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DCP-LETT-352

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Geological Society of London
Date:
27 Mar 1837
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/216)
Summary:

Recommends David Williams’ paper on raised beaches of Devon [David Williams, "Letter … on the raised beaches of Barnstaple", Trans. Geol. Soc. Lond. 2d ser. 5 (1840): 287–8] be shortened and published immediately after Sedgwick’s and Murchison’s paper ["Description of a raised beach in Barnstaple", ibid., pp. 279–86] as chief point of paper is to support their conclusions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-353

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
28 Mar [1837]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 34 DAR/1/1/34)
Summary:

Publication plans for the account of the Beagle expedition – CD to have the third volume for his journal.

News of naturalists and their interest in his specimens. Queries about plant specimens, including one on whether seeds from Keeling Island would endure salt water.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-354

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
10 Apr [1837]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Discusses possibility of publishing the zoology of the voyage of the Beagle. Will need help from more able naturalists. Would LJ object to describing the fishes for such a work rather than for scientific journals? Is working on his Beagle journal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-383A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Lonsdale
Date:
[May? 1837]
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/3/169)
Summary:

Sends an abstract made by J. F. Royle of CD’s paper ["On certain areas of elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans"]. G. B. Greenough will have problems with the altered references in the coral island section.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-355

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
18 [May 1837]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 35 DAR/1/1/35)
Summary:

Plans to apply to Government for assistance with publishing Zoology.

Robert Brown has taken an interest in the fossil woods.

CD is at work on his journal. Has not begun his geology yet. Has seen much of Lyell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-360

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
[19 May – 16 June 1837]
Source of text:
DAR 154: 52
Summary:

Sends a number of questions (to put to his father), mainly concerned with transmission of diseases, between Europeans and natives, "people packed together", etc.

Is investigating how to get Government support [for Zoology].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-356

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[28 May 1837]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 36 DAR/1/1/36)
Summary:

CD to read paper on formation of coral islands at Geological Society. Lyell seems prepared to give up [his view].

Publication of the Narrative is now definite. Feels he should have published journal after the geology and zoology of the voyage.

Robert Brown, as well as JSH, is interested in edible fungi from Tierra del Fuego.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-356F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lort Stokes
Date:
[after 31 May 1837]
Source of text:
Stokes 1846 , 1: 331
Summary:

Asks JLS: "Are there masses of coral or beds of shells some yards above high water mark, on the coast fronting the barrier reef?" [In reference to JLS’s proposed exploration of Australian coasts and rivers.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-358

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[June – Sept 1837]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 37190: 322)
Summary:

At Lyell’s request sends his copy of Whewell’s History of inductive sciences [1837] to CB.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-359

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Buckland
Date:
[15 June 1837]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Describes the two species of lizard [Amblyrhynchus] found in the Galapagos Archipelago.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-360A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Beaufort
Date:
16 June 1837
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824)
Summary:

CD wants to request the assistance of Government to support the expense of the numerous engravings necessary for the publication of the results of the extensive collections in various departments of Natural History during the Beagle voyage. To what quarter should he apply?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-361

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whewell
Date:
18 June [1837]
Source of text:
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 3)
Summary:

Asks Whewell questions on earthquake wave action.

Thanks him for signature [to CD’s request to Chancellor of the Exchequer for funds for Zoology].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-361A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[20 June 1837]
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824)
Summary:

Upon the advice of Captain Beaufort and with embarrassment to himself CD asks JSH whether he would be perfectly willing personally to take the letter requesting government assistance directly to Thomas Spring Rice [Chancellor of the Exchequer].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-362

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick William Hope
Date:
[21 June 1837]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological collections)
Summary:

Discusses insect specimens he left with FWH. Asks if he may state on FWH’s authority that a third or a half of the specimens from Sydney and Hobart Town are undescribed – a striking fact, showing imperfect knowledge of the insects in the close neighbourhood of the two Australian capitals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-364

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
7 July [1837]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 52)
Summary:

Has finished the Journal; is readying it for the press.

Adds family news including Caroline’s forthcoming marriage to Josiah Wedgwood III.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-366

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[12 or 13 July 1837]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 37 DAR/1/1/37)
Summary:

Has been "cramming up learning to ornament my journal with".

Sends a list of questions on his botanical specimens. Needs answers for Journal of researches, which he expects to go to press in August.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-366F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Richardson
Date:
[24 July 1837]
Source of text:
Scott Polar Research Institute (MS 1503/16/1)
Summary:

Questions about woods in cold, northern climates; about JR’s reference to frozen sandstone; about how far out from the shore the sea may become frozen.

His petition for assistance from the government is in statu quo; he is working at his Journal [of researches].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-367

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
30 July 1837
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell Collection Coll-203/A1/69: 140–2)
Summary:

Galapagos land birds and reptiles.

No two naturalists agree on any fundamental idea [of species]. "Everything is arbitrary."

Has been with Richard Owen going over the S. American fossils.

Has worked out the non-relation between animals’ bulk and luxuriance of vegetation.

The horse once common on the Pampas. The mystery of the extinction of these animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-368

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[1 Aug 1837]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 38 DAR/1/1/38)
Summary:

Botanical queries for Journal of researches, which is about to go to press.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-369

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Shoberl
Date:
2 Aug [1837]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks WS to write to his friend to make his corrections [in CD’s MS of Journal of researches] in ink.

Capt. FitzRoy agrees with the propriety of beginning to print [CD’s volume separately] at once.

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