To George Maw 13 July [1861]
Summary
Thanks GM for his fair review [of Origin, Zoologist 19 (1861): 7577–611].
Feels it is a pity to mingle science and religion;
explains why he did not deal with the case of man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Maw |
Date: | 13 July [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3208 |
From George Maw 15 March 1861
Summary
Asks for a testimonial for Edward Newman.
Discusses the Origin, considers natural selection works well when applied to the evolution of nations and groups of men; on the other hand feels the classification of mineral elements is a damaging analogy as it parallels organic classification but could not be derived by any evolutionary means.
Author: | George Maw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 171.1(3): 95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3089 |
From H. C. Watson 24 July 1861
Summary
Distribution of varieties and subspecies.
George Maw’s review of the Origin [Zoologist 19 (1861): 7577–611].
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 July 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3218 |
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- … and subspecies. George Maw’s review of the Origin [ Zoologist 19 (1861): 7577–611]. …
To Robert Scot Skirving 16 November [1861–8]
Summary
Knows nothing of the habits of earwigs. Thinks Edward Newman may be trusted on the point [as to whether or not earwigs can fly].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Scot Skirving |
Date: | 16 Nov [1861-8] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 481 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4673 |
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- … not fly, but the point was disputed ( Zoologist 8 (1850): 2695, 2759, 2831; Entomologist …
To Charles Lyell 20 July [1861]
Summary
Mentions George Maw’s "good review" of Origin [Zoologist 19 (1861): 7577–611].
Relates remark by J. S. Mill concerning soundness of logic and method of Origin.
Is at work [on Orchids and Variation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 20 July [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.258) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3215 |
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- … George Maw’s "good review" of Origin [ Zoologist 19 (1861): 7577–611]. Relates remark by …
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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- … Falconer Nat. Hist. R. Huxley Harvey Zoologist. Lubbock M’Donnell Geolog. Soc. Self L. …
To George Maw 17 March [1861]
Summary
Thanks GM for his excellent criticisms. His observations on the classification of minerals force him to "own that classification may be closely like that due to descent yet have no relation to it".
Asks whether GM has observed any cases of "bud-variations".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Maw |
Date: | 17 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3090 |
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- … the testimonial to Newman was announced in the Zoologist 1861: 7457–62. CD was not listed …
To Peter Martin Duncan? 18 July [1861]
Summary
He is no longer able to answer any of the correspondent’s questions concerning corals.
Places "much trust" in J. D. Dana.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Peter Martin Duncan |
Date: | 18 July [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.257) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3212 |
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- … See also Sloan 1985 , p. 104. The American zoologist and geologist James Dwight Dana had …
From George Maw 27 August [1861]
Summary
Thanks CD for his letter about GM’s review of the Origin.
Sends instances of correlative organisation and functions which he finds difficult to believe could have accumulated by gradual modifications.
[Letter erroneously dated 1862 by GM.]
Author: | George Maw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Aug [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 11–12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3236 |
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- … edition of Origin , published in the Zoologist ( Maw 1861a ). Maw’s earlier letter to CD, …
To Cuthbert Collingwood 14 March [1861]
Summary
CD is not surprised at CC’s entire rejection of his views. Agrees that there is no direct proof of unlimited variation. Says natural selection should be viewed as comparable to wave theory of light: it is probable because it groups and explains a host of facts in several fields of science.
Agrees Louis Agassiz’s review [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 30 (1860): 142–55] is not unfair, but Agassiz misunderstands CD. His "categories of thought" are to CD merely empty words.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Cuthbert Collingwood |
Date: | 14 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add. MS. 37725, ff. 6–9b) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3088 |
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- … in converting some few eminent Botanists, Zoologists, & Geologists. In several cases the …
To Armand de Quatrefages 25 April [1861]
Summary
Comments on QdeB’s Unité de l’espèce humaine [1861].
Discusses acceptance of his theory among scientists, especially geologists.
C. V. Naudin did not show how selection applied in nature, but Patrick Matthew clearly anticipated CD’s views.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
Date: | 25 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 285 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3127 |
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- … next by Botanists and least by Zoologists. — I am much pleased that the younger and …
From Alfred Russel Wallace 30 November 1861
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Nov 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3334 |
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- … had given most of his collection to the Zoologist of the same Prussian Expedition but says …
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2.27 William Couper bust, New York
Summary
< Back to Introduction In 1909 the centenary of Darwin’s birth and the fifty years anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species coincided. In recognition of this historic milestone, a grand celebration and international colloquium took place…
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- … sent a cablegram on the occasion, with greetings from the zoologists gathered for a commemorative …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
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- … Von Baer, towards whom all zoologists feel so profound a respect, expressed about the …
Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists
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The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade, and contained 165 portraits of German and Austrian scientists. The work was lavishly produced and bound in blue velvet with metal embossing. Its ornate…
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- … wonderfully good. ' Among the names of geologists, zoologists, physicians, and …
Darwin and barnacles
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In a letter to Henslow in March 1835 Darwin remarked that he had done ‘very little’ in zoology; the ‘only two novelties’ he added, almost as an afterthought, were a new mollusc and a ‘genus in the family Balanidæ’ – a barnacle – but it was an oddity. Who,…
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- … has occasioned much doubt and difference of opinion among zoologists’. How and why did …
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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- … he counted among this number four geologists, four zoologists or palaeontologists, two physiologists …
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … Henri Milne-Edwards and Armand de Quatrefages, both leading zoologists in Paris. Quatrefages had …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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- … reminded him that the work was ‘written for geologists & zoologists’, and that throughout his …
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…
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- … to the great bewilderment of systematic botanists and zoologists, and increasing disagreement as to …
Essay: What is Darwinism?
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—by Asa Gray WHAT IS DARWINISM? The Nation, May 28, 1874 The question which Dr. Hodge asks he promptly and decisively answers: ‘What is Darwinism? it is atheism.’ Leaving aside all subsidiary and incidental matters, let us consider–1. What the…
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- … regarding it mainly from the geological side. As some of our zoologists and palaeontologists may …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … among botanists who complained that it was always the zoologists who had their fees remitted. Darwin …