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DCP-LETT-496

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whewell
Date:
16 Feb [1839]
Source of text:
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 4)
Summary:

Asks WW to alter, before printing, the passages in WW’s Presidential Address to the Geological Society [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1839): 93] which pointedly allude to the delay in publication of CD’s Beagle journal; they might annoy FitzRoy, who, as Captain, has a right to first use of the papers of all officers on board.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-496F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Lonsdale
Date:
[27 Apr 1839 or earlier]
Source of text:
University Archives (dealers) (3 March 2021, lot 73)
Summary:

Returns Whewell’s presidential address to the Geological Society of London (Whewell 1839), and suggests that ‘rules’ be changed to ‘customs’.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-497

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Lonsdale
Date:
[8 Mar 1839]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Has finished earthquake paper ["Volcanic phenomena in South America" (1840), Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Gives instructions about a woodcut. There should be an outline map.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-499

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Geographical Society
Date:
[19 Mar 1839]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Formal request for F. Lutké’s charts of the Caroline Islands and any charts by Beechey of the Lagoon Islands [Ellice Islands] that the Society might possess.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-501

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Shoberl; Henry Colburn
Date:
[21 Mar 1839]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.18)
Summary:

Captain FitzRoy has no objection to appending advertisement of other works connected with Beagle voyage to CD’s volume [Journal of researches].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-502

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Herbert, dean of Manchester
Date:
[c. 1 Apr 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 62
Summary:

Questions on breeding of plants: variation in established versus new varieties; predominance of wild species and old varieties when crossed with newer forms; predominance of males versus females; correlations between ease of hybridisation and tendency to vary and undergo cultivation; reversion; correlations between hybridisation and geographic distribution.

In WH’s Amaryllidaceae [1837], does he intend to say crossing is inimical to fertility?

[Sent via J. S. Henslow; note to amanuensis Syms Covington.]

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DCP-LETT-506

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whewell
Date:
16 Apr [1839]
Source of text:
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 6)
Summary:

Thanks WW for wedding gift.

Expresses admiration for his History of the inductive sciences [1837].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-507

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Société géologique de France
Date:
25 Apr 1839
Source of text:
Bibliothèque municipale de Versailles (Autographe Darwin)
Summary:

Acknowledges, on behalf of the Geological Society, receipt of the Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, vol. 9, feuilles 29, 34.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-508

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Gray
Date:
[June–Oct 1839]
Source of text:
The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 235–6)
Summary:

Asks for some Anthus skins to examine [for Birds]. Fears they may turn out to be all one species. Sends details from his notes on Falkland Island specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-511

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
American Philosophical Society.
Date:
23 May 1839
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.16)
Summary:

As Secretary of the Geological Society of London, CD formally expresses thanks for the American Philosophical Society’s Proceedings, vol. 1, no. 6.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-511A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gideon Algernon Mantell
Date:
23 May 1839
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, fMS-Papers-0083-465)
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.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-512A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet
Date:
27 May 1839
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824)
Summary:

Presents the account of Smith, Elder & Co. for the now published second and third numbers of the first part of the Zoology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-513

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Sharp Macleay
Date:
29 May 1839
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Introduces Syms Covington and recommends him for employment in Australia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-514

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
29 May 1839
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 2009/108: 6)
Summary:

A letter of reference for Syms Covington.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-515

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
Date:
31 May [1839]
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 295/1 pp.1–3)
Summary:

CD’s servant [Syms Covington] will work his passage to Australia.

Returns a curious stone, of which he hopes to publish an account. [See Volcanic islands, p. 38.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-517

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
6 June [1839]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection
Summary:

CD has heard from the Treasury; they will pay the account [for the Zoology] as soon as Smith, Elder & Co. like.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-523

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Herbert, dean of Manchester
Date:
26 June 1839
Source of text:
DAR 185: 65–6
Summary:

CD is led to believe there are no true permanently inbreeding, sexually reproducing beings. Thanks for replies to breeding questions.

Asks for clarification of Hippeastrum crosses: is selfing or crossing with individual of same species intended and was increased fertility due to constitution of foreign parent or due to the pollen coming from another plant? Has WH known any hybrid or mongrel to revert or to vary in a manner unlikely to be effect of soil?

Sends Journal of researches.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-524F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Green
Date:
[after 30 June 1839]
Source of text:
Bonhams, New York (dealers) (21 September 2015)
Summary:

Returns proof sheets and requests revises. Gives his opinion of Mr Walkers’s work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-525A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet
Date:
13 July 1839
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824)
Summary:

Transmits, as on former occasions, the Smith, Elder & Co. account for the now published third number of the third part of the Zoology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-527

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
15 July [1839]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Discusses details of LJ’s part of Zoology [Fish].

CD is working hard on Coral reefs.

Contributor:
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