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DCP-LETT-553

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
[6 Feb 1840]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Sends MS [of Coral reefs?] to be copied.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-554

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[19 Feb 1840]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.21)
Summary:

Remarks on his illness and treatment.

Discusses MS [of Coral reefs] and changes in his view of coral reefs since Journal of researches. Mentions C. G. Ehrenberg’s observations on coral reefs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-555

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[20 Feb 1840]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 117
Summary:

Poor health has made him give up all geological work.

Profits on their volumes [of Narrative] seem absurdly small.

Looks back on Beagle voyage as the most fortunate circumstance in his life.

Finds marriage a great happiness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-560

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Milne Home
Date:
20 [Feb 1840]
Source of text:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Charles E. Mudie Collection, 1816–1897: Correspondence Post-1650 MS 0112)
Summary:

About earthquakes: the shock of February 1835 in Chile; possible connection between shocks occurring coincidentally in different parts of the world, and between earthquakes and the weather; DM’s collection of accounts of earthquakes in Scotland.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-557

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
24 [Feb 1840]
Source of text:
The Royal College of Surgeons of England (MS0025/1/5/11)
Summary:

Asks RO whether he has any MS [of Fossil Mammalia, no. 4] ready and to see that the plates are finished.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-556

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William C. Redfield
Date:
24 Feb [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:

Much interested in WCR’s paper on "Whirlwinds excited by fire" [Am. J. Sci. 36 (1839): 50–9; Edinburgh New Philos. J. 27 (1839): 369–79].

Sends a summary account of circular clouds and waterspouts formed during volcanic eruption in the Azores [S. Tillard, "Eruption of a volcano in sea off St Michael", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. (1812): 152–8].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-557F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Silliman, Sr
Date:
26 Feb 1840
Source of text:
Gallery of History (dealers) (4 December 1996)
Summary:

Asks that a letter on tornados be forwarded to W. C. Redfield. Hopes Silliman received a copy of Journal of Researches.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-558

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
[27 Feb 1840]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Has been unwell. Publication of two numbers [of Zoology] has been delayed. Thought first Fish number good.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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