From W. J. L. Wharton [15 September 1874]
Summary
Describes the coral formations of Zanzibar and east coast of Africa.
| Author: | William James Lloyd Wharton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 Sept 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 69: A63–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9641 |
Matches: 31 hits
- … Describes the coral formations of Zanzibar and east coast of Africa. …
- … separated from land by a deep-water channel like ‘barrier reefs’ ( Coral reefs , p. 51). …
- … end upheaval has been at work, as water worn coral crops up in the flat plains between the …
- … theorised about the link between subsidence and the formation of coral reefs, arguing that …
- … because reef-forming corals could only live at limited …
- … depths, a great thickness of coral rock …
- … a nearly perfectly flat, dead, altered coral ledge, more or less dry at low water, without …
- … on the upheaved ancient and compressed coral of which the island is principally formed. …
- … CD referred to Owen’s charts of the east coast of Africa in Coral reefs 2d ed. , pp. 247– …
- … observations of the depth of living coral in his chapter on geology in the Admiralty …
- … by Saul B. Cohen. 3 vols. New York: Columbia University Press. 1998. Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
- … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. …
- … London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1874. Coral reefs : The structure …
- … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
- … cannot call to mind any rock beyond the coral, which crops out at considerable heights, ( …
- … are mostly (particularly to the south. ) coral, worn & roughened undoubtedly by water. …
- … ft above the sea. Several isolated hills of coral stand on these plains, their bases being …
- … appearance. The whole thickness of the coral of Zanzibar must be very great. The coast of …
- … and detached reefs are of two kinds, those growing up with living coral; and those …
- … of dead coral, like the island washing gradually away. Of these latter many still …
- … upheaval; others afford a foundation to coral sand banks that dry high at low water; & …
- … still more interesting question of growing coral, I have been unable to make any such, as …
- … suggested that corals had been growing slowly upward …
- … on a subsiding foundation (see Coral reefs , pp. 47–50, 72–3, and 90–4). …
- … Zanzibar is reproduced in the third edition of Coral reefs , p. 256. For more on the reef …
- … Columbia gazetteer of the world ). In Coral reefs 2d ed. , p. 248, CD wrote: ‘On the main …
- … I should have thought had been formed of coral, had it not been said (Boteler’s Nar. …
- … to Africa and Arabia ( Boteler 1835 ). Coral reefs 2d ed. was published in June 1874 ( …
- … extending seaward, though there is living coral on its steep face visible a few feet below …
- … of its perimeter, a cliff of the same old coral from 10 to 20 ft in height, undermined by …
- … greater or less distance, showing water worn coral whereever the surface rock is exposed, …
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 |
Matches: 19 hits
- … On corals …
- … and coral-formation. …
- … Society, had opened the discussion of Tylor’s paper. He mentioned that dead corals in the …
- … neighbourhood of coral reefs extended to ‘vast depths’ ( A. Tylor 1868 , p. 11). CD had …
- … miles supposes the temperature was suitable for corals to live, would not that explain the …
- … Bibliography Coral reefs : The structure …
- … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
- … report of a discussion respecting our Coral formations in the Pacific I have looked …
- … in finding any acount of any recent thick coral deposit which has been elevated Could you …
- … me if there is any thick bed of miocene coral described I mean a bed hundreds of feet …
- … composed exclusively of reef building coral cills without volcanic or stratified rock. …
- … 300 ft as the greatest elevation recent coral beds have been elevated in the Pacific and …
- … 11–12). CD’s main work on the topic was Coral reefs ; he also wrote an article, ‘Elevation …
- … Oceans, as deduced from the study of coral formations. [Read 31 May 1837. ] By Charles …
- … from 1846 to 1850, when it surveyed in the Coral Sea (the Pacific Ocean between Australia, …
- … that the ground touched by the sounding lead at great depth outside the coral reefs was …
- … also made by corals but I do not find that you have expressed a …
- … to that effect but you state pieces of dead coral have been dredged up at great depths and …
- … leave it to be inferred that it may be of coral formations If the hypothesis of a fall in …
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 |
Matches: 24 hits
- … esteem | very truly yours | James D. Dana Top of letter : ‘ Keep—Coral Islands ’ pencil …
- … Thanks CD for Coral reefs [2d ed. (1874)]. JDD …
- … 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 …
- … Bibliography Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
- … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. London: …
- … Joseph Pitty. 1842. Remarks upon coral formations in the Pacific; with suggestions as to …
- … New York: New York Public Library. Stoddart, David R. 1994. ‘This coral episode’: Darwin, …
- … Dana, and the coral reefs of the Pacific. In Darwin’s laboratory: evolutionary theory and …
- … received the copy of your excellent work on Coral Reefs, which you kindly addressed to me, …
- … much interested in examining his maps of coral islands & others bordered by reefs in the …
- … Wilkes did not believe in your theory of coral islands, and has published in his book a …
- … Dana’s name appears on CD’s presentation list for Coral reefs 2d ed. (see …
- … Appendix IV). In his book Corals …
- … and coral islands ( Dana 1872 , p. 320), Dana wrote: While, therefore, a distant barrier …
- … distribution has been duly considered. In Coral reefs 2d ed. , p. vi, CD pointed out that …
- … expounded his own theory of the formation of coral islands. He argued that CD’s theory of …
- … from continents could account for the shape of coral islands ( ibid. , pp. 288–9). …
- … of Natural History 4 (1842–4): 66–105, 137–62. ] ]Dana, James Dwight. 1872. Corals …
- … and coral islands . New York: Dodd & Mead. …
- … Dana, James Dwight. 1875. Corals …
- … and coral islands. 2d edition. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle. Haskell, …
- … in the second edition of his book ( Dana 1875 , p. 274). In Coral reefs 2d ed. , CD …
- … to Joseph Pitty Couthouy’s Remarks upon coral formations in the Pacific ( Couthouy 1842 ). …
From T. C. Brown 12 May 1875
Summary
Notes absence of material on fossil coral reefs in CD’s 2d edition [Coral reefs (1874)]. Has been collecting specimens from a fossil reef near his home for four years; gave many to Oxford.
| Author: | Thomas Crowther Brown |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 May 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 324 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9976 |
Matches: 29 hits
- … Notes absence of material on fossil coral reefs in CD’ …
- … s 2d edition [ Coral reefs (1874)]. Has been collecting specimens from a fossil reef near …
- … of geology. 5th edition. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
- … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. London: …
- … Sir On looking over your new Edition of “Coral Reefs” which embraces not only your own …
- … Reefs , and does not enter upon Fossil Coral Reefs. I am quite aware that most of the …
- … Geologist a disjointed collection of Corals—for description of which we have the Paleon …
- … what I suppose to be an early stage of a Coral that must have been a hollow sphere, into …
- … which in life water entered, and when by degrees the coral marble filled it. …
- … No 2 being the same coral filled up. No 1 shews the Oolitic matter which must have been …
- … Coral reefs 2d ed. was published in 1874 ( Publishers’ …
- … circular , 1 July 1874). CD’s book focused on coral reefs from a geological perspective, …
- … and did not discuss the coral species present in the formations; …
- … the only mention of semi-fossil coral (on one of highest mountains of Tahiti) occurs on …
- … Haime’s A monograph of the British fossil corals was continued by Peter Martin Duncan ; …
- … Duncan, Peter Martin. 1866–72. A monograph of the British fossil corals. Second series. …
- … to the ‘Monograph of the British fossil corals,’ by MM. Milne-Edwards and Jules Haime. …
- … Jurassic. The genera Nullipora and Millepora (also known as fire coral) had long been …
- … considered to be primitive corals (see Lamarck 1801 , pp. …
- … 373 and 374), but neither is a true coral. …
- … In Coral reefs 2d ed. , pp. …
- … were formed by many different species of coral adapted to live at different depths and …
- … are defective in a very important part which forms the basis of your work on Coral Reefs— …
- … viz Coral History— This therefore leaves a …
- … vacuum to be filled, in Fossil Coral Reefs, and which if you were young, might afford …
- … greatly help to establish the truths of all Coral History. My object in thus addressing …
- … beds of the Great Oolite a distinct Coral Reef, and it being located near my residence, I …
- … last four years, been collecting the Corals, numbering nearly 100 species and varieties, …
- … the ordinary species, and also Parasitic Corals. — It likewise clearly shews the cause of …
From J. V. Carus 16 April 1876
