To Charles Lyell [8 March 1850]
Summary
Comments on CL’s Anniversary address [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 6 (1850): xxvii–lxvi]. Notes CL’s criticism of R. I. Murchison’s catastrophism.
Asks whether there are Lower Cretaceous beds in Scandinavia. Thinks Leopold von Buch must have neglected them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [8 Mar 1850] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.92) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1308 |
To Charles Lyell [8 June 1850]
Summary
Discusses depths at which ripple-marks appear on sea-floor.
Personal and social comment.
Mentions receiving Agassiz’s Lake Superior [1850].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [8 June 1850] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.94) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1337 |
To Charles Lyell [1847 or 1848]
Summary
Replies to note from CL asking about views of glaciers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [1847 or 1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 329 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13825F |
To Charles Lyell [22 November 1866 – 14 December 1871]
Summary
CD asks if he can call tomorrow (Friday) at 9: 30, and offers to come on Saturday if that would suit CL better.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [22 Nov 1866 – 14 Dec 1871] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (L DC AL 1/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13825G |
To Charles Lyell [8 April 1851]
Summary
Detailed critique of CL’s A manual of elementary geology [3d ed. (1851), used in editing 4th ed. (1852)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [8 Apr 1851] |
Classmark: | Kinnordy MS (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1384 |
To Charles Lyell 15 February [1853]
Summary
Returns Lake Superior [1850], which he already has received from Agassiz. Thanks for pamphlets by C. B. Adams [on Mollusca, Contrib. Conchol. 10 (1851): 189–206; 11 (1852): 207–15].
Describes his dissection of an unusual cirripede [Alcippe lampas] with 12 males attached [see Living Cirripedia 2: 556, 558].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 15 Feb [1853] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.103) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1502 |
To Charles Lyell 24 March [1853]
Summary
Volcanic activity of Mt Kilauea as described by Dana [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 9 (1850): 347–64]. Discusses the mechanics of volcanic eruption. Disputes view of William Hopkins that simultaneous action by volcanoes of different heights must come from separate lava sources. Notes relationship of continental elevation to volcanic action.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 24 Mar [1853] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.105) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1508 |
To Charles Lyell 7 June [1853]
Summary
Describes meeting of Geological Society [1 June 1853].
Mentions his criticism of Murchison’s lecture on flints.
Describes Robert Chambers’ "On the glacial phenomena in Scotland" [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 54 (1853): 229–82].
Mentions controversial election of members to the Royal Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 7 June [1853] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.107) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1518 |
To Charles Lyell 18 February [1854]
Summary
Comments on CL’s plan to visit Tenerife.
Discusses inclination of strata on islands and around mountains.
Personal affairs of several scientists.
Visit by Henslow.
Notes publication by Hooker [Himalayan journals (1854)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 18 Feb [1854] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.108) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1553 |
To Charles Lyell 10 January [1855]
Summary
Discusses views of Daniel Sharpe on foliation and cleavage. Recalls his own previous discussion [in South America].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 10 Jan [1855] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.110) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1626 |
To Charles Lyell 14 January [1855]
Summary
Has found a house on Baker Street to take for a month.
Mentions Daniel Sharpe’s study of the Grampians.
Association of various metamorphic rocks and relationship of their foliation to their dip and strike. Discusses foliation of schists and its origin. Comments on fluidity of gneiss and schists.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 14 Jan [1855] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.111) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1630 |
To Charles Lyell [21 January – 11 February 1855]
Summary
Relationship of schists to alternating beds of slate in western Tierra del Fuego and the Chonos Islands.
Comments on Sharpe’s theory of curved cleavage planes.
Example of metamorphosis in a "clay-slate porphyry region". Importance of previous lines of cleavage and stratification in foliation of metamorphosed rock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [21 Jan – 11 Feb 1855] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.112) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1633 |
DCP-LETT-1652
Summary
Cancelled: same as 1672.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Apr 1855 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 474 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1652 |
From Charles Lyell 23 April 1855
Summary
CL would like to put Joachim Barrande on the Royal Society’s foreign list. Of French geologists and palaeontologists, he is the man who has made the greatest sacrifices and produced the greatest results.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Apr 1855 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 6: 7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1672 |
To Charles Lyell 8 May [1855]
Summary
Mentions his paper ["Transportal of erratic boulders", Collected papers 1: 218–27]. Discusses ice-borne rock. Reference to unpublished paper on icebergs [?"Power of icebergs to make grooves", Collected papers 1: 252–5]. Remarks on scoring by icebergs. Comments on judgment of theories by Geological Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 8 May [1855] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.113) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1679 |
To Charles Lyell 4 November [1855]
Summary
Comments on two pamphlets by John Bachman [probably Continuation of the review of "Nott and Gliddon’s types of mankind" (1855) and An examination of the characteristics of genera and species as applicable to the doctrine of the unity of the human race (1855)].
CD’s pigeon breeding and plant hybridization experiments.
Invites CL to visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 4 Nov [1855] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.115) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1772 |
DCP-LETT-4594
Summary
Requests a spare copy of Lyell’s appendix [to Antiquity of man, 3d ed. (1863)].
Reports a case of arrested development in a horse’s hoofs and eyes; it will be exhibited in London.
Author: | Thomas Rupert Jones |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 81 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4594 |
From Charles Lyell 4 November 1864
Summary
Delighted to hear that CD was awarded Copley Medal. Important because award by chartered institution acts on outsiders and helps increase stock of moral courage.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Nov 1864 |
Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 383–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4658 |
From Charles Lyell 16 January 1865
Summary
His view of Origin.
Belief of Duke of Argyll that substituting "variation" and "selection" for creation deifies them.
Thinks Argyll would accept evolution except for man.
A’s view of humming-birds.
Describes discussion with [Victoria,] Princess Royal of Prussia, about evolution.
New edition of Elements consistent with Origin.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 384–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4746 |
To Charles Lyell 22 January [1865]
Summary
Criticises Duke of Argyll’s address [to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1864)] and demurs on Argyll’s "new birth" theory.
Agrees with CL on beauty.
Enjoyed hearing of Princess Royal’s discussion [on Darwinism].
CD’s illness.
CL’s advice on chapter [of Variation] on dogs was excellent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 22 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.304) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4752 |
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