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DCP-LETT-2469B

From:
Scrimgeour, Robert Shedden & John Shedden & Co.
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 June 1859
Source of text:
English Heritage, Down House (CD’s Investment book, pp. 84, 74)
Summary:

Provides requested information about certain railway shares.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1625

From:
John Tyndall
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
Incoming letters 1859, n0.78., University of St Andrews Special Collections, msdep7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2470

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
21 June [1859]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.165)
Summary:

Discusses S. S. Haldeman’s paper ["Enumeration of the recent freshwater Mollusca", Boston J. Nat. Hist. 4 (1844): 468–84].

Centres of species origin.

Describes his corrections of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2471

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 [June 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 18
Summary:

CD making extensive corrections on proofs of Origin. Worries that style is too dry.

Doubts about Joseph Prestwich’s discovery [of flint tools].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2291

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
24 June [1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Ramsay 306: 4)
Summary:

Comments on ACR’s "The old glaciers [of Switzerland and N. Wales", in Peaks, passes, and glaciers: a series of excursions by members of the Alpine Club, ed. J. Ball (1859)]. Discusses erratic blocks in the Jura. Notes views of Lyell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2472

From:
Francis Darwin; Leonard Darwin; Horace Darwin
To:
Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer
Date:
[before 25 June 1859]
Source of text:
Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer 6 (1859): 99
Summary:

Report on three rare beetles they have recently taken in Down parish.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11993

From:
François N. M. Moigno
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 June 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.355
Summary:

Sending two volumes of his own Cosmos. Regrets he did not visit him in 1857.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2842

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
[26 June 1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives
Summary:

Has finished ACR’s article ["The old glaciers of Switzerland and N. Wales" in Peaks, passes, and glaciers, ed. J. Ball (1859)]. Asks the authority for glacial drifts in Siberia. Wishes ACR would examine the Glen Roy parallel roads and settle the problem.

Asks if it is certain that traces of organic remains have been found in Long Mynd beds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2845

From:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27–30 June 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 400
Summary:

No doubt about worm-holes in the Long Mynd, and they are certainly lower than J. Barrande’s primordial zone. Fossils in Laurentian gneiss.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel7337

From:
James Duncan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 June 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.513
Summary:

Was pleased to receive JH's note. Further regarding the existence of serpents in Borneo. Suggests form of correction in encyclopaedia.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2473

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
28 [June 1859]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.166)
Summary:

Thanks CL for copy of his paper ["Structure of lavas", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 148 (1858): 703–86].

Promises him a copy of Origin.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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