To W. D. Fox 7 July [1837]
Summary
Has finished the Journal; is readying it for the press.
Adds family news including Caroline’s forthcoming marriage to Josiah Wedgwood III.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 7 July [1837] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 52) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-364 |
To J. S. Henslow [12 or 13 July 1837]
Summary
Has been "cramming up learning to ornament my journal with".
Sends a list of questions on his botanical specimens. Needs answers for Journal of researches, which he expects to go to press in August.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [12 or 13 July 1837] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 37 DAR/1/1/37) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-366 |
To John Richardson [24 July 1837]
Summary
Questions about woods in cold, northern climates; about JR’s reference to frozen sandstone; about how far out from the shore the sea may become frozen.
His petition for assistance from the government is in statu quo; he is working at his Journal [of researches].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Richardson |
Date: | [24 July 1837] |
Classmark: | Scott Polar Research Institute (MS 1503/16/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-366F |
To Charles Lyell 30 July 1837
Summary
Galapagos land birds and reptiles.
No two naturalists agree on any fundamental idea [of species]. "Everything is arbitrary."
Has been with Richard Owen going over the S. American fossils.
Has worked out the non-relation between animals’ bulk and luxuriance of vegetation.
The horse once common on the Pampas. The mystery of the extinction of these animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 30 July 1837 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell Collection Coll-203/A1/69: 140–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-367 |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Richardson, John | (1) |