Christophe Stickel Autographs (dealer), Pacific Grove, California, USA
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- … Christophe Stickel Autographs (dealer), Pacific Grove, California, USA Christophe Stickel …
Stutchbury, Samuel (1798–1859)
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- … Geologist and naturalist. Naturalist to the Pacific Pearl Fishery Company’s commercial …
- … expedition to New South Wales and the Pacific islands, 1825–7. Curator of the museum of …
- … and New York: Cambridge University Press. 1966–96. 4,7 Pacific Pearl Fishery Company …
- … museum Bristol Philosophical Institution Pacific New …
- … South Wales Pacific islands Bristol Australia England coalfields coal Geologist naturalist …
From J. D. Dana 21 July 1874
Summary
Thanks CD for Coral reefs [2d ed. (1874)].
JDD will correct his misunderstanding of CD on one point in the next edition of his book [Corals and coral islands].
Suggests CD consult Charles Wilkes’s Narrative [1844] for more accurate observations on Pacific islands.
| Author: | James Dwight Dana |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 July 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 69: A71–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9556 |
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- … Charles Wilkes’s Narrative [1844] for more accurate observations on Pacific islands. …
- … 1842. Remarks upon coral formations in the Pacific; with suggestions as to the causes of …
- … 1994. ‘This coral episode’: Darwin, Dana, and the coral reefs of the Pacific. In Darwin’s …
- … theory and natural history in the Pacific , edited by Roy Macleod and Philip F. Rehbock. …
- … islands & others bordered by reefs in the Pacific. Wilkes did not believe in your theory …
- … characters of some of the islands of the Pacific. He made his observations when connected …
- … s Remarks upon coral formations in the Pacific ( Couthouy 1842 ). Charles Wilkes commanded …
- … to 1842; its mission was to survey the Pacific Ocean and surrounding lands. Six ships were …
- … chain of volcanic islands in the South Pacific near Fiji. Wilkes’s description of the …
Stoddart, David R. 1994. ‘This coral episode’: Darwin, Dana, and the coral reefs of the Pacific. In Darwin’s laboratory: evolutionary theory and natural history in the Pacific, edited by Roy Macleod and Philip F. Rehbock. Honolulu, Hawai’i: University of Hawai’i Press.
‘Elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans’: On certain areas of elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, as deduced from the study of coral formations. [Read 31 May 1837.] By Charles Darwin. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 2 (1838): 552–4. [Shorter publications, pp. 37–9.]
From Alfred Tylor 19 November 1868
Summary
On corals and coral-formation.
| Author: | Alfred Tylor |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Nov 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 198 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6467 |
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- … respecting our Coral formations in the Pacific I have looked through your works carefully …
- … recent coral beds have been elevated in the Pacific and no section of these is given. …
- … an article, ‘Elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans’ , that appeared in …
- … Longmans. ‘Elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans’: On certain areas …
- … of elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, as deduced from the study of …
- … when it surveyed in the Coral Sea (the Pacific Ocean between Australia, New Guinea, and …
- … Professor Huxley has also visited the Pacific and seemed to consider that the ground …
To J. D. Hooker [June 1857]
Summary
Request for Floras of Pacific Islands and Greenland.
Individual variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [June 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 222b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2198 |
To William Lonsdale [May? 1837]
Summary
Sends an abstract made by J. F. Royle of CD’s paper ["On certain areas of elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans"]. G. B. Greenough will have problems with the altered references in the coral island section.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Lonsdale |
| Date: | [May? 1837] |
| Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/3/169) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-383A |
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- … areas of elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans"]. G. B. Greenough will …
- … areas of elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans’ ( Collected papers 1: …
- … Press. 1977. ‘Elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans’: On certain areas …
- … of elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, as deduced from the study of …
Burney, James. 1803–17. A chronological history of the discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean. 5 vols. London.
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- … history of the discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean. 5 vols. London. 1 …
To J. D. Hooker [6 March 1844]
Summary
Affinity of Galapagos with nearest Pacific islands. Relationship between ranges of species in time and space. Comparison of Malden Island and Galapagos plants. Affinities of Oceania plants with continental floras.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [6 Mar 1844] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-738 |
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- … Affinity of Galapagos with nearest Pacific islands. Relationship between ranges of species …
- … with the Galapagos, though one of the nearest Pacific isl ds . — A genus of birds, which I …
- … Low Archipelago Islands. — Shall you study the Pacific Flora. — Lesson, I remember remarks …
- … of the Flora of the islands of the Pacific, but whether this uniformity was of species or …
- … he is no authority. — If you ever work the Pacific Flora, you will find the Appendix to my …
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Geology in Commentary
Darwin & coral reefs
Summary
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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- … he looked forward to verifying it when he could observe the Pacific islands. The central idea …
- … the islands were formed by the upward growth of coral as the Pacific Ocean floor gradually subsided. …
- … Darwin had expressed to his friend his expectation that the Pacific islands would furnish evidence …
- … ‘to hear of your report respecting the islands in the Pacific, and it will be curious if you find a …
- … the Beagle and not in the field. His spelling of ‘Pacific’ suggests that he was writing before …
- … both European and Chilean formations as well as the Pacific coral reefs. Coral formations are …
- … The tone is hypothetical and speculative: As in Pacific a Corall bed. forming as land …
- … Corall forming, Coralls.– I should conceive in Pacific. wear & tear of Reefs must form strata of …
- … crust and hypothesised a corresponding subsidence in the Pacific. The coral islands would thus …
- … him to depart from Lyell’s own view of the geology of the Pacific. In his chapter on coral reefs in …
- … how such reefs could have been formed in parts of the Pacific where the water was otherwise far too …
- … with Lyell’s chapter and with the observations of earlier Pacific voyagers, notably the British …
- … in the Marshall Islands confirmed that the foundations of Pacific atolls had indeed sunk many …
- … the elevation of South America was matched by the sinking of Pacific islands: 25 June 1835 . …
- … This coral episode: Darwin, Dana and the coral reefs in the Pacific. In Roy MacLeod and Philip F. …
Darwin & Geology
Summary
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,…
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- … to the heights of the Andes, and the coral reefs of the Pacific, Darwin’s notes on geology …
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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- … the harbour at Concepcion, Chile, several feet out of the Pacific Ocean. Some of Darwin’s …
Darwin & the Geological Society
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The science of geology in the early nineteenth century was a relatively new enterprise forged from the merging of several distinct traditions of inquiry, from mineralogy and the very practical business of mining, to theories of the earth’s origin and the…
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- … volcanoes. He argued, for example, that sections of the Pacific Ocean floor were sinking in …
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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- … —On certain areas of elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, as deduced from the …
Darwin’s earthquakes
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Darwin experienced his first earthquake in 1834, but it was a few months later that he was really confronted with their power. Travelling north along the coast of Chile, Darwin and Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, were confronted with a series of…
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- … high plains of South America, the low coral islands of the Pacific Ocean, and even the geology of …
