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DCP-LETT-422

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William John Broderip
Date:
[Aug–Dec 1838]
Source of text:
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/3)
Summary:

Would like to arrange a meeting about CD’s collection of shells [from the Beagle voyage].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-416

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
[Aug 1838–40]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Determined to make GRW a geologist. Sends copy of C. Lyell [?Elements of geology (1838)].

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-423

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[7 Aug 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 3
Summary:

His [first] railway journey was disappointing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-424

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
9 Aug [1838]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.10)
Summary:

Comments on receiving copy of Lyell’s Elements [of geology]. Much is new to CD, and he is copying out notes and references.

Criticises geological work of John Phillips.

Describes expedition to Glen Roy, about which he is writing a paper ["Parallel roads of Glen Roy" (1839), Collected papers 1: 87–137].

Enjoys the Athenaeum Club.

Criticises entomological work of F. W. Hope.

Asks Lyell to obtain for him a copy of barometric readings made at Leith.

Asks him to ascertain altitude of several Scottish lochs.

Comments on FitzRoy’s character.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-424A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet
Date:
18 Aug 1838
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824)
Summary:

Notification of submission of Smith, Elder & Co. accounts (enclosed) for first numbers of part II and part III of the Zoology, which are now published.

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