Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist)

Edinburgh Plinian Society

Fonds

Identifier: Coll-275

Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1826-1841

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Index Book No. 3, 1860

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Identifier: Coll-203/A5/5

Scope and Contents Number 3 of 13, these notebooks record the reading notes created by Lyell, and link to his notebooks, the bound offprints and correspondence. Authors. their titles and Lyell's notes are recorded against relevant page numbers. There is an index at the back. From pg. 96, there is an Alphabetical Index to the first six volumes of Tracts. From p. 102 there is an Alphabetical Indexto the first three index books. Begins with notes on Lyell's scientific notebooks, reviews, letters, and papers on...

Dates: 1860

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Index Notebooks

Index Book, Shells, c. 1860

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Identifier: Coll-203/A5/16

Scope and Contents

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'.

Dates: c. 1860

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Index Notebooks

Letter from Dana, James Dwight, to Charles Lyell, 5 November 1852

File — Box Box 3.1: Series Coll-203/B1

Identifier: Coll-203/B1/32

Scope and Contents

Letter relates to assisting Charles Darwin, a species of Gorgonia found in East India, and Dana's Geological Report in the North American Review.

Dates: 5 November 1852

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Correspondence to Charles Lyell, A-Z 'Acceptance in Lieu' tranche

Letter from Darwin, Charles Robert, to Charles Lyell, 30 July 1837 - 16 February 1882

File — Box Box 3.1: Series Coll-203/B1

Identifier: Coll-203/B1/33

Scope and Contents

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'.

Dates: 30 July 1837 - 16 February 1882

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Correspondence to Charles Lyell, A-Z 'Acceptance in Lieu' tranche

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan, 19 June 1861

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/47

Scope and Contents

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].

Dates: 19 June 1861

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H) / Correspondence concerning the compilation of 'Memoir of Edward Forbes'

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Jessie Aitken Wilson, 24 January 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/55

Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 24 January 1860

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H) / Correspondence concerning the compilation of 'Memoir of Edward Forbes'

Letters from Darwin, Charles Robert to Charles Lyell, 13 April 1857

File — Box Box 1.2: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)

Identifier: Coll-203/1/56

Scope and Contents

Darwin mentions that he is in the process of completing writing his book, however, he finds this process to be "overwhelming".

Dates: 13 April 1857

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Correspondence to Charles Lyell, A-Z 1927 tranche

Letters from Duke of Argyll [Campbell, John Douglas Sutherland] to Charles Lyell, 19 January 1850 - 30 April 1903

File — Box Box 1.1: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)

Identifier: Coll-203/1/9

Scope and Contents Lyell summarises the letters as: 1) Darwin's theory, pigeons not arboreal, 1860 2) Mull tertiary leaves, 1861 3) Non-arboreal habits of pigeons, March 22 1865 4) Darwin on correlation of growth, June 2 1865 5) Variety of Humming Bird, April 24 1867, Gould on ... of species in Humming Bird 6) Humming Birds, not opposed to Darwin's May 1 1867 7) Applicable to Humming Birds May 17 1867 8) Elephant in ivory of Perigord Cave, June 8th 1867 9)...

Dates: 19 January 1850 - 30 April 1903

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Correspondence to Charles Lyell, A-Z 1927 tranche

Letters from Duncan, Peter Martin to Charles Lyell, 3 February 1866-19 January 1870

File — Box Box 1.4: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)

Identifier: Coll-203/1/67

Scope and Contents Letters are summarised by Lyell as: 1) Dr Duncan on Bolderberg Flabellum [relating to Bolderberg formation in Northern Belgium] 2) Tropical corals, how far corals can indicate climate 3) Corals in Norway sea 4) 60 new Liassic [Early Jurassic] corals, showing imperfection of record 5) Lonsdale notes and Keeling island [Cocos, Australia] specimens 6) Scleractinia of antigua corals and explanation of Duncan's theory 7) reference to his paper on...

Dates: 3 February 1866-19 January 1870

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Correspondence to Charles Lyell, A-Z 1927 tranche

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Edinburgh Plinian Society

Index Book No. 3, 1860

Index Book, Shells, c. 1860

Letter from Dana, James Dwight, to Charles Lyell, 5 November 1852

Letter from Darwin, Charles Robert, to Charles Lyell, 30 July 1837 - 16 February 1882

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan, 19 June 1861

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Jessie Aitken Wilson, 24 January 1860

Letters from Darwin, Charles Robert to Charles Lyell, 13 April 1857

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

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