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DCP-LETT-1122

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Elizabeth Horner; Mary Elizabeth Lyell
Date:
[4 Oct 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.63)
Summary:

Thanks Mrs Lyell for barnacle specimens.

Mentions Agassiz’s classification of saurians.

Discusses letter from Chambers on "roads" in Scottish glens; views of Agassiz and Buckland on the glens.

Is reading Hugh Miller [First impressions of England and its people (1847)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11313

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter
Date:
[1842–82?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.536)
Summary:

Orders pot of soft spermaceti ointment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-614

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
[13? Jan 1842]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD is pleased with LJ’s introduction [to Fish]. He rejoices that he persuaded LJ to undertake this work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-628

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Anne Johnes; Mary Anne Herbert
Date:
[5 May 1842]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Acknowledges Mrs H’s disappointing answer to his quest for a house in the country. Five miles from a railway station is "the length of my tether".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-993

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
[17 Aug – 7 Sept 1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.53); DAR 145: 136–7 (enclosure)
Summary:

Discusses proposed survey of Glen Roy. Mentions Glen Roy theories of Agassiz and William Buckland. Includes a memorandum calling for a careful survey of the parallel roads of Glen Roy. Mentions M. A. Bravais ["On the lines of ancient level of the sea in Finmark", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 1 (1845): 534].

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