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DCP-LETT-394

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[19 Dec 1837]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.9)
Summary:

Responds to Lyell’s query [missing] about northern and southern limits of coral islands of the Pacific. Warns that coral islands are much more thinly distributed than people realise and cites examples. Comments on views of Matthew Flinders. Reading work of É[lie] de B[eaumont]. Notes difficulty of setting an east-west boundary to coral islands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-395

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
28 [Dec 1837]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/209)
Summary:

Sends perfect revise of "Toxodon" [Fossil Mammalia] which he has read and marked.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-396

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[28 Dec 1837]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

CD sorry RO is not well and fears work on Macrauchenia may have contributed. Thinks new name very good. Other details concerning publication [of Zoology, pt 1, no. 1].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-418F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[15 Dec 1837 – 9 June 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 115
Summary:

Sends RO a box of fossils from William Darwin Fox, from the Isle of Wight.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-346

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
27 Feb 1837
Source of text:
DAR 154: 51
Summary:

Has just given a paper [on "Sand tubes"] at Cambridge Philosophical Society and exhibited some specimens. It went well, with Whewell and Sedgwick taking an active part.

Herschel thinks 6000–odd years since the creation not nearly long enough to explain the separations from a single stock.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-354

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
10 Apr [1837]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Discusses possibility of publishing the zoology of the voyage of the Beagle. Will need help from more able naturalists. Would LJ object to describing the fishes for such a work rather than for scientific journals? Is working on his Beagle journal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-360

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
[19 May – 16 June 1837]
Source of text:
DAR 154: 52
Summary:

Sends a number of questions (to put to his father), mainly concerned with transmission of diseases, between Europeans and natives, "people packed together", etc.

Is investigating how to get Government support [for Zoology].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-372

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anne Susanna Lloyd; Anne Susanna Horner
Date:
[9 Aug 1837]
Source of text:
Library of Congress (Rare book and special collection division)
Summary:

Suggests coming to visit on Monday. Sends the Misses Horner a segment of wedding cake from Shrewsbury [marriage of Caroline Darwin to Josiah Wedgwood III].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-391

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
3 Dec [1837]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

CD is glad LJ is describing the fishes [for Zoology]; would not have permitted J. E. Gray to describe them. New species will be lithographed.

Suggests books; offers coloured drawings made by artist on Beagle voyage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-392

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
[4 Dec 1837]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Is sorry the fish [for Zoology] give LJ so much trouble. Urges him not to give up. Describes publication plan of Zoology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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