To Charles Lyell 12 [March 1860]
Summary
Discusses the intellectual development of the ancient Greeks as an objection to evolution and gives his reply.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 12 [Mar 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.203) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5032 |
To Charles Lyell 8[–9] September [1866]
Summary
Disappointed to put off CL’s visit because of illness of CD’s sister [Susan], but hopes to see him in October.
Thanks for lending pamphlet [L. Agassiz, Geology of the Amazons]. Agassiz has written "wild nonsense".
Refers to a translation of Pictet and Humbert’s "capital" paper on fossil fish ["Recent researches on the fossil fishes of Mount Lebanon", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 18 (1866): 237].
Hooker’s lecture at BAAS Nottingham meeting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 8[–9] Sept [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.319) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5208 |
To Charles Lyell 9 October [1866]
Summary
Comments on proofs [of Principles of geology, 10th ed. (1867–8)]: CL does not allude to the specialisation of classes.
Discusses CL’s argument from the absence of Cetacea in Secondary rocks;
finds his discussion of man "superfluous and too orthodox".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 9 Oct [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.320) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5236 |
To Charles Lyell 12 October [1866]
Summary
More comments on proofs [of CL’s Principles of geology, 10th ed.]. Discusses permanence of continents and other points.
Refers to passage describing evaporation of snow in Journal [of researches, pp. 277–8].
Cites astronomers’ views on increasing length of day.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 12 Oct [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.321) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5239 |
To Charles Lyell 1 December [1866]
Summary
Thanks CL for copy of his "grand book" [Principles of geology, 10th ed., vol. 1 (1867)]. Congratulates him on additions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 1 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.322) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5289 |
To Charles Lyell 22 August [1867]
Summary
Thanks CL for comments [on Variation].
Thinks Pangenesis would be important step in biology if admitted as probable.
Introduction to French edition [of Origin] has injured the book.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 22 Aug [1867] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.332) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5612 |
To Charles Lyell 4 October [1867]
Summary
Replies to CL’s further comments [on Variation].
Discusses direct action of the environment as a cause of variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 4 Oct [1867] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.334) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5640 |
To Charles Lyell 31 October [1867]
Summary
Describes seeds transported in locust dung. Discusses other cases of transport and migration.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 31 Oct [1867] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.336) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5659 |
To Charles Lyell 7 December [1867]
Summary
Discusses transport of frog spawn and young molluscs by birds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 7 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.337) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5708 |
To Charles Lyell [9 March 1868]
Summary
Asks to borrow Philosophical Transactions, vol. 157, pt 2 (1868).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [9 Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas (KU MSS P87: 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5768 |
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 |
To Charles Lyell [March 1841]
Summary
Discusses the role of ice in determining the geological features of the Jura. Mentions view of Agassiz. Objects to idea of "a [sea of ice] carrying rocks". Notes Agassiz’s earlier view of "ice expanded in the line of the Great Swiss Valley". Comments on Pentlands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [Mar 1841] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.27) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-592 |
To Charles Lyell [9 March 1841]
Summary
Defends his theory [in "Parallel roads of Glen Roy" (1839), Collected papers 1: 87–137] against the view that the "roads" were formed by glacial action.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [9 Mar 1841] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.23) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-594 |
To Charles Lyell [12 March 1841]
Summary
Discusses at length Louis Agassiz’s book [Études sur les glaciers (1840)] and Agassiz’s explanation of moraines. Defends his own theory of the importance of floating ice. Relates glacier theory to his own interpretation of Glen Roy.
Mentions a paper he is writing on South American boulders and till [Collected papers 1: 145–63].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [12 Mar 1841] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.25) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-595 |
To Charles Lyell [3 November 1869]
Summary
Takes "much to heart" solar evidence for short age of the earth. Cites evidence for "long endurance of our existing continents". Comments on process of denudation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [3 Nov 1869] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.346) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5974 |
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 |
To Charles Lyell [19 March 1868]
Summary
The second volume of Lyell’s [Principles, 10th ed.] gives a "fair history of the progress of opinion on Species".
Pleased by allusion to Pangenesis: "an untried hypothesis is always dangerous ground".
Looks forward to chapter on domestication and on man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [19 Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.349) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6023 |
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 |
To Charles Lyell 14 July 1868
Summary
Comments favourably, though often differing, on articles by G. H. Lewes.
Discusses claim of Agassiz [in A journey in Brazil (1868)] that he found evidence of glaciers in Brazil. Suggests sponsoring an expedition to test these claims.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 14 July 1868 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.352) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6275 |
To Charles Lyell [5 and 7 October 1842]
Summary
Cancelled: same as DCP-LETT-649. Discusses growth of various species of coral. Explains significance of dead reefs.
Describes meeting of the Council of the Geological Society; the controversy involving Edward Charlesworth.
Mentions conversations with William Lonsdale about Lonsdale’s work on corals and the financial support for his work.
Murchison’s views on glaciation in Wales.
Agassiz’s observations at Glen Roy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 5 and 7 Oct 1842 |
Classmark: | CUL DAR 146: 149 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-645 |
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