To Caroline Darwin 27 February 1837
Summary
Has just given a paper [on "Sand tubes"] at Cambridge Philosophical Society and exhibited some specimens. It went well, with Whewell and Sedgwick taking an active part.
Herschel thinks 6000–odd years since the creation not nearly long enough to explain the separations from a single stock.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 27 Feb 1837 |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-346 |
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- … Two letters from John Herschel to Charles Lyell, 1836–1837. Proceedings of the American …
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- … Lyell about his preliminary findings in a letter of 23 January 1837 ( Wilson 1972 , pp. 436–7). For an account of the brilliant company at one of Charles …
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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Darwin in Conversation exhibition
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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 …
