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To S. P. Woodward   6 March [1860]

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Will be glad to have SPW’s criticisms of Origin.

Discusses his use of terms, "typical" and "specialisation".

Emphasises large body of facts explained by his theory of species.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:  6 Mar [1860]
Classmark:  DAR 148: 379
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2724

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To Asa Gray   7 January [1860]

Summary

Comments on AG’s memoir on Japanese plants [see 2599]; relationship of Japanese flora to N. American.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  7 Jan [1860]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (15)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2645

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  • … Huxley, 1 January [1860] . Hooker 1859 . See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 3 January [1860] . …
  • … to Hooker in 1859. See Correspondence vol.  7, letters to J.  D. Hooker, 11 May [1859] and …
  • Hooker 1859 . Gray had sent CD a copy of his description of the plants collected by Charles Wright in Japan ( Gray 1858–9 ) (see Correspondence vol.  7, letter to Asa Gray, 24 December [1859] ). Several months earlier CD had read proof-sheets of the concluding section of the paper, sent to him by Joseph Dalton Hooker (see Correspondence vol.  7, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 11 May [1859] ). …

To Henry Walter Bates   22 November [1860]

Summary

Thanks for interesting letter which confirms belief that a good observer is a good theorist.

He is glad to hear that HWB, with his wide knowledge of natural history, has anticipated CD in many respects and agrees with the Origin.

Has been thoroughly attacked, especially by entomologists – J. O. Westwood, T. V. Wollaston, and Andrew Murray.

Glad HWB is writing on "equatorial refrigeration"; CD expresses his belief in north to south migration during glacial period.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Henry Walter Bates
Date:  22 Nov [1860]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2993

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To Williams and Norgate   16 January [1860]

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Orders J. E. Tennent’s work on Ceylon [Sir James Emerson, afterwards Tennent, Ceylon, an account of the island, physical, historical, and topographical (1859)], and Richard Owen’s Classification and distribution of Mammalia [1859].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Williams & Norgate
Date:  16 Jan [1860]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2653

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  • … 7, letters to John Murray , 15 October [1859] , and to J.  D.  Hooker, [23 October 1859]). …

To J. D. Hooker   3 January [1860]

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High praise and detailed comments on JDH’s introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae, which CD has now finished reading.

Disagrees on power of transoceanic migration. Advocates glacial transport of plants.

CD’s response to reviews of Origin in Saturday Review [8 (1859): 775–6] and John Lindley’s in Gardeners’ Chronicle [but see 2651].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  3 Jan [1860]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2635

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  • J.  D.  Hooker, 14 December [1859] , and letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [20 December 1859] . …
  • 1859, pp.  1051–2, had been written by the editor, John Lindley . It was printed in the opening columns of the Gardeners’ Chronicle that were normally reserved for the editor’s comments. In fact, Hooker was the author (see letter to J.  D.   …

To J. D. Hooker   30 April [1860]

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JDH has settled the Leschenaultia case, but it remains a difficulty to CD.

Goodenia, like bee orchid, seems a case of a structure with an evident function, which is not carried out. Is curvature of styles an incidental result of growth or a pollination adaptation?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  30 Apr [1860]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 51
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2776

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  • Hooker, [28 April 1860] and n.  2. Samuel Haughton , professor of geology at Dublin University, had publicly criticised CD’s theory (see Correspondence vol.  7, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 3 May [1859] ). …

To J. D. Hooker   14 February [1860]

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Huxley’s Royal Institution lecture on Origin [10 Feb 1860, Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1858–62): 195–200] an "entire failure" as an exposition of CD’s doctrine.

R. I. Murchison very civil.

CD counts Lyell among the converted.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  14 Feb [1860]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 40
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2696

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  • J.  D.  Hooker, 8 February [1860] ) and his conditions for publication meant that Hooker had to pay for any presentation copies (see Correspondence vol.  7, letter to J.  D. Hooker, [8–11 April 1859] , …
  • J.  D.  Hooker, 8 February [1860] . CD refers to the copies of Hooker’s introductory essay of the Flora Tasmaniæ ( Hooker 1859 ), …

To J. D. Hooker   18 [April 1860]

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What a base dog Owen is for praising his own work in reviewing Origin [anonymously].

J. H. Balfour is narrow-minded.

CD cannot understand pollination of Goodenia.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  18 [Apr 1860]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 49
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2763

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  • … see Correspondence vol.  7, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [26 May 1859] and n.  3. The January …
  • Hooker the draft of a letter to the Gardeners’ Chronicle to see whether he thought he should send it to the journal for publication. See letters to Gardeners’ Chronicle , [13 April 1860], and to J.  D.  Hooker, 13 [April 1860]. The letter from Richard Owen to Hooker is also mentioned in CD’s letter to Asa Gray, 25 April [1860] . Owen reviewed Origin , Hooker 1859 , …

To J. D. Hooker   12 [June 1860]

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Progress of [Thomas?] Thomson and G. H. K. Thwaites on accepting mutability.

Bee orchid pollination.

JDH has written to CD on homologies of stigma in Goodeniaceae.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  12 [June 1860]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 62
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2830

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  • … but see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 13 [May 1860] . Hooker 1859 . George Henry Kendrick …

To A. R. Wallace   18 May 1860

Summary

Pleasure in ARW’s approbation of the Origin. Other supporters among scientists. ARW’s generosity.

Attacks by Owen, Sedgwick, and others.

