To J. D. Hooker 25 [and 26] January [1862]
Summary
His answer to Asa Gray.
On JDH’s view of aristocracy. Primogeniture is dreadfully opposed to selection.
Orchid book proofs ready soon – has no idea whether it is worth publishing.
Huxley on Owen.
Feeble letter from J. H. Balfour against Huxley’s lectures ["Relation of man to lower animals", pt 2 of Man’s place in nature (1863)].
Has received the "astounding" Angraecum sesquipedale with nectary 1ft long: "what insect could suck it?"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 [and 26] Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 141 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3411 |
Matches: 28 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 25 [and 26] January [1862] …
- … DAR 115: 141 Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 [and 26] Jan [1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … to Schroeder van der Kolk and Vrolik 1862 (see n. 11, below). The postscript was probably …
- … of the letter (see n. 19, below). Letter from J. D. Hooker, [19 January 1862] . See …
- … letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] and nn. 8 and 9. The reference is to Jane Loring …
- … letter from Robert Bateman, [28 January 1862] and Kritsky 1991 . See the letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [25 January 1862] , in which Hooker provided CD with a list of dimorphic plant …
- … to procure specimens for him. CD responded to Hooker in his letter of 30 January [1862] . …
- … Bibliography Bates, Henry Walter. 1862. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Stearn, William T. 1956. Bentham and Hooker’ …
- … OED ). See letter from J. D. Hooker, [19 January 1862] . See letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [19 January 1862] . The first part …
- … of volume 1 of Genera plantarum (Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83) was published …
- … on 7 August 1862 ( Stearn 1956 , p. 130). …
- … Orchids was published in May 1862 ( Freeman 1977 , p. 112). …
- … In his letter of [19 January 1862] , Hooker, commenting on Huxley’s delight at the …
- … makes a noise’. Richard Owen . See letter from T. H. Huxley, 13 January 1862 and n. 5. …
- … CD refers to Schroeder van der Kolk and Vrolik 1862. See also letter to T. …
- … H. Huxley, 14 [January 1862] and n. 5. Letter from …
- … J. H. Balfour, 14 January 1862 . J. D. Hooker 1862a appeared in the January issue of …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, [19 January 1862] and n. 22). The paper was published with …
- … Linnean Society of London on 16 January 1862 ( Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean …
- … 6: lviii). See letter from J. D. Hooker, [19 January 1862] and n. 15. See letter …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 25 February [1862] and n. 10. …
- … William Borrer died on 10 January 1862 (see letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [19 January 1862] ). CD had hoped to obtain plants and seeds from him. This …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, [25 January 1862] , and was thus probably added on 26 January. …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, [25 January 1862] . CD thanked James Bateman for his …
From J. D. Hooker [31 January – 8 February 1862]
Summary
Wrote a "frightful screed" about aristocracy’s being a necessary consequence of natural selection, and then burnt it.
H. W. Bates is the only man "thinking out" natural selection to any purpose. "I think I have driven Bates back to Nat. Sel. as the only way of solving his difficulties."
HWB’s mimetic butterflies.
JDH wishes he had time to do the same thing with plants.
Owen and Huxley involved in a "contemptible" squabble in the Edinburgh newspapers.
Maximovitch reports Stellaria bulbifera is a Siberian form which never ripens its seeds.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [31 Jan – 8 Feb 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 14; DAR 111: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3430 |
Matches: 20 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [31 January – 8 February 1862] …
- … 14; DAR 111: 93 Joseph Dalton Hooker unstated [31 Jan – 8 Feb 1862] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Forms of flowers , p. 310, and OED ). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 February [1862] . …
- … Dated by the relationship to the letters to J. D. Hooker, 30 January [1862] (see n. …
- … 9, below) and 9 February [1862]. Hooker and CD had light-heartedly discussed the …
- … aristocracy (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [19 January 1862] , and letter to J. D. …
- … Hooker, 25 [and 26] January [1862] ). CD had offered Henry Walter Bates financial …
- … Bibliography Bates, Henry Walter. 1862. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon …
- … In his letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 January [1862] , CD requested information concerning a …
- … in the letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 February [1862] . Stellaria bulbifera is a synoym of …
- … see letter from J. D. Hooker, [19 January 1862] ). The plates published with Bates 1862a …
- … W. Robinson ( Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 23 (1862): tabs. 55 and 56). …
- … Bates initiated a flourishing correspondence in 1862, which is partly reproduced in Edward …
- … about natural selection on 2 February 1862 (see ibid. , pp. l–liii, and the enclosure …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 March 1862] ). Many of the extant letters between Bates …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 25 [and 26] January [1862] , CD confessed shame at the ‘demoniacal’ …
- … Linnean Society of London on 16 January and 6 February 1862 ( Journal of the Proceedings …
- … of the Linnean Society 6 (1862): lvii, lix). See n. 9, below. …
- … See letter from T. H. Huxley, 20 January 1862 , and letter to T. …
- … H. Huxley, 2 February [1862] . This note is on the verso of the last page of the letter. …
To T. H. Huxley 22 January [1862]
Summary
Much amused at the Witness.
