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DCP-LETT-575

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

DCP-LETT-576

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gilbert Nicholas Smith
Date:
[c. 15 Aug 1840]
Source of text:
Tenby Museum
Summary:

Questions GNS on remains found in caves on Caldy Island. [CD’s pencilled queries sent via Frances Allen].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-577

From:
Frances (Fanny) Allen
To:
Gilbert Nicholas Smith
Date:
19 Aug [1840]
Source of text:
Tenby Museum
Summary:

Forwards list of questions from CD relating to GNS’s paper on Caldy [see 576].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-641A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Buckland
Date:
[Nov 1840 – 17 Feb 1841]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Buckland papers, Glaciation /4 (iv))
Summary:

He encloses an unidentified paper received from R. I. Murchison the previous day.

Is unable to provide information about Dr Du Gard.

Appreciates the maps of Glen Roy sent by WB. Would welcome the opinions of WB and Louis Agassiz concerning the parallel roads but cannot give up the idea of their marine origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-578

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
[Nov 1840]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.22)
Summary:

Sends his paper on earthquakes [(1840), Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Now sets less value on theoretical reasoning in geology than when he wrote it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-579

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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DCP-LETT-580

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Geological Society of London
Date:
18 Nov [1840]
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/35)
Summary:

Recommends that Consul Chatfield’s communication on an earthquake in San Salvador [read 5 Feb 1840; Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1840): 179] not be published in Transactions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-581

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Gray
Date:
[20 Nov – 11 Dec 1840]
Source of text:
The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 237–8)
Summary:

Thanks GRG for his gift [A list of the genera of birds (1840)] and trusts that now GRG will be able to finish John Gould’s MS for Zoology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-580F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gilbert Nicholas Smith
Date:
20 Nov [1840]
Source of text:
Angus Carroll (private collection)
Summary:

Sorry that ill health prevented sooner reply. Letter about caves at Caldy was already read by Buckland. Will examine birds’ beaks when better and present to Geological Society of London in Smith’s name.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-582

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

DCP-LETT-582A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet
Date:
22 Nov 1840
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824)
Summary:

The second number of part four of the Zoology has now been published. The account of Smith, Elder & Co. is presented.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-583

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
[26 Nov 1840]
Source of text:
Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/134/39)
Summary:

Remarks that each of two species of Fagus separated by 1000 miles has a fungus that grows on it; the fungus species are probably closely allied.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-584

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Allport Leighton
Date:
1 Dec 1840
Source of text:
Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/133/57)
Summary:

Acknowledges election as Honorary Member of Shropshire and North Wales Natural History and Antiquarian Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-578F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Gould
Date:
[after 1 Dec 1840]
Source of text:
Profiles in History (dealers) (12 December 2012)
Summary:

Feels he cannot keep the gift of Gould’s "magnificent work" or take out a subscription now that he is a married man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-585

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William C. Redfield
Date:
[22 Dec 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:

Illness has long delayed CD’s thanks for WCR’s meteorological pamphlets and geological reports. Mentions a reference to whirlwinds leaving rotary patterns in desert sand.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-586

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[25 Jan 1841]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 59)
Summary:

Birds has gone to the printer.

Continues "to collect all kinds of facts about ""varieties and species"" " for his "some-day work".

Would be grateful for descriptions of offspring of crossbred domestic animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-587

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Gray
Date:
[Feb 1841]
Source of text:
The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 239)
Summary:

In a revise [of Birds] CD has altered "Colaptes Chilensis Vigors" to "Chrysoptilus Chilensis G. R. Gray". Is that right?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-589

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Gray
Date:
[Feb–Mar 1841]
Source of text:
The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 240)
Summary:

Sends proof of index of final number of Birds for checking.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-587F

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

DCP-LETT-590

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[21 Feb – 4 Apr 1841]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.26)
Summary:

Answers a number of queries from Lyell concerning geography and geology of Chiloé Island and its relationship to the Cordilleras.

Asks about "perched rocks" on Jura and notes their relevance to Louis Agassiz’s theory. Discusses Agassiz’s view on Jura.

Mentions seeing Robert Brown.

Notes R. I. Murchison’s discovery of shells in central England.

Weakness of negative evidence.

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