From William Henry Harvey 3 January 1857
Author: | William Henry Harvey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2035 |
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 |
From W. H. Harvey 8 October 1860
Summary
Thanks CD for his patience and good-nature; does not want a controversial correspondence but wishes to reply to matters in CD’s letter, and does.
Author: | William Henry Harvey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Oct 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 54–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2943 |
From William Henry Harvey 3 February 1863
Summary
Is pleased that CD has [Roland] Trimen to collect specimens of Cape orchids. Suggests directions for securing dry specimens of what he draws.
Identifies Disa barbata and D. Cornuta of the Ophridiae.
Author: | William Henry Harvey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 78) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3966F |
From William Henry Harvey 19 May 1864
Summary
Sends dandelion [enclosed] with peculiar form of achene; suggests this solitary "sport" must have arisen by sudden jump from normal type.
Author: | William Henry Harvey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 116 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4503 |
From W. H. Harvey 8 November [1864]
Summary
The plants from the Cape did not show climbing habit in native country; WHH believes it a consequence of their being grown under disadvantages of climate.
Author: | William Henry Harvey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Nov [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4665 |
From W. H. Harvey 10 November 1864
Summary
Identifies South African species of plants that are normally non-climbers in the wild but climb freely when grown from seed at Glasnevin. Thinks there is probably a gradation in the wild between climbing and non-climbing varieties related to the degree of exposure each particular plant faces.
Author: | William Henry Harvey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Nov 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4668 |
From W. H. Harvey 11 November 1864
Author: | William Henry Harvey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 113 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4670 |
To William Henry Harvey [7 April 1847]
Summary
Descriptions of the algae specimens found on the Beagle voyage.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Harvey |
Date: | [7 Apr 1847] |
Classmark: | Trinity College Dublin, Department of Botany, Herbarium |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1078 |
To W. H. Harvey 24 December [1856]
Summary
W. J. Hooker thinks Harvey will be willing to give information on reproduction of higher marine plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Harvey |
Date: | 24 Dec [1856] |
Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (21 April 2011) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2021F |
To W. H. Harvey 7 January [1857]
Summary
Thanks for information, which is just the amount he wanted.
Will not go to the BAAS meeting in Dublin: the frightful voyage deters him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Harvey |
Date: | 7 Jan [1857] |
Classmark: | Sheffield City Archives (Gatty family autograph albums X561/1/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2037G |
To W. H. Harvey [20–4 September 1860]
Summary
Replies to WHH’s criticisms of the Origin. Is disappointed that WHH does not understand what CD means by natural selection. CD has said "ad nauseam" that selection can do nothing without previous variability. Natural selection accumulates successive variations in any profitable direction. If CD had to rewrite his book he would use "natural preservation" rather than selection. Defends his necessarily conjectural illustrations. Agrees with what WHH says on the antiquity of the world, but it makes no impression on him. Considers the difficulty of the first modification of the first protozoan. Emphasises that there is nothing in his theory "necessitating in each case progression of acquisition", nor is it the case that "a low form would never conquer a high" in the struggle for life. Attempts to explain what he means by a "dominant" group; dominance is always relative, and he does not believe any one group could be predominant. He has no objections to "sudden jumps"; they would aid him in some cases, but he has found no evidence to make him believe in them and a good deal pointing the other way.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Harvey |
Date: | [20–4 Sept 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 45–53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2922 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
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