From Charles Lyell 13 February 1837
Summary
"I could think of nothing for days after your lesson on coral reefs, but of the top of submerged continents. It is all true, but do not flatter youself that you will be believed, till you are growing bald, like me, with hard work & vexation at the incredulity in the world."
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Feb 1837 |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell Collection Coll-203/B9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-343 |
From Charles Lyell 29 August and 5 September 1837
Summary
Syenitic granite from Norway carried as far as Osnabruck.
Has met warm reception in Germany.
Leopold von Buch mistaken in believing that granite overlies transition rock in Norway. Granite sends veins into transition and gneiss.
Has been examining fossil shells of Crag with Heinrich Beck. Beck admits some shells are of species still living.
CL still believes Eocene, Miocene, and Pliocene are satisfactory divisions of Tertiary epoch.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Aug and 5 Sept 1837 |
| Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881 2: 20–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-376 |
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- … From Charles Lyell 29 August and 5 September 1837 …
- … Philosophical Journal 22: 110–16. Lyell, Charles. 1835. On the proofs of a gradual rising …
- … of the Royal Society of London , pp. 1–38. Lyell, Charles. 1836. Ueber die Beweise eines …
- … K. M. Lyell ed. 1881 2: 20–3 Charles Lyell, 1st baronet unstated 29 Aug 1837 5 Sept 1837 …
- … 116. Wilson, Leonard Gilchrist. 1972. Charles Lyell. The years to 1841: the revolution in …
- … as founded on fossil shells. Believe me ever most truly yours, | Charles Lyell. …
From the Misses Horner [17 March 1837 – 28 December 1838]
Summary
“The Botanists” and “The learned Linguists” give thanks for book and assistance.
| Author: | Anne Susanna (Susan) Horner; Leonora Horner; Leonora Pertz; Joanna Baillie Horner; Frances Joanna Horner; Frances Joanna Bunbury; Katharine Murray Horner; Katharine Murray Lyell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Mar 1837 – 28 Dec 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 1a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-350 |
From Caroline Darwin [21 February 1837]
Summary
Interested in Lyell’s address [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1833–8): 479–523]. Asks what the points are on which CD and Lyell are fully agreed.
Inquires about the paper FitzRoy and CD wrote on missionaries ["Moral state of Tahiti" (1836), Collected papers 1: 19–38].
News of family.
| Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [21 Feb 1837] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 141 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-345 |
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- … Lyell & all the modern Geologists disbelieved, or thought we did not understand rightly, the chronology of the Old Testament—so I do not see how what Sir J Herschell says is new. — I should have liked extremely to have seen the letter. — Do you know whether yours & Cap t Fitzroys paper on The Missionaries has ever been sent to England, & what is it called in order to get it? ever my dear Charles …
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| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Bunbury, F. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
| Horner, F. J. | (1) |
| Horner, J. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Bunbury, F. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
| Horner, F. J. | (1) |
Darwin in Conversation exhibition
Summary
Meet Charles Darwin as you have never met him before. Come to our exhibition at Cambridge University Library, running from 9 July to 3 December 2022, and discover a fascinating series of interwoven conversations with Darwin's many hundreds of…
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- … 9 July – 3 December 2022 Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University …
