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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