From Charles Lyell 24 April 1874
Summary
Will subscribe £25 towards F. A. Dohrn’s Zoological Station at Naples.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Lyell correspondence Mss.B.L981) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9426F |
From Charles Lyell 1 September 1874
Summary
Comments on Tyndall’s [Presidential] Address at Belfast meeting [of BAAS] and praise of CD’s work there. Mentions criticism of Belfast clergy.
CL saw some crustacean footprints while in Ireland.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Sept 1874 |
| Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 445-6; The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9619 |
From Charles Lyell 25 September 1874
Summary
Notes recent confirmation of CD’s views on subsidence in [island of] St Jago.
Describes Carboniferous strata discovered on Island of Mull by J. W. Judd. Contained evidence of Miocene sinking of volcanoes.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Sept 1874 |
| Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 457 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9658 |
To Charles Lyell [13 January 1874]
Summary
The coral-reef book has been invaluable [J. D. Dana, Corals and coral islands (1872); used by CD in Coral reefs, 2d ed. (1874)].
Thanks for Saturday Review.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [13 Jan 1874] |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B1/ Lyell Temp Box 3.1 Folder_6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9240 |
To Charles Lyell 31 May [1874]
Summary
Comments on CL’s planned bequest to science. CD would do the same if he had fewer sons.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 31 May [1874] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.442) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9477 |
To Charles Lyell 3 September [1874]
Summary
Discusses belief in immortality and a personal God.
Describes his holiday in Southampton.
Comments on papers of John Wesley Judd.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 3 Sept [1874] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.448) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9621 |
To Charles Lyell 23 September 1874
Summary
Discusses paper on volcanoes by J. W. Judd.
Comments on volcanoes of the S. American Cordillera.
Mentions paper by T. F. Jamieson ["Glacial period in N. Britain", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 30 (1874): 317–18].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 23 Sept 1874 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.450) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9654 |
To John Lubbock, P. L. Sclater, Charles Lyell, W. B. Carpenter, and Michael Foster [7 April 1874]
Summary
Circular requesting recipients to sign an enclosed [missing] statement [relating to appeal for Naples Zoological Station] if they approve of it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury; Philip Lutley Sclater; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; William Benjamin Carpenter; Michael Foster |
| Date: | [7 Apr 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C52–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9384 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Lyell, Charles | (3) |
| Lyell, Charles | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
| Foster, Michael | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Lyell, Charles | |
| Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
| Foster, Michael | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Sclater, P. L. | (1) |