Pleased at what THH says on hybridity.
Odd that objectors never allude to the arguments that alone have weight in their favour – affinities, rudimentary organs, etc.
Has 16 ill in the house!
Natural History Review a capital number.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 22 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 252) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3403 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … To T. H. Huxley 22 January [1862] …
- … Archives (Huxley 5: 252) Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 Jan [1862] Thomas Henry Huxley …
- … Bibliography Brewster, David. 1862. The facts and fancies …
- … of Mr Darwin. Good Words (1862): 3–9. Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles …
- … H. Huxley, 13 January 1862 and …
- … 20 January 1862 , and letter to T. …
- … H. Huxley, 14 [January 1862] . See also Correspondence vol. …
- … 10, Appendix VI. Brewster 1862 . See letter from T. …
- … H. Huxley, 13 January 1862 . Huxley was the senior editor of the new series of the …
- … is a lightly annotated copy of the January 1862 number in the Darwin Library–CUL. Lubbock …
- … established by the relationship to the letters from T. H. Huxley, 13 January 1862 and …
- … 20 January 1862 . Huxley had recently delivered two lectures at the Philosophical …
- … newspaper, the Witness , on 14 January 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix V). …
- … sent CD a copy of the article with his letter of 20 January 1862 . See letters from T. …
From J. D. Hooker [19 January 1862]
Summary
JDH castigates the Americans after the Trent affair. The value of an aristocracy. How will CD answer Asa Gray’s letter?
His "remarkable plant" [Welwitschia mirabilis] exhibited at Linnean Society.
Genera plantarum is in press.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19 Jan 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 8–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3395 |
Matches: 25 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [19 January 1862] …
- … DAR 101: 8–11 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [19 Jan 1862] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Bibliography Bates, Henry Walter. 1862. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon …
- … and by the relationship to the letters to J. D. Hooker, 16 January [1862] and 25 [ …
- … and 26] January [1862] . …
- … In 1862, 19 January fell on a Sunday. See letter to …
- … J. D. Hooker, 16 January [1862] . Hooker refers to Charles and Mary Elizabeth Lyell and …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 16 January [1862] and n. 4. This is the address of Hugh …
- … John Murray. Binney, Edward William. 1862. On some fossil plants, showing structure, from …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Origin 4th ed. : On the origin of species by …
- … John Murray. 1859. Pengelly, William. 1862. The lignites and clays of Bovey Tracey, …
- … letter to H. W. Bates, 13 January [1862] ), and told Hooker of his high expectations for …
- … letter from T. H. Huxley, 13 January 1862) . George Bentham had two surviving sisters, …
- … see letter from Francis Boott, 27 January 1862 ). Hooker probably refers to the Boston …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 16 January [1862] . Spence 1861 . The London Review and Weekly …
- … and n. 15). William Borrer died on 10 January 1862 ( DNB ). CD had asked Hooker about the …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, [1 January 1862] ). Borrer had been a friend of Hooker’s …
- … ed. , p. 433). See also letter from W. B. Clarke, 16 January 1862 , and letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 16 January [1862] . Hooker had begun work on a monograph on Welwitschia …
- … Linnean Society of London on 16 January 1862 ( Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean …
- … part of volume 1 of Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83, which covered the two botanical ‘series’ …
- … 73 , 1), whose name is commonly abbreviated in botanical literature to ‘DC’. Heer 1862, …
- … Pengelly 1862 , and …
- … Binney 1862 . Hooker refers to his reviewing the papers for publication in the relevant …
- … Transactions of the Linnean Society 23 (1862): 495–566. In the paper, Bates invoked the …
To John Lubbock 23 January [1862]
Summary
Has had 16 in the household ill.
