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From:
James Croll
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Jan. 13th 1865
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/65-6, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
James Croll
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.299
Summary:

Sending his paper on the causes of change of climate, and would be glad of JH's comments and opinion on its worth.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Croll
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 February 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.301
Summary:

Thanks for his letter concerning his own paper on the changes in climate. Points out parts where JH seems to have been mistaken in his views as expressed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Croll
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 February 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.303
Summary:

Gives various references in answer to JH's queries. Further regarding climatic changes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Croll
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 August 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.304
Summary:

Thanks for letter and criticism of his own paper. Seems to have misunderstood most of his points. Explains some of his theories on the movement of the earth and tides.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 261
Summary:

Sends two papers; glad CD appreciates two he has already sent. Cannot send two others on glaciers (Philosophical Magazine, 1866 and 1867).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 262
Summary:

Sends abstract of his views on change of climate and a copy of a paper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 Dec 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 50: E3–8
Summary:

Glacial climates.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 263
Summary:

Argues for great age of earth before the Cambrian period. Opposes measuring age from secular cooling. Opposes Sir William Thomson. Lyell’s error on secular cooling.

Thanks for Moseley citation ["On the mechanical possibility of the descent of glaciers", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 17 (1869): 202–8].

In Edinburgh he feels out of touch with latest developments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 264
Summary:

Thanks for abstract of Moseley’s paper on motion of glaciers [see 6599]. Reading it convinced him that Tyndall’s received view is wrong. Has formed a new view, which he has sent to Philosophical Magazine [4th ser. 37 (1869): 201–6].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 265
Summary:

Thanks for presentation copy of Origin [5th ed.].

Clarifies his point on north and south glacial periods. Supports CD’s view that temperate plants will move up mountains during the alternation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
James Croll
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
21 March 1870
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 162-163
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
James Croll
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 September 1870
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 194-195
  • Ebay (auction)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Aug 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 266
Summary:

Refused to write a treatise on geological time.

His paper on W. B. Carpenter’s theory of ocean currents is appearing soon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
James Croll
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
29 July 1872
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 250-251
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
James Croll
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 August 1879
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 36-37
  • Irons, J. C. (1896). In: Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll LL.D., F.R.S., Etc. London: E. Stanford. [p. 334]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
James Croll
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
12 August 1879
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 38-39
  • Irons, J. C. (1896). In: Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll LL.D., F.R.S., Etc. London: E. Stanford. [pp. 335-336]
Summary:

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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
James Croll
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
25 November 1879
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 61-64
  • Irons, J. C. (1896). In: Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll LL.D., F.R.S., Etc. London: E. Stanford. [pp. 339-340]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
James Croll
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
2 December 1879
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 66-67
  • Irons, J. C. (1896). In: Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll LL.D., F.R.S., Etc. London: E. Stanford. [pp. 340-341]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
James Croll
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
24 July 1880
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 109-110
  • Irons, J. C. (1896). In: Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll LL.D., F.R.S., Etc. London: E. Stanford. [pp. 359-360]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project