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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[19 Nov 1837]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 44 DAR/1/1/44)
Summary:

Asks JSH to look over the prospectus [for Zoology]. Has one more chapter of Journal of researches to finish.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[c. Dec 1837]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.14)
Summary:

Sends remaining proofs of RO’s description of Toxodon [Fossil Mammalia] and a revise of first part. Will Owen want a second revise? CD has made "plenty of remarks".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[early Dec 1837?]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 226
Summary:

Father says he sowed broom plants soon after house was built in 1798; these never came up. In 1835 the terrace was made; thereafter the broom sprang up.

Advice on a medicine CD is taking.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[11 Dec 1837]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 53)
Summary:

Writes following his visit to WDF.

Mentions fossils Fox has collected.

News of Albert Way.

Hensleigh Wedgwood has resigned his post because of scruples about taking oaths.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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
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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