Wants to meet JL.
Praises JL’s paper ["Ancient lake-habitations of Switzerland", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 23 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 263 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3409 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … To John Lubbock 23 January [1862] …
- … F. Lubbock to Emma Darwin, [January 1862] . …
- … DAR 263 Charles Robert Darwin Down 23 Jan [1862] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron …
- … s paper ["Ancient lake-habitations of Switzerland", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51]. …
- … Lubbock 1862a (see letter from John Lubbock, 6 January 1862 and n. 2). Lubbock 1862b . …
- … Darwin stayed in London from 23 to 25 January 1862 in order to take Leonard Darwin to the …
- … Hutchinson 1914 ; Gentleman’s Magazine , n.s. 12 (1862): 82). See also letter from E. …
- … the letter from John Lubbock, 6 January 1862 , and by the reference to Emma Darwin’s trip …
- … weeks (see letter from E. F. Lubbock to Emma Darwin, [January 1862] , and letters from …
- … John Lubbock , 6 January 1862 and …
- … 7 [February] 1862 ). Lubbock had asked CD for comments on the manuscript …
From T. H. Huxley 20 January 1862
Summary
The Witness attacks THH’s lecture.
Assures CD he spoke more favourably of his doctrines than the reports show.
Agrees with CD’s arguments on sterility of hybrids and predicts physiological experiments will produce physiological species sterile inter se. Has come even closer to CD’s view especially since Primula paper. Will soon be more Darwinian than CD.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 291 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3396 |
Matches: 16 hits
- … From T. H. Huxley 20 January 1862 …
- … DAR 166.2: 291 Thomas Henry Huxley London, Jermyn St 20 Jan 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter to T. H. Huxley, 14 [January 1862] , and letter from C. …
- … E. Brown-Séquard, 13 January 1862 . Huxley refers to Samuel Wilberforce , bishop of …
- … see letter from T. H. Huxley, 13 January 1862) . The Witness , a popular twice-weekly …
- … attack on Huxley’s lectures on 14 January 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix V). …
- … Jermyn S t Jany 20 th 1862 My dear Darwin The inclosed article which has been followed up …
- … appeared in the Scotsman , 24 January 1862, p. 2 (see Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix …
- … pp. 57–118. See letter to T. H. Huxley, 14 [January 1862] . See letter from T. …
- … H. Huxley, 13 January 1862 and n. 2, and letter to T. …
- … H. Huxley, 14 [January 1862] . See also Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix VI. ‘Dimorphic …
- … see letter to T. H. Huxley, 14 [January 1862] ). [Rorison] 1861 . See letter to …
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 77–96. [ Collected papers 2: 45–63. ] DSB : …
- … T. H. Huxley, 14 [January 1862] and n. 12. Huxley refers to the Saturday Review of …
- … man’ at the Royal Institution on 7 February 1862 ( T. H. Huxley 1862a ). Huxley probably …
- … in the 1861–2 session ( Medical directory 1862, p. 243). Charles Edouard Brown-Séquard. …
From Henry Holland [21 January 1862?]
Summary
Has received a satisfactory answer from Lord Tankerville.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21 Jan 1862?] |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 236 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3400 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From Henry Holland [21 January 1862? ] …
- … 236 Henry Holland, 1st baronet London, Brook St [21 Jan 1862? ] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … influenza in the Darwin household (see letter from Henry Holland, 15 January [1862] ). …
- … Letter from Henry Holland, 15 January [1862] . …
- … of this period (see nn. 2 and 3, below). In 1862, 21 January fell on a Tuesday. For CD’s …
- … sixth earl of Tankerville, see the letters from Henry Holland , [3–14] January [1862] and …
- … 15 January [1862] , and the letter to Ludwig …
- … Rütimeyer, 15 [and 16] January [1862] . See also letter from C. …
- … A. Bennet, [9 February 1862] . Holland had heard of the incidence of …
To J. D. Hooker 30 January [1862]
Summary
Is JDH sure it is a Bletia, just received? Its pollen very different from any Epidendreæ he has seen. If it is Bletia, Lindley’s grand divisions are fanciful.
