To Charles Lyell [19 December 1837]
Summary
Responds to Lyell’s query [missing] about northern and southern limits of coral islands of the Pacific. Warns that coral islands are much more thinly distributed than people realise and cites examples. Comments on views of Matthew Flinders. Reading work of É[lie] de B[eaumont]. Notes difficulty of setting an east-west boundary to coral islands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [19 Dec 1837] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-394 |
From Charles Lyell 13 February 1837
Summary
"I could think of nothing for days after your lesson on coral reefs, but of the top of submerged continents. It is all true, but do not flatter youself that you will be believed, till you are growing bald, like me, with hard work & vexation at the incredulity in the world."
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Feb 1837 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell Collection Coll-203/B9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-343 |
From Charles Lyell 29 August and 5 September 1837
Summary
Syenitic granite from Norway carried as far as Osnabruck.
Has met warm reception in Germany.
Leopold von Buch mistaken in believing that granite overlies transition rock in Norway. Granite sends veins into transition and gneiss.
Has been examining fossil shells of Crag with Heinrich Beck. Beck admits some shells are of species still living.
CL still believes Eocene, Miocene, and Pliocene are satisfactory divisions of Tertiary epoch.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Aug and 5 Sept 1837 |
Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881 2: 20–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-376 |
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- … Lyell, Charles Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Charles Lyell 29 August and 5 September 1837 …
- … Philosophical Journal 22: 110–16. Lyell, Charles. 1835. On the proofs of a gradual rising …
- … of the Royal Society of London , pp. 1–38. Lyell, Charles. 1836. Ueber die Beweise eines …
- … K. M. Lyell ed. 1881 2: 20–3 Charles Lyell, 1st baronet unstated 29 Aug 1837 5 Sept 1837 …
- … 116. Wilson, Leonard Gilchrist. 1972. Charles Lyell. The years to 1841: the revolution in …
- … as founded on fossil shells. Believe me ever most truly yours, | Charles Lyell. …
To Charles Lyell 30 July 1837
Summary
Galapagos land birds and reptiles.
No two naturalists agree on any fundamental idea [of species]. "Everything is arbitrary."
Has been with Richard Owen going over the S. American fossils.
Has worked out the non-relation between animals’ bulk and luxuriance of vegetation.
The horse once common on the Pampas. The mystery of the extinction of these animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 30 July 1837 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell Collection Coll-203/A1/69: 140–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-367 |
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- … Darwin, C. R. Lyell, Charles …
- … To Charles Lyell 30 July 1837 …
- … London, Gt Marlborough St, 36 30 July 1837 Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … Rudwick, Martin John Spencer. 1978. Charles Lyell’s dream of a statistical palaeontology. …
- … 44. Wilson, Leonard Gilchrist. 1972. Charles Lyell. The years to 1841: the revolution in …
- … for Research Collections (Lyell Collection Coll-203/A1/69: 140–2) Charles Robert Darwin …
To Charles Babbage [June – September 1837]
Summary
At Lyell’s request sends his copy of Whewell’s History of inductive sciences [1837] to CB.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Babbage |
Date: | [June – Sept 1837] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 37190: 322) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-358 |
To Caroline Darwin 27 February 1837
Summary
Has just given a paper [on "Sand tubes"] at Cambridge Philosophical Society and exhibited some specimens. It went well, with Whewell and Sedgwick taking an active part.
Herschel thinks 6000–odd years since the creation not nearly long enough to explain the separations from a single stock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Date: | 27 Feb 1837 |
Classmark: | DAR 154: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-346 |
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- … Two letters from John Herschel to Charles Lyell, 1836–1837. Proceedings of the American …
- … Wilson, Leonard Gilchrist. 1972. Charles Lyell. The years to 1841: the revolution in …
- … chronology were expressed in a letter to Charles Lyell of 20 February 1836 : ‘when we see …
- … Lyell about his preliminary findings in a letter of 23 January 1837 ( Wilson 1972 , pp. 436–7). For an account of the brilliant company at one of Charles …
From the Misses Horner [17 March 1837 – 28 December 1838]
Summary
“The Botanists” and “The learned Linguists” give thanks for book and assistance.
Author: | Anne Susanna (Susan) Horner; Leonora Horner; Leonora Pertz; Joanna Baillie Horner; Frances Joanna Horner; Frances Joanna Bunbury; Katharine Murray Horner; Katharine Murray Lyell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17 Mar 1837 – 28 Dec 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 1a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-350 |
To J. S. Henslow [28 May 1837]
Summary
CD to read paper on formation of coral islands at Geological Society. Lyell seems prepared to give up [his view].
Publication of the Narrative is now definite. Feels he should have published journal after the geology and zoology of the voyage.
Robert Brown, as well as JSH, is interested in edible fungi from Tierra del Fuego.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [28 May 1837] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 36 DAR/1/1/36) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-356 |
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- … 1881. Life, letters and journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart. 2 vols. London: John Murray. …
- … 1837 ( Collected papers 1: 46–9). See Charles Lyell’s letter to J. F. W. Herschel, 24 May …
- … Charles Darwin. Edited by Paul H. Barrett. 2 vols. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1977. Lyell, …
To Richard Owen [15 December 1837 – 9 June 1838]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | [15 Dec 1837 – 9 June 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-418F |
From Caroline Darwin [21 February 1837]
Summary
Interested in Lyell’s address [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1833–8): 479–523]. Asks what the points are on which CD and Lyell are fully agreed.
Inquires about the paper FitzRoy and CD wrote on missionaries ["Moral state of Tahiti" (1836), Collected papers 1: 19–38].
News of family.
Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21 Feb 1837] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 141 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-345 |
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- … Lyell & all the modern Geologists disbelieved, or thought we did not understand rightly, the chronology of the Old Testament—so I do not see how what Sir J Herschell says is new. — I should have liked extremely to have seen the letter. — Do you know whether yours & Cap t Fitzroys paper on The Missionaries has ever been sent to England, & what is it called in order to get it? ever my dear Charles …
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Lyell, Charles | (2) |
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Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
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Lyell, Charles | (2) |
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Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
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Lyell, Charles | (4) |
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Wedgwood, Caroline | (2) |
Babbage, Charles | (1) |
Darwin in Conversation exhibition
Summary
Meet Charles Darwin as you have never met him before. Come to our exhibition at Cambridge University Library, running from 9 July to 3 December 2022, and discover a fascinating series of interwoven conversations with Darwin's many hundreds of…
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- … 9 July – 3 December 2022 Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University …