From Bartholomew James Sulivan 27 June 1870
Summary
Tells of his health and family matters.
Congratulates CD on being honoured by Oxford.
Discusses the state of Tierra del Fuego and the success of missionaries there.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 June 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 293 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7246 |
From J. D. Hooker [7 March 1870]
Summary
Does not give much for botanical results of Round Island, but the zoology is wonderful.
Lyell’s new book [The student’s elements of geology (1870)]. Urges Lyell to make it Elementary principles.
Grove is disgusted with CD for being disquieted by William Thomson: "Take another dose of Huxley’s penultimate address to Geol. Soc." [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): 28–53].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [7 Mar 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 42–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6646 |
To Asa Gray 15 March [1870]
Summary
The "man-essay" [Descent] is "very interesting but very difficult".
Cat-like behaviour in dogs.
Thanks for information from Louis Agassiz;
wishes he could feel he deserves what Alexander Agassiz says of him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 15 Mar [1870] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (91) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7132 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 12 March 1870 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD had been working on the second and third chapter of Descent , ‘Comparison of the mental powers of man and the lower animals’. Joseph Dalton Hooker and CD had long joked about CD’s ability to ‘wriggle’ out of difficulties; see for example Correspondence vol. 9, letter from J. D. Hooker, 7 November [1861] . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 21 …
From Joachim Barrande 19 June 1870
Summary
Encloses a copy of a letter he has written to a French geologist. In it he raises objections to evolutionary theory:
why are corals inadequately represented in the fossil record?
How can one explain the widespread appearance and then disappearance of groups like the trilobites?
If Mollusca and Articulata have a common ancestor, why are not ancient forms more akin than present ones?
| Author: | Joachim Barrande |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 June 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 44–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7236 |
| letter | (4) |
| Barrande, Joachim | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Barrande, Joachim | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
