From Charles Maclaren to Thomas Walker 30 March 1840
Summary
CD has asked CM whether he can supply William Kemp’s address, and CM passes the enquiry to TW.
Author: | Charles Maclaren |
Addressee: | Thomas Walker |
Date: | 30 Mar 1840 |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/1) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-562G |
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- … From Charles Maclaren to Thomas Walker 30 March 1840 …
- … Bibliography Maclaren, Charles. 1839. A sketch of the geology of Fife and the Lothians, …
- … of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond) Charles Maclaren Scotsman office, Edinburgh 30 Mar 1840 …
- … Charles Lyell, [19 February 1840] and n. 1. CD’s paper was ‘Parallel roads of Glen Roy’. The Eildon Hills are in Melrose, Scotland. Maclaren …
To Charles Maclaren [c. February 1843]
Summary
[Written on CD’s annotated copy of a pamphlet reprint of CM’s review of Coral reefs.] CD asks CM to return the pamphlet to him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Maclaren |
Date: | [c. Feb 1843] |
Classmark: | DAR 69: A94v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-661 |
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- … Darwin, C. R. Maclaren, Charles …
- … To Charles Maclaren [ c. February 1843] …
- … DAR 69: A94v Charles Robert Darwin Down [ c. Feb 1843] Charles Maclaren …
- … Darwin. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1842. Maclaren, Charles. 1842. Coral islands. (From the …
- … Pamphlet reprint. [Edinburgh. ] Maclaren, Charles. 1843. On coral islands and reefs, as …
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 |
Maclaren, Charles. 1842. Coral islands. (From the Scotsman of 29 October and 9 November 1842). Pamphlet reprint. [Edinburgh.]
Maclaren, Charles. 1843. On coral islands and reefs, as described by Mr Darwin. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 34: 33–47.
Maclaren, Charles. 1839. A sketch of the geology of Fife and the Lothians, including detailed descriptions of Arthur’s Seat and Pentland Hills. Edinburgh and London: Adam and Charles Black.
To Charles Lyell [23 January 1847]
Summary
Asks CL to address a letter to Charles Maclaren.
Discusses recent publication by David Milne on erratic boulders [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 42 (1847): 154–172].
Views of Bernhard Studer on foliation of gneiss in the Alps. Asks CL to tell Leonard Horner of Studer’s views.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [23 Jan 1847] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.65) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1051 |
To Charles Lyell [c. 9 January 1839]
Summary
Discusses his Glen Roy paper [(1839), Collected papers 1: 87–137], which he is sending to CL.
Remarks on Charles MacLaren’s treatment of alluvium. Comments on alluvial action in Lochaber.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [c. 9 Jan 1839] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-480 |
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 Thomas Walker 5 May [1840]
Summary
Acknowledges TW’s letter supplying him with William Kemp’s address.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Walker |
Date: | 5 May [1840] |
Classmark: | Jim Somerville (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-565G |
To William Kemp 1[1] May [1840]
Summary
CD has read WK’s abstract in the Scotsman, 15 February 1840, p. 3, and asks for further details.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Kemp |
Date: | 1[1] May [1840] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/2) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-565F |
To Charles Lyell [11 October 1847]
Summary
Discusses enclosed figures on elevation of terraces in several Scottish glens as surveyed by William Kemp and David Stevenson. Comments on Robert Chambers’ view of the terraces. Mentions a letter on the terraces, originally written for publication, which he has asked Robert Jameson [editor of the Edinburgh New Philos. J.] to destroy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [11 Oct 1847] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.64) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1126 |
From Daniel Mackintosh 1 December 1867
Summary
Seeks CD’s opinion and references on the causes of terraces in the south of England. He supports sea action as cause, either by currents or on coasts, and has been engaged in a controversy in the Geological Magazine [4 (1867): 571–5] with the subaerial school. Poulett Scrope thinks they are agricultural.
Author: | Daniel Mackintosh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Dec 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5703 |
To the Scotsman [after 20 September 1847]
Summary
Comments on article by David Milne ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. Refers to his paper on Glen Roy [Collected papers 1: 87–137]. Comments on Louis Agassiz’s article ["The glacial theory and its recent progress", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 33 (1842): 217–83]. Cites his own observations on glaciers in N. Wales. Discusses possibility of ice barrier creating lake. Notes objections to theory of an ice barrier. Defends his own theory that the roads are sea-beaches. Suggests questions for further investigation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | The Scotsman |
Date: | [after 20 Sept 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 50: B1–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1121 |
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 |
To W. E. Darwin [25 April 1855]
Summary
The new pigeon house is nearly complete.
CD is busy trying all sorts of experiments on salting seeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [25 Apr 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1660 |
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- … Charles Darwin there; we walked about a bit with them. Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood , Emma ’s sister. Henry Tibbats Stainton was an authority on Lepidoptera and editor of the Entomologists’ Annual . Rugby School, like other public schools in England, was beginning to establish gymnastic instruction along the lines put forward by Archibald Maclaren , …
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