From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Sept 1831
Source of text:
DAR 204: 65
Summary:
Reports on his geological work in N. Wales since he and CD parted. Answers CD’s queries.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1831
Source of text:
DAR 204: 66
Summary:
Is glad of CD’s appointment and hopes it will be a source of happiness and honour.
Answers a query about books.
Suggests CD go to Geological Society, present himself, as AS’s friend, to William Lonsdale and study the Society’s collection.
Tells CD of his work in Wales; includes a diagram and explanations.
Ramsay’s death a grievous loss.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1859
Source of text:
DAR 98: B17–18
Summary:
Thanks CD for the Origin; AS has read the book "with more pain than pleasure". CD has deserted "the true method of induction" and many of his wide conclusions are "based upon assumptions which can neither be proved nor disproved". His "grand principle – natural selection" is "but a secondary consequence of supposed, or known, primary facts".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Geological Society of London
Date:
10 July 1837
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/49)
Summary:
Referee’s report on "Elevation on the coast of Chili" [(1838), Collected papers 1: 41–3] and paper by Alexander Caldcleugh on same subject. Recommends printing CD’s in Transactions and shortening Caldcleugh’s. [W. Lonsdale’s note shows CD’s paper withdrawn 15 Nov 1837, Caldcleugh’s ordered not printed 15 Nov 1837.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Geological Society of London
Date:
[after 15 May 1838]
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/48)
Summary:
Referee report on CD’s "Volcanic phenomena in South America" [Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Deductions incontrovertible, but theoretical remarks not clearly stated.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 129
Summary:
Congratulates CD on election of his son [George] as a Fellow of Trinity College.
Describes his ill health.
Invites CD to visit Cambridge.
[Letter dated November in error.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 128
Summary:
Writes of CD’s recent visit to Cambridge and the joy it gave him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
William Kemp
Date:
13 Oct 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/66)
Summary:
AS has come to Great Yarmouth to recuperate. If WK’s idea of the formation of the stone is correct he may find other examples.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
William Kemp
Date:
6 Feb [1849?]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/67)
Summary:
Apologises for late acknowledgment of a specimen and two letters received in October. The fragments are now in the Museum.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
21 Apr 1869
Source of text:
MSS 4 / 53, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
William Somerville
Date:
?? Mar 1832
Source of text:
MSS 4 / 49, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
William Somerville
Date:
?? Apr 1832
Source of text:
MSS 4 / 51, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
Text Online
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
6 November 1858
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
11 January 1849
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 281
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
23 December 1849
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 282
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
2 January 1850
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 283
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1 February 1850
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 284
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
6 June 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 285
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
18 November 1857
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 286
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
20 May 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 287
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project