From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Chambers
Date:
[28 Feb 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 265
Summary:
Asks to call on RC.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Chambers
To:
David Milne Home
Date:
7 Sept 1847
Source of text:
DAR 143: 5, DAR 146: 1
Summary:
Has letter from CD asking for copy of DM-H’s paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. RC still has suspicions and looks forward to further testing of Glen Roy mystery.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Chambers
Date:
11 Sept 1847
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:
Comments on David Milne’s paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. CD still believes in marine origin. Rejects barrier of detritus at mouth of Glen Roy. If roads were formed by lake, it must have been ice-lake.
Comments on evidence of glaciers and icebergs in North Wales. Thinks pass caused by tidal channel, not river. Suggests that RC make altitude measurements at various points.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Chambers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1847
Source of text:
DAR 161: 131
Summary:
Supposition that glaciers made Glen Roy is a dream. Has received three letters from CD on river terraces. Reports on trip to terraces at Belleville. Comparison with Glen Roy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Chambers
Date:
[14 Feb – 20 Mar 1848]
Source of text:
Watt Library, Greenock
Summary:
Thanks RC for information on hand-level; he has recommended it in his "Instructions" ["Geology", Collected papers 1: 227–50].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Chambers
Date:
[June 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 50: C1–C2
Summary:
Congratulates RC on his work on Scottish sea-margins [Ancient sea-margins (1848)].
Discusses Glen Roy; Milne staggered him in favour of the glacier view, but now his opinion has reverted.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Chambers
Date:
13 Apr [1861]
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (item 25007)
Summary:
Since his previous letter, has unexpectedly arranged to go to London next Tuesday.
Hopes to call on recipient.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Chambers
Date:
30 Apr [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 258
Summary:
Thanks RC for "Ice and water" [in RC’s Edinburgh papers (1861)].
Comments on problem of scientific accuracy.
Discusses views of Thomas Davidson on the genealogy of brachiopods.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
4 Dec 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/41)
Summary:
Asks for assistance investigating raised beaches on the river Tweed around Galashiels.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
19 Dec 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/42)
Summary:
Thanks for the observations WK has sent.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
29 May 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/43)
Summary:
Thanks for WK’s letter of the 27th. RC has examined the country between Melrose and Kelso.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
12 June 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/44)
Summary:
Thanks for information about Yarrow terraces. Does not think WK’s objections to the lake theory of Upper Tweeddale insurmountable.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
[21 June] 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/45)
Summary:
Requests the measurements of WK’s Eildon Terraces be sent to RC at the BAAS meeting at Oxford.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
24 June 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/46)
Summary:
Thanks for the measurements of WK’s Eildon Terraces, but would like the measurements of the beaches below No 9 more precisely.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
6 July 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/47)
Summary:
Thanks for the measurements of the intermediate Eildon terraces.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
1 Aug 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/49)
Summary:
Asks WK to send the new measurements of the Eildon terraces. RC has found terraces in Fife.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
20 May 1840
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/3)
Summary:
The bearer of the letter, Thomas Smibert, is a friend of RC and his brother, William Chambers. RC would like WK to show him the raised beaches.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
28 Sept 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/50)
Summary:
The Glenroy terraces match WK’s measurements of the terraces on the Tweed.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
16 Oct 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/51)
Summary:
Would like to spend the following Tuesday reviewing the Eildon terraces with WK.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
24 Oct 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/52)
Summary:
Wants WK to undertake a new survey of the hill.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond