To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [19 December 1875]
Summary
CD’s attempts to get support for Lankester among Fellows of the Linnean Society. He has encountered opposition to the Council.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | [19 Dec 1875] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 52–5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10308 |
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To J. S. Henslow [22 January 1843]
Summary
Comments on JSH’s botanical work with his parishioners. Lyell will be pleased that he has done some fossil botanical work.
Describes a Geological Society meeting about Edward Charlesworth’s complaints.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [22 Jan 1843] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-660 |
To Charles Lyell [November–December 1842]
Summary
Believes "absurd letter" hastily read at last Geological Society Council meeting was from Charlesworth’s solicitor. Suggests that it may have been sent to entrap the Council and that it should be read over carefully.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [Nov–Dec 1842] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 7381(i)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-653 |
From Hensleigh Wedgwood 25 September [1842]
Summary
Gives an account of his father’s illness.
Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Sept [1842] |
Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 258) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-644 |
To Charles Lyell [September–December 1842]
Summary
Discusses relationship of subsidence to the formation of coral reefs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [Sept–Dec 1842] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-605 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 August [1857]
Summary
Important issue at stake with new flora calculations: evidence that species are only strongly marked varieties. Planning large-scale survey.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Aug [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 206, 207 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2130 |
To C. S. Bate 30 August [1853]
Summary
Sends thanks for recent specimen, which gave him conclusive evidence that Verruca acts only on calcareous rocks.
Asks for a reference on carbonic acid.
Is glad CSB progresses in research on spider-like Crustacea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Spence Bate |
Date: | 30 Aug [1853] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1528 |
Selwyn, George Augustus. 1844. New Zealand. Part I, Letters from the Bishop … with extracts from his visitation journal, from July 1842, to January 1843. Edited by C. B. Dalton. London.
To A. S. Horner [4 October 1842]
Summary
Emma recovering well from birth of third child, Mary Eleanor.
Sorry to hear Leonard Horner has been ill.
Has received high praise of Coral reefs from Lyell.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Anne Susanna Lloyd; Anne Susanna Horner |
Date: | [4 Oct 1842] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 1 (EH 88206053) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-648 |
To William Allport Leighton 26 November [1862]
Summary
For his work on dimorphism, CD asks WAL if he can send roots of two forms of Epilobium angustifolium. He doubts that they are reciprocally connected like the two forms of Primula, but will try the experiment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Allport Leighton |
Date: | 26 Nov [1862] |
Classmark: | Milton D. Forsyth, Jr (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3832 |
To Susan Darwin [late July–August 1842]
Summary
Has made an offer for house at Down, renting having been refused. Discusses price, risks involved, and Edward Cresy’s advice.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Date: | [late July–Aug 1842] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: A16–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-634 |
To Peter Martin Duncan? 18 July [1861]
Summary
He is no longer able to answer any of the correspondent’s questions concerning corals.
Places "much trust" in J. D. Dana.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Peter Martin Duncan |
Date: | 18 July [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.257) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3212 |
To H. E. Strickland [19 February 1842]
Summary
CD saw Andrew Smith, who is interested in the subject [of zoological nomenclature], but CD thinks he differs from HES on some points. Sends Smith’s address.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Edwin Strickland |
Date: | [19 Feb 1842] |
Classmark: | Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-620 |
To William Lonsdale 6 May [1864]
Summary
Thanks WL for his MS on coral and suggests that it be sent to the Geological Society for printing or preserving in the archives.
Comments on his and WL’s bad health and recalls WL’s past kindness to him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Lonsdale |
Date: | 6 May [1864] |
Classmark: | Murch 1893, pp. 436–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5080A |
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- … 4, and letter to Charles Lyell, [5 and 7 October 1842] ). The specimen and manuscript have …
- … corals ( Correspondence vol. 2, letter to A. S. Horner, [4 October 1842] and n. …
- … letter from Lonsdale has not been found. Lonsdale had been curator and librarian, then assistant secretary and librarian, of the Geological Society of London from 1829 to 1842 ( …
From Thomas Blunt 11 August 1842
Summary
Gives the height of Shrewsbury above sea-level.
Author: | Thomas Blunt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Aug 1842 |
Classmark: | DAR 5: B17–18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-639 |
To John Stevens Henslow [25 July 1844]
Summary
Sends a specimen of rusty wheat from the banks of the Plata.
Asks for bits of peat he collected
and a bit of the paint used by Fuegians to colour themselves.
He will send these to C. G. Ehrenberg for analysis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [25 July 1844] |
Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-765 |
From E. A. Darwin [after 31 March 1864?]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 31 Mar 1864?] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4364 |
To J. D. Hooker 16 [March 1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 [Mar 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 229 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2242 |
To W. D. Fox 10 August [1853]
Summary
Thanks WDF for writing so soon after his misfortunes, and again expresses sympathy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 10 Aug [1853] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 85) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1527 |
To Charles Lyell 25 June [1856]
Summary
Criticises at length the concept of submerged continents attaching islands to the mainland in the recent period. Notes drastic alteration of geography required, the dissimilar species on opposite shores of continents, and differences between volcanic islands and mountains of mainland areas. Admits sea-bed subsidence, but not enough to engulf continents. Denies that theory can explain island flora and fauna.
Considers Edward Forbes’s idea a check on study of dissemination of species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 25 June [1856] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.132) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1910 |
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barnacles in Commentary
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
Summary
Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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- … Species theory In November 1845, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend and confidant Joseph …