From J. D. Hooker 4 August 1881
Summary
Outlines address to York BAAS meeting on history of geographical distribution. Organising theme: advancement in this science based on ideas enunciated by scientific voyagers. Asks CD’s advice.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 154–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13272 |
To A. C. Ramsay [26 June 1859]
Summary
Has finished ACR’s article ["The old glaciers of Switzerland and N. Wales" in Peaks, passes, and glaciers, ed. J. Ball (1859)]. Asks the authority for glacial drifts in Siberia. Wishes ACR would examine the Glen Roy parallel roads and settle the problem.
Asks if it is certain that traces of organic remains have been found in Long Mynd beds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | [26 June 1859] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2842 |
To J. D. Hooker 31 December [1858]
Summary
Replies at length to JDH’s worried reaction to his comments on lowness of Australian plants. CD distinguishes between "competitive highness", i.e., which fauna would be exterminated and which survive if two faunas were placed in competition, and ordinary "highness" of classification.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 31 Dec [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2388 |
From Charles Lyell 30 November 1860
Summary
Satisfied that CD finds his conjectured rate of elevation and long periods of stasis reasonable, even if these periods cannot be estimated. Explaining upheaval by subterranean lava flow makes these pauses plausible. Suspects that mountainous areas move more than lowland and coastal areas. General upheavals or subsidence in Europe in glacial period are unlikely. Believes with Jamieson that there was glacial action in Scotland before its submergence and that it was equally mountainous then. Subterranean upheaval visits different countries by turn. Horizontal Silurian strata must have been submerged and upheaved. Rest has always been the general surface character. Believes, however, that the quantity of late Tertiary movement is against CD’s belief in the constancy of continents and oceans: perhaps since the Miocene period, but not since the Cretaceous.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Nov 1860 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/7: 49–57) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3001A |
To John Lubbock [18 September 1881]
Summary
JL’s address [Presidential Address, 31 Aug 1881, Rep. BAAS (1881): 1–51] has made him think about important steps in advancing geology. Lists major advances in his lifetime.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [18 Sept 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 11 (EH 88205936) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13308 |
From C. F. Martins 3 February 1872
Summary
CD’s views, on which he has lectured, will succeed with time.
Joachim Barrande’s refutation cannot be impartial because he is a devout Catholic.
Many young French naturalists support CD but are silent for fear of their jobs. Houget has been reprimanded for his Darwinism.
Author: | Charles Frédéric Martins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Feb 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8197 |
From Andrew Crombie Ramsay 29 December 1858
Summary
Responds to CD’s queries about the thickness of various geological formations. [See Origin, p. 284.]
Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Dec 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 398 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2387 |
From James Williams 24 January 1882
Author: | James Williams |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13643 |
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- … debates about the classification of pre-Silurian forms of life, such as Eozoon canadense ( …
From Melchior Neumayr 19 September 1879
Summary
Sends new publication [see 11838].
Plans major study of evolutionary palaeontology.
Comments on form series discovered by Joachim Barrande.
Has not heard from Leopold Würtenberger.
Author: | Melchior Neumayr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Sept 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12234 |
To Charles Lyell 18 [and 19 February 1860]
Summary
Encloses reviews by Asa Gray and Bronn. Comments on Bronn review. Mentions review by Wollaston.
Comments on paper by W. H. Harvey in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1860): 145–6]. Discusses Harvey’s belief in the permanence of monsters.
Discusses CL’s objection that still-living primitive forms failed to develop.
The survival of Lepidosiren and other primitive types of fish and mammals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 18 and 19 Feb 1860 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.199) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2703 |
To William Jackson Hooker 17 February [1851]
Summary
Encloses letter from J. D. Hooker. Glad he will soon be home.
Everyone will be astonished at oaks and birches of tropics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Jackson Hooker |
Date: | 17 Feb [1851] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1390 |
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- … geologist were to find Tertiary shells in a Silurian formation. — Falconer’s conduct is …
From A. C. Ramsay 18 August 1864
Summary
R. I. Murchison has criticised ACR’s glacial lake theory in his Presidential Address to Royal Geographical Society [J. R. Geogr. Soc. 34 (1864): cix–cxcii].
ACR has finished his Geology of N. Wales.
Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Aug 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4595 |
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- … ready to go to Press. It is essentially Silurian, & I touch nothing later than the New Red …
From Alexander Agassiz [before 1 June 1871]
Summary
Instances of sexual differences in viviparous fishes, suggested by reading chapters on sexual selection [in Descent] and by Mivart’s Genesis of species.
Notes on echinoderms.
