From William Buckland 7 June 1839
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of Journal of researches.
| Author: | William Buckland |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 June 1839 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 176 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-518 |
From William Buckland 15 July [1848]
Summary
Will forward recommendation of Edward Cresy to Edwin Chadwick, but thinks there will be no further need of engineers.
| Author: | William Buckland |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 July [1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1190 |
To William Buckland [15 June 1837]
Summary
Describes the two species of lizard [Amblyrhynchus] found in the Galapagos Archipelago.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Buckland |
| Date: | [15 June 1837] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-359 |
To William Buckland [November 1840 – 17 February 1841]
Summary
He encloses an unidentified paper received from R. I. Murchison the previous day.
Is unable to provide information about Dr Du Gard.
Appreciates the maps of Glen Roy sent by WB. Would welcome the opinions of WB and Louis Agassiz concerning the parallel roads but cannot give up the idea of their marine origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Buckland |
| Date: | [Nov 1840 – 17 Feb 1841] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Buckland papers, Glaciation /4 (iv)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-641A |
From William Buckland to the Geological Society of London 9 March 1838
Summary
Recommends CD’s paper on "Formation of mould" [Collected papers 1: 49–53; read 1 Nov 1837] be printed in Transactions. Praises it as establishing a new "geological power".
| Author: | William Buckland |
| Addressee: | Geological Society of London |
| Date: | 9 Mar 1838 |
| Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/47) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-404 |
Buckland, William. 1836. Geology and mineralogy considered with reference to natural theology. Sixth Bridgewater treatise. 2 vols. London: William Pickering.
Buckland, William. 1841. On the glacia-diluvial phænomena in Snowdonia and the adjacent parts of North Wales. [Read 15 December 1841.] Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 3 (1838–42): 579–88.
Buckland, William. 1832. On the fossil remains of the Megatherium recently imported into England from South America. Report of the British Association meeting in Oxford (1832), pp. 104–7.
Buckland, William. 1840. Memoir on the evidences of glaciers in Scotland and the North of England. [Read 4 and 18 November, and 2 December 1840.] Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 3 (1838–42): 332–7, 345–8.
To Edward Cresy [5 or 12 July 1848]
Summary
Has written to William Buckland, recommending EC for position.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Date: | [5 or 12] July 1848 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 306 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1188 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Has written to William Buckland, recommending EC for position. …
- … A. 1983. The great chain of history: William Buckland and the English school of geology ( …
- … The two Wednesdays preceding the letter from William Buckland, 15 July 1848 . …
- … William Buckland was a member of the newly established Metropolitan Commission of Sewers, …
To Edward Cresy [15 July 1848]
Summary
Encloses note from William Buckland [1190], stating that no appointment of surveyor is to be made. Thinks further recommendation would be unwise, but will write to Sir Henry De la Beche and [Robert?] Hutton if EC wishes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Date: | [15 July 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 307 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1191 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Encloses note from William Buckland [ 1190 ], stating that no appointment of surveyor is …
- … written to Cresy as soon as he received the letter from William Buckland, 15 July [1848] . …
- … See letter from William Buckland, 15 July [1848] . …
- … William Buckland was Dean of Westminster at the time. Robert Hutton , a member of the …
To Frank Hurndall 20 September 1881
Summary
No frogs or toads are able to live in completely closed holes. Cites experiment by William Buckland.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Watkin Frank (Frank) Hurndall |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 145: 146 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13345 |
Rupke, Nicolaas A. 1983. The great chain of history: William Buckland and the English school of geology (1814–1849). Oxford: Clarendon. [Vols. 4,9]
To Thomas Spring Rice [before 7 July 1838]
Summary
Express their concern that the offer for sale to the British Museum, by G. A. Mantell and Thomas Hawkins, of two valuable collections, has been declined.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; William Buckland; Adam Sedgwick; John Phillips; William Whewell; Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Charles Stokes; William John Hamilton; Edward Stanley; Richard Owen; William Clift; Charles Babbage; John Bostock; Peter Mark Roget; John Taylor; Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2d Marquess of Northampton; William John Broderip |
| Addressee: | Thomas Spring Rice |
| Date: | [before 7 July 1838] |
| Classmark: | House of Commons papers; accounts and papers, 1837/38, XXXVI, 307 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-421F |
To W. H. Fitton 23 June 1842
Summary
[Excerpt copied from a letter CD wrote to WHF.]
CD’s gratefulness to William Buckland for his guidance on the glaciated terrain of N. Wales. "I am also convinced that the valleys of Glen Roy … have been occupied by arms of the Sea, & very likely, (for on that point I cannot of course doubt Agassiz & Buckland) by glaciers also."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Henry Fitton |
| Date: | 23 June 1842 |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Louis Agassiz correspondence and other papers, MS Am 1419: 239) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-632 |
Gordon, Elizabeth Oke. 1894. The life and correspondence of William Buckland, D.D., F.R.S., sometime dean of Westminster, twice president of the Geological Society, and first president of the British Association. London: John Murray.
From J. S. Henslow 31 August 1833
Summary
The [Megatherium] fossils were extremely interesting and were shown at the Geological Section of the BAAS meeting at Cambridge [1833].
The plants delight him; will work them out with W. J. Hooker.
CD should send every fossil he can find; minute insects will be nearly all new. Delighted with descriptions of the few animals alluded to.
| Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Aug 1833 |
| Classmark: | DAR 97(ser. 2): 14–15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-213 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Bibliography Buckland, William. 1832. On the fossil remains of the Megatherium recently …
- … William Buckland was deputy chairman of the Geological …
- … bones found by Woodbine Parish (see Buckland 1832 ). William Jackson Hooker , then Regius …
- … William Clift was Curator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. The Report of the 1833 meeting makes no mention of CD’s Megatherium bones. The Report of the British Association meeting of 1832 at Oxford. In 1832 Buckland …
From J. F. Stephens to Robert Peel 8 June 1846
Summary
Petitions for a Civil Pension.
| Author: | James Francis Stephens |
| Addressee: | Robert Peel, 2d baronet |
| Date: | 8 June 1846 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 40593: 187–91 Papers of Sir Robert Peel) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-983G |
| letter | (45) |
| bibliography | (6) |
| people | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (31) |
| Buckland, William | (4) |
| Buckland, Frank | (2) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (4) |
| Lyell, Charles | (4) |
| Buckland, Frank | (2) |
| Buckland, William | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (42) |
| Buckland, William | (6) |
| Lyell, Charles | (5) |
| Buckland, Frank | (4) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (4) |
