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From:
John Grant Malcolmson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1840
Source of text:
DAR 171: 31; Geological Society of London (Membership certificates, 1840)
Summary:

Discusses CD’s Glen Roy paper; would like to see the theory put beyond dispute. Tells of Mr Stables’ observations on the parallel roads. Discusses geological features of Scotland which he is sure are marine in origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
David Milne Home
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1840
Source of text:
Milne Home 1891, pp. 69–72
Summary:

Comments on CD’s paper on South American volcanoes [Trans. of the Geol. Soc. of London, 2d ser., pt 3, 5 (1840): 601–31]. Jets of steam or flame issuing from the side of a hill in Glen Almond.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Benjamin Silliman, Sr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1840
Source of text:
DAR 204: 184
Summary:

Thanks CD for a copy of his Journal of researches which is "not second in interest and instruction to any work of the kind I have ever read".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William C. Redfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May 1840
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (William C. Redfield’s outbound letter book 1835–41 (z117 00151 2), pp. 179–80)
Summary:

Thanks CD for information about Captain Tillard’s account of the volcanic eruption in the Azores in 1811.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1840
Source of text:
DAR 177: 274
Summary:

Gives CD the results of some calculations for "dip" over different distances, as requested.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
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
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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:
George Edmundson Bearpark
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1841
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/6/126)
Summary:

Requesting information about membership of the Geological Society of London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 30 Mar 1841]
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 279
Summary:

LJ has had a letter from R. T. Lowe in Madeira who thinks Scorpaena histrio, a species from Galapagos described in no. 1 [of Fish], is the same as the one in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. LJ does not think it is possible.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1841
Source of text:
DAR 166: 176
Summary:

Reports observations on the behaviour of captive harvest mouse and dormouse. When descending sticks mouse uses its tail like a prehensile-tailed monkey.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William C. Redfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
May 1841
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (William C. Redfield’s outbound letter book 1835–41 (z117 00151 2) p. 239)
Summary:

Is sending through John Blunt a copy of the last geological report of the state of New York along with a short paper on the tornado that passed through the state of New Jersey in June 1835.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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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
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
From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1842–3]
Source of text:
DAR 205.5: 215
Summary:

Has seen lately a true ruminant with the two central metacarpals distinct. It was the foot of an Anoplotherium in a recent ruminant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Provis
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 July 1842
Source of text:
DAR 27.1: B23
Summary:

Discusses elevations along Holyhead Road [Anglesey].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Provis
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 July 1842
Source of text:
DAR 27.1: B24
Summary:

Location of village of Bethesda [NW Wales].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Thomas Blunt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Aug 1842
Source of text:
DAR 5: B17–18
Summary:

Gives the height of Shrewsbury above sea-level.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander Bridport Becher
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept 1842
Source of text:
United Kingdom Hydrographic Office Archive (Letter Book no .10 (1841–2), p. 510)
Summary:

Francis Beaufort has instructed ABB to order three copies of Coral Reefs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project