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 |
Matches: 18 hits
- … any of the correspondent’s questions concerning corals. Places "much trust" in J. D. Dana. …
- … Bibliography Coral reefs : The structure …
- … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
- … that the classification of the stony corals would be very difficult. From all that I know …
- … Duncan, Peter Martin. 1866–72. A monograph of the British fossil corals. Second series. …
- … to the ‘Monograph of the British fossil corals,’ by MM. Milne-Edwards and Jules Haime. …
- … 30 years since I began examining living corals, but other pursuits interfered & I have …
- … undertake a study of the British fossil corals. His monograph was eventually published by …
- … and made notes on a number of different corals and coralline algae during the Beagle …
- … voyage. His descriptions of corals are included in his Zoological diary (DAR 30 and 31), …
- … his drawings of these specimens are in DAR 29.3. A few of his observations on corals were …
- … published in Coral reefs . See Porter 1985 . …
- … Dana had published a description of the corals and actinia collected during the voyage of …
- … Exploring Expedition ( Dana 1848 ). Of the 483 corals described, 229 were new, and Dana’s …
- … a discussion of CD’s interest in studying coral structure and generation processes, see …
- … Sloan 1985 , pp. 104–9. The stony corals or madrepores (Scleractinia) …
- … are common forms in coral reefs. CD had been …
- … friend Charles Stokes to study shallow-water corals such as Fungia during his voyage. See …
To Charles Lyell [19 February 1840]
Summary
Remarks on his illness and treatment.
Discusses MS [of Coral reefs] and changes in his view of coral reefs since Journal of researches. Mentions C. G. Ehrenberg’s observations on coral reefs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [19 Feb 1840] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.21) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-554 |
Matches: 16 hits
- … Remarks on his illness and treatment. Discusses MS [of Coral reefs ] and changes …
- … in his view of coral reefs since Journal of researches . Mentions C. …
- … G. Ehrenberg’s observations on coral reefs. …
- … Ehrenberg 1834 , p. 50), but CD was told by British naval officers of corals growing at …
- … twenty-five fathoms ( Coral reefs, p. 83). …
- … CD means that living corals do not exist at great depths. …
- … Darwin. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. Coral reefs : The structure …
- … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
- … your note, I have read over my chapter on Coral, & I find I am prepared to stand by almost …
- … Journal of researches, pp. 539–69. Coral reefs was not published until May 1842. C. …
- … Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg observed corals growing only to a depth of six fathoms ( …
- … in my volume. — Although I believe that coral-reefs do not exist at greater depth than 20 …
- … to what Ehrenberg has said, that in the Red Sea there are beds of coral in 25 fathoms. — …
- … The argument drawn from the fact of coral-reefs not existing at great, that there must …
- … with reefs, stands firm, even should coral-reefs be hereafter found to live at much …
- … immense in which every island is low, & of coral-formation. My classification of reefs is …
To Smith, Elder & Co. 8 January 1874
Summary
Pleased they will publish a new edition of Coral reefs, and he will soon consider any addenda and write a short preface.
Will return the wood-blocks of Journal of Researches the following week.
