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DCP-LETT-1112

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Forbes Royle
Date:
1 Sept [1847]
Source of text:
Heritage Auctions (dealers) (11 April 2013)
Summary:

Returns JFR’s copies of Transactions [Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India]. Has not found quite as much as he thought he might on varieties of Indian domestic animals and plants; "the attempts at introduction have been too recent for the effects, if any, of climate to have been developed". Is impressed by the work of the English in India.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1113

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Anne Theresa Whitby
Date:
2 Sept [1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.61)
Summary:

Questions Mrs W on difference in flight capacity of male and female silkworm moths and asks her for results of experiments he suggested she do with silkworms to determine hereditariness of dark "eyebrows". [See Variation 1: 302.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1115

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
David Milne Home
Date:
7 Sept 1847
Source of text:
DAR 143: 5, DAR 146: 1
Summary:

Has letter from CD asking for copy of DM-H’s paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. RC still has suspicions and looks forward to further testing of Glen Roy mystery.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1116

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
8 [Sept 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 50: C3–C6
Summary:

Discusses David Milne’s Glen Roy paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber", Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. Rejects Milne’s theory that outlet of Glen Roy is blocked by detritus. Impressed by Milne’s discovery of an outlet at the level of the second shelf. Believes this strengthens theory that lakes were formed by glacier blocking Glen Roy. Offers arguments against glacier theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1117

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
10 Sept [1847]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/6)
Summary:

Agrees to lease land to Mr Mason. Discusses arrangements for bank draft.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1118

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 Sept 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 103
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1119

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Chambers
Date:
11 Sept 1847
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Comments on David Milne’s paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. CD still believes in marine origin. Rejects barrier of detritus at mouth of Glen Roy. If roads were formed by lake, it must have been ice-lake.

Comments on evidence of glaciers and icebergs in North Wales. Thinks pass caused by tidal channel, not river. Suggests that RC make altitude measurements at various points.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1120

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Milne Home
Date:
20 [Sept 1847]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.3813)
Summary:

Comments on paper by DM ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber", (1847) Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. "I am not in the least convinced about the Barriers … [but] I am very much staggered in favour of the ice-lake theory of Agassiz & [William] Buckland." Will "send a letter to the Scotsman, in which I give briefly my present impression".

Cites facts mentioned in South America possibly of use to DM.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1121

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
The Scotsman
Date:
[after 20 Sept 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 50: B1–9
Summary:

Comments on article by David Milne ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. Refers to his paper on Glen Roy [Collected papers 1: 87–137]. Comments on Louis Agassiz’s article ["The glacial theory and its recent progress", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 33 (1842): 217–83]. Cites his own observations on glaciers in N. Wales. Discusses possibility of ice barrier creating lake. Notes objections to theory of an ice barrier. Defends his own theory that the roads are sea-beaches. Suggests questions for further investigation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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KEMP70

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
28 Sept 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/50)
Summary:

The Glenroy terraces match WK’s measurements of the terraces on the Tweed.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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Faraday2018

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
13 September 1847
Source of text:
RGO 6/462, f.180
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2019

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
23 September 1847
Source of text:
RGO 6/462, f.181
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel10138

From:
James William Grant
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 September 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.25
Summary:

Has been appointed Apothecary General. His own wife's health has not been good. Hopes all is well at Collingwood. What is he doing about William? Comments on the field open to chemistry students.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12179

From:
Georg Merz & Son
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 September 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.37
Summary:

Thanks for the address of the Admiralty; will send the instrument away in three weeks. Would JH send his observations to them via Williams Norgate (bookseller).

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12803

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert John Kane
Date:
[16 September 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0209; Reel 1054
Summary:

Asks for latest chemical information on platina groups, or 'Platinoids.' In trying to remove platina from mineral specimens JH may have found new metal. Describes its characteristics. P.S.: Keep this information private.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13707

From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 September 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0062; Reel 1087
Summary:

Completion and transfer of telescope for Cape [of Good Hope]. Grateful for receipt of [Cape Results].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13756

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Georg Merz
Date:
[22 September 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0109.2; Reel 1087
Summary:

Happy to learn that Cape equatorial [telescope] is ready. Address it to Francis Beaufort at Admiralty Office. Discusses payment. Sent [Cape Results] as GM instructed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2177

From:
Sir Francis Ronalds
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 September 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.422
Summary:

Has had a compensating barometer constructed. Requests thoughts concerning compensating barometers. Sends some memos concerning pendulums and other topics.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2336

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 September 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.207
Summary:

Discusses Mrs. Sabine's translation of [Alexander von] Humboldt's Cosmos, particularly some theological passages.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3113

From:
Paul Partsch
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 September 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.143
Summary:

Has received package in Turkey from JH. Sends thanks to JH through Sir Robert Brown. Values highly the gift of fragments from a meteor fallen near Cold-Bokkovold on 13 October 1838.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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