To Reeve Brothers [August 1846]
Summary
Discusses printing of a plate [for South America (1846)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Reeve Brothers. |
Date: | [Aug 1846] |
Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-937 |
To Leonard Jenyns [14 or 21 August 1846]
Summary
Looks forward to LJ’s volume [Observations in natural history (1846)].
Observations on what the world would call trifling points in natural history are always very interesting to him. Deplores their absence in foreign periodicals.
Is slaving away to finish S. American geology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | [14 or 21] Aug 1846 |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-987 |
From Edward Forbes [7 August 1846]
Summary
Has completed descriptions of S. American fossil shells [for South America]. Proposes to name a Nautilus after A. D. d’Orbigny.
Author: | Edward Forbes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [7 Aug 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 43.1: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-989 |
To Charles Lyell [8 August 1846]
Summary
Comments on forthcoming edition [7th (1847)] of CL’s Principles. Mentions other books relevant to CL’s needs by Hooker, H. G. Bronn, Edward Forbes, and J. G. Kölreuter. Discusses his own books on volcanoes and the geology of S. America.
Mentions expected visit to Down by the Lyells.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [8 Aug 1846] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.49) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-990 |
To Robert Mallet 26 August [1846]
Summary
Thanks RM for "Dynamics of earthquakes" [Trans. R. Irish Acad. 21 (1848): 50–106]. It has cleared up his ideas on undulations. Now wishes he had said nothing about them in Journal of researches. Sends his paper ["Certain volcanic phenomena in S. America", Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Wishes RM would investigate Chile. Speculates whether earthquakes coincide with moon or tides.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Mallet |
Date: | 26 Aug [1846] |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-992 |
To Leonard Horner [17 August – 7 September 1846]
Summary
Discusses proposed survey of Glen Roy. Mentions Glen Roy theories of Agassiz and William Buckland. Includes a memorandum calling for a careful survey of the parallel roads of Glen Roy. Mentions M. A. Bravais ["On the lines of ancient level of the sea in Finmark", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 1 (1845): 534].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Horner |
Date: | [17 Aug – 7 Sept 1846] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.53); DAR 145: 136–7 (enclosure) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-993 |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Forbes, Edward | (1) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Horner, Leonard | (1) |
Jenyns, Leonard | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
Forbes, Edward | (1) |
Horner, Leonard | (1) |
Jenyns, Leonard | (1) |