Anticipation of natural selection by Matthew in 1830.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  18 May 1860
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434: 21–23v)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2807

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  • … 1863 ( C.  Lyell 1863 ). Hooker 1859 . See letters to J.  D.  Hooker, 15 [May 1860] , and …
  • J.  D.  Hooker, 10 May 1860 . Phillips 1860 . [Jardine] 1860 . [Wollaston] 1860 . Murray 1860a . Haughton 1860a. Dawson 1860b . For a list of reviews of Origin that were published in 1859  …

To Charles Lyell   4 [January 1860]

Summary

Praises CL’s work on human species.

A critical review of Origin in Saturday Review [24 Dec 1859].

A letter from J. G. Jeffreys criticises CD’s geological statements.

A note from William Whewell concerning Origin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  4 [Jan 1860]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.190)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2637

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  • … 24 December 1859, pp.  775–6. See also letter to J.  D. Hooker, 3 January [1860] . The …
  • 1859. CD lent Lyell his copy. CD believed that John Lindley had written the review, but he later learned from Lyell that Joseph Dalton Hooker was the author (see letters to Charles Lyell , 10 January [1860] , and to J.  D.   …

To J. S. Henslow   8 May [1860]

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Comments on Richard Owen’s review of the Origin [in Edinburgh Rev. 111 (1860): 487–532]. Considers Owen unfair to CD and most ungenerous toward Hooker.

Expects Sedgwick to be fierce against him. Sedgwick also misrepresented CD in his Spectator review [24 Mar and 7 Apr 1860].

Compares natural selection to the undulatory theory of light as a hypothesis explaining a large number of facts.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Stevens Henslow
Date:  8 May [1860]
Classmark:  DAR 93: A67–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2791

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  • J.  D. Hooker, 10 May 1860 . [Sedgwick] 1860 . See Correspondence vol.  7, letter from Adam Sedgwick, 24 November 1859 . …

To J. D. Hooker   7 August [1860]

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Owen wants to be civil, and sneer behind CD’s back.

Those, like Rudolph Wagner, who want to go halfway on theory, are "booked to go further".

Anatomy of orchids.

Huxley says K. E. von Baer goes "a great way with me".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  7 Aug [1860]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 72
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2892

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  • Hooker in November 1859 (see Correspondence vol.  7, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 14 December [1859] ). …

To John Murray   9 April [1860]

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Asks that a copy of Origin [1860] be sent to R. A. von Kölliker.

A venomous review "manifestly by Owen" has appeared in Edinburgh Review.

Sedgwick has been fierce in Spectator, but fair and open.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Murray
Date:  9 Apr [1860]
Classmark:  National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.90–91)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2752

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  • … See Correspondence vol.  7, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [27 October or 3 November 1859] . …

To Asa Gray   10 September [1860]

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Has received second part of AG’s Atlantic Monthly article ["Darwin on the origin of species", 6 (1860): 109–16, 229–39], and would like to have it reprinted in England with the first part.

Regrets no reviewer has touched upon embryology, which he feels provides one of his strongest arguments.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  10 Sept [1860]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (34)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2910

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  • … vol.  7, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 14 December [1859] , and, in this volume, letter to …

To J. S. Henslow   10 November [1860]

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The stone hatchets are a great muddle. Would like a copy of Jacques Boucher [de Crèvecoeur] de Perthes’s book [Antiquités Celtiques et antédiluviennes (1847–64)].

Is studying action of carbonate of ammonia on Drosera. Asks if this has been done.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Stevens Henslow
Date:  10 Nov [1860]
Classmark:  DAR 93: A83–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2981

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  • Hooker , and indicated that he had already looked at one of his volumes. See Correspondence vol.  7, letter to J.  D. Hooker, 22 [June 1859] . …

To Charles Lyell   10 January [1860]

Summary

Comments on corrections [in Origin, 2d ed. (1860)], especially on use of Wallace’s name.

Discusses human evolution with respect to CL’s work. Cites expression as a source of evidence.

Andrew Murray’s criticisms of the Origin involving blind insects in caves [Edinburgh New Philos. J. n.s. 11 (1860): 141–51].

Humorously describes human ancestors.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  10 Jan [1860]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.191)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2647

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  • Hooker . See letter to J.  D. Hooker, 14 [January 1860] . Andrew Murray’s presidential address of 10 November 1859  …
  • 1859, pp.  775–6. CD had accepted this criticism as justified (see letters to J.  D.  Hooker, …

To J. D. Hooker   8 February [1860]

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Urges JDH to work his essays into a book.

CD’s historical sketch ends with JDH’s introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  8 Feb [1860]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 39
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2689

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  • … vol.   7, letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [8–10 April 1859] ). The publisher of the work, …

To Asa Gray   24 February [1860]

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Last sheets of AG’s review of Origin have arrived. CD’s comments and criticisms.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  24 Feb [1860]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (23)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2713

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  • J.  D.  Hooker, [23 February 1860] . CD refers to a paper on the flora of Japan ( Gray 1859 ), …

To Charles Lyell   22 May [1860]

Summary

Mentions American edition of Origin.

A "savage" review [by John Duns] in North British Review [32 (1860): 455–68].

Comments on views of G. H. K. Thwaites on the survival of simple forms as a problem in his theory.

Mentions imperfection of geological record.

Marine origin of coal.

Illness of Etty.

Encloses article by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire on hare–rabbit crosses [Histoire naturelle générale (1854–62) 3: 222].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  22 May [1860]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.213)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2812

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  • J.  D.  Hooker, [1 May 1847] ). See also preceding letter. See preceding letter. In a paper read at a meeting of the Geological Society on 14 December 1859, …
  • 1859 , pp.  268–9). The occurrence of fossilised land shells in coal was of particular interest in connection with the question of the origin of coal. See Correspondence vol.  4, letter to J.  D. Hooker, [ …
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