From Robert Chambers to David Milne 7 September 1847
Summary
Has letter from CD asking for copy of DM-H’s paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. RC still has suspicions and looks forward to further testing of Glen Roy mystery.
| Author: | Robert Chambers |
| Addressee: | David Milne Home |
| Date: | 7 Sept 1847 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 5, DAR 146: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1115 |
To David Milne 20 [September 1847]
Summary
Comments on paper by DM ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber", (1847) Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. "I am not in the least convinced about the Barriers … [but] I am very much staggered in favour of the ice-lake theory of Agassiz & [William] Buckland." Will "send a letter to the Scotsman, in which I give briefly my present impression".
Cites facts mentioned in South America possibly of use to DM.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | David Milne Home |
| Date: | 20 [Sept 1847] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (MS.3813) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1120 |
To David Milne 20 [February 1840]
Summary
About earthquakes: the shock of February 1835 in Chile; possible connection between shocks occurring coincidentally in different parts of the world, and between earthquakes and the weather; DM’s collection of accounts of earthquakes in Scotland.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | David Milne Home |
| Date: | 20 [Feb 1840] |
| Classmark: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Charles E. Mudie Collection, 1816–1897: Correspondence Post-1650 MS 0112) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-560 |
From David Milne 28 March 1840
Summary
Comments on CD’s paper on South American volcanoes [Trans. of the Geol. Soc. of London, 2d ser., pt 3, 5 (1840): 601–31]. Jets of steam or flame issuing from the side of a hill in Glen Almond.
| Author: | David Milne Home |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Mar 1840 |
| Classmark: | Milne Home 1891, pp. 69–72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-562F |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Chambers, Robert | (1) |
| Milne Home, David | (1) |
| Milne Home, David | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Milne Home, David | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Chambers, Robert | (1) |
