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 |
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 Frank Hurndall 10 September 1881
Summary
Reports that a living frog was found in a lump of coal.
| Author: | Watkin Frank (Frank) Hurndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Sept 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 201: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13328 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 1894. The life and correspondence of William Buckland, D.D. , F.R.S. , sometime dean of …
- … long periods encased in rock, despite William Buckland’s experiments, carried out in the …
- … Buckland , in common with many other men of science, had poured scorn on the idea that frogs and toads found entombed in this way were as old as the rocks in which they were discovered (‘The frog in the block of coal’, The Times , 16 September 1862, p. 7). William …
From J. S. Henslow 6 February 1832
Summary
News of Cambridge: the recent examinations; memorial tablet for Marmaduke Ramsay.
| Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1832 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 110 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-157 |
From J. M. Herbert [19 November 1836]
Summary
Welcomes CD; has tried to find him. May see him in Cambridge. Reminisces about CD’s musical taste and memory. Describes Charles Whitley’s wedding and wife. Mentions friends.
| Author: | John Maurice Herbert |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [19 Nov 1836] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 137 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-323 |
From Elizabeth Wedgwood 10 November [1837]
Summary
Sends information about, and dates of treatment of peaty fields. Marl seems to have sunk to the natural stratum of hard white sand which lies below the peat.
Thanks for "Maer Hypothesis" ["Formation of mould" (1840), Collected papers 1: 49–53].
| Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood; Josiah Wedgwood, II |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Nov [1837] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 189 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-385 |
From T. F. Jamieson 3 September 1861
Summary
Observations from a fortnight in Lochaber. Found the entrance to Loch Treig to present the clearest evidence of intense glacial action. States, in contradiction of David Milne-Home, that there is glacial scoring in Glen Spean, as Louis Agassiz described, and moraine around the mouth of Loch Treig. There is little sign of water erosion on the rocks crossed by the lines in Glen Roy. Believes the smoothed rocks at the eastern end of Loch Laggan are due to flow from the lake and not tidal action. The lines in Glen Roy are too neat for a lake shore subject to tides. Given the glacial scoring sweeping round from Glen Spean into Glen Treig, and all the boulders, TFJ is astonished that anyone could deny that there had been glaciers there. [See 3247.]
| Author: | Thomas Francis Jamieson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Sept 1861 |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/7: 75–92) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3242A |
From F. T. Buckland 13 December 1864
Summary
Sorry to hear CD ill.
On his return from Galway, will arrange with CD about visiting and showing him his specimens.
| Author: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Dec 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 357 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4714 |
From F. T. Buckland 4 October [1866]
Summary
Thanks for CD’s patronage;
will pursue CD’s query about otter-hounds.
Remarks on continuing debate over CD’s views in BAAS.
| Author: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Oct [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 361 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5229 |
From Francis Boott 23 January 1863
Summary
His son wants CD’s opinion about a cub supposed by Frank Buckland to be progeny of a lioness and mastiff.
Lyell working at last proofs [of Antiquity of man]; he is scornful of Owen.
| Author: | Francis Boott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Jan 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 254 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3938 |
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| Buckland, Frank | (2) |
| Buckland, William | (2) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
| Boott, Francis | (1) |
| Herbert, J. M. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Buckland, Frank | (2) |
| Buckland, William | (2) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
| Boott, Francis | (1) |