Could his copy of Coral Reefs please be returned.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
| Date: | 8 Jan 1874 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 43127) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9233F |
Matches: 14 hits
- … Pleased they will publish a new edition of Coral reefs , and he will soon consider any …
- … of Researches the following week. Could his copy of Coral Reefs please be returned. …
- … be so good as to return my copy of the Coral reefs to 6 Queen Anne S t Cavendish Sq — & …
- … Bibliography Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
- … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. …
- … London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1874. Coral reefs : The structure …
- … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
- … The first edition of Coral reefs was published in 1842 by Smith, Elder & Co . CD was in …
- … CD’s preface to the new edition is dated February 1874 (see Coral reefs 2d ed. , pp. …
- … CD refers to images that first appeared in Coral reefs , pp. 2, 3, 48, 98, 100, and were …
- … 469, 471, 473, 474. These images appear in Coral reefs 2d ed. , pp. 2, 65, 131, 133.In …
- … and woodblocks if they decided not to make a new edition of Coral reefs . CD had asked …
- … Dalton Hooker whether he had a copy of Coral reefs that he could use for corrections (see …
- … that you will publish a new edition of my Coral reefs; & earnestly hope that it will not …
To Ernst Haeckel 21 January [1876]
Summary
EH’s Arabische Korallen is spirited, clear, and poetical. With respect to formation of islands, thinks EH lays too much stress on views of Ehrenberg. Admires drawings.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 21 Jan [1876] |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 37 [9890]) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10363 |
Matches: 18 hits
- … Bibliography Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
- … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. …
- … London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1874. Coral reefs : The structure …
- … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
- … specifically praised CD’s pioneering work on coral reefs ( Haeckel 1876b , pp. 21, 41 n. …
- … the same time poetical description of coral-reefs & of their innumerable co-inhabitants. I …
- … enthusiasm when I first wandered over a coral-reef, but I did not admire the beauty of the …
- … forces. — With respect to the formation of coral islands I think that you lay too much …
- … on erhebung : the wear & tear of the corals by the breakers & the action of the wind are …
- … January 1876 . Arabische Korallen (Arabian corals; Haeckel 1876b ). Erhebung : elevation, …
- … as a principal cause in the formation of coral islands ( Haeckel 1876b , pp. 21–2). CD’s …
- … of waves and wind in breaking down the coral and depositing other debris, were sufficient …
- … to account for the increase in dry land on coral islands ( …
- … 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1842. Dana, James Dwight. 1872. Corals …
- … and coral islands . New York: Dodd & Mead. Würffel, Rheinhard. 2000. Lexikon deutscher …
- … see Coral reefs , pp. 20–1). …
- … CD had strengthened this argument in Coral reefs 2d ed. , pp. …
- … James Dwight Dana’s suggestion that many coral islands showed evidence of recent uplift ( …
To J. D. Hooker 27 [March 1874]
Summary
Etty [Henrietta Litchfield] is helping with Coral reefs [2d ed.]; will JDH lend her his copy?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 27 [Mar 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 320 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9373 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Etty [Henrietta Litchfield] is helping with Coral reefs [2d ed. ]; will JDH lend her his …
- … first asked to borrow Hooker’ s copy of Coral reefs in January (see letters to J. D. …
- … so troublesome. Etty is helping me over Coral-Reefs. — Will you lend her for a month your …
- … Bibliography Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
- … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. …
- … London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1874. Coral reefs : The structure …
- … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
- … Emma Litchfield was correcting the proofs of Coral reefs 2d ed. (see letter to H. E. …
- … 21 [March 1874] ). There were three maps in Coral reefs ; CD made minor revisions to the …
- … map of the Pacific and Indian Oceans in Coral reefs 2d ed. , plate 3. …
To J. V. Carus 23 March 1876
Summary
Clarifies a passage [in Coral reefs, 2d ed. (1874)], which JVC had questioned.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 23 Mar 1876 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 141–142) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10426 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … Clarifies a passage [in Coral reefs , 2d ed. (1874)], which JVC had questioned. …
- … the basal part formed of agglutinated fragments & coral sand together with some of …
- … the more delicate deep-water corals” D r All e n is a misprint for All a n at p 68 My dear …
- … Bibliography Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
- … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. …
- … London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1874. Coral reefs 3d ed. : …
- … The structure and distribution of coral reefs, with an appendix by Prof. T. G. Bonney. By …
- … This clause was added to the German translation of Coral reefs 2d ed. (Carus trans. 1876a, …
- … p. 52). It was not added to Coral reefs 3d ed. The reference …
- … Brands Allan ; this correction was made to Coral reefs 3d ed. , p. 68, and to the German …
- … in large part of agglutinated fragments & coral sand; and when I spoke of the vertical …
To ? 10 July [1872–3]
Summary
Sends publication details of Coral reefs, which he thinks is now only available in Geology of the ‘Beagle’: Geological observations on coral reefs, volcanic islands, and on South America.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 10 July [1872-3] |
| Classmark: | Stuart Lutz Historic Documents (dealer) (January 2020) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8404F |
Matches: 11 hits
- … Sends publication details of Coral reefs , which he thinks is now only available …
- … of the ‘Beagle’: Geological observations on coral reefs, volcanic islands, and on South …
- … Bibliography Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
- … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. …
- … London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1874. Coral reefs : The structure …
- … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
- … title. “The structure & distribution of Coral Reefs 1842, Smith, Elder & Co London. ”— I …
- … does not mention the second edition of Coral reefs , which appeared in May or June 1874 ( …
- … 22, letter from G. H. Darwin, 30 May 1874 ). Coral reefs . Volcanic islands (published in …
- … 1846) were reissued by Smith, Elder with Coral reefs in a single volume in 1851 ( Geology …
- … of the ‘Beagle’ : Geological observations on coral reefs, volcanic islands, and on South …
To Charles Lyell 6 [July 1841]
Summary
Discusses various types of coral reefs on which he has been collecting notes. Views of C. G. Ehrenberg. His conception of the formation of Bermuda.