Accepts JDH’s offer to collect cases of dimorphism.
James Bateman has sent a lot of orchids with Angraecum sesquipedale. What a proboscis the moth that sucks its 11½ inch nectary must have!
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 142 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3421 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 30 January [1862] …
- … DAR 115: 142 Charles Robert Darwin Down 30 Jan [1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … E. Gray, 29 January 1862). CD had already told Hooker about the box of orchids sent by …
- … James Bateman (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 [and 26] January [1862] ). See …
- … also letter from Robert Bateman, [28 January 1862] . …
- … and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. …
- … p. 162 n. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 [and 26] January [1862] , and letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [25 January 1862] . For Hooker’s reply, see the letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [31 January – 8 February 1862] . George Busk broke …
- … his arm on the evening of 20 January 1862 (see letters from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [25 January 1862] , and from J. …
From Henry Holland 30 January [1862]
Summary
Is preparing a volume of his articles [Essays on scientific and other subjects (1862)], to one of which he would like to add a postscript referring to CD’s Origin [pp. 100–1]. Sends proposed postscript for CD’s approval.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 240 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3423 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … From Henry Holland 30 January [1862] …
- … 240 Henry Holland, 1st baronet London, Brook St, 25 30 Jan [1862] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … published here is that given in Holland 1862 , pp. 98–9. There is an unannotated copy of …
- … Essays on scientific and other subjects (1862)], to one of which he would like to add a …
- … year is established by reference to the publication of Holland 1862 (see n. 4, below). …
- … See the letters from Henry Holland , [3–14 January 1862] , 15 …
- … January [1862] , and [ …
- … 21 January 1862? ] . The Wellesley index attributes seven essays in …
- … and nine essays in the Quarterly Review to Holland in the period up to January 1862. …
- … Holland 1862 . The publication eventually included twelve essays. For CD’s negative …
- … Review 109: 227–63. Holland, Henry. 1862. Essays on scientific and other subjects from the …
- … from Henry Holland, [1 or 8 February 1862] ). The original manuscript that Holland sent to …
From J. D. Hooker [25 January 1862]
Summary
Will send an Arethusa; offers other specimens.
Dimorphism.
Falconer contradicts Sumatra and Ceylon elephant story.
Lyell as rabid as ever about America.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 Jan 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 6–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3394 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [25 January 1862] …
- … DAR 101: 6–7 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [25 Jan 1862] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Adams 1918 ). The Lyells dined with the Hookers on 20 January 1862 (see letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [19 January 1862] ). George Busk was the zoological secretary of the Linnean …
- … George Busk’s accident (see n. 7, below, and letter from J. E. Gray, 29 January 1862 ). …
- … In 1862, 25 January fell on a Saturday. CD had long been anxious to examine a specimen of …
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 77–96. [ Collected papers 2: 45–63. ] Lindley, …
- … the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Schlegel, …
- … Hermann. 1862. The Sumatran elephant. Natural History Review n.s. 2: 72–8. …
- … volume, letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] ). An article on the elephants of Sumatra …
- … of the Natural History Review ( Schlegel 1862 ). Schlegel claimed that these elephants …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 16 January [1862] ). Charles and Mary Elizabeth Lyell were …
From John Murray 30 January [1862]
Summary
Discusses manuscript by H. W. Bates [Naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)].
Mentions CD’s forthcoming book [Orchids].
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3420 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … From John Murray 30 January [1862] …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25. ) John Murray London, Albemarle St 30 Jan [1862] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Office directory of the six home counties 1862). Charles Lyell was preparing Antiquity of …
- … p. vii). Orchids was published on 15 May 1862 (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 10, …
- … by the relationship to the letter from H. W. Bates, 25 January 1862 and to the letter …
- … to John Murray, 28 January [1862] . See …
- … letter to John Murray, 28 January [1862] . The reference is to Henry Walter Bates . Murray …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Post Office directory of the six home …
From H. W. Bates 11 January 1862
Summary
Grieved to hear of CD’s illness; begs him not to give moment’s thought to his MS until health has returned.
