) |
Owen, Richard | (1) |
Phillips, John | (2) |