Pessimistic about the effect of his poor health on his scientific work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 6 [July 1841] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.24) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-602 |
Matches: 18 hits
- … in case by chance you should want to ask me any questions about Coral-Masses Shrewsbury …
- … Discusses various types of coral reefs on which he has been collecting notes. Views of C. …
- … Ministry of Defence. Moresby provided CD with extensive descriptions of coral reefs ( …
- … see Coral reefs, pp. 22, 83, 191–6). The Lyells were preparing to leave on a year’s trip …
- … Bibliography Coral reefs : The structure …
- … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
- … in Radnorshire, Wales, where he examined the corals of the Wenlock limestone, a Silurian …
- … have enjoyed to have followed you about the coral-limestone— I once saw close to Wenlock, …
- … 119–20 of his Glen Roy notebook (DAR 130). Described in Coral reefs, pp. 188–91. Ibid. , …
- … pp. 196–205. Plate III (a world map) in Coral reefs is coloured as follows: dark blue for …
- … reefs of an irregular form, reefs not based on coral foundation, and certain unusual …
- … reefs in the Red Sea ( Coral reefs, pp. 119–23). Ehrenberg 1834 . Robert Moresby , a …
- … rough drawing, I remember, of the masses of coral— But the degree in which the whole mass …
- … of mud seems to have invaded & covered a coral reef—leaving but very few islets yet free …
- … suggestion of a neutral tint for such coral-reefs, as I am uncertain about, but I almost …
- … I shall of course enumerate them. — (N.B. Coral reefs extend along nearly whole line of …
- … flat bank, encrusted with knolls & reefs of coral, with land formed on one side. This land …
- … edges, solidified by the growth of some coral: at Bermuda, the wind has heaped more sand & …
To Peter Martin Duncan 13 April [1868?]
Summary
Promises to send coral specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Peter Martin Duncan |
| Date: | 13 Apr [1868?] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.272) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13802 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Promises to send coral specimens. …
- … Accordingly I have looked out all the corals which I can find, & I will send them on …
- … conjectured from the reference to specimens of coral from the Keeling Islands (see n. 2, …
- … of London that included the Keeling Islands coral specimens. No letter from Lyell to CD on …
- … 1869 , Duncan referred to some deep-sea corals from Cape Verde that CD had given him. …
- … Duncan later described as a new species a coral, Placopsammia darwini (a synonym of …
- … Tubastraea coccinea , the orange cup coral), that had been collected by CD in the …
- … Cainozoic periods elucidated by their coral faunas. [Read 24 November 1869. ] Quarterly …
- … Notices of some deep-sea and littoral corals from the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, Indian, …
- … you do not care about the soft parts of corals. I have a few notes regarding some of those …
To Smith, Elder & Co 30 October 1875
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of £2 8s 10d for 2d edition of Coral reefs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
| Date: | 30 Oct 1875 |
| Classmark: | Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections (Honeyman Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10233 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … Acknowledges receipt of £2 8s 10d for 2d edition of Coral reefs . …
- … Bibliography Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
- … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. …
- … London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1874. Coral reefs : The structure …
- … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
- … being half Profits on sale of 2 d . Edit of Coral Reefs up to June 30 th . I have received …
- … records the receipt of £2 8 s . 10 d . for Coral reefs 2d ed. ; no earlier entry for the …
- … Elder & Co to publish a new edition of Coral reefs , but worried that they might not want …
- … Smith, Elder & Co, 17 December [1873] ). Coral reefs 2d ed. was published in June 1874 ( …
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 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … Discusses relationship of subsidence to the formation of coral reefs. …
- … a problem for CD’s coral theory. See CD’s letter to Charles Maclaren, [15 November– …
- … we ought to look out for upraised coral-formations (putting on one side denudation) above …
- … 3: 393–4). Maclaren cited the lack of upraised coral formations of great thickness as …
- … Bibliography Coral reefs : The structure …
- … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
- … within areas favourable to the growth of corals) reefs are absent, which shows that their …
- … America (August 1842) and had discussed CD’s Coral reefs with him. CD’s comment that his …
- … it probable that CD revised his view at about this time. In Coral reefs CD indicated that …