Plans to exhibit mimetic butterflies at Linnean Society.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3381 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From H. W. Bates 11 January 1862 …
- … DAR 160.1: 65 Henry Walter Bates Leicester 11 Jan 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … King St Leicester 11 Jan y 1862 My Dear Sir It grieves me very much to hear of your …
- … recorded in her diary (DAR 242) on 4 January 1862 that CD was ‘ill with influ[enza]’. The …
- … see letter from H. W. Bates, 6 January 1862) . Bates’s collection of mimetic butterflies …
- … a meeting of the Linnean Society of London on 16 January 1862 ( Journal of the Proceedings …
- … of the Linnean Society 6 (1862): lviii). …
To Ludwig Rütimeyer 15 [and 16] January [1862]
Summary
Lord Tankerville has not responded to the request for the skulls which LR requires for his research. CD addressed Lord T through his friend Sir Henry Holland, who is prepared to try again, despite Lord T’s rudeness.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer |
Date: | 15 and 16 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3389 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To Ludwig Rütimeyer 15 [and 16] January [1862] …
- … Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 1) Charles Robert Darwin Down 15 Jan 1862 16 …
- … Jan 1862 Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer …
- … the relationship to the letter from Henry Holland, 15 January [1862] and the letter from …
- … Henry Holland, [3–14] January [1862] , and to the letter …
- … to Ludwig Rütimeyer, 11 February [1862] (see n. 6, below). The letter from Rütimeyer has …
- … from Henry Holland, [3–14] January ]1862] . The fifth earl of Tankerville, also named …
- … letter from Henry Holland, 15 January [1862] . The daily postal delivery to Down arrived …
- … directory for the six home counties 1862, pp. 756, 822). It is consequently unlikely that …
To T. H. Huxley 14 [January 1862]
Summary
On success of THH’s Edinburgh lectures.
Agrees that THH is right that the hybrid question is a "hiatus" [in the argument for natural selection] but he overrates it. Crossed varieties frequently produce sterile offspring. On this question asks THH to read his Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63]. CD suspects sterility will come to be viewed as a selected character.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 14 [Jan 1862] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 167) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3386 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … To T. H. Huxley 14 [January 1862] …
- … Archives (Huxley 5: 167) Charles Robert Darwin Down 14 [Jan 1862] Thomas Henry Huxley …
- … H. Huxley, 31 October [1861] ). See letter from C. E. Brown-Séquard, 13 January 1862 . …
- … to the letter from T. H. Huxley, 13 January 1862 , and by the reference to an article …
- … in the Journal of Horticulture of 14 January 1862 (see n. 8, below). See letter …
- … from T. H. Huxley, 13 January 1862 . Henrietta Anne Huxley . Emma Darwin recorded in her …
- … See letter from T. H. Huxley, 13 January 1862 and n. 4. The reference is to the second …
- … see letter from T. H. Huxley, 13 January 1862 and n. 5). There is a lightly annotated …
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 77–96. [ Collected papers 2: 45–63. ] …
- … Vrolik (Schroeder van der Kolk and Vrolik 1862). The article discussed Richard Owen’s …
- … way] (Schroeder van der Kolk and Vrolik 1862, p. 112). See also Rupke 1994 , pp. 274– …
- … 9. See letter from T. H. Huxley, 13 January 1862 and n. 2. In Origin , pp. 270–1, CD …
- … CD refers to an article in the 14 January 1862 issue of the Journal of Horticulture by the …
From John Lubbock 6 January 1862
Summary
Sends paper [on ancient Swiss lake-habitations, Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51] for CD’s opinion.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 170.1: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3376 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From John Lubbock 6 January 1862 …
- … Kent. See also letter from E. F. Lubbock to Emma Darwin, [January 1862] , n. 4. …
- … and 1st Baron Avebury London, Mansion House St, 11 6 Jan 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … on ancient Swiss lake-habitations, Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51] for CD’s opinion. …
- … see letter to John Lubbock, 23 January [1862] ). It was probably a manuscript version of …
- … the West Riding of Yorkshire on 19 February 1862. The first part of this paper (pp. 238– …
- … also letter from John Lubbock, 15 May 1862 ), he described the human artefacts discovered …
To Henry Holland 31 January [1862]
Summary
Returns HH’s essay.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Date: | 31 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | Private collection (on loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3424F |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To Henry Holland 31 January [1862] …
- … scientific and other subjects from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews ( Holland 1862 ). …
- … Museum, Cambridge) Charles Robert Darwin London 31 Jan [1862] Henry Holland, 1st baronet …
- … Review 109: 227–63. Holland, Henry. 1862. Essays on scientific and other subjects from the …
- … and the letter from Henry Holland, 30 January [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10). Holland’s …
- … postscript, see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from Henry Holland, 30 January [1862] and …
- … Holland 1862 , pp. 98–9. The essay …
From J. E. Gray 29 January 1862
Summary
Owen’s paper on the aye-aye [Rep. BAAS 32 (1862) pt 2: 114–16];
his attacks on CD and his theories.
