To Asa Gray 20 April [1863]
Summary
Fears England and U. S. will drift into war; he and AG must "keep to Science".
Thanks for facts on Incas; regrets he has always avoided the case of man.
Has sent his Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Is it true that Ohio has legislated against marriage of cousins?
Can AG explain the invariable angles in phyllotaxy; are they the consequence of packing in the early bud?
Owen’s comments on heterogeny in the Athenæum [28 Mar 1863] have vexed W. B. Carpenter; CD has replied [Collected papers 2: 78–80].
Hopes AG will observe Gymnadenia; John Scott has been experimenting on its fertilisation.
Gives his observation on pollination of Cypripedium.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 20 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (51) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4110 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 April 1863
Summary
Attacks by Falconer [Athenæum 4 Apr 1863, pp. 459–60] and Joseph Prestwich on Lyell.
W. B. Carpenter fails to attack Owen.
Welwitschia male cones with useless ovules marvellous example of lost function and retained structure.
JDH evaluates his sons.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 128–31; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Director’s correspondence 174 (New Zealand letters, 1854–1900): 281–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4111 |
From Asa Gray 20 April 1863
Summary
AG’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 134 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4112 |
From Hugh Falconer 20 April [1863]
Summary
Has been in France, conveys good wishes from Quatrefages.
Describes the fossil of an unusual mammal head from Brazil.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4113 |
From H. B. Dobell 20 April 1863
Summary
Sends CD a form he has devised of a proper genealogical table of three or four generations of the families of medical cases, so that hereditary transmission may be more accurately and fully recorded.
| Author: | Horace Benge Dobell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 189 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4115 |
From H. W. Bates 20 April 1863
Summary
Expresses hope that CD is ready to pronounce sentence on his book;
he relates his financial position and mentions that he hopes to get a position at the British Museum.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 75 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4116 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Dobell, H. B. | (1) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
4.20 Frederick Waddy, caricature
Summary
< Back to Introduction A series of portrait caricatures drawn by Frederick Waddy appeared in the journal Once a Week through 1872. It clearly emulated the more famous series in Vanity Fair, and indeed, Waddy’s drawing of Darwin has the same title or…
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- … < Back to Introduction A series of portrait caricatures drawn by Frederick Waddy …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
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- … A celebrated author and divine, &c., &c. Page 420, 9 fifteen lines from top, …
St George Jackson Mivart
Summary
In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
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- … hope’ for certain preliminary restrictions, and that (p. 420) ‘we can only make a really successful …
