To ? [1860 or later]
Summary
Asserts that if his views [in the Origin] are in the main right, palaeontology does not give a fair picture of the forms that have peopled the earth, and [fossil] collections are a mere chance gathering of a few forms.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1860 or later] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2625 |
To ? 25 [April 1860?]
Summary
August Laugel has sent him a copy of his review [of Origin] in Revue des Deux-Mondes [26 (1860): 644–71].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 25 [Apr 1860?] |
Classmark: | Quaritch (dealers) (July 1977) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2768 |
To ? 14 June [1860]
Summary
He has sent the list of seeds to J. H. Hooker at Kew. There has been no agreement about a French edition [of Origin]. There is little chance of his being at the BAAS meeting at Oxford.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 14 June [1860] |
Classmark: | University of South Carolina Libraries, Hollings Special Collections Library (C. Warren Irvin, Jr., Collection of Darwin and Darwiniana) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2832F |
To a bookseller 9 September [1860]
Summary
Orders one copy of the issue of the Atlantic Monthly for last August (but not worth sending to America for) and two copies of the issue for next October.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 9 Sept [1860] |
Classmark: | International Autograph Auctions (dealers) (14 December 2013, lot 403) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2908F |
To ? 19 March [1860–1?]
Summary
Recommends papers on Styrian Cave insects and American cave animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 19 Mar [1860–1] |
Classmark: | King’s College London Archives (TH/PP MISC) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13770G |
To ? [1860–82?]
Summary
Is "almost certain" plant is Menispermum canadense.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1860–82?] |
Classmark: | Glenbow Museum |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13875 |
To ? [1860–82?]
Summary
CD’s health remains bad and as he grows older he becomes weaker.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1860–82?] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/34) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13876 |
To ? [1860–82?]
Summary
Sends photograph in case recipient collects them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1860–82?] |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 681, 28 and 29 June 2005) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3052F |
To J. D. Hooker 17 June [1860]
Summary
Has reread JDH’s paper ["On the functions of the rostellum of Listera ovata", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 144 (1854): 259–64].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 June [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 68 (EH 88206051) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1571 |
From Robert Scot Skirving [1860?]
Summary
Tells of shooting wood-pigeons that had in their crops acorns that did not grow locally.
[Fragment of letter glued to 2197.]
Author: | Robert Scot Skirving |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1860?] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 250a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2196 |
From R. S. Skirving [1860?]
Summary
Pigeons in Egypt alight on trees rather than on the mud hovels of the natives [see Variation 1: 181].
[Two fragments glued to 2196.]
Author: | Robert Scot Skirving |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1860?] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 250b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2197 |
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [January? 1860]
Summary
Prepared to think world infinitely old, but not that life originated with a single cell. Questions whether geological evidence supports gradual progress in organisation. HW thought scientific opinion during Vestiges debate was against this hypothesis. Argues that presence of same senses in lower animals and vertebrates does not imply descent; assumes resemblance is due to living in same world and thus having organs for the same purposes. Wants CD to know how others may see these questions.
Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Jan? 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 48: 83–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2389 |
To W. H. Miller [after 5 June 1860]
Summary
Discusses measurements of bees’ cells. Describes modification in structure of Melipona hive. Notes importance of natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Hallowes Miller |
Date: | [after 5 June 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 366 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2391 |
From John Lubbock [after 28 April 1860?]
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 28 Apr 1860?] |
Classmark: | DAR 48: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2394 |
To [Mary Holland] [April 1860]
Summary
Asks for information about birds eating berries of a mountain-ash.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mary Holland |
Date: | [Apr 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2395 |
To W. H. Miller 5 June [1860]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Hallowes Miller |
Date: | 5 June [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 365 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2468 |
To W. H. Miller 1 December [1860]
Summary
Must prepare new edition of Origin.
Discusses structure of beehives. Mentions writings of Chauncey Wright on bees’ cells ["Remarks on the architecture of bees", Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 4 (1857–60): 432–3].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Hallowes Miller |
Date: | 1 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 367 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2564 |
To W. H. Miller 27 December [1860]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Hallowes Miller |
Date: | 27 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 369 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2609 |
To John Murray 30 [January 1860]
Summary
Suggests it would be easier and cheaper if he were given one or two pages in preface [to Journal of researches] for two or three important errors. Would like to take out one sentence if present preface is not stereotyped. Table of contents is shabby.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 30 [Jan 1860] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.92–93) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2616 |
To W. H. Miller 31 December [1860]
Summary
Thanks WHM for information about honeycombs. Discusses his own measurements of combs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Hallowes Miller |
Date: | 31 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.189) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2617 |
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