To Charles Lyell 8 July [1856]
Summary
Thanks CL for loan of [Matthew Fontaine?] Maury’s map.
Discusses possibility of submerged continental extension including Madeira, Canaries, and Azores.
Mentions icebergs as carriers of European plants.
Hooker’s work on Antarctic flora.
Comments on coolness of tropics in glacial period and consequent migrations. Hooker’s views on this.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 8 July [1856] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.134) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1920 |
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 |
To Charles Lyell 27 [December 1859]
Summary
Mentions William Clift ["Report in regard to the fossil bones found in New Holland", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 10 (1830–1): 394–6].
Discusses relations between fossil and living types.
Discusses Hooker’s introductory essay [in Flora Tasmaniae]. Criticises Hooker’s views on flora of rising and sinking islands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 27 [Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.187) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2608 |
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- … will succeed (anyhow I tried & failed) in keeping parts of Tropics hot, whilst other parts …
To Charles Lyell [3 October 1846]
Summary
Discusses A. C. Ramsay’s article ["On the denudation of South Wales", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846)]. Mentions his own paper ["Volcanic phenomena in South America", Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Emphasises that sedimentary deposits are not ordinarily preserved.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [3 Oct 1846] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.50) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1004 |
To Charles Lyell 7 February [1866]
Summary
Discussion of Mrs Agassiz’s letter [to Mary Lyell, forwarded to CD] regarding S. American glacial action,
with comments on Bunbury’s letter on temperate plants.
Refers to opinions of Agassiz, David Forbes, Hooker, and CD on glacial period and glaciers.
Wishes he had published a long chapter on glacial period [Natural selection, pp. 535–66] written ten years ago.
Tells of death of his sister, Catherine, and other family matters.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 7 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.312) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4999 |
To Charles Lyell [3 March 1866]
Summary
Has returned memorial to Chancellor of Exchequer; thanks CL for his note.
Lengthy remarks on cool period. Did not know of CL’s interest. New facts in new German and English [4th] editions of Origin will be too late for CL’s use. CD’s ten-year-old MS on cool period is available.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [3 Mar 1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.315) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5025 |
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- … that many of the inhabitants of the tropics will have become in some degree acclimatised; …
To Charles Lyell 11 February [1857]
Summary
Discusses a proposed expedition to Australia. Urges collecting and investigating productions of isolated islands. Recommends dredging the sea-bottom.
Mentions keeping Helix pomatia alive in sea-water.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 11 Feb [1857] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.145) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2050 |
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- … Glaciers. — Urge the use of the Dredge in Tropics; how little or nothing we know of limit …
From C. J. F. Bunbury to Charles Lyell 20 February 1866
Summary
Discusses CD’s and J. D. Hooker’s letters to Lyell concerning Louis Agassiz’s theory of the glaciation of the Amazon basin in Brazil.
Author: | Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 20 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | F. J. Bunbury ed. 1891–3, Later life 1: 144–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5011F |
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- … out) have certainly their maximum within the tropics. If there are Vacciniums on the Organ …
From Charles James Fox Bunbury to Charles Lyell 3 February 1866
Summary
Discusses Louis Agassiz’s theory of the glaciation of Brazil.
Author: | Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 3 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | F. J. Bunbury ed. 1891–3, Later life 1: 134–6. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4995F |
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- … of Origin , in which CD argued that the tropics and the wider equatorial area had been a …
To Charles Lyell 14 October [1862]
Summary
Further comments on Jamieson’s theory of the formation of the roads of Glen Roy; paper by Jamieson dealing with glaciation in Scotland ["On the ice-worn rocks of Scotland", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 164–84].
Comments on paper by A. C. Ramsay on the glacial formation of lakes ["On the glacial origin of certain lakes", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 185–204].
Criticises remarks by John Tyndall on glacial formation of Swiss valleys.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 14 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.267), The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen. 112/2840–3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3761 |
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- … to forget there are valleys in the Tropics; & it is monstrous in my opinion the accounting …
To Charles Lyell 6 March [1863]
Summary
Comments at length on CL’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)]. CD is "greatly disappointed that you have not given judgment and spoken fairly out what you think about the derivation of species".
Lists large number of queries concerning minor points.
Praises especially the chapters on language and glaciers.
Comments on the temperature of Africa during the glacial period, especially with regard to the views of Hooker.
Mentions Owen’s paper on the aye-aye [Rep. BAAS 32 (1862) pt 2: 114–16].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 6 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.289) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4028 |
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- … ts does not allude to the coldness of the Tropics. These latter cases seem to me to prove …
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Alfred Russel Wallace
Summary
Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and evolutionary theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, and attended a grammar school in Hertford. At the…
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- … field naturalists of his day, with unsurpassed knowledge on tropic flora, fauna, and native peoples. …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
Summary
[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…
Movement in Plants
Summary
The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…
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- … begun to produce aerial roots. Darwin had hoped to study the tropic movements of such roots, but …