Author: | John Edward Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 205 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3419 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From J. E. Gray 29 January 1862 …
- … DAR 165: 205 John Edward Gray unstated 29 Jan 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Owen’s paper on the aye-aye [ Rep. BAAS 32 (1862) pt 2: 114–16]; his attacks on CD and his …
- … Society of London held on 14 and 28 January 1862. In his conclusion, Owen endorsed the …
- … of Science, held at Cambridge in October 1862. The aye-aye had formerly been classified by …
- … also letter from J. D. Hooker, [25 January 1862] and n. 7. The reference is probably to …
- … present who seemed inclined to say anything Ever Yours Sincerely | J. E Gray 29 Jan 1862 …
To J. B. Innes [3] January [1862]
Summary
Quiz arrived safely.
CD’s three sons are in bed with bad colds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | [3] Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3371 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To J. B. Innes [3] January [1862] …
- … Robert M. Stecher collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down [3] Jan [1862] John Brodie Innes …
- … also letter from J. D. Hooker, [1 January 1862] , n. 7. CD refers to Innes’s wife Eliza …
- … Correspondence vol. 9) and 2 January [1862]. In his letter of [24 December 1861] ( …
- … Thursday 2 January; his letter of 2 January [1862] implies that this plan was adhered to. …
- … date. See letter from J. B. Innes, 2 January [1862] and n. 3. CD probably refers to the …
- … Correspondence vol. 9) and 2 January [1862]. In his letter of 19 December [1861] ( …
- … recorded in her diary (DAR 242) on 1 January 1862 that she returned home from a trip to …
To H. W. Bates 31 January [1862]
Summary
Encloses note from Murray, hoping it will be satisfactory. Murray is ready to see as much of MS as possible. Murray is considered honest but may be cautious, since HWB’s name is unknown to the public.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 31 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3424 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To H. W. Bates 31 January [1862] …
- … Robert M. Stecher collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 31 Jan [1862] Henry Walter Bates …
- … relationship to the letter from John Murray, 30 January [1862] and to the letter from H. …
- … W. Bates, 25 January 1862 . CD evidently …
- … enclosed the letter from John Murray, 30 January [1862] (see letter to …
- … John Murray, 28 January [1862] ). See Correspondence vol. 9, letter to H. W. Bates, 25 …
From Thomas Henry Huxley 13 January 1862
Summary
Against all predictions his Edinburgh lecture was well received [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)].
Took his old line about problem of infertility of hybrids as a test of CD’s views.
Report [from a newspaper] not quite right about what he said, but they have not refuted his statement that some form of progressive development theory is certainly true, nor that man and the apes come from same stock. Owen has gone in for progressive development in second edition of the Palaeontology [1861].
