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DCP-LETT-366

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[12 or 13 July 1837]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 37 DAR/1/1/37)
Summary:

Has been "cramming up learning to ornament my journal with".

Sends a list of questions on his botanical specimens. Needs answers for Journal of researches, which he expects to go to press in August.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-366F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Richardson
Date:
[24 July 1837]
Source of text:
Scott Polar Research Institute (MS 1503/16/1)
Summary:

Questions about woods in cold, northern climates; about JR’s reference to frozen sandstone; about how far out from the shore the sea may become frozen.

His petition for assistance from the government is in statu quo; he is working at his Journal [of researches].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-367

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
30 July 1837
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell Collection Coll-203/A1/69: 140–2)
Summary:

Galapagos land birds and reptiles.

No two naturalists agree on any fundamental idea [of species]. "Everything is arbitrary."

Has been with Richard Owen going over the S. American fossils.

Has worked out the non-relation between animals’ bulk and luxuriance of vegetation.

The horse once common on the Pampas. The mystery of the extinction of these animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-368

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[1 Aug 1837]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 38 DAR/1/1/38)
Summary:

Botanical queries for Journal of researches, which is about to go to press.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-369

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Shoberl
Date:
2 Aug [1837]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks WS to write to his friend to make his corrections [in CD’s MS of Journal of researches] in ink.

Capt. FitzRoy agrees with the propriety of beginning to print [CD’s volume separately] at once.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-370

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Lonsdale
Date:
3 Aug [1837]
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/3/123)
Summary:

Asks to withdraw abstract of his paper on coral formations ["Elevation and subsidence in the Pacific" (1838), Collected papers 1: 46–9].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-370A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Spring Rice
Date:
3 Aug 1837
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824)
Summary:

With the encouragement of several scientific gentlemen and supported by the opinions of the Presidents of the three Learned Societies, CD ventures to request a grant of £1000 from Government to cover the cost of 150 engravings to illustrate results of his Beagle collections.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-370F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Richardson
Date:
[11 Aug 1837]
Source of text:
Scott Polar Research Institute (MS 1503/16/2)
Summary:

Chancellor of the Exchequer has ordered £1000 for the publication of the Zoology. Would like to meet JR to ask his advice on one or two points.

Thanks for his long account of the climate of North America.

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-373

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
16 Aug [1837]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 39 DAR/1/1/39)
Summary:

Reports his successful interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer [Thomas Spring Rice] about a grant for publishing [Zoology]. Thanks JSH for help with this; "you have been the making of me from the first".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-374

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
28 Aug [1837]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-76)
Summary:

Proof-sheets [of Journal of researches] are tumbling in. Mentions future plans for Zoology and geological works. Has £1000 from Government for illustrations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-375

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood
Date:
[28 Aug 1837]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 228)
Summary:

Regrets he cannot come to music meeting in Birmingham because he is very busy with the proofs of his book [Journal of researches]. A waste of life to spend a summer in ugly Marlborough Street.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-378

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[20 Sept 1837]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 40 DAR/1/1/40)
Summary:

Doctors have urged him to knock off all work and go to the country. Arranges proof-reading with JSH, while he is at Shrewsbury.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-378A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet
Date:
20 Sept 1837
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824)
Summary:

Encloses a statement [see 377a] from Smith, Elder & Co., which appears to provide the best plan for the expenditure of the grant. Asks that it be presented for their Lordships’ consideration. Also encloses a prospectus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-380

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Shoberl
Date:
[22 or 23] Sept 1837
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.8)
Summary:

Thanks WS for a document [see 379]. Promises to send MS and woodcuts before night. Discusses details of printing and correction. Thanks WS and Henry Colburn for assistance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-381

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[23 Sept 1837]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 41 DAR/1/1/41)
Summary:

Proof-reading arrangements for Journal of researches. CD’s difficulty in writing correctly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-382

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
14 Oct [1837]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 42 DAR/1/1/42)
Summary:

CD’s reasons for his reluctance to take the Secretaryship of the Geological Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-383

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Geological Society of London
Date:
20 Oct 1837
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/65)
Summary:

Report on J. G. Forchhammer’s communications on changes of levels of land in Denmark [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1838): 554–6].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-383A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Lonsdale
Date:
[May? 1837]
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/3/169)
Summary:

Sends an abstract made by J. F. Royle of CD’s paper ["On certain areas of elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans"]. G. B. Greenough will have problems with the altered references in the coral island section.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-383F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Colburn
Date:
[23 Oct 1837]
Source of text:
Peter Harrington (dealer) (September 2020)
Summary:

Has returned from the country, and will superintend the revises [of Journal and remarks].

Can Mr Whiting send slips more often?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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