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To R. I. Murchison   24 [June 1858]

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Extremely sorry for trouble he has given about his signature.

One child dangerously ill with diphtheria, another with much fever.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet
Date:  24 [June 1858]
Classmark:  Wellcome Collection (MS.5220/149)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2292

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  • … Dated by the relationship to the letter to R.  I. Murchison, 19 June [1858] , and by CD’s …
  • R.  I. Murchison, 19 June [1858] ). The petition is transcribed in Appendix VI. See the letters

To J. D. Hooker   30 March [1859]

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Hopes Murray will publish after seeing MS [of Origin].

Demurs at JDH’s saying that CD changes climate to account for migration of bugs, flies, etc. "We do nothing of the sort; for we rest on scored rocks, old moraines, arctic shells, and mammifers." Has given up the Lyellian doctrine as insufficient to explain all changes in climate; CD has no theory about the cause of the cold.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  30 Mar [1859]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 94
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2440

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To J. D. Hooker   24–5 November [1858]

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Praises JDH’s Australian introduction.

Disputes JDH’s emphasis on SE. and SW. Australian flora.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  24–5 Nov [1858]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 255
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2371

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  • … Ever yours | C.  Darwin I have had long letter from Sir R.  Murchison about the Memorial; …
  • … in the British Museum (see letters to R.  I. Murchison, 19 June [1858] and 24 [June …

To J. D. Hooker   [23 August 1864]

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First draft of climbing plants paper is completed.

Nepenthes is a true climber.

Scott has visited Down.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [23 Aug 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 245
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4597

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  • … 18 August 1864  and n.  2, and letter from R.  I.  Murchison, 19 August 1864 . Beer 1863 . …

From Edward Blyth   13 [December] 1866

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Gives CD reference to case of the saiga, an antelope, fearless of man.

Reports observations by New Zealander who has seen heaps of pebbles presumably voided by Dinornis.

Author:  Edward Blyth
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 [Dec] 1866
Classmark:  DAR 160: 207
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4975

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  • … occurs in a letter from Commander Alexey Butakoff to Sir R.  I.  Murchison, published in …

To J. D. Hooker   22 October [1864]

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To Lyell’s chagrin, CD has come round again to A. C. Ramsay’s glacial theory.

On primrose and cowslip, CD maintains they are good species, notwithstanding Scott’s work.

CD defines species by power of remaining constant for a good long time and showing appreciable amount of difference from close species.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  22 Oct [1864]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 252
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4642

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To G. A. Mantell   13 May [1843]

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Capt. FitzRoy has read GAM’s letter to CD regarding an appointment for GAM’s son and is disposed to help, but has resolved to make no appointments until he arrives in New Zealand [as Governor].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Gideon Algernon Mantell
Date:  13 May [1843]
Classmark:  Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-487 p.41)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-676

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  • … your letter by (together with a very kind one on the same subject from M r Murchison) & I

To Andrew Murray   5 May [1860]

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Thanks for AM’s kindness.

CD did not understand him about "prepotency".

With respect to cave animals CD believes that on reflection AM will admit "that on creation doctrine, there has been surprising diversity for such similar habitation".

Has heard from A. von Keyserling who "makes no difficulty about imperfection of Geological Record".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray
Date:  5 May [1860]
Classmark:  R. D. Pyrah (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2784

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  • … Andreevich Keyserling. See letters to R.  I.  Murchison, 1 May [1860] , and to Charles …

To Henry Walter Bates   18 December [1866]

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Asks for a letter on the tameness of deer, written by Commander A. Boutakoff to R. I. Murchison and printed in the Journal [J. R. Geogr. Soc. 23 (1853): 93–101].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Henry Walter Bates
Date:  18 Dec [1866]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5312

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  • … a letter on the tameness of deer, written by Commander A. Boutakoff to R. I. Murchison and …

To Charles Lyell   [5 and 7 October 1842]

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Discusses growth of various species of coral. Explains significance of dead reefs.

