To A. C. Ramsay 3 November 1878
Summary
Thanks for ACR’s Physical geology [5th ed. (1878)]; delighted with its success, proving there is a large body of men in England capable of appreciating sound geological science.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 3 Nov 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.9: 10 (EH 88205983) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11735 |
To Charles Lyell 21 February [1865]
Summary
Belated thanks to CL for copy of Elements. Praises CL’s work. Notes especially Atlantic continents, the Weald, the Purbeck beds, glacial action, and the formation of lake-basins.
Also mentions account of Heer’s work
and CD’s disagreement with J. D. Forbes.
Suggests that CL have Murray print a two-volume edition [of the Elements].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 21 Feb [1865] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.306) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4775 |
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- … see also Correspondence vol. 12, letter from A. C. Ramsay, 10 July 1864 , and Davies …
- … 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, [23 August 1864] ). In the letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 October [1864] , CD wrote: ‘I have now come round again, to Ramsay’s view for third or fourth time; but Lyell says when I read his discussion in the Elements I shall recant for fifth time’. There are in total 809 pages in C. …
From J. W. Judd 8 January 1882
Summary
Praises G. H. Darwin’s letter ["On the geological importance of the tides", Nature 25 (1882): 213–14] which criticises the use made of George Darwin’s views by Robert Ball ["A glimpse through the corridors of time", Nature 25 (1881): 79–82, 103–7]. JWJ argues from the fineness of Cambrian sediments against Ball’s intensification of geological forces. Massive Carboniferous river deltas also contradict Ball’s excessively high tides.
Author: | John Wesley Judd |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13604 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 May 1865
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 20–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4826 |
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- … vol. 10, letter to A. C. Ramsay, 5 September [1862] , Correspondence vol. 12, letter …
- … letters from J. D. Hooker, 12 April 1865 and [19 April 1865] ). The reference is to Robert Caspary’s paper on Cytisus adami , now known as + Laburnocytisus adamii ( Caspary 1865 ). See letter to J. D. Hooker, [1 May 1865] . Charles and Mary Elizabeth Lyell . Hooker refers to Ramsay 1865 , Andrew Crombie Ramsay’s response to Lyell’s discussion of the formation of lake-filled rock basins in the sixth edition of Elements of geology ( C. …
To Charles Pritchard 12 October [1866]
Summary
Responds to CP’s sermon. Corrects CP’s confusion of what CD said about eyes of the Articulata with human eye,
and questions applicability of CP’s mathematical arguments about length of geological time needed for evolution.
Agrees he was foolish about the Wealden, now struck from later editions [Origin, pp. 285–7].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Pritchard |
Date: | 12 Oct [1866] |
Classmark: | A. Pritchard comp. 1897, p. 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5240 |
From Daniel Mackintosh 1 December 1867
Summary
Seeks CD’s opinion and references on the causes of terraces in the south of England. He supports sea action as cause, either by currents or on coasts, and has been engaged in a controversy in the Geological Magazine [4 (1867): 571–5] with the subaerial school. Poulett Scrope thinks they are agricultural.
Author: | Daniel Mackintosh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Dec 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5703 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 October [1864]
Summary
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 May 1848
Summary
Confident of species theory as result of applying it to cirripede sexual systems.
CD’s opinion of E. Blyth. JDH should meet Blyth, inquire about domesticated varieties, study insular flora, solve coal-plant problem.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 May 1848 |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1174 |
To Charles Lyell 25 March [1865]
Summary
Mentions Miss Buckley’s information on roosting in trees [see Variation 1: 181 n.].
Refers to Duke [of Argyll] and his Lamarckian view of change.
Roosting habits and behaviour of pigeons in Egypt.
Criticises Herbert Spencer’s works.
Has finished Elements; comments on Laurentian stages.
Remarks on his health
and forthcoming work [Variation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 25 Mar [1865] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.307) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4794 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 May 1865]
Summary
All overworked at Kew.
Burchell collections enormous.
Lyell has sent MS of Principles p. 111 on changes of temperature. JDH thinks Lyell blunders and is out of his depth.
Charmed with E. B. Tylor’s book on man [Early history of mankind (1865)],
disappointed in Lubbock’s [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 May 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 22–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4836 |
From Joseph Beete Jukes 10 August 1864
Summary
CD’s support in JBJ’s controversy with Hugh Falconer is welcome. R. I. Murchison supports Falconer, and Lyell does not support their side strongly enough. Falconer and Jukes remain friends in private.
Author: | Joseph Beete Jukes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Aug 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4587 |
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- … letters from J. D. Hooker, 9 [March] 1864 and n. 14, and 29 March 1864 ; Reader , 27 February 1864, pp. 268–9, 5 March 1864, pp. 301–3, 2 April 1864, pp. 432–3; and Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society 8 (1864): 38–42). CD had largely supported Ramsay’s theory (see letter to A. C. Ramsay, 12 …
To Charles Lyell 8 March [1866]
Summary
Gives details of enclosed MS on cool period. Mentions Hooker’s opposed "axis of the earth" view. Causes of glacial period are beyond CD; "cannot believe change in land and water being more than a subsidiary agent".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 8 Mar [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.316) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5028 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Judd, J. W. | (1) |
Jukes, J. B. | (1) |
Mackintosh, Daniel | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Lyell, Charles | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Pritchard, Charles | (1) |
Ramsay, A. C. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Lyell, Charles | (3) |
Judd, J. W. | (1) |
Jukes, J. B. | (1) |