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DCP-LETT-1119

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Chambers
Date:
11 Sept 1847
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Comments on David Milne’s paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. CD still believes in marine origin. Rejects barrier of detritus at mouth of Glen Roy. If roads were formed by lake, it must have been ice-lake.

Comments on evidence of glaciers and icebergs in North Wales. Thinks pass caused by tidal channel, not river. Suggests that RC make altitude measurements at various points.

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DCP-LETT-1118

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 Sept 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 103
Summary:

David Milne’s attack on his Glen Roy paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber", (1847) Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418] made CD horribly sick.

Wants Thomas Thomson to establish geographical range of erratic boulders in India.

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DCP-LETT-1120

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Milne Home
Date:
20 [Sept 1847]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.3813)
Summary:

Comments on paper by DM ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber", (1847) Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. "I am not in the least convinced about the Barriers … [but] I am very much staggered in favour of the ice-lake theory of Agassiz & [William] Buckland." Will "send a letter to the Scotsman, in which I give briefly my present impression".

Cites facts mentioned in South America possibly of use to DM.

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DCP-LETT-1121

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
The Scotsman
Date:
[after 20 Sept 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 50: B1–9
Summary:

Comments on article by David Milne ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. Refers to his paper on Glen Roy [Collected papers 1: 87–137]. Comments on Louis Agassiz’s article ["The glacial theory and its recent progress", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 33 (1842): 217–83]. Cites his own observations on glaciers in N. Wales. Discusses possibility of ice barrier creating lake. Notes objections to theory of an ice barrier. Defends his own theory that the roads are sea-beaches. Suggests questions for further investigation.

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DCP-LETT-13775

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Baxter
Date:
2 Oct [1847?]
Source of text:
Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections
Summary:

Reorders six 2–oz bottles with corks.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1122

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Elizabeth Horner; Mary Elizabeth Lyell
Date:
[4 Oct 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.63)
Summary:

Thanks Mrs Lyell for barnacle specimens.

Mentions Agassiz’s classification of saurians.

Discusses letter from Chambers on "roads" in Scottish glens; views of Agassiz and Buckland on the glens.

Is reading Hugh Miller [First impressions of England and its people (1847)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1124

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1847
Source of text:
DAR 161: 131
Summary:

Supposition that glaciers made Glen Roy is a dream. Has received three letters from CD on river terraces. Reports on trip to terraces at Belleville. Comparison with Glen Roy.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1123

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[5 Oct 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 108
Summary:

Mystified by the origin of coal-plants.

Milne’s Glen Roy theory is absurd but, oddly, it has staggered CD in favour of Agassiz’s ice-lake theory.

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DCP-LETT-1127

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 or 13] Oct 1847
Source of text:
DAR 114: 105
Summary:

Difficulty of scheduling visit before JDH departs on Himalayan expedition.

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DCP-LETT-1125

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Beete Jukes
Date:
8 Oct [1847]
Source of text:
University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections
Summary:

Flattered by JBJ’s discussion of coral reefs [in Voyage of H.M.S. "Fly" 1 (1847): 347–8]. CD has always thought his Coral reefs "too bold and speculative", so he is gratified "when anyone who has had opportunities of observation does not give his verdict against it".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1126

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[11 Oct 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.64)
Summary:

Discusses enclosed figures on elevation of terraces in several Scottish glens as surveyed by William Kemp and David Stevenson. Comments on Robert Chambers’ view of the terraces. Mentions a letter on the terraces, originally written for publication, which he has asked Robert Jameson [editor of the Edinburgh New Philos. J.] to destroy.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1128

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Anne Theresa Whitby
Date:
14 Oct [1847]
Source of text:
Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections (Honeyman Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for a suite of male and female specimens of Lepidoptera. Lack of difference in size of wings surprises CD; the female’s being smaller than male’s in early growth is new to him. Will ask a friend in India for comparable facts.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1129

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[21 Oct 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 107
Summary:

On scheduling farewell meeting.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1130

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 Oct 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 106
Summary:

Continued problems in scheduling farewell meeting.

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DCP-LETT-1137

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Clapham
Date:
[29 Oct 1847?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.47)
Summary:

Accepts AC’s offer to conduct hybridisation experiments, and offers suggestions.

Sends book [Journal of researches, 2d ed. (1845)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1132

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[31 Oct 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 26
Summary:

Has had two bad days with boils.

Is reading Last days of Pompeii [Edward Bulwer Lytton (1834)].

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DCP-LETT-1131

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[31 Oct 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 111
Summary:

CD very ill; tries to arrange departure meeting with JDH.

CD’s guess at composition of Maldive flora.

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DCP-LETT-13833

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[Nov 1847–51]
Source of text:
John K. Lattimer (private collection)
Summary:

"I had not heard before of Whench [Whewell?] having scolded you; I am rather glad of it …

What a grand number of novelties Hooker no doubt will bring home".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1133

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 Nov 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 109
Summary:

Now plans to come to Kew for an hour’s farewell if his stomach permits.

Congratulations on JDH’s Flora Antarctica [1847].

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DCP-LETT-1134

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[8 Nov 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 110
Summary:

CD too unwell to see JDH. Encloses Emma’s farewell note.

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