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DCP-LETT-429A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
3 Nov 1838
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 2031 A. Gift of H. W. Lende Jr)
Summary:

Relates plan for an appendix to his Journal of researches which will include facts of species of birds’ being different in different islands of the Galápagos and also of the lizards and tortoises on the islands. Asks JSH whether he can supply parallels in the plant life.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-430

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Frederick William Herschel, 1st baronet
Date:
2 [Nov 1838]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (HS6: 10)
Summary:

Requests information for W. S. Macleay on JFWH’s method of catching pelagic animals while ship is under way.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-432

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[12 Nov 1838]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.12)
Summary:

Announces his engagement to Emma Wedgwood.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-435

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 Nov 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 164
Summary:

Sends congratulations on CD’s engagement. "It is a marriage which will give almost as much pleasure to the rest of the world as it does to yourselves."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-439

From:
William Mostyn Owen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1838
Source of text:
DAR 204: 171
Summary:

Expresses his pride and pleasure in CD’s friendship and wishes him well on hearing of his forthcoming marriage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-443

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Thomas Whitley
Date:
23 Nov [1838]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Announces his engagement.

Glad CW wondered at Glen Roy. "I saw nothing in my peregrinations to the Antipodes nearly so curious in physical geography."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-451

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Gray
Date:
[4 Dec 1838]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (14 December 1976)
Summary:

Sends GRG a few pages of proofs [of Birds]. Asks him to make any observations that might occur to him and to check passages in French and Latin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-452

From:
Thomas Bell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[5 Dec 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 163
Summary:

Sends congratulations on CD’s forthcoming marriage.

Has received some of the reptiles back from G. Bibron, who has named them. TB will get "some subjects in readiness for figuring" by CD’s date.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-453

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Beete Jukes
Date:
6 Dec 1838
Source of text:
University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections
Summary:

The Geological Society cannot recommend anyone to the Government of Newfoundland, but CD advises JBJ to get a recommendation from Sedgwick.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-454

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Gray
Date:
[6 Dec 1838]
Source of text:
Leiden University Libraries (BPL 885 / Darwin s.a)
Summary:

Sends proofs [of Birds, no. 2]. Asks GRG to check Latin accents.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-455

From:
Albert Way
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1838
Source of text:
DAR 204: 148
Summary:

Congratulations on CD’s engagement.

In answer to CD’s request, tells him how to locate an artist who made excellent sketches of Scotland, and probably of Glen Roy. AW himself made a sketch of the Glen which he offers to CD [Collected papers 1: 88].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-456

From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Dec 1838
Source of text:
DAR 204: 166
Summary:

On his 15th wedding anniversary JSH writes to CD wishing him happiness as great as JSH has had in his marriage, and adds some advice.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-457

From:
William Yarrell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 17 Dec 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 205.7: 287
Summary:

Extract of a letter from Sir Robert Heron to WY, copied for CD, about the crossing of solid- and divided-hoofed pigs, and Angora rabbits of different colours.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-458

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
American Philosophical Society.
Date:
20 Dec 1838
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.13)
Summary:

As Secretary of the Geological Society of London, formally expresses his thanks for initial numbers of Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-459

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
21 [Dec 1838]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 7652 IB: 175
Summary:

CD informs AS of the position of the Council of the Geological Society on recommending J. B. Jukes for a geological survey of Newfoundland. Feels Jukes’s application would have best chance of success if Sedgwick, his Professor at Cambridge, wrote a letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-461

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Beete Jukes
Date:
25 Dec [1838]
Source of text:
University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections
Summary:

Advises JBJ on preparing himself for geological work in Newfoundland.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-467

From:
William Yarrell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Dec 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 205.7: 286
Summary:

A "Zoological memorandum" for CD with an extract from L. Hindmarsh, "On the wild cattle of Chillingham Park" [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2 (1838): 274–84].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-468

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
Date:
[1838]
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 295/1, vol. VI., Misc. pp. 85–8)
Summary:

Sends suggestions for points that would interest geologists in a description of valleys in the Blue Mountains [New South Wales].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6693

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 November] 1838
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.10
Summary:

Has promised Alexander Macleay that he would send details of the nets JH used to catch pelagic animals.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-411

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
[May 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 154: 53
Summary:

His books grow in size. Hopes to bring out work on volcanic islands and coral formations in the autumn or winter. The Journal of researches will not be published until autumn [actually not until 1839]. Whewell and Lyell flatter him about it. Has given up all society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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