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DCP-LETT-602

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
6 [July 1841]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.24)
Summary:

Discusses various types of coral reefs on which he has been collecting notes. Views of C. G. Ehrenberg. His conception of the formation of Bermuda.

Pessimistic about the effect of his poor health on his scientific work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-604

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 16 July 1841]
Source of text:
DAR 98: A1–2
Summary:

Regrets not seeing CD before leaving on trip [to the U. S.]. CD’s move from London will be a privation for CL.

Returns charts on coral reefs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-606

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[23 Aug 1841]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 61)
Summary:

Consents to be godfather to WDF’s child.

Sends family news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-607

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[16 Aug 1841]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette no. 34, 21 August 1841, p. 550
Summary:

Reports detailed observations on humble-bees boring holes in flowers to extract nectar instead of brushing over the stamens and pistils. Some hive-bees seem to use the holes made by the humble-bees; speculates that this would be a case of acquired knowledge in insects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-608

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
25 Aug [1841-2]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/207)
Summary:

Sends elephant tooth from Africa. Suggests it may be interesting in light of his [mistaken] memory of Cuvier’s opinion about tusk brought from Peru by Humboldt.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-608F

From:
Richard Owen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 Sept 1841?]
Source of text:
The Royal College of Surgeons of England (MS0456/1)
Summary:

CD and [Emma Darwin] are invited to "a holiday musical evening".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-609

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[28 Sept 1841]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 62)
Summary:

Sends news of his house-hunting.

Envies WDF his discovery of Cheirotherium footprints.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-609F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Paul Gaimard
Date:
14 Oct 1841
Source of text:
Ader Nordmann (dealers) (18 June 2015)
Summary:

Asks if JPG can supply him with the source of M. Cordier’s assertion that the reef of Vanikoro is of recent formation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-610

From:
John Abberley; Robert Waring Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1841
Source of text:
DAR 162: 78
Summary:

The family gardener reports on seeds he has gathered. RWD transmits the letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-611

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
[Nov 1841]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Details regarding volume on Fish.

Sends notes on Diodon.

Must give up attending Geological Society evening meetings; knocks him up.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-612

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet; Arthur Aikin; George Bellas Greenough
To:
Geological Society of London
Date:
[before 6 Dec 1841]
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (CM1/5)
Summary:

Committee suggests Council resolve to have William Lonsdale pack away non-fossil specimens from S. America and volcanic islands of the Atlantic [signed G. B. Greenough, A. Aiken, C. Darwin, C. J. F. Bunbury].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-631

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Allport Leighton
Date:
[1–23 July 1841]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 39
Summary:

Tells WAL where specimen of Cynoglossum sylvaticum may be seen growing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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KEMP11

From:
Robert Lockhart
To:
James McGregor
Date:
4 May 1841
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/6)
Summary:

Returns Mr Kemp’s paper on the morrains of the Tweed and the Gala.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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KEMP12

From:
James Inglis Thackery
To:
John Kemp
Date:
28 Nov 1841 – c. 1842
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/7)
Summary:

Has been away so has not seen article in Kelso Chronicle.

Suggests walking from Kelso to Greenlaw to see James Cunningham, surveyor, and investigate the Lammermuir Hills.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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KEMP13

From:
George Smith Kenrick
To:
William Kemp
Date:
11 Feb 1841
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/8)
Summary:

Thanks for sending the publication the Galashiels Weekly Journal.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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KEMP17

From:
John Younger
To:
William Kemp
Date:
25 Nov 1841
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/12)
Summary:

Has seen WK’s article in the Kelso Chronicle about Glacier Theory.

Would like to see Bedshiel Kaimes and Dogden Moss with WK.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond

RS-MM-000006

From:
Luke Howard
To:
unknown
Date:
26 March 1841
Source of text:
MM/1/6, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000522

From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
13 May 1841
Source of text:
MM/10/46, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000553

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
21 August 1841
Source of text:
MM/10/79, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000647

From:
Luke Howard
To:
William Henry Sykes
Date:
30 April 1841
Source of text:
MM/11/154, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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