Summary
Queries about some references in Coral reefs and a list of misprints.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 69: A74–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10453 |
Matches: 27 hits
- … Queries about some references in Coral reefs and a list of misprints. …
- … Bibliography Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
- … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. …
- … London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1874. Coral reefs 3d ed. : …
- … The structure and distribution of coral reefs, with an appendix by Prof. T. G. Bonney. …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1889. Coral reefs : The structure …
- … my thanks Now I have got through the Coral-Reefs, and in reading this book some doubts …
- … Carus, 23 March 1876 . Carus was translating Coral reefs 2d ed. into German (Carus trans. …
- … 1876a). The page references are to Coral reefs 2d ed. Adam Johann von Krusenstern’s …
- … to ‘Malcolmson’ in Carus trans. 1876a, p. 135, and in Coral reefs 3d ed. , p. …
- … 180. Coral reefs 3d ed. was edited by Thomas George Bonney . The two changes above …
- … pp. 137 and 140 respectively, and to Coral reefs 3d ed. , pp. 183 and 188 respectively. …
- … 153, 156, and 156 respectively, and to Coral reefs 3d ed. , pp. 200, 203, 206, and 207 …
- … pp. 160 and 166 respectively, and to Coral reefs 3d ed. , pp. 212 and 218 respectively. …
- … 1876a, p. 170, and ‘Baxos de Candelaria’ in Coral reefs 3d ed. , p. 224. Francis Darwin …
- … wrote to CD with information about coral reefs in 1874 (see, for example, Correspondence …
- … in Carus trans. 1876a, p. 171, and in Coral reefs 3d ed. , p. 224. The three changes above …
- … pp. 173, 180 and 185 respectively, and to Coral reefs 3d ed. , pp. 227, 234, and 239 …
- … to Carus trans. 1876a, p. 187, but not to Coral reefs 3d ed. , p. 241. This change was …
- … made to Carus trans. 1876a, p. 191, but it was made to Coral reefs 3d ed. , p. 246. This …
- … was made to Carus trans. 1876a, p. 197, and to Coral reefs 3d ed. , p. 253. ‘Actineœ’ …
- … was replaced with ‘Actiniœ’ in Carus trans. 1876a, p. 218, and Coral reefs 3d ed. , p. …
- … 278. In Coral reefs 2d ed. , p. 218, CD had referred to Jean François Marie de Surville …
- … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
- … as the ‘Hydrographical Memoir’ throughout Coral reefs 2d ed. CD was referring to Cyrille …
- … These clarifications were reflected in Carus trans. 1876a but not in Coral reefs 3d ed. …
- … No further editions of Coral reefs were produced in CD’s lifetime. ‘Macolmson’ was changed …
From W. J. L. Wharton [15 September 1874 or later]
Summary
Describes the coral formations of the island of Rodriguez [Indian Ocean].
| Author: | William James Lloyd Wharton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 Sept 1874 or later] |
| Classmark: | DAR 69: A67–70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9205 |
Matches: 19 hits
- … Describes the coral formations of the island of Rodriguez [Indian Ocean]. …
- … continually wash enough sand against the live coral to materially check its growth & the …
- … 1851, p. 201). CD may refer to his chart showing the distribution of coral reefs across …
- … the globe (see Coral reefs , p. ii). …
- … B. Cohen. 3 vols. New York: Columbia University Press. 1998. Coral reefs : The structure …
- … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
- … however, are small districts of upraised coral. The one to the S.W. is the largest, & is …
- … that there must have been a second eruption, during which lava overlaid the coral beds. …
- … In height this coral varies between 10 & 100 f t . and the surface is sometimes …
- … undulations & blocks. All this upraised coral has been much exposed to water action, & is …
- … into lower cavities. The Eastern coral is very limited in extent, & is principally …
- … the fringing reef very narrow. Small ledges of coral are to be found in all the Eastern …
- … Trous d’argent’ are filled with upraised coral. The inner side of P t . Coton exhibits …
- … Pierrot” “Flat” & “Pianqui” are of coral, &, with the exception of a small mound on “ …
- … f t high. So much for the super marine coral. Fringing reef . The existing fringing reef …
- … bottom sloping off to the level of the old & now submarine coral flat: Submarine reef . …
- … This submarine coral flat stretches off with a very uniform depth of about 35 fathoms of …
- … of the two Islands. The curious points to me in the distribution of coral are (1) The …
- … absence of all upraised coral from the north & south sides of the present Island. …
To Peter Martin Duncan? 18 July [1861]
Summary
He is no longer able to answer any of the correspondent’s questions concerning corals.