- … the growth of thick coral formations would require a very slow rate of subsidence (p. …
- … might be submerged more quickly than the coral could grow. As a result new reefs might be …
- … Lyell 1840 , 3: 393–4). In Journal of researches (pp. 568–9) and Coral reefs (pp. 114, …
- … 145, and 148) CD indicated that modern coral archipelagos might have been built on sunken …
To Smith, Elder & Co. 27 March [1874]
Summary
Heavily correcting sheets for Coral reefs, 2d ed. [1874]. Offers to pay extra printer’s charges.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
| Date: | 27 Mar [1874] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (MS.23181, ff.16-20 (S. E. & Co. work slip, ff.16-17, letter ff.18-19, address envelope f.20)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9374 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … Heavily correcting sheets for Coral reefs , 2d ed. [1874]. Offers to pay extra printer’s …
- … Bibliography Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
- … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. …
- … London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1874. Coral reefs : The structure …
- … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
- … thought that I had corrected the sheets of the Coral Reefs enough, but I find so many bad …
- … is established from the reference to the proofs of the second edition of Coral reefs ; …
- … copies of Coral reefs 2d ed. were available from late May (see letter from G. H. …
- … was helping to correct the proofs of Coral reefs 2d ed. (see letters to H. E. …
To Charles Lyell [13 January 1874]
Summary
The coral-reef book has been invaluable [J. D. Dana, Corals and coral islands (1872); used by CD in Coral reefs, 2d ed. (1874)].
Thanks for Saturday Review.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [13 Jan 1874] |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B1/ Lyell Temp Box 3.1 Folder_6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9240 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … The coral-reef book has been invaluable [J. …
- … D. Dana, Corals …
- … and coral islands (1872); used …
- … by CD in Coral reefs , 2d ed. (1874)]. Thanks for Saturday Review . …
- … Bibliography Coral reefs : The structure …
- … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
- … I return with thanks the Saturday R w . — The Coral-Reef Book has been invaluable to me. — …
- … CD was preparing a second edition of Coral reefs . In a letter to Joseph Dalton Hooker of …
To H. T. De la Beche 7 April [1848]
Summary
CD discusses questions about his coral reef theory that were raised by HTDlaB [in his Geol. Soc. Anniversary Address (1848)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Thomas De la Beche |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1848] |
| Classmark: | National Museum of Wales, Department of Natural Sciences (De la Beche) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1169 |
Matches: 16 hits
- … CD discusses questions about his coral reef theory that were raised by HTDlaB [in his …
- … Bibliography Coral reefs : The structure …
- … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
- … Barrier reefs— At p. 49 of my Volume on Coral Reefs, (please read whole page) you will …
- … fathoms submerged, the simple growth of the coral, without the aid of subsidence , would …
- … might have been formed by the growth of corals on the foundations of sediment from denuded …
- … a necessary condition as CD maintained. Coral reefs , p. 101: ‘would produce a structure …
- … scarcely to be distinguished from a true atoll’. Coral reefs , p. …
- … to the Pacific, 1815–18. CD discussed Chamisso’s theory of the growth of coral reefs …
- … in Coral reefs , p. …
- … 89. In Coral reefs , p. 92, CD referred to the West Indian formations as a possible …
- … 101: ‘for in all cases the corals on the outer margin of a reef, from having space and …
- … be checked by the sediment found there’. Coral reefs , p. 57. CD referred to modified …
- … that worn down islands have been coated by coral-reefs; & here the coating begins as soon …
- … a depth of 20 or 30 fathoms, before the corals become attached to them; then we have the …
- … or islands of other rocks, or upraised coral-reefs, or banks of sediment, but I lumped …
To Charles Lyell [19 December 1837]
Summary
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.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [19 Dec 1837] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-394 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … are separated by great volcanic band, in which coral exists in very small quantity, or is …
- … 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 …
- … É[lie] de B[eaumont]. Notes difficulty of setting an east-west boundary to coral islands. …
- … to correct the commonly held assumption that coral reefs are necessarily associated with …
- … volcanic formations. See Coral reefs, pp. 60–1. A …
- … in Lyell’s hand reads ‘M r . Darwin on Coral islands. thinly scattered over what area— Dec …
