Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist)
Dates
- Existence: 1809 - 1882
Found in 58 Collections and/or Records:
Edinburgh Plinian Society
The records of the Edinburgh Plinian Society consist of a Minute Book for the period 1826-1828 and a Minute Book for the period 1828-1841. Appended to the relevant volume is a note of the references to the membership of Charles Darwin.
Index Book, Shells, c. 1860
Notebook is identified on the inside first page as 'Alphabetical list of recent and tertiary fossil shells compared for identification'. This is followed by the note on the 'abbreviations of Localities'. Finally, there is the guidance ‘the figures in red ink shew the number of the Note Book, those in black ink the pages’. From page 29, the list is headed 'Mr Darwin's Shells'.
Letter from Darwin, Charles, to Charles Lyell, 30 July 1837 - 16 February 1882
6 letters, and one partial letter, 4 envelopes, and typescript copy of two letters from Darwin to Lyell extracted from Notebook 69, additional listing and photocopies of Darwin letters, probably held elsewhere. Article ''On the Distribution of the Erratic Boulders and on the Contemporaneous Unstratified Deposits of South America'.
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan, 19 June 1861
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan lamenting the slow sales of his book 'Memoirs of Edward Forbes' and suggesting this is due to the popularity of "the Gorilla book", [3rd edition Charles Robert Darwin's Origin of the Species].
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Jessie Aitken Wilson, 24 January 1860
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Jessie Aitken Wilson concerning the ownership of letters which her late brother George Wilson had borrowed as background material for the 'Memoirs of Edward Forbes'. She suggests writing to the owners to let them know that she has transferred them to Sir Archibald Geikie, and writes a detailed action list. She discusses the health of Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay and her dislike of Emily M Yelverton.
Letters from Darwin, Charles Robert to Charles Lyell, 13 April 1857
Darwin mentions that he is in the process of completing writing his book, however, he finds this process to be "overwhelming".
Letters from Duke of Argyll [Campbell, John Douglas Sutherland] to Charles Lyell, 19 January 1850 - 30 April 1903
Letters from Duncan, Peter Martin to Charles Lyell, 3 February 1866-19 January 1870
Letters from Hartmann, Carl Friedrich Alexander to Charles Lyell, 10 August 1832 - 10 August 1839
Hartmann was the German translator of Principles of Geology. Correspondence includes sketches and drawings and relates to the translation of Principles; the death of Friedrich Hoffmann; and the translation of Elements.
Letters from Lyell, Charles to Darwin, Charles, 2 November 1869
Copy letter written by Arabella Buckley, summarised as 'Lyell to Darwin, Sun's heat, Thomson on time, permanence of Continents'.
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