To J. S. Henslow 18 [May 1837]
Summary
Plans to apply to Government for assistance with publishing Zoology.
Robert Brown has taken an interest in the fossil woods.
CD is at work on his journal. Has not begun his geology yet. Has seen much of Lyell.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 18 [May 1837] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 35 DAR/1/1/35) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-355 |
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 |
To John Lort Stokes [after 31 May 1837]
Summary
Asks JLS: "Are there masses of coral or beds of shells some yards above high water mark, on the coast fronting the barrier reef?" [In reference to JLS’s proposed exploration of Australian coasts and rivers.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lort Stokes |
| Date: | [after 31 May 1837] |
| Classmark: | Stokes 1846, 1: 331 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-356F |
To William Lonsdale [May? 1837]
Summary
Sends an abstract made by J. F. Royle of CD’s paper ["On certain areas of elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans"]. G. B. Greenough will have problems with the altered references in the coral island section.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Lonsdale |
| Date: | [May? 1837] |
| Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/3/169) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-383A |
To Caroline Darwin [19 May – 16 June 1837]
Summary
Sends a number of questions (to put to his father), mainly concerned with transmission of diseases, between Europeans and natives, "people packed together", etc.
Is investigating how to get Government support [for Zoology].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | [19 May – 16 June 1837] |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 52 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-360 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
| Lonsdale, William | (1) |
| Stokes, J. L. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
| Lonsdale, William | (1) |
| Stokes, J. L. | (1) |