- … the southern or northern limits of true coral islands in Pacific, for scacely any islands …
- … to general rule owing to Gulf Stream— Coral is abundant at Mauritius on Tropic & I believe …
- … you to talk of great areas abounding with corals. — People’s ideas of the Pacific are most …
- … With respect to your E & W. Boundary of coral in the Pacific, it is scarcely possible to …
- … This area thus surrounded on 3 sides by coral & containing a few reefs is about,— the …
To [G.-G. Baillière?] 5 July 1878
Summary
Hopes Baillière will inform Cosserat how pleased he is with the new translation of Coral Reefs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gustave-Germer Baillière |
| Date: | 5 July 1878 |
| Classmark: | Peter Harrington (dealer) (7 February 2012) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11590F |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Baillière will inform Cosserat how pleased he is with the new translation of Coral Reefs . …
- … to the French translation of the second edition of Coral reefs (see n. 2, below). …
- … French translation of the second edition of Coral reefs was made by Louis Cosserat, and …
- … Bibliography Coral reefs : The structure …
- … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
- … By Charles Darwin. (French translation of Coral reefs 2d ed. ) Paris: Germer-Baillière. …
- … has done me the honour to make of my book on Coral-reefs. — I further beg to thank you for …
To Charles Maclaren [15 November – December 1842]
Summary
Responds to CM’s review of Coral reefs [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 34 (1843): 33–47].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Maclaren |
| Date: | [15 Nov – Dec 1842] |
| Classmark: | Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 34 1843: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-662 |
Matches: 16 hits
- … Responds to CM’s review of Coral reefs [ Edinburgh New Philos. J. 34 (1843): 33–47]. …
- … Bibliography Coral reefs : The structure …
- … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
- … transitional stages from fringing reefs to coral rock on dry land are much more rare than …
- … elevation is correct. Probably a misprint or a misreading of ‘my vol’, i.e. Coral reefs. …
- … Maclaren had reviewed Coral reefs in the Scotsman of 29 October and 9 November 1842. A …
- … of the book. Maclaren argued that since coral reefs thousands of feet thick exist under …
- … calcareous rocks of the supposed thickness of coral reefs, do not occur. I am inclined to …
- … merely a coating on the upraised land of coral-rock either thicker or thinner, according …
- … cases might contain (p. 117) scarcely any coral; within barrier-reefs such beds would …
- … layers of calcareous sediment and not of coral. I suspect that denudation has acted on a …
- … cavernous, tabular, though wide, masses of coral rock, standing exposed in great oceans …
- … oscillations of land, during all which the soft coral rock would be exposed to the action …
- … namely, denudation. Now, barrier and atoll coral reefs, though, according to my theory, of …
- … they will suffer, as I suspect ancient coral reefs have suffered—the same fate with …
- … same thing, the probable thickness of the coral-reef, resolves itself into this,—What is …
To Alexander Agassiz 5 May 1881
Summary
Responds to comments on geology of Florida.
Discusses coral reefs and paper by John Murray ["On the structure and origin of coral reefs and islands", Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh 10 (1880): 505–18].
Comments on AA’s paper ["Paleontological and embryological development", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 29 (1880): 389–414].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Agassiz |
| Date: | 5 May 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13145 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … to comments on geology of Florida. Discusses coral reefs and paper by John Murray [" …
- … On the structure and origin of coral reefs and islands", Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh 10 ( …
- … London and New York: Cambridge University Press. 1966–96. Coral reefs : The structure …
- … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
- … published ‘On the structure and origin of coral reefs and islands’ in Proceedings of the …
- … 351–5. Murray had argued that the deposition of the remains of non-coral shells would form …
- … a base on which corals would subsequently build. CD thought Murray’s view, that reef …
- … John. 1880. On the stucture and origin of coral reefs and islands. [Read 5 April 1880. ] …
- … I concluded that shells, the smaller corals & c & c decayed & were dissolved, when not …
- … acid in the water at great depths, & that coral reefs. & c & c are likewise dissolved …
- … to T. M. Reade, 22 September 1880 ). In Coral reefs , p. 198, CD had noted that he ‘should …
- … 510. The first successful boring into a coral island to a depth of over 600 feet was made …
To Caroline Darwin 29 April 1836
Summary
Keeling Islands, his first coral lagoons; he has been occupied with subject of coral formation for six months.
