From Asa Gray [10 January 1860]
Summary
Agassiz denounces Origin as "atheistical";
AG is currently reviewing it [in Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 29 (1860): 153–84].
Jeffries Wyman praises it, though not a convert.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [10 Jan 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 26a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2631 |
From H. C. Watson [3? January 1860]
Summary
Notes by HCW on the Origin dealing especially with divergence and convergence. Believes there is some natural tendency to converge into groups in opposition to divergence generated by natural selection.
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3? Jan 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 135–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2636 |
From Edward Cresy 10 November 1860
Summary
Explains discrepancies in weights and measures caused by changes since 1836 in apothecaries’ measures.
EC has found that a discrepancy in A. W. von Hofmann’s experiments with iodine solutions resulted from an error in Hofmann’s use of decimals.
Reports S. P. Woodward’s opinion of the Origin: "a very sad book, it unsettles all one’s religious principles and the worst of it is so much of it is true".
Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Nov 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 7, 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2980 |
From J. D. Hooker [11 May – 3 December 1860]
Summary
CD’s divergent series explains those anomalous plants that hover between what would otherwise be two species in a genus.
Inclined to see conifers as a sub-series of dicotyledons that developed in parallel to monocotyledons, but retained cryptogamic characters.
Mentions H. C. Watson’s view of variations.
Man has destroyed more species than he has created varieties.
Variations are centrifugal because the chances are a million to one that identity of form once lost will return.
In the human race, we find no reversion "that would lead us to confound a man with his ancestors".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [11 May – 3 Dec 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.5: 217 (Letters), DAR 47: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3036 |
From Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood 25 December [1860?]
Summary
Charlotte [Wedgwood Langton?] reports from Mr Wallis on time of day that sundew opens.
Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Dec [1860?] |
Classmark: | DAR 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3030 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 November – 4 December 1860]
Summary
Encourages CD’s work in vegetable physiology.
Ascending the Lebanon JDH noted limits of plant distribution as CD requested: lower limits of a genus sharper than upper. Sharpness of boundaries related to a plant’s moisture requirement.
Impressed by "sporadic" distribution at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Nov – 4 Dec 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 158–60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3000 |
Matches: 1 hit
From William Henry Harvey 24 August 1860
Summary
Continues earlier discussion, admitting his opinions have been modified. Still regards natural selection as one agent of several. States areas of disagreement.
Author: | William Henry Harvey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Aug 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 33–40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2898 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, 20 May [1860] , 29 [May 1860] , and 30 May [1860] . Origin , p. 184. CD deleted the passage from the second edition of Origin , although he allowed it to remain in the American edition. Richard Owen , who at first expressed interest in this example (see Correspondence vol. 7, letter to Richard Owen, 10 December [1859] ), …
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