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 |
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 |
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 |
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 …
To J. D. Hooker 8 February [1867]
Summary
On the Duke of Argyll and a review of his Reign of law.
Asa Gray’s theological view of variation. God’s role in formation of organisms; JDH’s view of Providence.
Insular and continental genera.
Owen on continuity and ideal types
and on bones of Mauritius deer.
On man.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 10–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5395 |
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 …
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 J. S. Henslow [30–1 October 1836]
Summary
CD in London to meet with naturalists about his collections. Lyell and Owen are helpful, but no one else, except R. E. Grant, seems to want to examine his specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [30–1 Oct 1836] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 32 DAR/1/1/32) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-317 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Bibliography Buckland, William. 1836. Geology and mineralogy considered with reference to …
- … Volcanic islands and South America . William Buckland added a ‘Supplementary note’ about …
- … Buckland 1837 , p. 603). Hugh Cuming , famous for his collections of shells, visited the Galápagos Islands in 1829. He collected only a few plants. They were described, together with CD’s specimens, in Hooker 1846a and 1846b . John Obadiah Westwood . Thomas Bell did agree to describe CD’s specimens for Zoology and, after much delay, Reptiles was published (1842–3). William …
To Edward Cresy [20 July 1848]
Summary
Will speak to Richard Owen, Henry De la Beche, and Robert Hutton concerning appointment for EC.
Leaving for sea-side on Saturday.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Date: | [20 July 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 308 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1192 |
To W. D. Fox [28 September 1841]
Summary
Sends news of his house-hunting.
Envies WDF his discovery of Cheirotherium footprints.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [28 Sept 1841] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 62) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-609 |
To ? [February 1838 – February 1841?]
Summary
Asks correspondent if he would prefer the President’s signature alone or with those of other scientific men.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [Feb 1838 – Feb 1841?] |
| Classmark: | B. Altman (dealer) (3 October 1982) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13864 |
To Francis Trevelyan Buckland 26 January [1863]
Summary
Asks FB’s help in identifying an article in The Field about the fins of fishes growing again after being cut off, and inquiring whether he has heard of the re-growth of organs in the mammalia or birds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
| Date: | 26 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (23 June 1993, lot 146) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3948F |
To Leonard Horner [17 August – 7 September 1846]
Summary
Discusses proposed survey of Glen Roy. Mentions Glen Roy theories of Agassiz and William Buckland. Includes a memorandum calling for a careful survey of the parallel roads of Glen Roy. Mentions M. A. Bravais ["On the lines of ancient level of the sea in Finmark", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 1 (1845): 534].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Horner |
| Date: | [17 Aug – 7 Sept 1846] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.53); DAR 145: 136–7 (enclosure) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-993 |
To the President and Council of the Geological Society of London 24 March 1840
Summary
Regrets that state of his health forces him to resign as one of the Secretaries of the Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Geological Society of London |
| Date: | 24 Mar 1840 |
| Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/5/8 ) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-561 |
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 |
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