Very busy at sea rewriting old geological notes. Has difficulties with writing.
FitzRoy has proposed joint account of the journey, combining CD’s journal with his own.
Looks forward with anxiety to Henslow’s reaction to the geological notes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 29 Apr 1836 |
| Classmark: | DAR 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-301 |
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- … Keeling Islands, his first coral lagoons; he has been …
- … occupied with subject of coral formation for six months. Very busy at sea rewriting old …
- … A group of coral islands in the Indian Ocean. …
- … They are discussed at length in Coral reefs . This was the generally held view, shared by …
- … In the Autobiography , p. 98, CD says that his theory, that coral reefs were formed by …
- … the upward growth of coral during the gradual subsidence of the sea-bed, ‘was thought out …
- … of the theory is in a manuscript headed ‘Coral islands’, dated 1835 and probably written …
- … with appendix and notes by Nora Barlow. London: Collins. 1958. Coral reefs : The structure …
- … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
- … Co. 1842. Stoddart, D. R. , ed. 1962. Coral islands, by Charles Darwin, with introduction, …
- … Lyell, and the geological significance of coral reefs. British Journal for the History of …
- … our only opportunity of seeing one of those wonderful productions of the Coral polypi. — …
- … The subject of Coral formation has for the last half year, been a point of particular …
To P. M. Duncan 19 September 1876
Summary
Encloses coral specimen and manuscript account of it by William Lonsdale.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Peter Martin Duncan |
| Date: | 19 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.498) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10608 |
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- … Encloses coral specimen and manuscript account of it by William Lonsdale. …
- … Duncan, Peter Martin. 1866–72. A monograph of the British fossil corals. Second series. …
- … to the ‘Monograph of the British fossil corals,’ by MM. Milne-Edwards and Jules Haime. …
- … my rooms I found a parcel with a fossil coral & a long M.S account (beautifully written) …
- … William Lonsdale’s manuscript on the fossil coral together with a specimen was sent to CD …
- … the material to Duncan because, like Lonsdale, he specialised in fossil corals. Duncan …
- … written a monograph on British fossil corals, published by the Palaeontographical Society …
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| Hooker, J. D. | (25) |
| Lyell, Charles | (25) |
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Darwin & coral reefs
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The central idea of Darwin's theory of coral reef formation, as it was later formulated, was that the islands were formed by the upward growth of coral as the Pacific Ocean floor gradually subsided. It overturned previous ideas and would in itself…
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- … out on the west coast of S. America before I had seen a true coral reef. I had therefore only to …
- … the continued deposition of sediment by the upward growth of coral. To do this was to form my theory …
- … Charles Darwin describing how he arrived at his coral reef theory. Autobiography , pp. 98-9 …
- … was that the islands were formed by the upward growth of coral as the Pacific Ocean floor gradually …
- … early in September, Darwin jotted down some notes about coral formations in the field notebook …
- … both European and Chilean formations as well as the Pacific coral reefs. Coral formations are …
- … crustal changes strongly suggests that Darwin’s theory of coral reef formation originated as a …
- … hypothesised a corresponding subsidence in the Pacific. The coral islands would thus furnish proof …
- … own view of the geology of the Pacific. In his chapter on coral reefs in the second volume of the …
- … who had just published the results of his survey of 32 coral islands, and the Frenchmen Quoy and …
- … aware that his view of the relationship of subsidence and coral building, if verified, would be an …
- … he wrote out a draft of his theory in a memorandum headed ‘Coral islands 1835.’ It is the first …
- … The impact of Darwin’s first sighting of a coral island is confirmed by a letter to his sister …
- … at Mauritius, in which he states that ‘The subject of Coral formation has for the last half year, …
- … mountain; to how great a depth or thickness the work of the Coral animal extends is quite uncertain. …
- … gradually subsides, is granted to be true; then probably the Coral limestone must be of great …
- … & Eimeo, mentioned in this journal, which are encircled by a Coral reef separated from the shore …
- … with a movement opposite to the continent of S. America; the coral would be continued upwards, …
- … would sink beneath the level of the sea & disappear, but the coral would have completed its …
- … bottom . . . Let any mountain be submerged gradually & coral grow in the sea in which it is …
- … of the theory, The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs (1842) was based on intensive …
- … The first evidence of ideas that led to Darwin’s theory of coral reef formation: A geological friend …
- … cores of [his] heart’ to have finished writing his book on coral reefs: letter to Leonard Jenyns …
