To J. D. Dana 20 February [1863]
Summary
Received JDD’s book [Manual of geology (1862)]
and pamphlet on man ["On the higher subdivisions in the classification of mammals", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 35 (1863): 65–71].
Fully admits JDD’s objections are valid. But is convinced of the general truth of his own views (with much incidental error), because they embrace so many phenomena and explain them.
Discusses some mistakes Owen has made;
Falconer’s disagreement with Owen ["On the mammalian genus Plagiaulax", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 348–69].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
Date: | 20 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4000 |
From T. H. Huxley 20 February 1863
Summary
Has not answered CD’s former letters. Has been ill. Will look up fish business as soon as he is square again.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 297 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4001 |
From John Lubbock 20 February 1863
Summary
Dining arrangements.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4002 |
To John Scott 20 [February 1863]
Summary
Thanks JS for the very large Acropera capsule. CD has perhaps made a blunder about the sex of Acropera.
JS was right that successive homomorphic generations of Primula breed true.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 20 [Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B20–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4003 |
To Daniel Oliver 20 [February 1863]
Summary
Having trouble understanding laws of phyllotaxy in order to grasp Hugh Falconer’s objections.
L. C. Treviranus on Primula [see 3980] misses the "prettiness" of the adaptations.
John Scott says P. scotica is never dimorphic.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 20 [Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 41 (EH 88206024) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4052 |
letter | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Dana, J. D. | (1) |
Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
Scott, John | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Dana, J. D. | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
2.20 Montford, terracotta bust, NPG
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< Back to Introduction Horace Montford presented this terracotta bust of Darwin to the National Portrait Gallery in January 1905. He explained that it was the model for the bronze busts commissioned by Andrew Carnegie in 1901, one of which is now in…
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'the Owen Constitution'
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2.6 Adolf von Hildebrand bust
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< Back to Introduction In 1873, the German biologist Anton Dohrn commissioned a plaster bust of Darwin for the ‘fresco room’ of his new research centre, the Stazione Zoologica in Naples. It was a fitting memorial of a long association between the two…
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- … in the library, of which there is a photograph (pp. 218, 220). Christiane Groeben and Irmgard Müller …