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DCP-LETT-1116

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
8 [Sept 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 50: C3–C6
Summary:

Discusses David Milne’s Glen Roy paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber", Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. Rejects Milne’s theory that outlet of Glen Roy is blocked by detritus. Impressed by Milne’s discovery of an outlet at the level of the second shelf. Believes this strengthens theory that lakes were formed by glacier blocking Glen Roy. Offers arguments against glacier theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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-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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Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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.

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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)].

Contributor:
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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-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].

Contributor:
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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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