To W. B. Dawkins 12 April [1871]
Summary
Sends contribution of £5 to Settle Cave Exploration Fund.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Boyd Dawkins |
| Date: | 12 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 22) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6695 |
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- … Sends contribution of £5 to Settle Cave Exploration Fund. …
- … by the Report of the Settle Cave Exploration that funds are wanted, so I have the pleasure …
Hart, H. C. (1847–1908)
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- … under the auspices of the Palestine Exploration Fund in 1883. Author of Animals of the …
Besant, Walter (1836–1901)
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- … Secretary to the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1868–86. Prime mover in establishing the …
To Henry Willett 26 March [1873]
Summary
CD subscribes an additional £10.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Willett |
| Date: | 26 Mar [1873] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8251 |
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- … an additional 10£ for the Wealden Exploration Fund & which please to apply to whichever …
- … of CD’s payments to the sub-Wealden exploration fund (see n. 2, below). The sinking of …
Hilton, James (1815–1907)
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- … Building Society. Member of the Egypt Exploration Fund. Member of the Royal Microscopical …
Willett, Henry (1823–1905)
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- … established and managed the Wealden Exploration Fund to investigate the geology of the …
Hull, Edward (1829–1917)
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- … Araba on behalf of the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1883–4. FRS 1867. ODNB . Bibliography …
To [Walter Besant?] 10 January [1872–4]
Summary
Refuses an invitation on the grounds of ill-health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Walter Besant |
| Date: | 10 Jan [1872-4] |
| Classmark: | eBay UK: worthpoint.com/worthopedia/emma-darwin-original-letter-1871-286171432, accessed 30 January 2020 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9236F |
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- … and secretary of the Palestine Exploration Fund, is suggested as a possible recipient. The …
Grove, George (1820–1900)
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- … 1873–8. Originated the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1865. Edited Macmillan’s Magazine , …
To J. D. Hooker [29 July 1865]
Summary
Was glad to read JDH’s article on glaciers of Yorkshire ["Moraines of the Tees Valley", Reader 6 (1865): 70].
Reader article [6 (1865): 61–2] about English and foreign men of science is unjust.
Lubbock is now lost to science.
B. Verlot’s pamphlet on variations of flowers [Sur la production et la fixation des variétés dans les plantes d’ornement (1865)] is very good.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [29 July 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 273 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4874 |
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- … afford to subscribe to the Palestine Exploration Fund (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 …
- … under the auspices of the Palestine Exploration Fund in 1881, together with memoirs on …
To Henry Willett 19 April [1874]
Summary
F. M. Balfour is in Naples. Comments on rate at which sea eats back the land, as given in early editions of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Willett |
| Date: | 19 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 359 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9420 |
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- … circular may have involved the Wealden Exploration Fund, which Willett had established to …
From J. D. Hooker 13 July 1865
Summary
Studying moraines.
On Lubbock’s book [see 4860], and Lyell’s apology. Recapitulates whole affair.
W. E. H. Lecky [Rise of rationalism in Europe (1865)] and other reading.
Spencer’s observations are wrong on umbellifers, his reasoning partially right.
Natural History Review is all but defunct.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 July 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 30–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4873 |
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- … to subscribe to the Palestine Exploration fund. I am deeply interested in the proper …
- … 152–3, 311–12, 638–9. The Palestine Exploration Fund, set up to finance the expedition, …
From J. D. Hooker [23] December 1865
Summary
No one believes in Karsten.
Surprised by CD’s observations that illegitimate crosses within a species produce hybrid-like offspring.
JDH’s scepticism of Scott’s observations.
On proposing James Hector vs Julius von Haast for Royal Society; on learned society honours.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23] Dec 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 47–50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4954 |
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- … sections, p. 110). On the Palestine Exploration Fund, see the letter from J. D. Hooker, …
From E. A. Darwin 9 April [1864]
Summary
Lyell thinks an expedition should be sent to the caves in Borneo, supported by the sale of surplus specimens; thinks "our progenitors" may well be there.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Apr [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B25–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4458 |
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- … discussed the caves and requested funds for the exploration in a letter to the Reader , …
From A. R. Wallace 10 May 1864
Summary
On the Borneo cave exploration.
ARW will send his contribution to theory of origin of man. The vast mental and cranial differences between man and apes, whereas structural differences in other parts of body are small. The problem of explaining diversity of human races along with the stability of man’s form during all historical epochs. Discussion with "Anthropologicals" [following reading of ARW’s paper, "The origin of human races", before the Anthropological Society, 1 Mar 1864].
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 May 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B12–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4490 |
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- … requested funds in the Reader , 19 March 1864, p. 367, for the exploration of caves in …
To Edward Cresy [before May 1848?]
Summary
Agrees that naval expeditions to the Arctic are a waste of money. Believes Sir J. Barrow responsible. "Dr [Richard?] King is quite right in the advantage of Land Expeditions".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Date: | [before May 1848?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 304 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-805 |
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- … funds from 1804 onward. Barrow died on 23 November 1848. Probably the sectional committee of mineralogy and geology of the Royal Society of which CD was a member, 1839–49. William Buckland , chairman of the committee during 1847–8, was asked to supply natural history instructions for James Clark Ross’s search expedition that set out in May 1848 ( Admiralty Blue Books XLI: 202–3; Royal Society Geology Committee Minutes, 1839–49). Arctic exploration …
From John Evans 28 January 1878
Summary
Asks for subscription for A. H. Everett’s cave explorations in Borneo.
Is sure CD is pleased with Albert Gaudry’s new book [Les enchaînements du monde animal dans les temps géologiques (1878)].
| Author: | John Evans |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11337 |
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- … exploration, and estimates his expenses at about £370 which I have agreed to find for him— The produce of his work is in the first instance to go to the British Museum and any duplicates that they may not require will be allotted by a Comm ee . The Royal Society has voted me £50 from the Donation Fund, …
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Evans, John (b) | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Willett, Henry | (2) |
| Besant, Walter | (1) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Dawkins, W. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Willett, Henry | (2) |
| Besant, Walter | (1) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
humans in Commentary
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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- … On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July …