- … R. 1976. Darwin, Lyell, and the geological significance of coral reefs. British Journal for the …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man ; the …
- … ). Back over old ground New editions of Coral reefs and Descent consumed the …
- … enterprises in the 1870s, were family affairs. Coral reefs His son Horace had …
- … with the later chapters on the formation and distribution of coral-reefs substantially revised, and …
- … been increased by the publication in 1872 of Corals and coral islands , by James Dwight Dana, an …
- … or volcanic activity in accounting for the absence of coral-reefs in certain locations. Darwin …
- … also indicate that the land had long remained stationary ( Coral reefs , p. vi). On receiving a …
- … 274). Descent Alongside his revision of Coral reefs, Darwin went to work on a …
Science, Work and Manliness
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Discussion Questions|Letters In 1859, popular didactic writer William Landels published the first edition of what proved to be one of his best-selling works, How Men Are Made. "It is by work, work, work" he told his middle class audience, …
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- … 1853] Darwin praises Dana’s latest work, On Coral Reefs and Islands . The size of …
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
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Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
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This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…
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- … the Pacific and Indian Oceans, as deduced from the study of coral formations. Proceedings of the …
- … F1661.] — The structure and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology …
- … F1724.] — The structure and distribution of coral reefs . By Charles Darwin. Revised …
- … R. 1976. Darwin, Lyell, and the geological significance of coral reefs. British Journal for the …
Volume appendices
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Here is a list of the appendices from the print volumes of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin with links to adapted online versions where they are available. Appendix I in each volume contains translations of letters in foreign languages and these can…
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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- … of the origin of low and lagoon encircling Islands of the Coral formation.” For – altho’ I have …
- … safely say is very little if at all inferior to his – of Coral Island formations – in any one …
- … down that “Their lagoon is nearly filled up with growing coral and sand” – but – here is the word – …
- … out their mistake, only when run aground on some one of the Coral patches lying to the Southward of …
- … that passage but the Sun being then to the Eastward – the coral was visible and she put about – just …
- … only harbour – passing cautiously between the patches of coral rock clearly visible to an eye at the …
- … (whilst in the Pacific Ocean) some of the circularly formed coral Islands having accessible Lagoons …
- … is shallow – almost filled with branching corals and coral sand.” Hey presto! Why stop to notice it …
- … as mentioned and is placed on the S.E. rn end of a Coral Bank which extends from the Island to S …
- … six wide. The Islets are mere skeletons little better than coral reefs – on which broken coral and …
- … – the lagoon is shallow – almost filled with branching coral and coral sand. The small Northern …
- … it's circumference – There are many extensive patches of Coral in it but room enough and water …
- … of the class – peculiarly adapted to the soils of the coral formation. Nevertheless Mr Darwin …
- … or five fathoms of water upon them) dark bands of living coral appear through the emerald green …
- … with green bushes and tall coconut trees – in the flat of coral rock nearly dry at low water between …
- … undermining and overwhelming force. Yet these low strips of Coral Islets, almost victoriously …
- … (being unusually smooth) as far as the living mound of the coral wall on which the swell of the open …
- … Island there is a large bay composed of the finest white coral sand – quite level and so much …
- … proposed the name of Keeling instead of “the Borneo’s Coral Isles” which he adopted. Of course the …
- … been [ f.169r p.45 ] dropped – and that of the “Coral Isles” descriptive of their Geological …
- … seemed steep to, with a beautiful beach of sand or white coral – a reef projects near a 1/4 of a …
- … Direction Island (from above high water reach) the solid coral stone (which has been hardened …
- … for want of time, and partly from seeing that all the coral obstructions within it would be …
- … footed travellers by the extensive bed of sharp (growing) coral by which it is surrounded – but Mr H …
- … but by vessels bringing it to exchange for (most probably) coral – of course, to have made any …
- … of the origin and progress of low and lagoon islands of the coral formation – in the 2 nd that …
- … only ^at first^ getting raised above the level at which the coral builders can work upwards – namely …
- … – “Theory of the origin of low and lagoon islands of the Coral formation” – into a shape, which …
The geology of the Beagle voyage
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The primary concern that linked much of Darwin’s geological work in the Beagle years was to understand the changing relation between the levels of land and sea. As he studied the shores of South America, and discovered shells inland at thousands of feet…
