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* direct »Letter 317 — Darwin, C. R. to Henslow, J. S., [30–1 Oct 1836]
CD in London to meet with naturalists about his collections. Lyell and Owen are helpful, but no one else, except R. E. Grant, seems to want to examine his specimens.
* direct »Letter 319 — Darwin, C. R. to Fox, W. D., 6 Nov [1836]
All his affairs are most prosperous. Has found many who will undertake description of animals; he will work at the geology. Lyell has been most friendly and kind. CD has been proposed to the Geological Society.
* direct »Letter 335 — Lyell, Charles to Darwin, C. R., 26 Dec 1836
Comments on [MS of] CD's paper ["Elevation on the coast of Chili" (4 Jan 1837), Collected papers 1: 41–3]. Invites CD to dinner. "Don't accept any official scientific place, if you can avoid it".
* direct »Letter 343 — Lyell, Charles to Darwin, C. R., 13 Feb 1837
"I could think of nothing for days after your lesson on coral reefs, but of the top of submerged continents. It is all true, but do not flatter youself that you will be believed, till you are growing bald, like me, with hard work & vexation at the incredulity in the world."
* direct »Letter 358 — Darwin, C. R. to Babbage, Charles, [June – Sept 1837]
At Lyell's request sends his copy of Whewell's History of inductive sciences [1837] to CB.
* direct »Letter 367 — Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, Charles, 30 July 1837
Galapagos land birds and reptiles. No two naturalists agree on any fundamental idea [of species]. "Everything is arbitrary." Has been with Richard Owen going over the S. American fossils. Has worked out the non-relation between animals' bulk and luxuriance of vegetation. The horse once common on the Pampas. The mystery of the extinction of these animals.
* direct »Letter 376 — Lyell, Charles to Darwin, C. R., 29 Aug & 5 Sept 1837
Syenitic granite from Norway carried as far as Osnabruck.Has met warm reception in Germany. Leopold von Buch mistaken in believing that granite overlies transition rock in Norway. Granite sends veins into transition and gneiss. Has been examining fossil shells of Crag with Heinrich Beck. Beck admits some shells are of species still living. CL still believes Eocene, Miocene, and Pliocene are satisfactory divisions of Tertiary epoch.
* direct »Letter 394 — Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, Charles, [19? Dec 1837]
Responds to Lyell's query [missing] about northern and southern limits of coral islands of the Pacific. Warns that coral islands are much more thinly distributed than people realise and cites examples. Comments on views of Matthew Flinders. Reading work of É[lie] de B[eaumont]. Notes difficulty of setting an east-west boundary to coral islands.
* direct »Letter 402 — Lindsay-Carnegie, W. F. to Lyell, Charles, [14 Feb 1838]
Impressed by CD's theory [of earthworm action].
* direct »Letter 405 — James, R. B. to Lyell, Charles, [10? Mar 1838]
Sends four samples of dust blown on board his ship from the coast of Africa, nearly 400 miles away, during four days in March 1838. Gives careful descriptions and relates the tests he made of it [see Collected papers 1: 200].