From G. B. Sowerby 7 February 1846
Summary
Gives his opinion on the tropical character of fossil shells listed by CD. The shells of Navidad [Chile] are not particularly tropical.
| Author: | George Brettingham Sowerby |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Feb 1846 |
| Classmark: | DAR 43.1: 3–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-949 |
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 |
| letter | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Sowerby, G. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Sowerby, G. B. | (1) |
Alfred Russel Wallace
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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
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[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
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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 …
