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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
[Mar 1841]
Source of text:
Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/134/47)
Summary:

Looks forward to the paper on CD’s edible fungus specimen from Tierra del Fuego [read 16 Mar 1841; Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 19 (1845): 37–43].

Sends a correction: Fagus betuloides, not F. antarctica, is the common tree of Tierra del Fuego.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[Mar 1841]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.27)
Summary:

Discusses the role of ice in determining the geological features of the Jura. Mentions view of Agassiz. Objects to idea of "a [sea of ice] carrying rocks". Notes Agassiz’s earlier view of "ice expanded in the line of the Great Swiss Valley". Comments on Pentlands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz
Date:
1 Mar [1841]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1419: 280)
Summary:

Has enjoyed reading LA’s book [Études sur les glaciers (1840)].

Hopes LA will pardon manner in which CD has alluded to his work on glaciers in his Journal of researches, of which he sends a copy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[9 Mar 1841]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.23)
Summary:

Defends his theory [in "Parallel roads of Glen Roy" (1839), Collected papers 1: 87–137] against the view that the "roads" were formed by glacial action.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[12 Mar 1841]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.25)
Summary:

Discusses at length Louis Agassiz’s book [Études sur les glaciers (1840)] and Agassiz’s explanation of moraines. Defends his own theory of the importance of floating ice. Relates glacier theory to his own interpretation of Glen Roy.

Mentions a paper he is writing on South American boulders and till [Collected papers 1: 145–63].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet
Date:
27 Mar 1841
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4585 paper 10688)
Summary:

The Smith, Elder & Co. account for the now published fifth number of the third part of the Zoology is presented.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project