To P. L. Sclater 22 May [1860–81]
Summary
CD has signed the enclosed with great pleasure.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 22 May [1860-81] |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (1987) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13839A |
To Cottage Gardener [after 8 May 1860]
Summary
Inquires whether "a Devonshire Bee-keeper" [T. W. Woodbury] who reported a common drone entering a hive of Ligurian bees [Cottage Gard. 24 (1860): 94] believes, with Andrew Knight, that queen bees are seldom fertilised by their own blood-relations. Asks how far a hive of common bees was from that of the Ligurians.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Cottage Gardener |
Date: | [after 8 May 1860] |
Classmark: | Cottage Gardener 24 (1860): 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2777 |
To Roderick Impey Murchison 1 May [1860]
Summary
Much obliged for note from Alexander von Keyserling. Geologist going one inch with CD more important than naturalist going two or three.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet |
Date: | 1 May [1860] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 7400) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2779 |
To Charles Lyell 4 May [1860]
Summary
Is sending CL an arrow-head. Says John Lubbock tells of vast numbers of flint tools in peat in France. Urges CL to conduct further research on the subject.
Comments on paper by J. S. Newberry concerning palaeozoic deposits in America [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 29 (1860): 208–18]
and on A. von Keyserling’s view of species change.
Mentions J. W. Salter’s chart arranging Spirifer.
Comments on Andrew Murray’s paper on the Origin ["On Mr Darwin’s theory of the origin of species", Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh 4 (1860): 274–91].
A Manchester newspaper article says CD has proved "might is right".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 4 May [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.210) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2782 |
To Andrew Murray 5 May [1860]
Summary
Thanks for AM’s kindness.
CD did not understand him about "prepotency".
With respect to cave animals CD believes that on reflection AM will admit "that on creation doctrine, there has been surprising diversity for such similar habitation".
Has heard from A. von Keyserling who "makes no difficulty about imperfection of Geological Record".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray |
Date: | 5 May [1860] |
Classmark: | R. D. Pyrah (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2784 |
To J. D. Hooker 7 May [1860]
Summary
To understand Leschenaultia pollination CD requires field observations in the native country.
Has observed two forms of cowslips, which he calls male and female. The same two forms are found in primroses.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 May [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2785 |
To T. H. Huxley 7 May [1860]
Summary
Observations on changes in physical proportions of pigeons.
The Saturday Review of 5 May has a defence of CD and THH by "a jolly good fellow".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 7 May [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 117) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2786 |
To Charles Lyell 8 [May 1860]
Summary
Did not know about separation between Silurian and Cambrian.
Cannot attend Geological Society meeting.
Etty [Henrietta Darwin] ill.
Sedgwick in his attack at Cambridge Philosophical Society states "there must be [on CD’s theory] large genera not varying".
Discusses migration of plants and animals from Old World to New.
Views of Asa Gray on Aster.
Mentions flora of coal period.
Has been elected to Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 8 [May 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.211) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2788 |
To Thomas Stewardson 8 May 1860
Summary
Acknowledges his election as Correspondent of Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Stewardson |
Date: | 8 May 1860 |
Classmark: | Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2789 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 8 May [1860]
Summary
Thanks WBT for observations on colours of newly-hatched pigeons of different breeds. Asks if breeders have noticed any differences in lengths of time eggs were incubated in different breeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 8 May [1860] |
Classmark: | Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Yale Collection of American Literature: De Forest Family Papers (YCAL MSS 582) Box 2, folder 58, item 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2790 |
To J. S. Henslow 8 May [1860]
Summary
Comments on Richard Owen’s review of the Origin [in Edinburgh Rev. 111 (1860): 487–532]. Considers Owen unfair to CD and most ungenerous toward Hooker.
Expects Sedgwick to be fierce against him. Sedgwick also misrepresented CD in his Spectator review [24 Mar and 7 Apr 1860].
Compares natural selection to the undulatory theory of light as a hypothesis explaining a large number of facts.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 8 May [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A67–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2791 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 May [1860]
Summary
Dissection of Leschenaultia convinces CD insect agency necessary for self-fertilisation in this case.
Primroses and cowslips seem universally to occur in two forms. Very curious to see which plants set seed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 May [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2795 |
To Williams & Norgate 13 [May 1860]
Summary
Orders latest issues of North British Review and Dublin Magazine of Natural History. Also would like an order placed for him for a French translation of F. Unger, Versuch einer Geschichte der Pflanzen-Welt [1852], if such a translation has appeared.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 13 [May 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2797 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 [May 1860]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 [May 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2798 |
To Francis Galton 13 May [1860]
Summary
Does FG know Mansfield Parkyns well enough to submit query to him? [Probably about domestication of Columba guinea in Abyssinia. See Variation 1: 183.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 13 May [1860] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2799 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 May [1860]
Summary
Instructs JDH on how to pollinate Leschenaultia.
Evidence of Leschenaultia and the dioecious condition of cowslips and Auricula is making necessity of insect pollination "clear and clearer".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 May [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2800 |
To J. S. Henslow 14 May [1860]
Summary
Thanks JSH for his defence [see 2794].
He is not hurt for long by what his attackers say. His conclusions were arrived at after long study. He has certainly erred, but not so much as "Sedgwick and Co." think.
Asks JSH to send names of plants that vary greatly in length of pistil.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 14 May [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A70–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2801 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [May 1860]
Summary
Lyell, de facto, first to stress importance of geological changes for geographical distribution.
Asa Gray has given CD too much credit for theories of geographical distribution.
Reaction to hostile criticism
and debt to Lyell, Huxley, JDH, and W. B. Carpenter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 [May 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2802 |
To James Drummond 16 May 1860
Summary
Asks JD to observe Leschenaultia formosa to verify CD’s hypothesis of how it is fertilised. Also suggests an experiment to determine whether it is fertilised by nocturnal insects.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Drummond |
Date: | 16 May 1860 |
Classmark: | J. S. Battye Library of Western Australian History, State Library of Western Australia (Accession 2275A) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2803 |
To J. S. Henslow 17 May [1860]
Summary
Sends characters by which he can divide all primroses and cowslips into what he suspects will be male and female plants. Believes these forms are first step in formation of a dioecious plant.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 17 May [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A72–3, A116 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2805 |
Cottage Gardener | (1) |
Drummond, James (a) | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Galton, Francis | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Henslow, J. S. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (2) |
Lyell, Charles | (4) |
Murchison, R. I. | (1) |
Murray, Andrew | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Sclater, P. L. | (1) |
Stewardson, Thomas | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Williams & Norgate | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (34) |
Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
Lyell, Charles | (4) |
Henslow, J. S. | (3) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |