To George Rolleston 2 March [1861]
Summary
Agrees with GR’s remarks on Asa Gray’s pamphlet.
New edition of Origin to appear immediately.
Fact of clubbed fingernails in cyanosis quite new to CD. Asks for information.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Rolleston |
Date: | 2 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.6119/5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3076 |
From Andrew Murray 3 March 1861
Summary
Will be pleased to review Asa Gray’s pamphlet [see 3068].
Is not surprised that blind cave insects are sometimes found in other dark places.
Author: | Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 154–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3077 |
To John Murray 3 March [1861]
Summary
Making slow progress with Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 3 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 101) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3078 |
To Andrew Murray 3 March [1861]
Summary
Thanks AM for his note. [Asa Gray’s] pamphlet was meant for AM if he thinks it worth accepting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray |
Date: | 3 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | R. D. Pyrah (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3079 |
To Philip Lutley Sclater 4 March [1861]
Summary
Asks for a rabbit specimen;
inquires about a hybrid hare–rabbit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 4 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.239) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3080 |
To Joseph Leidy 4 March [1861]
Summary
JL’s approval of CD’s work is gratifying. Most palaeontologists despise it. Delighted that JL has some interesting facts "in support of … selection". Is sure his views will be partially accepted. Has never doubted that "much in my Book will be proved erroneous".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Leidy |
Date: | 4 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3081 |
From Gideon Lincecum 4 March 1861
Summary
Reports on the habits of the cutting ant of Texas, particularly its habit of planting shade trees to protect its mound from sun.
Author: | Gideon Lincecum |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Mar 1861 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (MS S.P. 604A) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3082 |
To Williams & Norgate 4 March [1861]
Summary
CD is obliged for the securing of [Ferguson’s illustrated book of domestic poultry]. Since he has already been given a copy, may he return this one?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 4 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Autogr.: Darwin, Charles Robert, Bl. 1-2 ) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3082F |
To George Rolleston 7 March [1861]
Summary
Thanks for explanation of cyanosis and clubbed nails.
Hopes GR will work out point about mucus tubes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Rolleston |
Date: | 7 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.6119/6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3083 |
To Alexander Goodman More 8 March [1861]
Summary
Obliged for offer to observe orchids.
Not surprised that AGM demurs to acceptance of his views. Discusses effects of natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Goodman More |
Date: | 8 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3084 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 March [1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3085 |
To P. L. Sclater 12 [March 1861]
Summary
Promises to send copy of Origin [3d ed.].
Is pleased that PLS has "become ""heretical"" on species".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 12 [Mar 1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.240) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3086 |
To Asa Gray 12 March [1861]
Summary
Has received Chauncey Wright’s article.
Reports on favourable response to AG’s pamphlet.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 12 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (52) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3087 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 March [1861]
Summary
Argument, based on geographical distribution and competition, for a mundane glacial period rather than cooling of one longitudinal belt at a time.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3091 |
From Henry Walter Bates 18 March 1861
Summary
Sends his paper ["Insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 2d ser. 5 (1861): 223–8, 335–61].
Points out three areas of interest arising from the study of the species of Papilio: the derivation of the fauna, the variability of the species, and the permanence of local varieties.
Discusses J. S. Baly’s views on specific differences in reproductive organs [Catalogue of the Hispidae in the collection of the British Museum (1858)].
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Mar 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3092 |
To Leonard Horner 20 March [1861]
Summary
Comments on LH’s "Anniversary Address of the President", [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 17 (1861): xxxi–lxxii]. Notes LH’s comments on metamorphism, antiquity of man, and the Bible. Thanks him for his remarks on Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Horner |
Date: | 20 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (9–10 July 2018, lot 374) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3094 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 22 March [1861]
Summary
Asks whether WBT will read over his MS sketch on poultry when done.
Wants rabbit specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 22 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3095 |
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