From:
William Lonsdale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 June 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 182
Summary:
Acknowledges Journal of researches.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June [1839]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 147
Summary:
Robert Brown has mistreated Capt. P. P. King by holding back for nine years the plants collected on King’s voyage of the Adventure and Beagle.
Contributor:
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From:
William Herbert, dean of Manchester
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 27 June 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 67
Summary:
Rejects necessity of outbreeding and any general law of reversion.
Describes further experiments with Hippeastrum showing greater fertility with foreign pollen than with individual’s own pollen or with pollen from another individual of same species.
Does not believe CD’s questions about reversion can be answered in present state of knowledge.
Contributor:
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From:
William Yarrell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 July 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 185
Summary:
Acknowledges Journal of researches and in return sends the first volume of his History of British birds [1839–43].
Contributor:
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From:
John Grant Malcolmson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1839
Source of text:
DAR 39: 7–10
Summary:
Detailed evidence for and against geological elevation along coast of the Indian subcontinent, South Asia, and Arabia. Extensive references to geological literature about these areas.
Describes coral sand-dune and salt-marsh formation.
Contributor:
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From:
Jean-Baptiste-Armand-Louis-Léonce (Léonce) Elie de Beaumont
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 July 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 177
Summary:
Acknowledges receipt of CD’s gift of the Journal of researches. Praises CD’s "ingenious" views.
Contributor:
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From:
Carl Friedrich Alexander Hartmann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Aug 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 179
Summary:
Thanks CD for his Journal of researches, "one of the best scientific travelworks of this time", which CFAH intends to translate into German.
Contributor:
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From:
John Grant Malcolmson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Aug 1839
Source of text:
DAR 39: 11
Summary:
Observations on the geology of Arabia.
Contributor:
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From:
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander (Alexander) von Humboldt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 180
Summary:
Praises CD’s Journal of researches and comments on some of CD’s observations and conclusions. Considers volcanic activity and its effect on past climate and changes in climate over time. Discusses glacial phenomena. Believes the climate of the coast of Peru is modified by cold sea-currents.
Contributor:
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From:
John Grant Malcolmson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1839
Source of text:
DAR 39: 12–14
Summary:
Sends notes on soundings made on coral banks in the China Sea.
His recent geological observations.
Finds a difficulty with CD’s erratic block theory.
Contributor:
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From:
John Grant Malcolmson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Nov 1839
Source of text:
DAR 39: 15–17
Summary:
Sends specimens of coralline with vermiform holes.
J. Allan’s observations of Aldabra and the Cormoros [see Coral reefs, p. 186] and news of his experiments on the growth of coral.
Contributor:
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From:
John Grant Malcolmson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 7 Oct 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 50: C24–5
Summary:
Comments on the discussion of erratic blocks in Journal of researches [pp. 619, 621–2].
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