Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1809 - 1882
Found in 58 Collections and/or Records:
Letters from Lyell, Charles to Hicks, Henry, 19 September 1869
File — Box Unknown: Series Coll-203/1B
Identifier: Coll-203/1B/14
Scope and Contents
Copy letter summarised as 'Westmoreland & Yorkshire Geo[logy] [and also on the front as Glen Roy].
Dates:
19 September 1869
Letters to Huxley, Thomas Henry, from Charles Lyell, 5 June 1865-6 June 1865
File
Identifier: Coll-203/B3/9
Scope and Contents
Detailing Lyell's concerns and proposed actions, relating to a proposal by Huxley, to work to cancel a note and to add a P.S. [postscript] to the preface of 'Antiquity of Man', relating to Lubbock's challenge. Lyell writes that he has shown the resultant correspondance prior to these letters, to Hooker, Busk and then Darwin:
5 June 1865 Lyell writes in haste - Mary takes over the writing - as he is...
Dates:
5 June 1865-6 June 1865
Manuscript Notebooks, 1855 - 1861
Series
Identifier: Coll-203/A3
Scope and Contents
Specially created as a set of seven notebooks, separate from his run of Scientific notebooks, and labelled MS [Manuscript], these notebooks span a critical time in Lyell's life, beginning November 1855. He hears of Darwin's views on the origin of species five months later, during a visit to Down. When he closed the series in 1861, he began to write Antiquity of Man. Leonard G. Wilson has transcribed this series, published in 'Sir Charles Lyell's Scientific journals on the species question',...
Dates:
1855 - 1861
Manuscript Papers relating to Published Works, c1840-c1855
Series — Box Lyell Temp Box 3.14: Series Coll-203/B18; Series Coll-203/B17
Identifier: Coll-203/B18
Scope and Contents
Contains extensive autograph manuscript drafts of texts, with cancellations, revisions and additions, and loose illustrative plates and maps:
'On the Geology of some parts of Madeira' by Sir Charles Lyell. Notes on text about Las Palmas, Canary Islands. Contains part index to Notebook 195, reference Coll-203/A1/195. See also Coll-203/2 from which this item may possibly have originated.
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Dates:
c1840-c1855
Miscellaneous Papers, 1831-1864
Series — Box Lyell Temp Box 1.22 (Formerly Gen 119): Series Coll-203/5 (Lyell 5); Series Coll-203/6 (Lyell 6); Series Coll-203/7 (lyell 7); Series Coll-203/8 (Lyell 8)
Identifier: Coll-203/7 (lyell 7)
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous Papers consists of:
Address by Sir Charles Lyell on Charles Darwin receiving the Copley Medal (1864)
List of mollusca by Searles Valentine Wood
WIth a note titled 'Prof. Hoffmann on Palermo Caves etc. and translation’ there are pages from Chapter 2, Auszuge aus Briefen des Hrn. Professor Fr. Hoffmann [translated as 'Excerpts from Letters of Professor Fr....
Dates:
1831-1864
MS Notes I - Scientific Journal No. I, 20 November 1855 - 29 April 1856
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/A3/1
Scope and Contents
Scientific journal of Sir Charles Lyell, covers subjects such as creation of species - and thoughts on the evolution of man. Lyell refers to others such as Darwin, Hooker, Wollaston and topics such as the glacial epoch, rudimentary organs, volcanoes, Madeira, molluscs, fossil faunas, Australian fauna, Niagara, coal and New Zealand. Lyell provides his own index. Some writing is by Mary Lyell.
Dates:
20 November 1855 - 29 April 1856
MS Notes II - Scientific Memoranda or Journal II, 1 May 1856 - 6 April 1857
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/A3/2
Scope and Contents
Scientific memoranda or journal, includes 'Plan of Work on Origins of Species and Man' on pages 47-49. Subject matter includes, water plants, creation of genera, miracles, creation of species, evolution, genera of shells, radiation, organic nature, volcanoes, ice agency in transporting species, Plato's ideas and modern theory of species, race and races of man. Includes Lyell's own index.
Dates:
1 May 1856 - 6 April 1857
MS Notes V, 12 December 1858 - 24 April 1860
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/A3/5
Scope and Contents
Handwritten in ink manuscript notes, includes some copy letters relating to Darwin and the critical reception of his Origins of Species. Subject matter includes basalt, oolite flora, protosaurus, archegosaurus, foraminifera, geological ages, Plato's ideas, creation speculations, intellect and development of humans, race, languages, submerged forests, the Dead Sea and the deluge, the existence of continents. Included is Lyell's own index. Written in flowing text, essay like, the index...
Dates:
12 December 1858 - 24 April 1860
MS Notes VII, 25 September 1860 - 10 December 1861
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/A3/7
Scope and Contents
This small green notebook contains copy letters to and from Charles Lyell in 1860 and 1861. Letters are written in pencil and ink. The second half of the notebook is blank. Correspondents include Charles Darwin, F. F. Jamieson of Ellon, Dr Hooker, . There are also notes on Darwin attributed to Asa Gray and notes on observations made with Professor Ramsay, and one or two illustrations. Archivist's Index p. 3-11, Copy of letter to...
Dates:
25 September 1860 - 10 December 1861
Notebook No.64, 8 April 1837- June 1837
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 3: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/64
Scope and Contents
Of dark green leather, this notebook contains Charles Lyell's thoughts and observations while on a trip to Copenhagen with his wife Mary Lyell. On the front cover is written "London - Copenhagen April to June 1837 A". In the inside cover Lyell's address is written; "Mr C Lyell 16 Hart Street Bloomsbury Square". Contents include lists of queries and views held by specific individuals, observations in prose, and sketch illustrations. The notebook is written in red and black ink and...
Dates:
8 April 1837- June 1837
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