To Charles Lyell [16 June 1848]
Summary
Comments on Ann Susan Horner’s escape in a dangerous incident at sea.
Compares addresses by William Buckland and CL, delivered at recent meeting of the Geological Society.
Discusses the views on Glen Roy in Chambers’ Ancient sea-margins [1848].
Speculates that Chambers wrote Vestiges [of creation (1844)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [16 June 1848] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.73) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1186 |
To Charles Lyell [9 March 1841]
Summary
Defends his theory [in "Parallel roads of Glen Roy" (1839), Collected papers 1: 87–137] against the view that the "roads" were formed by glacial action.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [9 Mar 1841] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.23) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-594 |
To Charles Lyell 18 February [1854]
Summary
Comments on CL’s plan to visit Tenerife.
Discusses inclination of strata on islands and around mountains.
Personal affairs of several scientists.
Visit by Henslow.
Notes publication by Hooker [Himalayan journals (1854)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 18 Feb [1854] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.108) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1553 |
To Charles Lyell 8 [September 1847]
Summary
Discusses David Milne’s Glen Roy paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber", Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. Rejects Milne’s theory that outlet of Glen Roy is blocked by detritus. Impressed by Milne’s discovery of an outlet at the level of the second shelf. Believes this strengthens theory that lakes were formed by glacier blocking Glen Roy. Offers arguments against glacier theory.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 8 [Sept 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 50: C3–C6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1116 |
