From Charles Kingsley 31 January 1862
Summary
CK defended CD’s theory at a shooting party with the Bishop of Oxford, the Duke of Argyll, and Lord Ashburton. The discussion started as a result of shooting some blue rock-pigeons which were different from blue rocks of other localities. CK held that all pigeons were descended from one species.
CK proposed that mythological races, e.g., elves and dwarfs, were intermediate species between man and apes, and have become extinct by natural selection; i.e., by competition with a superior white race of man.
Author: | Charles Kingsley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 169.1: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3426 |
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- … From Charles Kingsley 31 January 1862 …
- … DAR 169.1: 29 Charles Kingsley Eversley 31 Jan 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … see the enclosure to the letter from Charles Kingsley, 1 November 1867 ( Calendar nos. …
- … Charles Kingsley refers to William Bingham Baring , Lord Ashburton, George Douglas …
- … Charles Lyell : ‘As regards the effects of breeding, I think the facts he gives in respect to pigeons tell more against than for his theory’ (I. E. Campbell ed. 1906, 2: 482). W. B. Baring had no surviving sons, but the reference may be to his nephew, Alexander Hugh Baring , who was a member of parliament for Thetford, Norfolk. Alexander Baring’s father, Francis, lived at Buckenham Hall, near Brandon, Norfolk, which stood in extensive parkland ( Post Office directory of Cambridge, Norfolk, and Suffolk 1858). Kingsley …
To Charles Kingsley 6 February [1862]
Summary
Comments on CK’s letter [3426].
Identifies species of pigeon shot by party.
On CK’s "grand and awful" notion of genealogy of man, CD recalls how revolting was the thought that his ancestors must have been like the Fuegians. His present belief that they were hairy beasts is less revolting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
Date: | 6 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection); 19th Century Shop (dealer) (March 2014) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3439 |
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- … To Charles Kingsley 6 February [1862] …
- … Shop (dealer) (March 2014) Charles Robert Darwin Down 6 Feb [1862] Charles Kingsley …
- … is established by the relationship to the letter from Charles Kingsley, 31 January 1862 . …
- … Letter from Charles Kingsley, 31 January 1862 . CD was in Glasgow in September 1855 and …
- … has not been traced. See letter from Charles Kingsley, 31 January 1862 . CD had finished …
- … in Variation 1: 183. See letter from Charles Kingsley, 31 January 1862 . For CD’s earliest …
- … C. Lyell 1863a ). See letter from Charles Kingsley, 31 January 1862 . The reference is to …
- … Charles Lyell , had visited the site in recent years to investigate his claims (see Correspondence vol. 8 and Grayson 1985 , pp. 185–90). CD cited these discoveries in Origin 3d ed. , p. 18, as evidence for the great age of the human species. CD probably refers to his paper ‘Dimorphic condition in Primula ’ , although Kingsley’ …
From J. D. Hooker [26 February 1862?]
Summary
Box of Melastomataceae has arrived.
Talked with [Duke of] Argyll about Origin. He is between stools: Owen and Lyell.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Feb 1862?] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3455 |
To T. H. Huxley 28 December [1862]
Summary
Returns Kingsley’s letter [see ML 1: 225 n.].
Lectures [to working men] would do good if widely circulated.
On sterility, they differ so much there is no use arguing. To get the degree of sterility THH expects in recently formed varieties seems to CD simply hopeless. Has suggested a test experiment to Tegetmeier [two fertile birds paired and unproductive].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 28 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 189, 19: 209–12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3878 |
To ? 29 March [1862–9]
Summary
Declines, regretfully, to contribute to or to have his name appear on a new magazine.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 29 Mar [1862-9] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13878 |
From T. H. Huxley 9 October 1862
Summary
The BAAS meeting at Cambridge was exhausting.
Owen came to attack him but was beaten; his paper fell flat.
A "society for propagation of common honesty in all parts of the world" was established at Cambridge [THH’s "Thorough Club"?].
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 294 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3755 |
From J. D. Hooker [10 March 1862]
Summary
Returns Asa Gray’s letter. Disappointed with Gray. Comments on America. British–American relations.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [10 Mar 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 20–2; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (probably JDH/2/1/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3469 |
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