To Charles Lyell 9 August [1838]
Summary
Comments on receiving copy of Lyell’s Elements [of geology]. Much is new to CD, and he is copying out notes and references.
Criticises geological work of John Phillips.
Describes expedition to Glen Roy, about which he is writing a paper ["Parallel roads of Glen Roy" (1839), Collected papers 1: 87–137].
Enjoys the Athenaeum Club.
Criticises entomological work of F. W. Hope.
Asks Lyell to obtain for him a copy of barometric readings made at Leith.
Asks him to ascertain altitude of several Scottish lochs.
Comments on FitzRoy’s character.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 9 Aug [1838] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-424 |
To Charles Lyell [14] September [1838]
Summary
Comments on an article in Edinburgh Review [by David Brewster, 67 (1838): 271–308] on Comte’s Philosophie positive.
Discusses falsity of Élie de Beaumont’s views of contemporaneous parallel lines of elevation and subsidence.
Owen’s views of relationship of reptiles to birds.
On "question of species" CD has filled notebook after notebook with facts, "which begin to group themselves clearly under sub-laws".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [14] Sept [1838] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-428 |
To Charles Lyell [12 November 1838]
Summary
Announces his engagement to Emma Wedgwood.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [12 Nov 1838] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-432 |
To Thomas Spring Rice [before 7 July 1838]
Summary
Express their concern that the offer for sale to the British Museum, by G. A. Mantell and Thomas Hawkins, of two valuable collections, has been declined.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; William Buckland; Adam Sedgwick; John Phillips; William Whewell; Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Charles Stokes; William John Hamilton; Edward Stanley; Richard Owen; William Clift; Charles Babbage; John Bostock; Peter Mark Roget; John Taylor; Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2d Marquess of Northampton; William John Broderip |
| Addressee: | Thomas Spring Rice |
| Date: | [before 7 July 1838] |
| Classmark: | House of Commons papers; accounts and papers, 1837/38, XXXVI, 307 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-421F |
| letter | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Bostock, John | (1) |
| Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
| Buckland, William | (1) |
| Clift, William | (1) |
| Compton, S. J. A. | (1) |
| Hamilton, W. J. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Murchison, R. I. | (1) |
| Owen, Richard | (1) |
| Phillips, John | (1) |
| Roget, P. M. | (1) |
| Sedgwick, Adam | (1) |
| Stanley, Edward | (1) |
| Stokes, Charles | (1) |
| Taylor, John | (1) |
| Whewell, William | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (3) |
| Spring Rice, Thomas | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Lyell, Charles | |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Bostock, John | (1) |
| Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
| Buckland, William | (1) |
| Clift, William | (1) |
| Compton, S. J. A. | (1) |
| Hamilton, W. J. | (1) |
| Murchison, R. I. | (1) |
| Owen, Richard | (1) |
| Phillips, John | (1) |
| Roget, P. M. | (1) |
| Sedgwick, Adam | (1) |
| Spring Rice, Thomas | (1) |
| Stanley, Edward | (1) |
| Stokes, Charles | (1) |
| Taylor, John | (1) |
| Whewell, William | (1) |
