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DCP-LETT-507

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Société géologique de France
Date:
25 Apr 1839
Source of text:
Bibliothèque municipale de Versailles (Autographe Darwin)
Summary:

Acknowledges, on behalf of the Geological Society, receipt of the Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, vol. 9, feuilles 29, 34.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-496F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Lonsdale
Date:
[27 Apr 1839 or earlier]
Source of text:
University Archives (dealers) (3 March 2021, lot 73)
Summary:

Returns Whewell’s presidential address to the Geological Society of London (Whewell 1839), and suggests that ‘rules’ be changed to ‘customs’.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-507A

From:
Caleb Burrell Rose
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1839
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/4/216)
Summary:

Sends fee for admission to the Geological Society and a signed obligation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-509

From:
Richard Sutton Ford
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May 1839
Source of text:
DAR 186: 44
Summary:

Answers to [Questions about breeding].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-510

From:
George Embury; George Tollet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10 May 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 186: 51
Summary:

Replies to [Questions about breeding].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-511

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
American Philosophical Society.
Date:
23 May 1839
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.16)
Summary:

As Secretary of the Geological Society of London, CD formally expresses thanks for the American Philosophical Society’s Proceedings, vol. 1, no. 6.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-511A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gideon Algernon Mantell
Date:
23 May 1839
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, fMS-Papers-0083-465)
Summary:

Writes, as Secretary of the Geological Society, to thank GAM for his presents, a slab of anthracite with plant impressions (from Philadelphia) and some fossils from Cornwall.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-511F

From:
Benjamin Silliman, Sr; Benjamin Silliman, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin; William John Hamilton
Date:
24 May 1839
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/233)
Summary:

Thanks for copies of the Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, with a request for items (listed) missing from their set.

Offer to supply, if they can, any copies missing from the Geological Society’s run of the American Journal of Science.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-512

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
25 May [1839]
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:

Invitation to dine at the Darwins’ with J. S. Henslow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-512A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet
Date:
27 May 1839
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824)
Summary:

Presents the account of Smith, Elder & Co. for the now published second and third numbers of the first part of the Zoology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-513

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Sharp Macleay
Date:
29 May 1839
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Introduces Syms Covington and recommends him for employment in Australia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-514

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
29 May 1839
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 2009/108: 6)
Summary:

A letter of reference for Syms Covington.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-515

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
Date:
31 May [1839]
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 295/1 pp.1–3)
Summary:

CD’s servant [Syms Covington] will work his passage to Australia.

Returns a curious stone, of which he hopes to publish an account. [See Volcanic islands, p. 38.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-508

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Gray
Date:
[June–Oct 1839]
Source of text:
The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 235–6)
Summary:

Asks for some Anthus skins to examine [for Birds]. Fears they may turn out to be all one species. Sends details from his notes on Falkland Island specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-516

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 or 16] June 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 144
Summary:

Has not yet had time to read CD’s Journal of researches attentively. He is sure there is no expression referring to himself personally that he could wish were not in it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-517

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
6 June [1839]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection
Summary:

CD has heard from the Treasury; they will pay the account [for the Zoology] as soon as Smith, Elder & Co. like.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-518

From:
William Buckland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 176
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of Journal of researches.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-519

From:
Richard Owen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 183
Summary:

Thanks CD effusively [for Journal of researches] – "the most delightful book in my collection".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-520

From:
William Henry Fitton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 178
Summary:

Thanks CD for Journal of researches. Praises its "want of pretension"; "the Geology seems … to be excellent – and a good part of it new".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-521

From:
William Lonsdale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 June 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 182
Summary:

Acknowledges Journal of researches.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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