To A. B. Buckley 18 December [1871]
Summary
Thanks her for marked proof-sheets.
Discusses climate in earlier geological periods.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arabella Burton Buckley |
| Date: | 18 Dec [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 177 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6508 |
To T. R. R. Stebbing 10 October [1871]
Summary
Doubts whether an experiment to test the durability of human bones would be worth while. Absence of such bones in post-glacial river-bed deposits does not weigh in the least on CD.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing |
| Date: | 10 Oct [1871] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.404) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7999 |
To Archibald Geikie 27 December [1871]
Summary
His admiration for the papers of AG [see 8119].
Relates his recent discovery that earthworms have brought to surface no less than 161 tons of dry earth over an area of 10 acres, thus creating the conditions for significant denudation. Would welcome information about the persistence of ridges and furrows in old pasture lands ploughed centuries ago. Do they run down the slopes or transversely? Refers to [A. C.] Ramsay, [James] Croll, Elie de Beaumont, and [Henry] Johnson.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Archibald Geikie |
| Date: | 27 Dec [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 132 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8122F |
To James Croll 19 July [1871]
Summary
Introduces E. L. Youmans to correspondent. Youmans is seeking small monographs by the most competent English authors [for his International Scientific Series].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Croll |
| Date: | 19 July [1871] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 27) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7874 |
| letter | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Buckley, A. B. | (1) |
| Croll, James | (1) |
| Geikie, Archibald | (1) |
| Stebbing, T. R. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Buckley, A. B. | (1) |
| Croll, James | (1) |
| Geikie, Archibald | (1) |
| Stebbing, T. R. R. | (1) |
Darwin & Glen Roy
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Although Darwin was best known for his geological work in South America and other remote Beagle destinations, he made one noteworthy attempt to explain a puzzling feature of British geology. In 1838, two years after returning from the voyage, he travelled…
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The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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Rewriting Origin - the later editions
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- … If I lived 20 more years, & was able to work, how I sh d . have to modify the “Origin”, & …
Essay: Natural selection & natural theology
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—by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted…
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Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
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Darwin in letters, 1861: Gaining allies
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The year 1861 marked an important change in the direction of Darwin’s work. He had weathered the storm that followed the publication of Origin, and felt cautiously optimistic about the ultimate acceptance of his ideas. The letters from this year provide an…
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