To J. S. Henslow [1 August 1837]
Summary
Botanical queries for Journal of researches, which is about to go to press.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [1 Aug 1837] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 38 DAR/1/1/38) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-368 |
To William Shoberl 2 August [1837]
Summary
Asks WS to write to his friend to make his corrections [in CD’s MS of Journal of researches] in ink.
Capt. FitzRoy agrees with the propriety of beginning to print [CD’s volume separately] at once.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Shoberl |
| Date: | 2 Aug [1837] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-369 |
To William Lonsdale 3 August [1837]
Summary
Asks to withdraw abstract of his paper on coral formations ["Elevation and subsidence in the Pacific" (1838), Collected papers 1: 46–9].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Lonsdale |
| Date: | 3 Aug [1837] |
| Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/3/123) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-370 |
To the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Thomas Spring Rice 3 August 1837
Summary
With the encouragement of several scientific gentlemen and supported by the opinions of the Presidents of the three Learned Societies, CD ventures to request a grant of £1000 from Government to cover the cost of 150 engravings to illustrate results of his Beagle collections.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Spring Rice |
| Date: | 3 Aug 1837 |
| Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-370A |
To John Richardson [11 August 1837]
Summary
Chancellor of the Exchequer has ordered £1000 for the publication of the Zoology. Would like to meet JR to ask his advice on one or two points.
Thanks for his long account of the climate of North America.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Richardson |
| Date: | [11 Aug 1837] |
| Classmark: | Scott Polar Research Institute (MS 1503/16/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-370F |
From Richard Owen [7 August 1837]
Summary
Dissected beak of Rhynchops shows no extensive innervation. But beak may nevertheless be a sensitive organ of touch as CD suggests.
| Author: | Richard Owen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [7 Aug 1837] |
| Classmark: | Birds 144 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-371 |
To J. S. Henslow 16 August [1837]
Summary
Reports his successful interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer [Thomas Spring Rice] about a grant for publishing [Zoology]. Thanks JSH for help with this; "you have been the making of me from the first".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 16 Aug [1837] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 39 DAR/1/1/39) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-373 |
Minutes of the Board of the Treasury 25 August 1837
Summary
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and their Lordships after receiving numerous representations in support of Mr Darwin’s proposal concur in the opinion that Public Funds in aid of the Expenses should be granted as soon as he is ready to proceed in conformity with the enumerated conditions.
| Author: | Secretary of the Post Office |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Aug 1837 |
| Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-373A |
To W. D. Fox 28 August [1837]
Summary
Proof-sheets [of Journal of researches] are tumbling in. Mentions future plans for Zoology and geological works. Has £1000 from Government for illustrations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 28 Aug [1837] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-76) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-374 |
To Elizabeth Wedgwood [28 August 1837]
Summary
Regrets he cannot come to music meeting in Birmingham because he is very busy with the proofs of his book [Journal of researches]. A waste of life to spend a summer in ugly Marlborough Street.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
| Date: | [28 Aug 1837] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 228) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-375 |
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 |
From the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury 31 August 1837
Summary
The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury approve CD’s request for £1000 in aid of publication [of Zoology].
| Author: | Secretary of the Post Office |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Aug 1837 |
| Classmark: | Fossil Mammalia, pp. ii–iii |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-377 |
To A. S. Horner [9 August 1837]
Summary
Suggests coming to visit on Monday. Sends the Misses Horner a segment of wedding cake from Shrewsbury [marriage of Caroline Darwin to Josiah Wedgwood III].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Anne Susanna Lloyd; Anne Susanna Horner |
| Date: | [9 Aug 1837] |
| Classmark: | Library of Congress (Rare book and special collection division) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-372 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Secretary of the Post Office | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Owen, Richard | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
| Horner, A. S. | (1) |
| Lloyd, A. S. | (1) |
| Lonsdale, William | (1) |
| Richardson, John | (1) |
| Shoberl, William | (1) |
| Spring Rice, Thomas | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Elizabeth | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
| Secretary of the Post Office | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Horner, A. S. | (1) |
