From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 July 1840]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 24 (EH 88206076)
Summary:
Reference to W. Smellie’s Natural history [1791] requested by CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gilbert Nicholas Smith
Date:
[c. 15 Aug 1840]
Source of text:
Tenby Museum
Summary:
Questions GNS on remains found in caves on Caldy Island. [CD’s pencilled queries sent via Frances Allen].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frances (Fanny) Allen
To:
Gilbert Nicholas Smith
Date:
19 Aug [1840]
Source of text:
Tenby Museum
Summary:
Forwards list of questions from CD relating to GNS’s paper on Caldy [see 576].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
[Nov 1840]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.22)
Summary:
Sends his paper on earthquakes [(1840), Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Now sets less value on theoretical reasoning in geology than when he wrote it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Gould
Date:
[after 1 Dec 1840]
Source of text:
Profiles in History (dealers) (12 December 2012)
Summary:
Feels he cannot keep the gift of Gould’s "magnificent work" or take out a subscription now that he is a married man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov 1840
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 236
Summary:
Would like further experimentation to confirm report about germination of wheat from Egyptian tombs. Sir G. Wilkinson may have been deceived by the Arabs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Geological Society of London
Date:
18 Nov [1840]
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/35)
Summary:
Recommends that Consul Chatfield’s communication on an earthquake in San Salvador [read 5 Feb 1840; Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1840): 179] not be published in Transactions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gilbert Nicholas Smith
Date:
20 Nov [1840]
Source of text:
Angus Carroll (private collection)
Summary:
Sorry that ill health prevented sooner reply. Letter about caves at Caldy was already read by Buckland. Will examine birds’ beaks when better and present to Geological Society of London in Smith’s name.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Gray
Date:
[20 Nov – 11 Dec 1840]
Source of text:
The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 237–8)
Summary:
Thanks GRG for his gift [A list of the genera of birds (1840)] and trusts that now GRG will be able to finish John Gould’s MS for Zoology.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1840
Source of text:
DAR 109: A86
Summary:
Reports on abortive anthers in flowers of thyme sent by CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet
Date:
22 Nov 1840
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824)
Summary:
The second number of part four of the Zoology has now been published. The account of Smith, Elder & Co. is presented.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
[26 Nov 1840]
Source of text:
Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/134/39)
Summary:
Remarks that each of two species of Fagus separated by 1000 miles has a fungus that grows on it; the fungus species are probably closely allied.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Allport Leighton
Date:
1 Dec 1840
Source of text:
Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/133/57)
Summary:
Acknowledges election as Honorary Member of Shropshire and North Wales Natural History and Antiquarian Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William C. Redfield
Date:
[22 Dec 1840]
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Letters to William C. Redfield vol. 2 Scientific 1831-41(z117 00151 2) pp. 335–8)
Summary:
Illness has long delayed CD’s thanks for WCR’s meteorological pamphlets and geological reports. Mentions a reference to whirlwinds leaving rotary patterns in desert sand.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Buckland
Date:
[Nov 1840 – 17 Feb 1841]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Buckland papers, Glaciation /4 (iv))
Summary:
He encloses an unidentified paper received from R. I. Murchison the previous day.
Is unable to provide information about Dr Du Gard.
Appreciates the maps of Glen Roy sent by WB. Would welcome the opinions of WB and Louis Agassiz concerning the parallel roads but cannot give up the idea of their marine origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Hannah Charlotte Scott, Lady Scott Douglas; Hannah Charlotte Scott Douglas, Lady Scott Douglas; Hannah Charlotte Scott Kerr, Lady Scott Douglas
To:
William Kemp
Date:
3 Jun 1840
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/5)
Summary:
Thanks WK for his help recovering her belongings, and enclosing half a sovereign.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
Charles Maclaren
To:
Thomas Walker
Date:
30 Mar 1840
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/1a)
Summary:
Charles Darwin has asked for William Kemp’s address in order to send him a copy of his paper on Glenroy and to ask him some questions.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
1[8] May [1840]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/2)
Summary:
Encloses a copy of his Glen Roy paper. Asks for more details of Kemp’s work on the terraces of the Eildon hills.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
20 May 1840
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/3)
Summary:
The bearer of the letter, Thomas Smibert, is a friend of RC and his brother, William Chambers. RC would like WK to show him the raised beaches.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
[before 4 June 1840]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/4)
Summary:
The bearer of the letter, Lady Scott Douglas, wishes to see the terraces at Galashiels if she can do so without exertion. Thomas Smibert’s visit has been delayed.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond