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 |
To J. D. Hooker [5 October 1847]
Summary
Mystified by the origin of coal-plants.
Milne’s Glen Roy theory is absurd but, oddly, it has staggered CD in favour of Agassiz’s ice-lake theory.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [5 Oct 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 108 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1123 |
To Joseph Beete Jukes 8 October [1847]
Summary
Flattered by JBJ’s discussion of coral reefs [in Voyage of H.M.S. "Fly" 1 (1847): 347–8]. CD has always thought his Coral reefs "too bold and speculative", so he is gratified "when anyone who has had opportunities of observation does not give his verdict against it".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Beete Jukes |
Date: | 8 Oct [1847] |
Classmark: | University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1125 |
To Charles Lyell [11 October 1847]
Summary
Discusses enclosed figures on elevation of terraces in several Scottish glens as surveyed by William Kemp and David Stevenson. Comments on Robert Chambers’ view of the terraces. Mentions a letter on the terraces, originally written for publication, which he has asked Robert Jameson [editor of the Edinburgh New Philos. J.] to destroy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [11 Oct 1847] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.64) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1126 |
To J. D. Hooker [6 or 13 October 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [6 or 13] Oct 1847 |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 105 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1127 |
To M. A. T. Whitby 14 October [1847]
Summary
Thanks for a suite of male and female specimens of Lepidoptera. Lack of difference in size of wings surprises CD; the female’s being smaller than male’s in early growth is new to him. Will ask a friend in India for comparable facts.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mary Anne Theresa Whitby |
Date: | 14 Oct [1847] |
Classmark: | Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections (Honeyman Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1128 |
To J. D. Hooker [21 October 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [21 Oct 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 107 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1129 |
To J. D. Hooker [25 October 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [25 Oct 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 106 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1130 |
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