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 |
Matches: 2 hits
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 |
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.
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter; there is no record of Bearpark’s becoming a member of the Geological Society of London. CD formally resigned the secretaryship of the society in February 1841, but had ceased to be active the previous year (see Correspondence vol. 2, letter to the President and Council of the Geological Society of London, 24 March 1840 …
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 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … letter has not been found. CD had offered to read a paper describing Smith’s discovery of fossil bones and beaks in caves on Caldy Island at a meeting of the Geological Society of London in autumn 1840 ( …
- … 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 …
- … London until 14 November (see Correspondence vol. 2, Appendix II). Smith had probably revised his paper in line with CD’s suggestions in his letter to Smith of [ c. 15 August 1840] ( Correspondence vol. 2). CD had asked Smith to present some of his Caldy Island specimens to the Geological Society; …
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter from Robert has not been found. Robert later published these observations, mentioning CD’s support, in Robert 1840 , pp. 103–4. For CD’s observations at St Jago, see Herbert 2005 , pp. 141–58, and Pearson and Nicholas 2007 , pp. 239–53. Three weeks before writing this letter, CD had given a paper at the Geological Society of London …
To William Parsons, earl of Rosse, Chairman of the Committee of Papers, Royal Society 16 March [1852]
Summary
Referee’s report on paper by Daniel Sharpe ["On foliation and cleavage", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 142 (1852): 445–62].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Parsons, 3d earl of Rosse, Lord Rosse, Lord Oxmantown; Royal Society of London |
| Date: | 16 Mar [1852] |
| Classmark: | The Royal Society (RR2: 226) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-840 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to Daniel Sharpe, 16 October [1851] ). The paper had been read at meetings of the Royal Society on 12 and 19 February 1852 ( Abstracts of the papers communicated to the Royal Society of London 6 (1850–4): 152). John MacCulloch , physician and geologist, had been commissioned in 1826 to prepare a geological map of Scotland. CD cited Gardner 1840 , …
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 |
To J. V. Carus 21 March 1876
Summary
Glad to hear that [German edition of] Insectivorous plants is published.
Thanks for errata in Climbing plants [2d ed.].
Sends list [missing] of his papers, with those certainly not worth translating marked with a red line.
Reports on work in progress.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 21 Mar 1876 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 139–140) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10422 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter from J. W. Judd, 15 November 1876 . The paper ‘Formation of mould’ was published in 1840; CD published the book Earthworms in 1881. Carus published the paper as part of the German translation of several shorter geological papers (Carus trans. 1878c); he translated Earthworms in 1882 (Carus trans. 1882). Cross and self fertilisation was published in November 1876 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Revised versions of CD’s papers on dimorphic and trimorphic plants, most of which were originally published in the Journal of the Linnean Society of London , …
To William Buckland [November 1840 – 17 February 1841]
Summary
He encloses an unidentified paper received from R. I. Murchison the previous day.
Is unable to provide information about Dr Du Gard.
Appreciates the maps of Glen Roy sent by WB. Would welcome the opinions of WB and Louis Agassiz concerning the parallel roads but cannot give up the idea of their marine origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Buckland |
| Date: | [Nov 1840 – 17 Feb 1841] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Buckland papers, Glaciation /4 (iv)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-641A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1840): 556). Buckland, who was president of the Geological Society, included a brief obituary notice of him in his anniversary address to the society on 19 February 1841 ( Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 3 (1838–42): 523). Buckland had probably written to CD to ask for information about Dugard to include in his notice. There had been some scandal about Dugard in 1831 and 1832 that is mentioned in CD’s sisters’ letters …
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Nägeli 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 …
