From W. B. Dawkins 1 December 1875
Summary
Asks CD to sign papers for Royal Society candidacy of W. B. Clarke.
| Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 131 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10285 |
To ? [February 1838 – February 1841?]
Summary
Asks correspondent if he would prefer the President’s signature alone or with those of other scientific men.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [Feb 1838 – Feb 1841?] |
| Classmark: | B. Altman (dealer) (3 October 1982) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13864 |
From G. E. Bearpark 12 February 1841
Summary
Requesting information about membership of the Geological Society of London.
| Author: | George Edmundson Bearpark |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1841 |
| Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/6/126) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-587F |
Williams, David. 1840. Extract from a letter … on the raised beaches in Barnstaple or Bideford Bay. [Read 8 March 1837.] Transactions of the Geological Society of London 2d ser. 5: 287–8.
To G. N. Smith 20 November [1840]
Summary
Sorry that ill health prevented sooner reply. Letter about caves at Caldy was already read by Buckland. Will examine birds’ beaks when better and present to Geological Society of London in Smith’s name.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gilbert Nicholas Smith |
| Date: | 20 Nov [1840] |
| Classmark: | Angus Carroll (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-580F |
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- … the Geological Society of London in autumn 1840 (see Correspondence vol. 2, letter to G. …
- … 1840]). The letter from Richard Greaves to William Buckland , dated 6 June 1840, on the discovery of the bones of birds, fishes, and mammalia in the limestone cliff at Eel Point on Caldy Island, had been read at the meeting of 10 June 1840 ( Proceedings of the Geological Society of London …
To the Geological Society of London 27 March 1837
Summary
Recommends David Williams’ paper on raised beaches of Devon [David Williams, "Letter … on the raised beaches of Barnstaple", Trans. Geol. Soc. Lond. 2d ser. 5 (1840): 287–8] be shortened and published immediately after Sedgwick’s and Murchison’s paper ["Description of a raised beach in Barnstaple", ibid., pp. 279–86] as chief point of paper is to support their conclusions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Geological Society of London |
| Date: | 27 Mar 1837 |
| Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/216) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-352 |
From David Milne 28 March 1840
Summary
Comments on CD’s paper on South American volcanoes [Trans. of the Geol. Soc. of London, 2d ser., pt 3, 5 (1840): 601–31]. Jets of steam or flame issuing from the side of a hill in Glen Almond.
| Author: | David Milne Home |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Mar 1840 |
| Classmark: | Milne Home 1891, pp. 69–72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-562F |
To Eugène Robert 28 March 1838
Summary
Discusses the geology of volcanic islands.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Louis Eugène (Eugène) Robert |
| Date: | 28 Mar 1838 |
| Classmark: | Robert 1840, pp. 443–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-350F |
From Thomas Francis Jamieson 28 January 1863
Summary
Grateful for CD’s commendation of his Glen Roy paper ["Parallel roads of Glen Roy", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 19 (1863): 235–59].
Reading Justus Liebig [trans. William Gregory, Animal chemistry or organic chemistry (1842)] has suggested that pattern of evolutionary succession might depend on differential need for soil minerals.
| Author: | Thomas Francis Jamieson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Jan 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3952 |
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- … Geological Society of London later in the year. In 1862, CD wrote a testimonial in support of Jamieson’s application to become the Fordyce lecturer in agriculture at the University of Aberdeen (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to T. F. Jamieson, 21 November 1862 ). Justus von Liebig , professor of chemistry at the University of Munich, was then the leading experimental chemist in Europe. His treatise on chemistry, agriculture, and physiology, published in Britain as Organic chemistry in its applications to agriculture and physiology (Playfair trans. 1840), …
To Asa Gray 15 January 1872
Summary
Questions AG on earthworm activity in North America and would welcome information from northern Canada if AG has a correspondent there.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 15 Jan 1872 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (99) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8158 |
To J. V. Carus 19 March [1874]
Summary
Would be glad to hear of a collected edition of his works [in Germany], but has no opinion on how it would sell. Has been surprised to learn that in England some think uniform collected works sell best. Tells JVC his publication plans and other details to guide him on extent of a "collected works".
Descent corrections have been laborious and troublesome.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 19 Mar [1874] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 122–124) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9367 |
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ice ages in Commentary
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
Summary
At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of …
