From Asa Gray 9 November 1861
Summary
Discusses observations of his own and of John Torrey on dimorphism, especially in Amsinckia.
Is trying to find specimens of Houstonia for CD.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Nov 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 63–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3313 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 [December 1861]
Summary
Gongora cannot be female of Acropera; it may itself be a male.
Hopes Daniel Oliver will "sink Atlantis" in his Royal Institution lecture.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 [Dec 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 139 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3352 |
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- … rather than by assuming a hypothetical Atlantic communication between Europe and America. …
From William Branwhite Clarke [August 1861]
Summary
Evidence of glacial action in Australia. [See Origin, 4th ed., p. 443.]
| Author: | William Branwhite Clarke |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Aug 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 171 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3222 |
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- … which often falls on vessels in the Atlantic’, read to the Geological Society of London on …
To Asa Gray 23 [January 1861]
Summary
Is glad AG will publish [pamphlet of his reviews of Origin]. Insists on bearing the costs. Encloses list of institutions and individuals to whom he would send copies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 23 [Jan 1861] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3050 |
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- … of three articles on Origin published in the Atlantic Monthly ( A. Gray 1860a ). See …
To Asa Gray 17 February [1861]
Summary
Distribution of AG’s pamphlet.
Insectivorous plants.
Informs AG of his [CD’s] notice on Pumilio in Gardeners’ Chronicle [5 Jan 1861; Collected papers 2: 36–8].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 17 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (54) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3064 |
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- … Asa Gray’s three articles on Origin from the Atlantic Monthly ([A. Gray] 1860a). Gray had …
To Charles Lyell 2 February [1861]
Summary
Quotes passage from letter from Asa Gray dealing with views of Francis Bowen on heredity and Agassiz "(foolish man)" on heredity and languages.
Sent CL the Calcutta Review [with Edward Blyth’s review of Origin, 35 (1860): 64–88].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 2 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.238) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3054 |
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- … anyone else on either side of the Atlantic. ’ (K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 341). Francis …
To Charles Lyell [15 September 1861]
Summary
Discusses CL’s correspondence with T. F. Jamieson. Comments on Jamieson’s theory that the roads of Glen Roy were formed by a glacial lake. Discusses elevation of Scotland during the glacial period.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [15 Sept 1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.264) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3254 |
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- … island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic in Journal of researches , p. 273. Oswald …
To J. D. Hooker 18 March [1861]
Summary
Argument, based on geographical distribution and competition, for a mundane glacial period rather than cooling of one longitudinal belt at a time.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 18 Mar [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3091 |
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- … you bridge over the tropical parts of the Atlantic,—a doctrine, which you know, I cannot …
From H. W. Bates 28 March 1861
Summary
Discusses specific varieties, especially geographic varieties.
Comments on the effects of the glacial age on the tropics.
Sexual selection.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Mar 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3104 |
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- … found within the influence of the Atlantic sea breezes, but in the sultry valleys of the …
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Essay: Natural selection & natural theology
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—by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted…
William B. Bowles
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As a famous figure in the debates surrounding human evolution, Darwin could be something of a lightning rod for eccentric thinkers with their own ideas about his theories. The idea of a “missing link” compelled one such enthusiast to write to him about the…
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- … Debates on “The Negro Question.”” In Darwin in Atlantic Cultures: Evolutionary Visions of Race …
Books on the Beagle
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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- … conferred upon navigators passing the Equator – in the Atlantic – the very valuable boon of …
- … &c At the Rock Islet of St Paul, in the North Atlantic I saw “ravenous monsters of …
- … my assumption of what – is somewhat rare, in the South Atlantic – extraordinary currents – to wit – …
- … f.157r p.21 ] of the Indian and Pacific Oceans (as in the Atlantic) and that in the Pacific – …
- … (as it does to those of St Helena and Ascension in the South Atlantic *[5] ) causing breakers …
- … the Monster Shark caught at the Rock Islet of St Paul in the Atlantic were deposited by me in the …
- … would come in fleets to the Isles. Because when the South Atlantic whaling had become unprofitable …
Essays & reviews by Asa Gray
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Asa Gray wrote a series of reviews of Darwin’s works for American magazines such as Atlantic Monthly and The Nation. These gave publicity to Darwin’s theories, and they also contained extended reflections on the possible implications of these theories…
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- … reviews of Darwin’s works for American magazines such as Atlantic Monthly and The Nation . …
Salvador da Bahia
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Seasickness and wonderfully increasing collections
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- … Reports on his trip across the Atlantic Ocean and arrival in the tropics of Brazil. …
The full edition is now online!
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For nearly fifty years successive teams of researchers on both sides of the Atlantic have been working to track down all surviving letters written by or to Charles Darwin, research their content, and publish the complete texts. The thirtieth and final…
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- … years successive teams of researchers on both sides of the Atlantic have been working to track down …
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
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- … his series of three (unsigned) articles published in the Atlantic Monthly . Although intended to …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … 400 or 500 miles. Owls and Hawks have often been seen in mid Atlantic. HOOKER: 28 …
- … Very much business as usual then, between our trans-Atlantic correspondents. A …
- … SCIENCE AND ARTS, MARCH 1860 79 A GRAY, ARTICLE, ATLANTIC MONTHLY, JUNE 1860 …
- … TO JD HOOKER, 2 JULY 1860 89 A GRAY, ARTICLE, ATLANTIC MONTHLY, JULY 1860 90 …
- … C DARWIN TO LYELL, 21 AUGUST 1861 100 A GRAY, ATLANTIC MONTHLY FOR JULY, AUGUST AND …
- … 184 A GRAY, PREFACE, DARWINIANA, 1876 185 A GRAY, ATLANTIC MONTHLY FOR JULY, AUGUST, AND …
3.15 George Charles Wallich, photo
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< Back to Introduction In the years around 1868–1871, when professional photographers competed for sittings with Darwin, a doctor called George Charles Wallich approached him with a similar request. Wallich was planning to publish a set of his own…
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- … Wallich had been on board HMS Bulldog on its north Atlantic voyage of 1860, which was intended …
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
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- … and in the US Less success was achieved across the Atlantic, despite much effort expended by …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
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- … creature, and Chesney even hoped that Darwin would cross the Atlantic for its inspection. …
