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From Charles Lyell 6 and 8 September 1838
Summary
Would like to talk over Salisbury Craigs with CD.
CL’s father enthusiastic over Journal of researches.
Comments on Élie de Beaumont’s theory of mountain elevation.
Asks about parallel lines of upheaval and depression in the Pacific.
Glad CD likes Athenaeum Club.
Comments on methods of work.
Invites CD to visit Kinnordy.
Defends BAAS: "in this country no importance is attached to any body of men who do not make occasional demonstrations of their strength in public meetings".
With respect to Glen Roy, notes existence of deposits destitute of shells.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 and 8 Sept 1838 |
| Classmark: | K. M. Lyell 1881 2: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-425 |
To Thomas Spring Rice [before 7 July 1838]
Summary
Express their concern that the offer for sale to the British Museum, by G. A. Mantell and Thomas Hawkins, of two valuable collections, has been declined.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; William Buckland; Adam Sedgwick; John Phillips; William Whewell; Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Charles Stokes; William John Hamilton; Edward Stanley; Richard Owen; William Clift; Charles Babbage; John Bostock; Peter Mark Roget; John Taylor; Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2d Marquess of Northampton; William John Broderip |
| Addressee: | Thomas Spring Rice |
| Date: | [before 7 July 1838] |
| Classmark: | House of Commons papers; accounts and papers, 1837/38, XXXVI, 307 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-421F |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Lyell, Charles | |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Bostock, John | (1) |
| Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
| Buckland, William | (1) |
| Clift, William | (1) |
| Compton, S. J. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hamilton, W. J. | (1) |
| Murchison, R. I. | (1) |
| Owen, Richard | (1) |
| Phillips, John | (1) |
| Roget, P. M. | (1) |
| Sedgwick, Adam | (1) |
| Stanley, Edward | (1) |
| Stokes, Charles | (1) |
| Taylor, John | (1) |
| Whewell, William | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Spring Rice, Thomas | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Bostock, John | (1) |
| Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