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John Lort Stokes
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John Lort Stokes, naval officer, was Charles Darwin’s cabinmate on the Beagle voyage – not always an enviable position. After Darwin’s death, Stokes penned a description of their evenings spent working at the large table at the centre, Stokes at his…
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Darwin's 1874 letters go online
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The full transcripts and footnotes of over 600 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1874 are published online for the first time. You can read about Darwin's life in 1874 through his letters and see a full list of the letters. The 1874 letters…
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- … During the year he published second editions of Coral reefs and Descent , assisted with the …
Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle
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'a humble toadyish follower…': Not all pictures of Darwin during the Beagle voyage are flattering. Published here for the first time is a complete transcript of a satirical account of the Beagle’s brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands…
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- … brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands, the only coral atoll Darwin observed first-hand. …
- … FitzRoy and Belcher; and, last but by no means least, the coral reef theories of Charles Darwin. …
- … in Anderson (2018) and Ross’ posthumous publication on coral formation in 1855). The Cocos …
- … Cocos-Keeling visit was designed to gather information on coral islands as indicated in FitzRoy’s …
- … Keeling, Darwin was keenly interested in the questions of coral formation, and a much more careful …
- … polypii.” Ross promised a further discussion of Darwin’s coral theories, which seems to refer to a …
- … 2018. Ross, John Clunies. “Review of the Theory of Coral-Formation Set Forth by Ch. Darwin in …
Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life
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1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time. And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth. All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…
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- … pointed out several errors in the companion volume, Coral reefs , already in its second edition. …
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
Darwin & Geology
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The lessons Darwin learned from Adam Sedgwick at Cambridge, and in the field in North Wales, stood him in good stead during the Beagle voyage. While he was attached to the Beagle from 1831 to 1835, Darwin actually spent about two-thirds of his time ashore,…
Port Lewis, Mauritius
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First coral lagoons
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- … Describes his work on coral formation and the Beagle 's visit to the low lagoons of the …
Charles Lyell
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As an author, friend and correspondent, Charles Lyell played a crucial role in shaping Darwin's scientific life. Born to a wealthy gentry family in Scotland in 1797, Lyell had a classical and legal education but by the 1820s had become entranced by…
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- … is clear in Darwin's innovative explanation of the origin of coral reefs: although thousands of …
Race, Civilization, and Progress
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Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…
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- … notebooks, he modeled evolution after a tree of life or coral that was " irregularly branched …
Charles Darwin’s letters: a selection 1825-1859
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The letters in this volume span the years from 1825, when Darwin was a student at the University of Edinburgh, to the end of 1859, when the Origin of Species was published. The early letters portray Darwin as a lively sixteen-year-old medical student. Two…
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- … of which he proposed a new explanation of the formation of coral reefs that won the support of …
2.7 Joseph Moore, Midland Union medal
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< Back to Introduction The Midland Union was an association of natural history societies and field clubs across the Midland counties, intended to facilitate – especially through its journal The Midland Naturalist – ‘the interchange of ideas’ and…
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- … the name is a decorative design, appropriately representing coral. As an example, one surviving but …
About Darwin
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To many of us, Darwin’s name is synonymous with his theory of evolution by natural selection. But even before the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, he was publicly known through his popular book about the voyage of the Beagle, and he was…
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- … America, developed a new explanation for the formation of coral reefs, and witnessed the lifestyles …
