From William Fullerton Lindsay-Carnegie to Charles Lyell [14 February 1838]
Summary
Impressed by CD’s theory [of earthworm action].
Author: | William Fullerton Lindsay-Carnegie |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [14 Feb 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-402 |
From Robert Bastard James to Charles Lyell [c. 10 March 1838]
Summary
Sends four samples of dust blown on board his ship from the coast of Africa, nearly 400 miles away, during four days in March 1838. Gives careful descriptions and relates the tests he made of it [see Collected papers 1: 200].
Author: | Robert Bastard James |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [c. 10 Mar 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-405 |
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 |
From Charles Lyell 6 and 8 September 1838
Summary
Would like to talk over Salisbury Craigs with CD.
CL’s father enthusiastic over Journal of researches.
Comments on Élie de Beaumont’s theory of mountain elevation.
Asks about parallel lines of upheaval and depression in the Pacific.
Glad CD likes Athenaeum Club.
Comments on methods of work.
Invites CD to visit Kinnordy.
Defends BAAS: "in this country no importance is attached to any body of men who do not make occasional demonstrations of their strength in public meetings".
With respect to Glen Roy, notes existence of deposits destitute of shells.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 and 8 Sept 1838 |
Classmark: | K. M. Lyell 1881 2: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-425 |
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 | (7) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Babbage, Charles | (1) |
Bostock, John | (1) |
Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Spring Rice, Thomas | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (7) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Babbage, Charles | (1) |
Bostock, John | (1) |
Broderip, W. J. | (1) |