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DCP-LETT-6599

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:
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DCP-LETT-6603

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Croll
Date:
6 Feb [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Consoling to CD that JC gives "a little more age to the world".

Cites article by Henry Moseley ["On the mechanical possibility of the descent of glaciers", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 17 (1869): 202–8].

Mentions article by A. R. Clarke on shape of the globe.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6616

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:
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DCP-LETT-6630

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Croll
Date:
24 Feb [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.271)
Summary:

Thanks JC for his proofs of article on the movement of glaciers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6799

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:
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WCP3353

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
James Croll
Date:
14 March 1870
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 41077 ff. 46-47
  • Irons, J. C. (1896). In: Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll LL.D., F.R.S., Etc. London: E. Stanford. [p. 247]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP2241

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:
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WCP4977

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
James Croll
Date:
25 September 1870
Source of text:
Irons, J. C. (1896). In: Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll LL.D., F.R.S., Etc . London: E. Stanford. [pp. 247-249]
Summary:

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Contributor:
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WCP2259

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

DCP-LETT-7874

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Croll
Date:
19 July [1871]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 27)
Summary:

Introduces E. L. Youmans to correspondent. Youmans is seeking small monographs by the most competent English authors [for his International Scientific Series].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7908

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.

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WCP2287

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:
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WCP4978

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
James Croll
Date:
4 August 1872
Source of text:
Irons, J. C. (1896). In: Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll LL.D., F.R.S., Etc . London: E. Stanford. [p. 271]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11097

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Croll
Date:
9 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 143: 356
Summary:

Comments on JC’s paper ["On the tidal retardation argument for the age of the earth", Rep. BAAS (1876): 88–9].

Contributor:
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WCP2402

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:
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WCP4979

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
James Croll
Date:
10 August 1879
Source of text:
Irons, J. C. (1896). In: Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll LL.D., F.R.S., Etc . London: E. Stanford. [pp. 334-335]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP2403

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:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP4980

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
James Croll
Date:
11 October 1879
Source of text:
Irons, J. C. (1896). In: Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll LL.D., F.R.S., Etc . London: E. Stanford. [pp. 336-337]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP4981

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
James Croll
Date:
23 November 1879
Source of text:
Irons, J. C. (1896). In: Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll LL.D., F.R.S., Etc . London: E. Stanford. [pp. 337-339]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP2162

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:

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Contributor:
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