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 John Russell [10 March 1847]
Summary
Memorial presented by members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and other scientific societies, submitting that natural history is inadequately provided for by the present constitution of the Board of Trustees of the British Museum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Russell, 1st Earl Russell |
| Date: | [10 Mar 1847] |
| Classmark: | House of Commons Parliamentary Papers: 1847 XXXIV.253–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1070F |
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 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 |
| letter | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Horner, M. E. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Lyell, M. E. | (1) |
| Milne Home, David | (1) |
| Russell, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Horner, M. E. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Lyell, M. E. | (1) |
| Milne Home, David | (1) |
