To Robert Chambers 11 September 1847
Summary
Comments on David Milne’s paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. CD still believes in marine origin. Rejects barrier of detritus at mouth of Glen Roy. If roads were formed by lake, it must have been ice-lake.
Comments on evidence of glaciers and icebergs in North Wales. Thinks pass caused by tidal channel, not river. Suggests that RC make altitude measurements at various points.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Chambers |
Date: | 11 Sept 1847 |
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-1119 |
To David Milne 20 [September 1847]
Summary
Comments on paper by DM ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber", (1847) Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. "I am not in the least convinced about the Barriers … [but] I am very much staggered in favour of the ice-lake theory of Agassiz & [William] Buckland." Will "send a letter to the Scotsman, in which I give briefly my present impression".
Cites facts mentioned in South America possibly of use to DM.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | David Milne Home |
Date: | 20 [Sept 1847] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (MS.3813) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1120 |
To the Scotsman [after 20 September 1847]
Summary
Comments on article by David Milne ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. Refers to his paper on Glen Roy [Collected papers 1: 87–137]. Comments on Louis Agassiz’s article ["The glacial theory and its recent progress", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 33 (1842): 217–83]. Cites his own observations on glaciers in N. Wales. Discusses possibility of ice barrier creating lake. Notes objections to theory of an ice barrier. Defends his own theory that the roads are sea-beaches. Suggests questions for further investigation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | The Scotsman |
Date: | [after 20 Sept 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 50: B1–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1121 |
To Mary Elizabeth Lyell [4 October 1847]
Summary
Thanks Mrs Lyell for barnacle specimens.
Mentions Agassiz’s classification of saurians.
Discusses letter from Chambers on "roads" in Scottish glens; views of Agassiz and Buckland on the glens.
Is reading Hugh Miller [First impressions of England and its people (1847)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mary Elizabeth Horner; Mary Elizabeth Lyell |
Date: | [4 Oct 1847] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.63) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1122 |
To J. D. Hooker [5 October 1847]
Summary
Mystified by the origin of coal-plants.
Milne’s Glen Roy theory is absurd but, oddly, it has staggered CD in favour of Agassiz’s ice-lake theory.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [5 Oct 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 108 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1123 |
From Robert Chambers 5 October 1847
Summary
Supposition that glaciers made Glen Roy is a dream. Has received three letters from CD on river terraces. Reports on trip to terraces at Belleville. Comparison with Glen Roy.
Author: | Robert Chambers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Oct 1847 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 131 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1124 |
To Joseph Beete Jukes 8 October [1847]
Summary
Flattered by JBJ’s discussion of coral reefs [in Voyage of H.M.S. "Fly" 1 (1847): 347–8]. CD has always thought his Coral reefs "too bold and speculative", so he is gratified "when anyone who has had opportunities of observation does not give his verdict against it".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Beete Jukes |
Date: | 8 Oct [1847] |
Classmark: | University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1125 |
To Charles Lyell [11 October 1847]
Summary
Discusses enclosed figures on elevation of terraces in several Scottish glens as surveyed by William Kemp and David Stevenson. Comments on Robert Chambers’ view of the terraces. Mentions a letter on the terraces, originally written for publication, which he has asked Robert Jameson [editor of the Edinburgh New Philos. J.] to destroy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [11 Oct 1847] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.64) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1126 |
To J. D. Hooker [6 or 13 October 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [6 or 13] Oct 1847 |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 105 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1127 |
To M. A. T. Whitby 14 October [1847]
Summary
Thanks for a suite of male and female specimens of Lepidoptera. Lack of difference in size of wings surprises CD; the female’s being smaller than male’s in early growth is new to him. Will ask a friend in India for comparable facts.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mary Anne Theresa Whitby |
Date: | 14 Oct [1847] |
Classmark: | Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections (Honeyman Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1128 |
To J. D. Hooker [21 October 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [21 Oct 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 107 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1129 |
To J. D. Hooker [25 October 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [25 Oct 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 106 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1130 |
To J. D. Hooker [31 October 1847]
Summary
CD very ill; tries to arrange departure meeting with JDH.
CD’s guess at composition of Maldive flora.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [31 Oct 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1131 |
To Emma Darwin [31 October 1847]
Summary
Has had two bad days with boils.
Is reading Last days of Pompeii [Edward Bulwer Lytton (1834)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [31 Oct 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1132 |
To J. D. Hooker [6 November 1847]
Summary
Now plans to come to Kew for an hour’s farewell if his stomach permits.
Congratulations on JDH’s Flora Antarctica [1847].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [6 Nov 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1133 |
To J. D. Hooker [8 November 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [8 Nov 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 110 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1134 |
To George Grey 13 November 1847
Summary
Responding to GG’s offer to aid CD’s natural history researches on New Zealand, CD suggests that limestone caverns should be examined for fossils and that observations on the presence and range of erratic boulders in New Zealand would be very valuable.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Grey |
Date: | 13 Nov 1847 |
Classmark: | Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (2)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1135 |
To Henri Milne-Edwards 18 November [1847]
Summary
Offers HM-E some specimens of Lernaea, a crustacean parasite on Balanus elongatus.
Mentions opinion of Harry Goodsir about a form CD believes to be the larva of Lernaea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henri Milne-Edwards |
Date: | 18 Nov [1847] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.66) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1136 |
To Abraham Clapham [29 October 1847?]
Summary
Accepts AC’s offer to conduct hybridisation experiments, and offers suggestions.
Sends book [Journal of researches, 2d ed. (1845)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Abraham Clapham |
Date: | [29 Oct 1847?] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.47) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1137 |
To John Higgins 11 December [1847]
Summary
Discusses account. Glad that all is prosperous.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 11 Dec [1847] |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1138 |
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