To Charles Lyell 6 August [1861]
Summary
Bentham has sent a damaged spurless Orchis pyramidalis; asks CL to send another. Fears they are irregular monsters. [See Orchids, pp. 47–8.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 6 Aug [1861] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 698) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3227 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … visited Folkestone in Kent, where the Lyells were also staying, during the first week in …
To Charles Lyell [1 August 1861]
Summary
Mentions Dutch translation [of Origin].
Discusses evolutionary origin of sexuality.
Asa Gray’s suggestion that variation was directed by a higher power and Herschel’s view of providential arrangement in nature.
Compares variation in domestic and wild species.
Asks CL for introductions for his son William in Southampton, where he has joined a bank.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [1 Aug 1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.259) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3223 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … than as a section within Elements . The Lyells were staying in Folkestone, Kent. Among …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
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Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
Matches: 1 hits
- … ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [29 July 1865] ): Lyells corrected pages came when I was …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
Matches: 4 hits
- … sur les Glaciers [Agassiz 1840] —— 30 th Lyells Principles. 3. Vol. 6 th Edit [Lyell …
- … ] all——3 vols.——well abstracted 22 d Lyells Elem. 2 d Edit. [Lyell 1841] d[itt]o.— …
- … 1841–54]. slightly skimmed Miserable Aug. 5 th Lyells Travels in N. America [Lyell 1845] …
- … Tribe &c by George Vasey. 1851 [Vasey 1851]. May 28. Lyells Elements 5 th . Edit [Lyell …
Visiting the Darwins
Summary
'As for Mr Darwin, he is entirely fascinating…' In October 1868 Jane Gray and her husband spent several days as guests of the Darwins, and Jane wrote a charming account of the visit in a sixteen-page letter to her sister. She described Charles…
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- … on Saturday— I have appointed next Monday to call on the Lyells; & mean to try & persuade Dr …
