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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Delighted that Brongniart thinks Sigillaria aquatic, and that E. W. Binney thinks coal is a sort of submarine peat. Thinks coal-plants will prove to be aquatic, though JDH will sneer at this.
Has acquired a new microscope.
CD defends his position on submarine coal formation and coal-plants against JDH’s strong objections.
Thinks JDH should arrange his facts against the aquatic formation of coal.
CD would like to call on JDH.
Will call on JDH on Thursday, if convenient.
Has heard JDH does not return until tomorrow, so will not be able to see him at Kew but hopes to do so at Oxford meeting of BAAS.
Bunbury and Falconer strongly against idea of coal being submarine.
Encloses quasi-hybrid Laburnum.
Suggests a new view of symmetry of flowers.
Will discuss coal and species sketch at Oxford [BAAS meeting (1847)].
Gives further details on peculiar Laburnum.
Can JDH lend him a full treatise on grafting?
Encloses another specimen of the "bilateral" Laburnum flower.
CD will take a room in Magdalen Hall at Oxford; thanks JDH’s aunt for trouble.
JDH’s books have arrived.
Glad to hear of new plants from Van Diemen’s Land and New Zealand.
Congratulations on JDH’s engagement.
Sorry JDH is so determined on an expedition.
Cannot come to Hitcham as he is anticipating a visit from Bernhard Studer of Bern.
Wants to go over remainder of species sketch when he sees JDH.
Urges JDH to go to Scotland.
Pleased JDH works on geographical distribution of Van Diemen’s Land flora.
Planning a visit to Kew. Wishes to meet H. C. Watson.
Will visit JDH on Friday. Coming by phaeton to save five changes of conveyance.
David Milne’s attack on his Glen Roy paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber", (1847) Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418] made CD horribly sick.
Wants Thomas Thomson to establish geographical range of erratic boulders in India.
Mystified by the origin of coal-plants.
Milne’s Glen Roy theory is absurd but, oddly, it has staggered CD in favour of Agassiz’s ice-lake theory.
Difficulty of scheduling visit before JDH departs on Himalayan expedition.
On scheduling farewell meeting.
