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DCP-LETT-6388

From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 261
Summary:

Sends two papers; glad CD appreciates two he has already sent. Cannot send two others on glaciers (Philosophical Magazine, 1866 and 1867).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6489

From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 262
Summary:

Sends abstract of his views on change of climate and a copy of a paper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6489F

From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 Dec 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 50: E3–8
Summary:

Glacial climates.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6599

From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 263
Summary:

Argues for great age of earth before the Cambrian period. Opposes measuring age from secular cooling. Opposes Sir William Thomson. Lyell’s error on secular cooling.

Thanks for Moseley citation ["On the mechanical possibility of the descent of glaciers", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 17 (1869): 202–8].

In Edinburgh he feels out of touch with latest developments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6616

From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 264
Summary:

Thanks for abstract of Moseley’s paper on motion of glaciers [see 6599]. Reading it convinced him that Tyndall’s received view is wrong. Has formed a new view, which he has sent to Philosophical Magazine [4th ser. 37 (1869): 201–6].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6799

From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 265
Summary:

Thanks for presentation copy of Origin [5th ed.].

Clarifies his point on north and south glacial periods. Supports CD’s view that temperate plants will move up mountains during the alternation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2241

From:
James Croll
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
21 March 1870
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 162-163
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP2259

From:
James Croll
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 September 1870
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 194-195
  • Ebay (auction)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7908

From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Aug 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 266
Summary:

Refused to write a treatise on geological time.

His paper on W. B. Carpenter’s theory of ocean currents is appearing soon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2287

From:
James Croll
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
29 July 1872
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 250-251
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP2402

From:
James Croll
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 August 1879
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 36-37
  • Irons, J. C. (1896). In: Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll LL.D., F.R.S., Etc. London: E. Stanford. [p. 334]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP2403

From:
James Croll
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
12 August 1879
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 38-39
  • Irons, J. C. (1896). In: Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll LL.D., F.R.S., Etc. London: E. Stanford. [pp. 335-336]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP2162

From:
James Croll
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
25 November 1879
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 61-64
  • Irons, J. C. (1896). In: Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll LL.D., F.R.S., Etc. London: E. Stanford. [pp. 339-340]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP2164

From:
James Croll
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
2 December 1879
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 66-67
  • Irons, J. C. (1896). In: Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll LL.D., F.R.S., Etc. London: E. Stanford. [pp. 340-341]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP2037

From:
James Croll
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
24 July 1880
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 109-110
  • Irons, J. C. (1896). In: Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll LL.D., F.R.S., Etc. London: E. Stanford. [pp. 359-360]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13421

From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 161: 267
Summary:

Thanks for presentation copy of Earthworms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2181

From:
James Croll
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
19 December 1885
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 158-159
  • Irons, J. C. (1896). In: Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll LL.D., F.R.S., Etc. London: E. Stanford. [pp. 442-443]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP2413

From:
James Croll
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 September 1889
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 207-208
  • Irons, J. C. (1896). In: Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll LL.D., F.R.S., Etc. London: E. Stanford. [pp. 468-469]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP2414

From:
James Croll
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 September 1889
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 209-210
  • Irons, J. C. (1896). In: Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll LL.D., F.R.S., Etc. London: E. Stanford. [p. 471]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Tyndall2214

From:
James Croll
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Jan. 13th 1865
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/65-6, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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