From John Lubbock [after 28 April 1860?]
Summary
Gives CD references to papers on eyes of lower animals.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 28 Apr 1860?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 48: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2394 |
To Andrew Murray 28 April [1860]
Summary
Has read MS of AM’s review [of Origin, read at Edinburgh Royal Society, 20 Feb 1860]; has no complaints. Has never heard of a hostile reviewer’s doing so kind and generous an action [as sending his MS for CD’s criticism?]. Sends some remarks on details.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray |
| Date: | 28 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | Dartmouth College Library (MSS 000566); R. D. Pyrah (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2772 |
To Andrew Murray 28 [April 1860]
Summary
In his former note CD omitted to criticise AM’s explanation that the function of hybridisation is to prevent extinction should the males of a rare species die out.
Disputes that "Oken, Lamarck & Co throw some light on Classification, Embryology & Rudimentary organs". In the case of embryology there must be introduced the principle of variations not supervening at a very early age and being inherited at corresponding ages. In classification descent alone will not do; it must be combined with the principle of divergence of character and descent from dominant and increasing forms.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray |
| Date: | 28 [Apr 1860] |
| Classmark: | R. D. Pyrah (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2773 |
From J. D. Hooker [28 April 1860]
Summary
Has examined Leschenaultia and concludes the external viscid surfaces have nothing to do with the stigmatic surface. Agrees with CD’s style and nectary conclusions; accounts for their form and position in irregular flowers by describing floral development.
[Enclosed are some queries by CD with answers by JDH. Gives information on seed setting by Mucuna
and an opinion on the abruptness of N. and S. limits of plant ranges.]
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Apr 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 150–1, DAR 166.2: 262 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2774 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Murray, Andrew | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Murray, Andrew | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
4.28 'English celebrities' montage
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< Back to Introduction One of the stranger appropriations of Elliott and Fry’s portrayal of Darwin was to make him one of a group of ‘Authors’, in an album titled English Celebrities, 19th Century (1876). Fiction writers and scientists were grouped…
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- … < Back to Introduction One of the stranger appropriations of Elliott and Fry’s …
3.16 Oscar Rejlander, photos
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) led him to the Swedish-born painter and photographer, Oscar Gustaf Rejlander. Rejlander gave Darwin the notes that he had…
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- … p. 301, reprinted in the same journal (29 April 1882), p. 428. Wood engraving in a supplement to …
Darwin’s species notebooks: ‘I think . . .’
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I have lately been sadly tempted to be idle, that is as far as pure geology is concerned, by the delightful number of new views, which have been coming in, thickly & steadily, on the classification & affinities & instincts of animals—bearing…
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- … I have lately been sadly tempted to be idle, that is as far as pure geology is concerned, by …
Charles Lyell
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As an author, friend and correspondent, Charles Lyell played a crucial role in shaping Darwin's scientific life. Born to a wealthy gentry family in Scotland in 1797, Lyell had a classical and legal education but by the 1820s had become entranced by…
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- … As an author, friend and correspondent, Charles Lyell played a crucial role in shaping Darwin's …
Darwin & Glen Roy
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Although Darwin was best known for his geological work in South America and other remote Beagle destinations, he made one noteworthy attempt to explain a puzzling feature of British geology. In 1838, two years after returning from the voyage, he travelled…
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- … Walk in Darwin’s footsteps: Click this link to download a field guide to Glen Roy written …
Journal of researches
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Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…
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- … The Journal of researches , Darwin’s account of his travels round the world in H.M.S. Beagle …
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
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- … The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of …
