From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
24 Feb 1834
Source of text:
MSL 6 / 141, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
3 Feb 1835
Source of text:
CELE 3 / 80, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Sir Charles Lyell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 July 1835]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.418
Summary:
Hears that JH expressed to William Whewell great pleasure in parts of CL's book. Has been altered and improved since the 1st edition. When in Copenhagen last year [H. C.] Oersted was reading JH's paper on double stars. Murray has sold 1750 copies of CL's book.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Charles Lyell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 June 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.420 inc
Summary:
Preparing fifth edition of Principles of Geology, using JH's facts about boiling seeds. Mathematical error in CL's climate theory. CL's first speech as president of Geological Society. Criticizes R.S.L. JH's volcanic theory was too complex; will incorporate it into later editions. Benefits to science of Charles Babbage's social parties. Latest publications in geology. P.S. Glad to learn that JH thinks origin of new species may occur through intermediate causes; Germans criticized this. CL chooses not to engage in controversies. Speculates on successive extinction of species. Notes on African hot springs.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Charles Lyell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 June 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.419
Summary:
Charles Lyell wrote letter to JH recently. Now encloses with it letters of introduction to persons in Rio and abstract of paper by Charles Babbage. [Henry] Brougham's attacks on Thomas Young.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Dec 1836
Source of text:
K. M. Lyell (1881) 1: 474–5
Summary:
Comments on [MS of] CD’s paper ["Elevation on the coast of Chili" (4 Jan 1837), Collected papers 1: 41–3].
Invites CD to dinner. "Don’t accept any official scientific place, if you can avoid it".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Charles Lyell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 January 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.421
Summary:
Has been requested by Gideon Mantell to write JH a letter of introduction for a Lieut. H. I. Thomas, a friend of Davies Gilbert. Thomas wishes to be the bearer of any letter or parcel CL may have. Believes that a copy of the President's speech he sent may be lost in the post. Thinks that JH's theory of subterranean isothermal lines interesting. Dined with the Somervilles last Sunday.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Lyell
To:
John Herschel
Date:
31 Jan 1837
Source of text:
HS 11.421, RS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb 1837
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell Collection Coll-203/B9)
Summary:
"I could think of nothing for days after your lesson on coral reefs, but of the top of submerged continents. It is all true, but do not flatter youself that you will be believed, till you are growing bald, like me, with hard work & vexation at the incredulity in the world."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Charles Lyell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 May 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.422 & 450
Summary:
Charles Babbage will publish JH's volcanic theory in Ninth Bridgewater Treatise, together with JH's letter to R. I. Murchison. William Whewell read both at Geological Society. Babbage wants to compare JH's theory with passage from Bishop [Samuel] Butler. Whewell's notion of new species. Charles Darwin's new theory of coral islands is forcing CL to give up CL's volcanic crater theory. [Letter continues 28 May.] Sends copy of Babbage's Treatise with quotes from JH. News of Charles Wheatstone's submarine telegraph and David Brewster's proof that diamond is of vegetable origin.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug and 5 Sept 1837
Source of text:
K. M. Lyell ed. 1881 2: 20–3
Summary:
Syenitic granite from Norway carried as far as Osnabruck.
Has met warm reception in Germany.
Leopold von Buch mistaken in believing that granite overlies transition rock in Norway. Granite sends veins into transition and gneiss.
Has been examining fossil shells of Crag with Heinrich Beck. Beck admits some shells are of species still living.
CL still believes Eocene, Miocene, and Pliocene are satisfactory divisions of Tertiary epoch.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
1838
Source of text:
MSL 6 / 144, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Charles Robert Darwin; William Buckland; Adam Sedgwick; John Phillips; William Whewell; Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Charles Stokes; William John Hamilton; Edward Stanley; Richard Owen; William Clift; Charles Babbage; John Bostock; Peter Mark Roget; John Taylor; Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2d Marquess of Northampton; William John Broderip
To:
Thomas Spring Rice
Date:
[before 7 July 1838]
Source of text:
House of Commons papers; accounts and papers, 1837/38, XXXVI, 307
Summary:
Express their concern that the offer for sale to the British Museum, by G. A. Mantell and Thomas Hawkins, of two valuable collections, has been declined.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 and 8 Sept 1838
Source of text:
K. M. Lyell 1881 2: 43
Summary:
Would like to talk over Salisbury Craigs with CD.
CL’s father enthusiastic over Journal of researches.
Comments on Élie de Beaumont’s theory of mountain elevation.
Asks about parallel lines of upheaval and depression in the Pacific.
Glad CD likes Athenaeum Club.
Comments on methods of work.
Invites CD to visit Kinnordy.
Defends BAAS: "in this country no importance is attached to any body of men who do not make occasional demonstrations of their strength in public meetings".
With respect to Glen Roy, notes existence of deposits destitute of shells.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Charles Lyell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1840 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.448
Summary:
Is sorry JH did not inform him of the paper he was to read on the astronomical influence on climate. Would like an abstract when published. Would also like a copy of the verses on the great telescope. Encloses a paper of his own.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 16 July 1841]
Source of text:
DAR 98: A1–2
Summary:
Regrets not seeing CD before leaving on trip [to the U. S.]. CD’s move from London will be a privation for CL.
Returns charts on coral reefs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[9 Apr 1843]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 81, 205.9: 393
Summary:
Spoke to Henry Warburton, W. H. Fitton, and E. B. Greenough on CD’s idea of a Government grant for publication [not identified].
Will read at next meeting his paper on erect Nova Scotia fossil trees [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 4 (1843–5): 176–8].
E. P. Halstead reports on shores rising off Burma and Bay of Bengal.
Unpacking his U. S. fossils.
Phillips looked at beds below coal in Pennsylvania. Result is the usual different species found but with complete representation of forms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Charles Lyell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 September 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.59
Summary:
Talks about British Museum business, including the purchase of fossils and the hiring of George R. Waterhouse.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 2 Aug 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 281
Summary:
CD’s criticism of his book [Travels in North America (1845)].
Compares invertebrate animals of Tasmania and England.
Mentions views of C. J. F. Bunbury on climate of the Carboniferous period.
Robert Brown says Australian flora has the widest range.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Charles Lyell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 July 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.424
Summary:
When he received JH's request to give a lecture on American geology he did not treat it seriously. Now R. I. Murchison has made a similar request so thinks he could work up a popular lecture on the Mississippi Delta. Will keep off his old ground.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Author
- Babbage, Charles1
- Bostock, John1
- Breton, Philip le1
- Broderip, W. J.1
- Buckland, William1
- Calvert, Harry1
- Clift, William1
- Compton, S. J. A.1
- Darwin, C. R.2
- Darwin, E. A.1
- Farrer, T. H.1
- Grenville, G. N.1
- Hamilton, W. J.1
- Head, E. W.1
- Henslow, J. S.1
- Heywood, James1
- Hooker, J. D.1
- Horsman, Edward1
- Kay, Joseph1
- King, P. J. L.1
- Lyell, Charles
- Murchison, R. I.1
- Owen, Richard1
- Percival, E. F.1
- Phillips, John1
- Phillips, T. J.1
- Phillips-Jodrell, T. J.1
- Powell, Baden1
- Price, Bonamy1
- Robartes, T. J. A.1
- Roget, P. M.1
- Sedgwick, Adam1
- Senior, N. W.1
- Stanley, Edward1
- Stokes, Charles1
- Taylor, John1
- Verney, Harry1
- Wedgwood, Hensleigh1
- Whewell, William1
- Yorke, H. G. R.1
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