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DCP-LETT-480

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[c. 9 Jan 1839]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.15)
Summary:

Discusses his Glen Roy paper [(1839), Collected papers 1: 87–137], which he is sending to CL.

Remarks on Charles MacLaren’s treatment of alluvium. Comments on alluvial action in Lochaber.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-497

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Lonsdale
Date:
[8 Mar 1839]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Has finished earthquake paper ["Volcanic phenomena in South America" (1840), Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Gives instructions about a woodcut. There should be an outline map.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-501

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Shoberl; Henry Colburn
Date:
[21 Mar 1839]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.18)
Summary:

Captain FitzRoy has no objection to appending advertisement of other works connected with Beagle voyage to CD’s volume [Journal of researches].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1230

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
William Hutton
Date:
18 April 1839
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library William Hutton Papers B:H978
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

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-530

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
7 Aug [1839]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks for details of Smyth’s Island discovered by WHS – particularly whether the islets form a ring surrounding a lagoon. [See Coral reefs, p. 158].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-531

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Shoberl
Date:
16 Aug [1839]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Gives his opinion of a MS on geology. It is not really a scientific work. It might sell well, but CD’s opinion on success of sale is worthless.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1133

From:
J. E. Bowman
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
14 September 1839
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-546

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Hallowes Miller
Date:
22 [Nov 1839]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks if WHM would be interested in the meteorological observations of the Falkland Islands made by B. J. Sulivan on a recent survey. Such observations are rare and appear to CD to have many points of interest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1231

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
William Hutton
Date:
27 November 1839
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library William Hutton Papers B:H978
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-547

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
[30 Nov 1839]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.17)
Summary:

Sends bird specimens for examination by TCE [for Birds].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1232

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
William Hutton
Date:
22 December 1839
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library William Hutton Papers B:H978
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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