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To J. D. Hooker   24[–5] February [1863]

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CD’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man and of Owen’s comment on it.

Disappointed Lyell has not spoken out on species and on man.

Pleasure of new hothouse and the plants JDH supplied for it.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  24[–5] Feb [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 183
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4009

From T. H. Huxley   25 February 1863

Summary

Pleads guilty to both criticisms of "Miss Henrietta Minor Rhadamanthus Darwin" [see 3896] of points in his Lectures [to working men].

Author:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Feb 1863
Classmark:  DAR 166: 299
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4010

From J. D. Hooker   [26 February 1863]

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Criticism of Antiquity of man; its public reception.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [26 Feb 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 108–10
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4011

From George Maw   25 February 1863

Summary

Discusses the deposition of coal and considers the possibility of coal aggregating into seams after deposition.

Author:  George Maw
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Feb 1863
Classmark:  DAR 171: 98
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4012

To T. H. Huxley   26 [February 1863]

Summary

Praise of Man’s place.

Owen’s muddling letter in Athenæum [21 Feb 1863, pp. 262–3].

Is disappointed in Lyell’s excessive caution on species and origin of man [in Antiquity of man].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  26 [Feb 1863]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 191)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4013

From Francis Walker   26 February 1863

Summary

Identifies flies sent to him by CD. [CD note states that these were found with orchid pollinia adhering to them.]

Author:  Francis Walker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Feb 1863
Classmark:  DAR 181: 3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4014

From the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin   26 February 1863

Summary

A diploma. CD is elected a corresponding member.

Author:  Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Feb 1863
Classmark:  DAR 229: 50a
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4014F

From Daniel Oliver   27 February 1863

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Answers CD’s query on Primula longiflora and P. scotica.

Would like abstract of CD’s paper ["Two forms of Linum", Collected papers 2: 93–105] for Natural History Review.

Author:  Daniel Oliver
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 Feb 1863
Classmark:  DAR 108: 178
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4015

From Thomas Wright   27 February 1863

Summary

Regrets he did not make the statement [unspecified] referred to by CD.

Believes the Origin has been very valuable, even among those not disposed to agree with transmutation, in giving a great check to "species manufacture".

Author:  Thomas Wright
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 Feb 1863
Classmark:  DAR 181: 178
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4016

From John Lubbock   28 February 1863

Summary

Will come to dine on Monday unless he hears to the contrary.

Author:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Feb 1863
Classmark:  DAR 170: 37
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4017

To George Maw   28 February [1863]

Summary

Thanks GM for a curious lily.

Recommends some papers on coal.

Gives his opinion on the importance of forming theories if one is to be a good and original observer.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Maw
Date:  28 Feb [1863]
Classmark:  Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/9)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4018

To Daniel Oliver   20 [February 1863]

Summary

Having trouble understanding laws of phyllotaxy in order to grasp Hugh Falconer’s objections.

L. C. Treviranus on Primula [see 3980] misses the "prettiness" of the adaptations.

John Scott says P. scotica is never dimorphic.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Daniel Oliver
Date:  20 [Feb 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 261.10: 41 (EH 88206024)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4052

To George Gabriel Stokes   [12 February 1863?]

Summary

Thanks GGS for calculation [to determine the chances of the same peculiarity recurring in a family, see Variation 2: 5]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:  [12 Feb 1863?]
Classmark:  Cambridge University Library Add 7656: D76
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4085

From Daniel Oliver   17 February 1863

Summary

DO thinks an essay [Alexander Braun’s "Rejuvenescence", Ray Society (1853)] is not worth reading with respect to some difficulty concerning phyllotaxy.

Author:  Daniel Oliver
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Feb 1863
Classmark:  DAR 173: 20
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8770
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