To A. R. Wallace 5 March [1869]
Summary
Reception of ARW’s book, Malay Archipelago.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 5 Mar [1869] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6642 |
From T. R. R. Stebbing 5 March 1869
Summary
Explains how he, as "an orthodox clergyman" reading CD’s works, was totally convinced by his arguments. Expresses pleasure "that Science might make gigantic strides without offering such collateral opinions as, if true, would certainly dispense with clergymen altogether".
| Author: | Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Mar 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 248 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6643 |
From W. C. Tait 5 March 1869
Summary
Is forwarding potted specimens of Drosophyllum.
Will make inquiries about sheep.
| Author: | William Chester Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Mar 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6644 |
To Charles Lyell 5 March [1869]
Summary
Discusses wear and tear due to glaciation and significance of this evidence for dating the glacial period. Mentions views of James Croll and Archibald Geikie on the issue.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 5 Mar [1869] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.364) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6692 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Stebbing, T. R. R. | (1) |
| Tait, W. C. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Stebbing, T. R. R. | (1) |
| Tait, W. C. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … by the cavities formed by this animal.—’ (DAR 31.2: 305). He gave a detailed description and …
Saint Helena
Summary
Curious geological history
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- … Talks of his five days working on the geology of Saint Helena, of meeting the astronomer John …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … to J. H. Gilbert, 12 January 1882 ). In Earthworms , p. 305, Darwin had remarked on the …