Author: | Alexander Agassiz |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 1 June 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 69: A43–6 DAR 89: 29–31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7415 |
To Caroline Darwin [9 November 1836]
Summary
His fossil bones are unpacked and some are great treasures. He has some geology to do: R. I. Murchison has lent him a map and asked him to look at a part of the country he has been describing.
Their only protection against having Harriet Martineau as sister-in-law is that she works Erasmus too hard.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Date: | [9 Nov 1836] |
Classmark: | DAR 154: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-321 |
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- … 43. Murchison, Roderick Impey. 1839. The Silurian system, founded on geological researches …
From Charles Lyell 17 June 1856
Summary
CD forgets an author [CD himself in Coral reefs] "who, by means of atolls, contrived to submerge archipelagoes (or continents?), the mountains of which must originally have differed from each other in height 8,000 (or 10,000?) feet".
CL begins to think that all continents and oceans are chiefly post-Eocene, but he admits that it is questionable how far one is at liberty to call up continents "to convey a Helix from the United States to Europe in Miocene or Pliocene periods".
Will CD explain why the land and marine shells of Porto Santo and Madeira differ while the plants so nearly agree?
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 June 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 475 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1905 |
From J. D. Hooker 28 September 1846
Summary
Cannot come to Down to meet B. J. Sulivan as W. H. Harvey is calling.
Plant distribution and soil nature.
Forbes’s modification of Watson’s types of vegetation.
JDH will write comparison of representative plant species of the N. and S. Hemispheres.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Sept 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 69–72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-998 |
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- … in Victorian geology: the Cambrian–Silurian dispute. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton …
From A. C. V. D. d’Orbigny [June – July 1846]
Summary
ACVDdO asks CD to assist him in finding correspondents willing to provide British fossil shells for his proposed work, Paléontologie universelle, in exchange for parts of ACVDdO’s palaeontological works.
Author: | Alcide Charles Victor Dessalines (Alcide) d’Orbigny |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [June – July 1846] |
Classmark: | Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London (Part 2) 2 1846: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-982A |
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- … but, above all, the fossils of your Carboniferous, Devonian and Silurian beds. ” …
From Charles Lyell [9 April 1843]
Summary
Spoke to Henry Warburton, W. H. Fitton, and E. B. Greenough on CD’s idea of a Government grant for publication [not identified].
Will read at next meeting his paper on erect Nova Scotia fossil trees [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 4 (1843–5): 176–8].
E. P. Halstead reports on shores rising off Burma and Bay of Bengal.
Unpacking his U. S. fossils.
Phillips looked at beds below coal in Pennsylvania. Result is the usual different species found but with complete representation of forms.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [9 Apr 1843] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 81, 205.9: 393 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-670 |
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- … So now I am unpacking all my U.S. silurian carbonif s . Devonian &c— Phillips looked over …
To Charles Lyell [21 February – 4 April 1841]
Summary
Answers a number of queries from Lyell concerning geography and geology of Chiloé Island and its relationship to the Cordilleras.
Asks about "perched rocks" on Jura and notes their relevance to Louis Agassiz’s theory. Discusses Agassiz’s view on Jura.
Mentions seeing Robert Brown.
Notes R. I. Murchison’s discovery of shells in central England.
Weakness of negative evidence.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [21 Feb – 4 Apr 1841] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.26) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-590 |
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- … 6. Murchison, Roderick Impey. 1839. The Silurian system, founded on geological researches …
To Edmund Mojsisovics von Mojsvár 29 January 1879
Summary
Comments on EM’s work in Dolomites [Die Dolomit-Riffe von Südtirol (1879)]. Had wondered whether ancient corals formed reefs.
Obliged for EM’s photograph. Sends his own.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann August Georg Edmund (Edmund) Mojsisovics von Mojsvár |
Date: | 29 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 384 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11851 |
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- … 40 years ago examining a Section of Silurian limestone containing many corals, & thinking …
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Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … reviews [Carlyle 1838–9] Nov 8 th Murchison Silurian System [Murchison 1839].— References …
- … 11a Barrande, Joachim. 1852–1911. Système silurian du centre de la Bohême . 29 pts. …
- … 22a ——. 1848b. On the Cystideæ of the Silurian rocks of the British Islands. Memoirs …
- … 180; 128: 5 Murchison, Roderick Impey. 1839. The Silurian system, founded on …
Darwin and religion in America
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Thomas Dixon, 'America’s Difficulty with Darwin', History Today (2009), reproduced by permission. Darwin has not been forgotten. But he has, in some respects, been misremembered. That has certainly been true when it comes to the relationship…
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- … some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited, they …
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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- … of life occurred, might remain unaltered from long before Silurian age to present day. I grant there …
Essay: Natural selection & natural theology
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—by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted…
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- … some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited.’ But, as …