To J. D. Hooker 24[–5] February [1863]
Summary
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]
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
Summary
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 |
Darwin, C. R. | (38) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Fox, W. D. | (2) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Lubbock, John | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (36) |
Huxley, T. H. | (6) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Briggs, J. J. | (2) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (74) |
Huxley, T. H. | (8) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Fox, W. D. | (3) |
Lubbock, John | (3) |