To Gideon Algernon Mantell 23 May 1839
Summary
Writes, as Secretary of the Geological Society, to thank GAM for his presents, a slab of anthracite with plant impressions (from Philadelphia) and some fossils from Cornwall.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gideon Algernon Mantell |
| Date: | 23 May 1839 |
| Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, fMS-Papers-0083-465) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-511A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Cornwall’ to the Society on 22 May 1839 ( Transactions of …
From Benjamin Silliman Sr and Benjamin Silliman Jr 24 May 1839
Summary
Thanks for copies of the Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, with a request for items (listed) missing from their set.
Offer to supply, if they can, any copies missing from the Geological Society’s run of the American Journal of Science.
| Author: | Benjamin Silliman, Sr; Benjamin Silliman, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin; William John Hamilton |
| Date: | 24 May 1839 |
| Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/233) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-511F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … to 5, 7 & 8, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 29, 30 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, …
From John Grant Malcolmson 24 July 1839
Summary
Detailed evidence for and against geological elevation along coast of the Indian subcontinent, South Asia, and Arabia. Extensive references to geological literature about these areas.
Describes coral sand-dune and salt-marsh formation.
| Author: | John Grant Malcolmson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 July 1839 |
| Classmark: | DAR 39: 7–10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-528 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … New Philosophical Journal 22: 40–7. Notebook A. See …
To Alexander von Humboldt 1 November 1839
Summary
Gratified by AvH’s letter.
Sends data on temperature of the sea in the Galapagos, South Pacific, and the Abrolhos Islands.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander (Alexander) von Humboldt |
| Date: | 1 Nov 1839 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Nachl. Alexander von Humboldt, gr. Kasten 4, Nr. 22, Bl. 1–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-545 |
To W. H. Miller 22 [November 1839]
Summary
Asks if WHM would be interested in the meteorological observations of the Falkland Islands made by B. J. Sulivan on a recent survey. Such observations are rare and appear to CD to have many points of interest.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Hallowes Miller |
| Date: | 22 [Nov 1839] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-546 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Malcolmson, J. G. | (1) |
| Silliman, Benjamin, Jr | (1) |
| Silliman, Benjamin, Sr | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hamilton, W. J. | (1) |
| Humboldt, Alexander von | (1) |
| Mantell, G. A. | (1) |
| Miller, W. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Hamilton, W. J. | (1) |
| Humboldt, Alexander von | (1) |
| Malcolmson, J. G. | (1) |
| Mantell, G. A. | (1) |