Places "much trust" in J. D. Dana.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Peter Martin Duncan |
| Date: | 18 July [1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.257) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3212 |
Matches: 18 hits
- … any of the correspondent’s questions concerning corals. Places "much trust" in J. D. Dana. …
- … Bibliography Coral reefs : The structure …
- … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
- … that the classification of the stony corals would be very difficult. From all that I know …
- … Duncan, Peter Martin. 1866–72. A monograph of the British fossil corals. Second series. …
- … to the ‘Monograph of the British fossil corals,’ by MM. Milne-Edwards and Jules Haime. …
- … 30 years since I began examining living corals, but other pursuits interfered & I have …
- … undertake a study of the British fossil corals. His monograph was eventually published by …
- … and made notes on a number of different corals and coralline algae during the Beagle …
- … voyage. His descriptions of corals are included in his Zoological diary (DAR 30 and 31), …
- … his drawings of these specimens are in DAR 29.3. A few of his observations on corals were …
- … published in Coral reefs . See Porter 1985 . …
- … Dana had published a description of the corals and actinia collected during the voyage of …
- … Exploring Expedition ( Dana 1848 ). Of the 483 corals described, 229 were new, and Dana’s …
- … a discussion of CD’s interest in studying coral structure and generation processes, see …
- … Sloan 1985 , pp. 104–9. The stony corals or madrepores (Scleractinia) …
- … are common forms in coral reefs. CD had been …
- … friend Charles Stokes to study shallow-water corals such as Fungia during his voyage. See …
To Charles Lyell [19 February 1840]
Summary
Remarks on his illness and treatment.
Discusses MS [of Coral reefs] and changes in his view of coral reefs since Journal of researches. Mentions C. G. Ehrenberg’s observations on coral reefs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [19 Feb 1840] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.21) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-554 |
Matches: 16 hits
- … Remarks on his illness and treatment. Discusses MS [of Coral reefs ] and changes …
- … in his view of coral reefs since Journal of researches . Mentions C. …
- … G. Ehrenberg’s observations on coral reefs. …
- … Ehrenberg 1834 , p. 50), but CD was told by British naval officers of corals growing at …
- … twenty-five fathoms ( Coral reefs, p. 83). …
- … CD means that living corals do not exist at great depths. …
- … Darwin. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. Coral reefs : The structure …
- … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
- … your note, I have read over my chapter on Coral, & I find I am prepared to stand by almost …
- … Journal of researches, pp. 539–69. Coral reefs was not published until May 1842. C. …
- … Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg observed corals growing only to a depth of six fathoms ( …
- … in my volume. — Although I believe that coral-reefs do not exist at greater depth than 20 …
- … to what Ehrenberg has said, that in the Red Sea there are beds of coral in 25 fathoms. — …
- … The argument drawn from the fact of coral-reefs not existing at great, that there must …
- … with reefs, stands firm, even should coral-reefs be hereafter found to live at much …
- … immense in which every island is low, & of coral-formation. My classification of reefs is …
From T. M. Reade 21 September 1880
Summary
Sends his paper ["Oceans and continents", Geol. Mag. 7 (1880): 385–91].
Thinks John Murray of Edinburgh goes out of his way to deny an elevation/subsidence view of coral reefs ["On the structure and origin of coral reefs and islands", Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh 10 (1878–80): 505–18].
| Author: | Thomas Mellard Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Sept 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12720 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … Edinburgh goes out of his way to deny an elevation/subsidence view of coral reefs ["On the …
- … structure and origin of coral reefs and islands", Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh 10 (1878–80): …
- … brought within the limits of reef building coral growth, a very far fetched idea— I remain …
- … Reade 1880 ; CD’s latest published work, on coral reefs …
- … was Coral reefs 2d ed. John Murray (1841–1914) . …
- … s paper ‘On the structure and origin of coral reefs and islands’ was published in the …
- … Bibliography Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
- … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. London: …
- … John. 1880. On the stucture and origin of coral reefs and islands. [Read 5 April 1880. ] …
- … problems dealt with in your researches on Coral Atolls &c— When in Edinburgh last Autumn I …
- … to me his theories of the formation of coral reefs &c as since set forth in this paper …
- … to account for everything relating to coral reef growth without subsidence & elevation— It …
To Smith, Elder & Co. 8 January 1874
Summary
Pleased they will publish a new edition of Coral reefs, and he will soon consider any addenda and write a short preface.
