To William Whewell 16 April [1839]
Summary
Thanks WW for wedding gift.
Expresses admiration for his History of the inductive sciences [1837].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Whewell |
| Date: | 16 Apr [1839] |
| Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-506 |
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- … letter from William Whewell, 11 April 1839 . Whewell 1837 . CD’s annotated copy is in the Darwin Library–CUL. According to CD’s record of his reading (DAR 119; Vorzimmer 1977 ) he read Whewell 1837 in the autumn of 1838, noting ‘References at end’. CD had obtained a copy of the work in 1837 (see letter to Charles Babbage, [ …
To Charles Lyell [14] September [1838]
Summary
Comments on an article in Edinburgh Review [by David Brewster, 67 (1838): 271–308] on Comte’s Philosophie positive.
Discusses falsity of Élie de Beaumont’s views of contemporaneous parallel lines of elevation and subsidence.
Owen’s views of relationship of reptiles to birds.
On "question of species" CD has filled notebook after notebook with facts, "which begin to group themselves clearly under sub-laws".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [14] Sept [1838] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-428 |
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- … letter to Richardson, which Lyell had enclosed for CD to read and forward. C. Lyell 1840 , 1: 241–2. CD discussed the fauna of the region in Journal and remarks, pp. 300–2. The Lyells remained at Kinnordy until 14 November, when they departed for London ( Wilson 1972 , p. 483). Probably Charles Stokes . Late in 1837, Roderick Murchison, who was General Secretary of the British Association, had offered Charles Babbage the position of President for the 1839 …
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Addressee
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Whewell, William | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Whewell, William | (1) |
