Search: American Philosophical Society in repository 
Sorted by:

Showing 61–80 of 906 items

DCP-LETT-649

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
5 and 7 Oct 1842
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.28)
Summary:

Discusses growth of various species of coral. Explains significance of dead reefs.

Describes meeting of the Council of the Geological Society; the controversy involving Edward Charlesworth.

Mentions conversations with William Lonsdale about Lonsdale’s work on corals and the financial support for his work.

Murchison’s views on glaciation in Wales.

Agassiz’s observations at Glen Roy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-651

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Hallowes Miller
Date:
[16 Oct – 27 Nov 1842]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.29)
Summary:

Mentions preparing geological notes for press. Asks whether WHM still has some geological specimens he had examined for CD.

Urges WHM to attend important meeting of Geological Society on 3 December.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-658

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
[14 Jan 1843]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks for account.

Discusses delay of Reptiles by Thomas Bell. Asks them to inform R. B. Hinds of delay.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-660

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[22 Jan 1843]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Comments on JSH’s botanical work with his parishioners. Lyell will be pleased that he has done some fossil botanical work.

Describes a Geological Society meeting about Edward Charlesworth’s complaints.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-677

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
25 June 1843
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.31)
Summary:

Sends notes on volcanic islands for LH to read and return.

[Letter could be an inaccurate contemporary copy to which the copyist interpolated details, or a forgery. The address "Down House Orpington Kent" occurs nowhere else.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-680

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Colburn
Date:
4 July [1843]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Offers to pay for use of plate of map of S. America and for three woodcuts, for German edition of Journal of researches [1844].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-696

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[15 or 22] Sept 1843
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.32)
Summary:

Mentions expected birth of child [Henrietta Emma].

BAAS meeting.

Comments on letters from G. R. Waterhouse and William Lonsdale.

Describes survival of apparently "fossil" seeds sent by W. Kemp.

Is at work on MS [of Volcanic islands].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-724

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[16 Dec 1843]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.33)
Summary:

Description and defence of his view of the tosca in Banda Oriental, along the Rio Uruguay and at the Rio Negro, taking issue with A. D. d’Orbigny. Refers to the pumice in the Patagonian Territory. Two tables show the layered tosca formation along the Uruguay.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-731

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Denny
Date:
20 Jan [1844]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.37)
Summary:

Discusses sending HD lice specimens. Asks him to check with G. R. Waterhouse.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-755

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Denny
Date:
3 June [1844]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.35)
Summary:

Discusses intestinal worms among humans.

Comments on origin of human races.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-770

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Denny
Date:
12 Aug [1844]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Can hardly believe he made a mistake in specimens sent to HD. Recopies numbers in case he transposed them. [Has to do with lice taken from a specimen of aperea and put into spirits during Beagle voyage.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-771

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
29 Aug [1844]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.38)
Summary:

Thanks Horner for his letter [about Volcanic islands].

Discusses craters of elevation with respect to the views of Leopold von Buch and Élie de Beaumont. Compares Lyell’s views to those of continental geologists. Mentions reading A. D. d’Orbigny [Voyage dans l’Amérique méridionale (1835–47)].

Encloses note from Emma to Mrs Horner, inviting the Horners to visit Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-773

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[1 Sept 1844]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.39)
Summary:

Asks about CL’s new book [Travels in North America (1845)].

Discusses views of A. D. d’Orbigny on elevation.

Mentions reading W. H. Prescott [History of the conquest of Mexico (1843)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-815

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Hamilton Smith
Date:
14 Jan [1845]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Has read CHS’s paper, "Original population of America" [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 38 (1844–5): 1–20], and is eager to know reference for the account of a "ruined city in the Caroline Group", indicating that the land has subsided. Refers to his own subsidence hypothesis in his work [Coral reefs].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-820

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Hamilton Smith
Date:
26 Jan [1845]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.40)
Summary:

Discusses extract sent by CHS dealing with island of Pouynipéte. Agrees account of island by Lloghtsky [Johann Lhotsky] is suspect.

Comments on view that former migration of animals, plants, and man was by continental extensions now submerged.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-822

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Brayley
Date:
7 Feb 1845
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.41)
Summary:

Discusses EWB’s application for a position and his qualifications.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-824

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[8 Feb 1845]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.42)
Summary:

Remarks on fossils described in A. D. d’Orbigny’s Voyage dans l’Amérique méridionale.

Asks CL whether he has talked with John Murray concerning 2d ed. [of Journal of researches].

Mentions conversation with Hugh Cuming about South American shells. Has had G. B. Sowerby (elder) look at some specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-868

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
16 May [1845]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Is at work on second edition of Journal of researches.

Hopes to finish geology of the Beagle by autumn.

Hooker gives "a wonderful account" of Galapagos plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-882

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[5 July 1845]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.43)
Summary:

Sends the first part of Journal of researches [2d ed.]. Explains his dedication of book to CL. Describes revisions.

Has received CL’s book [Travels in North America, 2 vols. (1845)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-899

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[30 July – 2 Aug 1845]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.44)
Summary:

Comments extensively on CL’s book [Travels in North America (1845)]. Lyell’s views on slavery, the clergy, education, and coalfields. Has difficulty in tracing Lyell’s course. Comments on geological portions, especially CL’s comparisons of living and fossil organisms to those of South America and Tasmania; animal formation of carbonic acid and effects of vegetable decay; Indians’ use of lumber. Discusses water-borne transportation of wood, fruit, and seeds. Notes distribution of Arctic flora.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Author
Addressee
Correspondent
Date
Document type
Repository
Contributor
Transcription available