Will return the wood-blocks of Journal of Researches the following week.
Could his copy of Coral Reefs please be returned.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
| Date: | 8 Jan 1874 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 43127) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9233F |
Matches: 14 hits
- … Pleased they will publish a new edition of Coral reefs , and he will soon consider any …
- … of Researches the following week. Could his copy of Coral Reefs please be returned. …
- … be so good as to return my copy of the Coral reefs to 6 Queen Anne S t Cavendish Sq — & …
- … Bibliography Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
- … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. …
- … London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1874. Coral reefs : The structure …
- … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
- … The first edition of Coral reefs was published in 1842 by Smith, Elder & Co . CD was in …
- … CD’s preface to the new edition is dated February 1874 (see Coral reefs 2d ed. , pp. …
- … CD refers to images that first appeared in Coral reefs , pp. 2, 3, 48, 98, 100, and were …
- … 469, 471, 473, 474. These images appear in Coral reefs 2d ed. , pp. 2, 65, 131, 133.In …
- … and woodblocks if they decided not to make a new edition of Coral reefs . CD had asked …
- … Dalton Hooker whether he had a copy of Coral reefs that he could use for corrections (see …
- … that you will publish a new edition of my Coral reefs; & earnestly hope that it will not …
To Ernst Haeckel 21 January [1876]
Summary
EH’s Arabische Korallen is spirited, clear, and poetical. With respect to formation of islands, thinks EH lays too much stress on views of Ehrenberg. Admires drawings.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 21 Jan [1876] |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 37 [9890]) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10363 |
Matches: 18 hits
- … Bibliography Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
- … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. …
- … London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1874. Coral reefs : The structure …
- … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
- … specifically praised CD’s pioneering work on coral reefs ( Haeckel 1876b , pp. 21, 41 n. …
- … the same time poetical description of coral-reefs & of their innumerable co-inhabitants. I …
- … enthusiasm when I first wandered over a coral-reef, but I did not admire the beauty of the …
- … forces. — With respect to the formation of coral islands I think that you lay too much …
- … on erhebung : the wear & tear of the corals by the breakers & the action of the wind are …
- … January 1876 . Arabische Korallen (Arabian corals; Haeckel 1876b ). Erhebung : elevation, …
- … as a principal cause in the formation of coral islands ( Haeckel 1876b , pp. 21–2). CD’s …
- … of waves and wind in breaking down the coral and depositing other debris, were sufficient …
- … to account for the increase in dry land on coral islands ( …
- … 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1842. Dana, James Dwight. 1872. Corals …
- … and coral islands . New York: Dodd & Mead. Würffel, Rheinhard. 2000. Lexikon deutscher …
- … see Coral reefs , pp. 20–1). …
- … CD had strengthened this argument in Coral reefs 2d ed. , pp. …
- … James Dwight Dana’s suggestion that many coral islands showed evidence of recent uplift ( …
To J. D. Hooker 27 [March 1874]
Summary
Etty [Henrietta Litchfield] is helping with Coral reefs [2d ed.]; will JDH lend her his copy?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 27 [Mar 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 320 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9373 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Etty [Henrietta Litchfield] is helping with Coral reefs [2d ed. ]; will JDH lend her his …
- … first asked to borrow Hooker’ s copy of Coral reefs in January (see letters to J. D. …
- … so troublesome. Etty is helping me over Coral-Reefs. — Will you lend her for a month your …
- … Bibliography Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
- … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. …
- … London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1874. Coral reefs : The structure …
- … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
- … Emma Litchfield was correcting the proofs of Coral reefs 2d ed. (see letter to H. E. …
- … 21 [March 1874] ). There were three maps in Coral reefs ; CD made minor revisions to the …
- … map of the Pacific and Indian Oceans in Coral reefs 2d ed. , plate 3. …
From Horatio Piggot 20 March 1875
Summary
Suggests advantage to students of adding coloured drawings of the coral-producing zoophytes in next edition of Coral reefs.