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 290 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3383 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … From Thomas Henry Huxley 13 January 1862 …
- … DAR 166.2: 290 Thomas Henry Huxley London, Jermyn St 13 Jan 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … in Rupke 1994 , pp. 242–3. Brewster 1862 . The original letter is damaged. The words and …
- … Bibliography Brewster, David. 1862. The facts and fancies …
- … of Mr Darwin. Good Words (1862): 3–9. Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Owen, Richard. 1860a. Palæontology or a …
- … Institution of Edinburgh on 4 and 7 January 1862, respectively. For an account of the …
- … Jermyn St Jan 13 th . 1862 My dear Darwin In the first place a new years greeting to you & …
- … the Edinburgh Evening Courant , 11 January 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix V); …
- … pp. 57–118. Orchids was published in May 1862 ( Freeman 1977 , p. 112). In the first …
letter | (58) |
Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
Holland, Henry | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Bates, H. W. | (3) |
Lubbock, John | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (36) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Babington, C. C. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (57) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Bates, H. W. | (5) |
Holland, Henry | (5) |
Huxley, T. H. | (4) |
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
Summary
1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
Matches: 28 hits
- … As the sheer volume of his correspondence indicates, 1862 was a particularly productive year for …
- … be so’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 and] 20 November [1862] ). I have not the least …
- … him from this view ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 14 [January 1862] ): 'no doubt you are right …
- … Huxley replied ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 20 January 1862 ): 'I entertain no doubt that …
- … but continued ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 18 December [1862] ): 'you say the answer to …
- … but complained ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 28 December [1862] ): 'To get the degree of …
- … him the commission ( see letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ). Darwin was altogether taken …
- … is no common man’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] ). Two sexual forms: …
- … with his study of Primula and escalated throughout 1862 as he searched for other cases of …
- … 1861, and was published in the society’s journal in March 1862. The paper described the two …
- … in almost daily’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] ). In a postscript, he mentioned his work …
- … telling Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 March [1862] ): ‘I am nearly sure that daylight is …
- … great’, he told Gray ( letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] ), ‘I have lately counted one by one …
- … labour over them’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 [October 1862] ; see ML 2: 292–3). Other …
- … of dimorphism’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [April 1862] ), and experimenting to test his …
- … sets of experiments’ ( letter to M. T. Masters, 24 July [1862] ). The materials that Darwin …
- … case he determined to experiment on Linum in 1862. Soon he was enthralled, especially by the …
- … be generically distinct’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 14 July [1862] ). The case was so good that he …
- … Linum ‘at once’ ( letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ), writing up his experiments in …
- … complex case—’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 29 [July 1862] ). The three forms had different lengths …
- … who exclaimed to Gray ( letter to Asa Gray, 9 August [1862] ), ‘I am almost stark staring mad over …
- … the Linnean Society ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 October [1862] ). However, it was not until 1864 …
- … pleasure to ride’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] ). But he worried about the resulting …
- … the Book will sell’ ( letter to John Murray, 9 [February 1862] ). To his son, William, his …
- … every flower’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 8 June [1862] ). I never before felt half so …
- … he told Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 [May 1862] ). But he did not have long to wait. ‘It is …
- … it ‘most valuable’ (letter from George Bentham, 15 May 1862). Orchids was published on 15 May, …
- … all, ‘a success’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 [June 1862] ). a flank-movement on the …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
Matches: 5 hits
- … In March 1862, Heinrich Georg Bronn wrote to Darwin stating his intention to prepare a …
- … edition (see letter from H. G. Bronn, [before 11 March 1862] ). Since the publication of the …
- … of importance’ (see letter to H. G. Bronn, 11 March [1862] ). Darwin had sent Bronn some of these …
- … in the new edition; in his letter to Bronn of 25 April [1862 ], he mentioned that he was sending …
- … from E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 11 July 1862 ). (No American edition incorporating …
Dramatisation script
Summary
Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
Matches: 8 hits
- … in the mud. BEGINNING OF WAR IN AMERICA: 1861-1862 In which the start of the American …
- … cause. Tension. THE DARWIN BOYS: 1862 In which Darwin reports one …
- … 1856 33 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, 14 MARCH 1862 34 JD HOOKER TO C DARWIN, …
- … 1861 115 A GRAY TO CHARLES WRIGHT, 17 APRIL 1862 116 A GRAY TO RW CHURCH 7 MAY …
- … 10 JUNE 1861 121 A GRAY TO C DARWIN, 31 MARCH 1862 122 JD HOOKER TO C …
- … 16 DEC 1861 124 A GRAY TO ENGELMANN, 20 FEB 1862 125 A GRAY TO C DARWIN, 31 …
- … 7 JULY 1863 152 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, DECEMBER 1862 153 JD HOOKER TO C …
- … 1861 163 C Darwin TO A Gray, 16 OCTOBER 1862 164 C Darwin TO ASA GRAY, …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
Summary
Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
Matches: 6 hits
- … Towards the end of 1862, Darwin resolved to build a small hothouse at Down House, for …
- … vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1862] , and volume 10, letter to Thomas Rivers, …
- … a construction suitable for tropical plants. In 1861 and 1862, while preparing Orchids , he was …
- … vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] and n. 13). Initially, Darwin purchased for …
- … over the previous two years. In a letter of 24 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10) …
- … Kent ( Post Office directory of the six home counties 1862). 3. Asclepias curassavica. …
I beg a million pardons: To John Lubbock, [3 September 1862]
Summary
Alison Pearn looks at a letter Darwin wrote to his neighbour and friend, John Lubbock, after making a mistake in his research on bees in 1862.