Describes meeting of the Council of the Geological Society; the controversy involving Edward Charlesworth.

Mentions conversations with William Lonsdale about Lonsdale’s work on corals and the financial support for his work.

Murchison’s views on glaciation in Wales.

Agassiz’s observations at Glen Roy.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  5 and 7 Oct 1842
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.28)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-649

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  • … n.  4. See letter to W.  H. Fitton, 23 June 1842 . For R.  I. Murchison’s disbelief in …

To T. H. Huxley   23 October [1858]

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CD’s reasons for not signing the memorial requesting removal of natural history exhibits from British Museum. Less sure about moving botanical specimens to Kew. His notion of museum organisation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  23 Oct [1858]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 243)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2347

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  • … been circulated in June 1858 (see letters to R.  I. Murchison, 19 June [1858] and 24 [June …

From Francis Galton   22 September 1875

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Thinks CD’s case of twins with crooked fingers may be one from his twin study.

Author:  Francis Galton
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Sept 1875
Classmark:  DAR 105: A80–1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10163

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  • I have been delighting in your Insectivorous plants Extract from a private letter to me, written by D r Finlay Murchison. ( …

To Charles Lyell   4 May [1860]

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Is sending CL an arrow-head. Says John Lubbock tells of vast numbers of flint tools in peat in France. Urges CL to conduct further research on the subject.

Comments on paper by J. S. Newberry concerning palaeozoic deposits in America [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 29 (1860): 208–18]

and on A. von Keyserling’s view of species change.

Mentions J. W. Salter’s chart arranging Spirifer.

Comments on Andrew Murray’s paper on the Origin ["On Mr Darwin’s theory of the origin of species", Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh 4 (1860): 274–91].

A Manchester newspaper article says CD has proved "might is right".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  4 May [1860]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.210)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2782

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  • … has not been found, but see the letter to R.  I.  Murchison, 1 May [1860] . John William …

From W. C. Redfield    May 1841

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Is sending through John Blunt a copy of the last geological report of the state of New York along with a short paper on the tornado that passed through the state of New Jersey in June 1835.

Author:  William C. Redfield
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  May 1841
Classmark:  Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (William C. Redfield’s outbound letter book 1835–41 (z117 00151 2) p. 239)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-598A

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  • Murchison had published his Silurian system in 1839 ( R. I.  Murchison 1839 ). Redfield 1841 . Redfield sent CD a copy of an earlier work on whirlwinds ( Redfield 1839 ), in which CD had been much interested (see Correspondence vol.  2, letter

To the Chancellor of the Exchequer   18 November 1858

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CD and eight zoologists and botanists publish a memorial on "the arrangements by which National Collections in Natural History can be best adapted to the advancement of science and its general diffusion among the Public".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Chancellor of the Exchequer
Date:  18 Nov 1858
Classmark:  Parliamentary Accounts and Papers, Finance; banking; revenue, &c., Session 3 December 1857–2 August 1858, 33: 499–503; Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 27 November 1858, p. 861
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2365

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  • … s views on the memorial, see the letters to R. I. Murchison, 19 June [1858] and 24 [June …

From J. D. Hooker   5 September 1864

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R. I. Murchison’s address [see 4595] smashes Ramsay’s glacial theory.

JDH defends his view that CD should not answer Kölliker.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 Sept 1864
Classmark:  DAR 101: 238–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4608

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  • R.  I.  Murchison, 19 August 1864 . The reference is to Hugh Falconer . On Falconer’s opposition to Ramsay’s theory, see the letter

From A. B. Buckley   12 February 1876

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Thanks CD for letter complimenting her book. Responds to his comments on botany and geology in book.

Author:  Arabella Burton Buckley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Feb 1876
Classmark:  DAR 160: 365
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10389

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  • r . Darwin, Thank you so much for your kind appreciative letter. It has given me very great pleasure for I never expected that you would even read such a simple little book as mine, much less read it through & take the trouble to comment upon it. I have been thinking that I ought to have said something of Murchison & …