| Author: | Horatio Piggot |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Mar 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 69: 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9894 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … advantage to students of adding coloured drawings of the coral-producing zoophytes in …
- … next edition of Coral reefs . …
- … Bibliography Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
- … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. London: …
- … Coral reefs 2d ed. was published in 1874. The book contained …
- … There were no illustrations of corals (class Anthozoa) or other fauna associated with …
- … work on the structure & distribution of Coral Reefs, the great advantage that would accrue …
- … colored, if necessary, of the different Coral producing Zoophytes mentioned in your work. …
- … of the most important of them: Works on Coral are not often accessible in the Country: …
To J. V. Carus 23 March 1876
Summary
Clarifies a passage [in Coral reefs, 2d ed. (1874)], which JVC had questioned.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 23 Mar 1876 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 141–142) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10426 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … Clarifies a passage [in Coral reefs , 2d ed. (1874)], which JVC had questioned. …
- … the basal part formed of agglutinated fragments & coral sand together with some of …
- … the more delicate deep-water corals” D r All e n is a misprint for All a n at p 68 My dear …
- … Bibliography Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
- … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. …
- … London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1874. Coral reefs 3d ed. : …
- … The structure and distribution of coral reefs, with an appendix by Prof. T. G. Bonney. By …
- … This clause was added to the German translation of Coral reefs 2d ed. (Carus trans. 1876a, …
- … p. 52). It was not added to Coral reefs 3d ed. The reference …
- … Brands Allan ; this correction was made to Coral reefs 3d ed. , p. 68, and to the German …
- … in large part of agglutinated fragments & coral sand; and when I spoke of the vertical …
To ? 10 July [1872–3]
Summary
Sends publication details of Coral reefs, which he thinks is now only available in Geology of the ‘Beagle’: Geological observations on coral reefs, volcanic islands, and on South America.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 10 July [1872-3] |
| Classmark: | Stuart Lutz Historic Documents (dealer) (January 2020) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8404F |
Matches: 11 hits
- … Sends publication details of Coral reefs , which he thinks is now only available …
- … of the ‘Beagle’: Geological observations on coral reefs, volcanic islands, and on South …
- … Bibliography Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
- … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. …
- … London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1874. Coral reefs : The structure …
- … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
- … title. “The structure & distribution of Coral Reefs 1842, Smith, Elder & Co London. ”— I …
- … does not mention the second edition of Coral reefs , which appeared in May or June 1874 ( …
- … 22, letter from G. H. Darwin, 30 May 1874 ). Coral reefs . Volcanic islands (published in …
- … 1846) were reissued by Smith, Elder with Coral reefs in a single volume in 1851 ( Geology …
- … of the ‘Beagle’ : Geological observations on coral reefs, volcanic islands, and on South …
To Charles Lyell 6 [July 1841]
Summary
Discusses various types of coral reefs on which he has been collecting notes. Views of C. G. Ehrenberg. His conception of the formation of Bermuda.
Pessimistic about the effect of his poor health on his scientific work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 6 [July 1841] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.24) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-602 |
Matches: 18 hits
- … in case by chance you should want to ask me any questions about Coral-Masses Shrewsbury …
- … Discusses various types of coral reefs on which he has been collecting notes. Views of C. …
- … Ministry of Defence. Moresby provided CD with extensive descriptions of coral reefs ( …
- … see Coral reefs, pp. 22, 83, 191–6). The Lyells were preparing to leave on a year’s trip …
- … Bibliography Coral reefs : The structure …
- … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
- … in Radnorshire, Wales, where he examined the corals of the Wenlock limestone, a Silurian …
- … have enjoyed to have followed you about the coral-limestone— I once saw close to Wenlock, …
- … 119–20 of his Glen Roy notebook (DAR 130). Described in Coral reefs, pp. 188–91. Ibid. , …
- … pp. 196–205. Plate III (a world map) in Coral reefs is coloured as follows: dark blue for …
- … reefs of an irregular form, reefs not based on coral foundation, and certain unusual …
- … reefs in the Red Sea ( Coral reefs, pp. 119–23). Ehrenberg 1834 . Robert Moresby , a …
- … rough drawing, I remember, of the masses of coral— But the degree in which the whole mass …
- … of mud seems to have invaded & covered a coral reef—leaving but very few islets yet free …
- … suggestion of a neutral tint for such coral-reefs, as I am uncertain about, but I almost …
- … I shall of course enumerate them. — (N.B. Coral reefs extend along nearly whole line of …
- … flat bank, encrusted with knolls & reefs of coral, with land formed on one side. This land …
- … edges, solidified by the growth of some coral: at Bermuda, the wind has heaped more sand & …
To Peter Martin Duncan 13 April [1868?]