Matches: 1 hits
- … Lubbock, after making a mistake in his research on bees in 1862. …
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
Summary
This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
Clémence Auguste Royer
Summary
Getting Origin translated into French was harder than Darwin had expected. The first translator he approached, Madame Belloc, turned him down on the grounds that the content was ‘too scientific‘, and then in 1860 the French political exile Pierre…
Women’s scientific participation
Summary
Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
Matches: 5 hits
- … Letter 3787 - Darwin, H. E. to Darwin, [29 October 1862] Henrietta Darwin provides …
- … Letter 3634 - Darwin to Gray, A., [1 July 1862] Darwin tells American naturalist Asa …
- … 3681 - Wedgwood, M. S. to Darwin, [before 4 August 1862] Darwin’s niece, Margaret, …
- … lady”. Darwin, E. to Darwin, W. E. , (March, 1862 - DAR 219.1:49) Emma Darwin …
- … - Darwin to Wedgwood, K. E. S, M. S. & L. C., [4 August 1862] Darwin thanks his “angel …
Floral Dimorphism
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Floral studies In 1877 Darwin published a book that included a series of smaller studies on botanical subjects. Titled The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, it consisted primarily of…
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … 1 October [1861] To Charles Lyell, 1 April [1862] To Charles Lyell, 14 October …
Have you read the one about....
Summary
... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.
Matches: 1 hits
- … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …
Orchids
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A project to follow On the Origin of Species Darwin began to observe English orchids and collect specimens from abroad in the years immediately following the publication of On the Origin of Species. Examining…
Matches: 4 hits
- … SOURCES Books Darwin, Charles 1862. On the various contrivances by which …
- … 3421 —Charles Darwin to Joseph Dalton Hooker 30 January 1862 Darwin tells Hooker about a …
- … Letter 3662 —Charles Darwin to Asa Gray 23-4 July 1862 Darwin tells Asa Gray, a professor …
- … Darwin’s work with orchids and Chapter 1 of Darwin’s 1862 book On the various …
Forms of flowers
Summary
Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…
Matches: 6 hits
- … briefly mentioned in his Primula paper. In July 1862, Darwin explained to Gray, ‘ I have …
- … of the genus Linum ’, between 11 and 21 December 1862. The paper was read at a meeting of the …
- … to Lythrum , a genus that he had begun researching in 1862 after Hooker had supplied him with …
- … of Lythrum he had been working on since late July 1862. He told Oliver that, ‘ as each form has …
- … of the crossing experiments immediately, but by October 1862, he admitted to Hooker, ‘ I am rather …
- … 117: 50). Darwin released William from counting in November 1862, telling him, ‘ Next year I shall …
Dining at Down House
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
Matches: 4 hits
- … on Verbascum. Darwin had suggested to Scott in 1862, when Scott was working at the Royal Botanic …
- … vol. 10, letter to John Scott, 19 November [1862] ). Darwin had already written to Hooker of …
- … disturbing the serenity of the Christian world’ (Brewster 1862, p. 3). John Hutton Balfour, though …
- … vol. 10, letter from J. H. Balfour, 14 January 1862 ). According to Hooker, Balfour’s prejudice …
Darwin on race and gender
Summary
Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
Matches: 1 hits
- … [1859] Letter to Charles Kingsley, 6 February [1862] Letter from F. W. Farrar, …
Darwin and Fatherhood
Summary
Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
Species and varieties
Summary
On the origin of species by means of natural selection …so begins the title of Darwin’s most famous book, and the reader would rightly assume that such a thing as ‘species’ must therefore exist and be subject to description. But the title continues, …or…
Women as a scientific audience
Summary
Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
Matches: 1 hits
- … lady”. Darwin, E. to Darwin, W. E. , (March 1862 - DAR 219.1:49) Emma Darwin …
Sexual selection
Summary
Although natural selection could explain the differences between species, Darwin realised that (other than in the reproductive organs themselves) it could not explain the often marked differences between the males and females of the same species. So what…
Matches: 1 hits
- … the Lords' ( to J. D. Hooker, 25 [and 26] January [1862] ) In 1869, Darwin …