Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1809 - 1882
Found in 66 Collections and/or Records:
Letters from Hartmann, Carl Friedrich Alexander to Charles Lyell, 10 August 1832 - 10 August 1839
File — Box Box 1.6: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/121
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
10 August 1832 - 10 August 1839
Letters from Judd, John Wesley to Charles Lyell, 10 June 1871 - 3 December 1874
File — Box Box 1.8: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/150
Scope and Contents
Letters from Judd, to Lyell. Where there are summaries, these are given in quotation marks.
Discussing Judd’s knowledge of the island of Heligoland and the composition of the land according to German geologists that he met. Also mentions the fossil collection of Von Strombeck and that they demonstrate beds which is rare. Includes a copy of Judd’s article.
Concerns the Duke of Argyll’s...
Dates:
10 June 1871 - 3 December 1874
Letters from Lyell, Charles to Darwin, Charles, 2 November 1869
File — Box Box 1.14: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1); Series Coll-203/1B
Identifier: Coll-203/1B/7
Scope and Contents
Copy letter written by Arabella Buckley, summarised as 'Lyell to Darwin, Sun's heat, Thomson on time, permanence of Continents'.
Dates:
2 November 1869
Letters from Lyell, Charles to Hicks, Henry, 19 September 1869
File — Box Box 1.14: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1); 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. See also Coll-203/12 for similar material.
'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...
Dates:
c1840 - c1855
Miscellaneous papers, 1831-1864
File — Box Lyell Box 1.19 (Formerly Gen 117): Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1); Series Coll-203/7 (Lyell 7)
Identifier: Coll-203/7/2 (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
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