To George Bentham 17 June [1861]
Summary
Asks for specimen of Orchis pyramidalis for his work on insect fertilisation of orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 17 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 697) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3186 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 [April 1861]
Summary
Lieut. F. W. Hutton’s original review [Geologist 4 (1861): 132–6, 183–8] understands that mutability cannot be directly proved.
CD met Bentham at Linnean Society and asked him to write up his views on mutability.
Opinion of Owen.
Conversation with Lyell on antiquity of man.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 [Apr 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3098 |
To H. W. Bates 4 April [1861]
Summary
CD urges HWB to write on his travels;
asks for facts on domestic variations;
is pleased by HWB’s acceptance of the theory of sexual selection.
He still believes in migration from north to south during glacial age.
Hopes Bates will publish a paper on mimicry.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 4 Apr [1861] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3109 |
To Armand de Quatrefages 25 April [1861]
Summary
Comments on QdeB’s Unité de l’espèce humaine [1861].
Discusses acceptance of his theory among scientists, especially geologists.
C. V. Naudin did not show how selection applied in nature, but Patrick Matthew clearly anticipated CD’s views.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
| Date: | 25 Apr [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 285 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3127 |
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- … vol. 7, letters to J. D. Hooker, 21 [December 1859] and 23 [December 1859] , and to …
- … 1859]. CD was pleased by the number of supporters he counted among geologists, including Charles Lyell , Andrew Crombie Ramsay , Joseph Beete Jukes , and Henry Darwin Rogers . See Correspondence vol. 8, letter to J. D. Hooker, …
To Charles Lyell 1 October [1861]
Summary
The flint tools found at Bedford.
Further discussion of Jamieson’s theory of the formation of the roads of Glen Roy by a glacial lake. Comments on formation of Glen Spean terraces. Mentions glaciers in North Wales.
Agreement with John Murray to publish [Orchids].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 1 Oct [1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.266) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3272 |
To Thomas Henry Huxley 3 January [1861]
Summary
Congratulates THH on first number of Natural History Review.
THH’s article on brain ["On the zoological relations of man with the lower animals", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1861): 67–84] completely smashes Owen.
Owen’s Leeds address [Rep. BAAS (1858): xlix–cx].
In his historical sketch of opinion on species CD has picked out some sentences [by Owen] with which he will take some revenge. CD is not bold enough to come to an open quarrel.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 3 Jan [1861] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 155, 372–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3041 |
From H. C. Watson to George Gordon 27 June 1861
Summary
Regrets he cannot assist the fulfilment of CD’s request for a specimen of the orchid Corallorhiza.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | George Gordon |
| Date: | 27 June 1861 |
| Classmark: | Elgin Museum (Gordon Archive 61.9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3197F |
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- … 1859] ). Watson corresponded with CD on various aspects of CD’s transmutation theory, and promoted the idea of a principle of convergence, which, he argued, was necessary to limit the large number of specific types which would proliferate under CD’s principle of divergence (see, for example, this volume, Supplement, letter from H. C. Watson to J. D. Hooker, …
To Asa Gray 17 February [1861]
Summary
Distribution of AG’s pamphlet.
Insectivorous plants.
Informs AG of his [CD’s] notice on Pumilio in Gardeners’ Chronicle [5 Jan 1861; Collected papers 2: 36–8].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 17 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (54) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3064 |
From H. C. Watson to J. D. Hooker 4 January 1861
Summary
Comments on the travels of JDH.
Genera plantarum a most worthy undertaking.
Criticisms of the Darwin–Hooker understanding of HCW’s views of convergence.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1861 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105: 205) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3041A |
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- … J. D. Hooker, [16 April 1846] ). Hooker used centrifugal variation to designate variation that accompanied extensive geographical distribution, as in Senecio ( Hooker 1844–7 , p. 315), while Watson used it to signify the mechanism of divergence. CD disapproved of Hooker’s use of the word centrifugal ( Correspondence vol. 7, letter to Charles Lyell, 31 [October 1859] …
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Watson, H. C. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Gordon, George (a) | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Watson, H. C. | (2) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