Summary
Promises to send coral specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Peter Martin Duncan |
| Date: | 13 Apr [1868?] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.272) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13802 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Promises to send coral specimens. …
- … Accordingly I have looked out all the corals which I can find, & I will send them on …
- … conjectured from the reference to specimens of coral from the Keeling Islands (see n. 2, …
- … of London that included the Keeling Islands coral specimens. No letter from Lyell to CD on …
- … 1869 , Duncan referred to some deep-sea corals from Cape Verde that CD had given him. …
- … Duncan later described as a new species a coral, Placopsammia darwini (a synonym of …
- … Tubastraea coccinea , the orange cup coral), that had been collected by CD in the …
- … Cainozoic periods elucidated by their coral faunas. [Read 24 November 1869. ] Quarterly …
- … Notices of some deep-sea and littoral corals from the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, Indian, …
- … you do not care about the soft parts of corals. I have a few notes regarding some of those …
To Smith, Elder & Co 30 October 1875
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of £2 8s 10d for 2d edition of Coral reefs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
| Date: | 30 Oct 1875 |
| Classmark: | Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections (Honeyman Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10233 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … Acknowledges receipt of £2 8s 10d for 2d edition of Coral reefs . …
- … Bibliography Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
- … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. …
- … London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1874. Coral reefs : The structure …
- … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
- … being half Profits on sale of 2 d . Edit of Coral Reefs up to June 30 th . I have received …
- … records the receipt of £2 8 s . 10 d . for Coral reefs 2d ed. ; no earlier entry for the …
- … Elder & Co to publish a new edition of Coral reefs , but worried that they might not want …
- … Smith, Elder & Co, 17 December [1873] ). Coral reefs 2d ed. was published in June 1874 ( …
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 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … Discusses relationship of subsidence to the formation of coral reefs. …
- … a problem for CD’s coral theory. See CD’s letter to Charles Maclaren, [15 November– …
- … we ought to look out for upraised coral-formations (putting on one side denudation) above …
- … 3: 393–4). Maclaren cited the lack of upraised coral formations of great thickness as …
- … Bibliography Coral reefs : The structure …
- … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
- … within areas favourable to the growth of corals) reefs are absent, which shows that their …
- … America (August 1842) and had discussed CD’s Coral reefs with him. CD’s comment that his …
- … it probable that CD revised his view at about this time. In Coral reefs CD indicated that …
- … the growth of thick coral formations would require a very slow rate of subsidence (p. …
- … might be submerged more quickly than the coral could grow. As a result new reefs might be …
- … Lyell 1840 , 3: 393–4). In Journal of researches (pp. 568–9) and Coral reefs (pp. 114, …
- … 145, and 148) CD indicated that modern coral archipelagos might have been built on sunken …
To Smith, Elder & Co. 27 March [1874]
Summary
Heavily correcting sheets for Coral reefs, 2d ed. [1874]. Offers to pay extra printer’s charges.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
| Date: | 27 Mar [1874] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (MS.23181, ff.16-20 (S. E. & Co. work slip, ff.16-17, letter ff.18-19, address envelope f.20)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9374 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … Heavily correcting sheets for Coral reefs , 2d ed. [1874]. Offers to pay extra printer’s …
- … Bibliography Coral reefs 2d ed. : …
- … The structure and distribution of coral reefs. By Charles Darwin. Revised edition. …
- … London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1874. Coral reefs : The structure …
- … and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the …
- … thought that I had corrected the sheets of the Coral Reefs enough, but I find so many bad …
- … is established from the reference to the proofs of the second edition of Coral reefs ; …
- … copies of Coral reefs 2d ed. were available from late May (see letter from G. H. …
- … was helping to correct the proofs of Coral reefs 2d ed. (see letters to H. E. …
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Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man ; the …
- … ). Back over old ground New editions of Coral reefs and Descent consumed the …
- … enterprises in the 1870s, were family affairs. Coral reefs His son Horace had …
- … with the later chapters on the formation and distribution of coral-reefs substantially revised, and …
- … been increased by the publication in 1872 of Corals and coral islands , by James Dwight Dana, an …
- … or volcanic activity in accounting for the absence of coral-reefs in certain locations. Darwin …
- … also indicate that the land had long remained stationary ( Coral reefs , p. vi). On receiving a …
- … 274). Descent Alongside his revision of Coral reefs, Darwin went to work on a …
