From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[15 Dec 1837 – 9 June 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 115
Summary:
Sends RO a box of fossils from William Darwin Fox, from the Isle of Wight.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[19 Dec 1837]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.9)
Summary:
Responds to Lyell’s query [missing] about northern and southern limits of coral islands of the Pacific. Warns that coral islands are much more thinly distributed than people realise and cites examples. Comments on views of Matthew Flinders. Reading work of É[lie] de B[eaumont]. Notes difficulty of setting an east-west boundary to coral islands.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
28 [Dec 1837]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/209)
Summary:
Sends perfect revise of "Toxodon" [Fossil Mammalia] which he has read and marked.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[28 Dec 1837]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
CD sorry RO is not well and fears work on Macrauchenia may have contributed. Thinks new name very good. Other details concerning publication [of Zoology, pt 1, no. 1].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 Feb 1837]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 141
Summary:
Interested in Lyell’s address [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1833–8): 479–523]. Asks what the points are on which CD and Lyell are fully agreed.
Inquires about the paper FitzRoy and CD wrote on missionaries ["Moral state of Tahiti" (1836), Collected papers 1: 19–38].
News of family.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 [Jan 1837]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 142
Summary:
Morning Herald had an account of CD’s 80 specimens of Mammalia and 450 birds at the Zoological Society.
John Gould has described new species in CD’s Galapagos birds.
Much interest in CD’s "Laurels".
Family news.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Feb 1837]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 143
Summary:
News of family and friends.
Caroline repeats story told to R. W. Darwin of FitzRoy’s feeling of obligation to Captain John White, from whom he gained release to marry Miss O’Brien.
Fanny Biddulph has had a son.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[early Dec 1837?]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 226
Summary:
Father says he sowed broom plants soon after house was built in 1798; these never came up. In 1835 the terrace was made; thereafter the broom sprang up.
Advice on a medicine CD is taking.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
David Brewster
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
20 September 1837
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I022
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Dionysius Lardner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 October 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.123
Summary:
Introducing his son George, who is to be stationed at the Cape for some time. Would like JH to advise him when necessary. DL has become co-editor with Bulwer Lytton of a new quarterly and would like an article from JH on his work in the Southern Hemisphere. Work on the Cyclopaedia is progressing.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Eilhard Mitscherlich
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
18 August 1837
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I018
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Elizabeth Gipps
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
28 December [1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.99
Summary:
Is grateful for his gift of flower roots; she will take great care of them on her arrival at Sydney.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Faraday report
To:
Trinity House
Date:
15 February 1837
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/A1, pp.27-42
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Faraday report
To:
Faraday report
Date:
17 April 1837
Source of text:
Dickson (1837), 37-8
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Faraday report
To:
Faraday report
Date:
5 May 1837
Source of text:
NLS MS 2207, f.184-5
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
13 July 1837
Source of text:
Science Museum MS 1406
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
W. H. Fitton
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
8 December 1837
Source of text:
Uppsala University Library Waller Ms alb-62:273
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1837
Source of text:
DAR 164: 132
Summary:
RF declines to give an opinion on the wording of the preface to CD’s volume [Journal and remarks, vol. 3 of Narrative, published separately as Journal of researches] and refers him to a disinterested third party.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1837
Source of text:
DAR 164: 133
Summary:
CD’s response [missing] comes from the heart. RF explains that CD’s preface [to Journal and remarks, vol. 3 of Narrative] offended him in not acknowledging the part RF and the other officers had in helping CD. Beagle voyage was the first on which officers could have kept any specimens they collected, but they gave preference to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Francis Baily
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 June 1837
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/3/16
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project