To J. S. Henslow 8 May [1860]
Summary
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 |
To Elizabeth Drysdale [22 or 29 October 1859]
Summary
Declines an invitation to visit [Moor] Park.
He hopes that Dr Lane is arranging things to his satisfaction.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Elizabeth Pew, Lady Drysdale; Elizabeth Copland, Lady Drysdale; Elizabeth Drysdale, Lady Drysdale |
Date: | [22 or 29] Oct 1859 |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 88); Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré (dealers) (Catalogue 55); B & L Rootenberg (dealers) (May 1991) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2498A |
To J. D. Hooker 7 August [1860]
Summary
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 |
To John Murray 9 April [1860]
Summary
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 July [1867]
Summary
Pleased JDH will come next Saturday.
Asks him to return Adam Bede.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 29 July [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5587 |
To Charles Lyell 24 September 1873
Summary
Discusses apple specimens received from CL; reversion to crab state. Cites passage on subject in Variation.
Comments on letter from Mr Wood on inheritance in fruit-trees.
Would like to cross flowers of "Hawthornden" with many distinct varieties.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 24 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.432) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9065 |
To Charles Lyell 22 August [1862]
Summary
Relates personal news about family members.
CD is "glad Glen Roy is settled".
Mentions evolutionary remarks on birds by Owen.
Compares variability among lower and higher organisms. Comments on Hooker’s view of the subject.
Forthcoming publication of Huxley’s book [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)] and Lyell’s [Antiquity of man (1863)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 22 Aug [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.281) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3695 |
From J. D. Hooker [6 December 1864]
Summary
Sabine’s address, printed in the Reader [4 (1864): 708–9], is good on the whole. Sends Huxley’s account of the row.
Praises John Ruskin’s eloquent reply to Jukes.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 Dec 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 262–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4708 |
To H. W. Bates 25 November [1862]
Summary
[Apparently in reply to question in missing portion of 3825.] A written agreement is unnecessary, but a letter stating terms would prevent misundertanding. He will attempt to have a review of HWB’s paper published.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 25 Nov [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3827 |
From Hugh Falconer to William Sharpey 25 October 1864
Summary
Describes CD’s qualifications for Copley Medal.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | William Sharpey |
Date: | 25 Oct 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 475 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4644 |
To Asa Gray 10 September [1860]
Summary
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 February [1858]
Summary
JDH has confirmed CD’s opinion on the affinities of species in great genera. Is looking at large genera in several local Floras to find the "range & commonness of varying species".
Has been "beyond measure interested" in the construction instincts of the hive-bee.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 Feb [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 225 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2228 |
To J. S. Henslow 10 November [1860]
Summary
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 |
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 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 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, …
From Hugh Falconer 25 October and 12 November [1859]
Summary
The antlers of 800 deer of the glacial period have been found in a cave. They show great variety of form, but gradation from one to the other can be traced when all are laid out. Suggests CD study changes that have taken place in the species since glacial period.
Has ordered the wicked book [Origin] CD has been so long a-hatching.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Oct and 12 Nov 1859 |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 215–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2511 |
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 |
From C. V. Naudin 26 June 1862
Summary
Thanks for Orchids.
Plans to publish soon on hybrids.
Author: | Charles Victor Naudin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 June 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 172.1: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3621 |
To Asa Gray 21 December [1859]
Summary
Would welcome American edition of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 21 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (16) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2592 |
To Charles Lyell 29 [December 1859]
Summary
Encloses letter concerning Edward Blyth’s application for a position with the China expedition.
Mentions reviews of the Origin. Guesses that Huxley wrote the Times review.
Alludes to discussion of relations between fossil and modern types [in Principles of geology 3: 144].
Discusses destruction of tropical forms in the glacial period.
Mentions letter from Dana concerning Dana’s illness.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 29 [Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.188) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2612 |
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: 1 hit
- … Hooker, 30 January [1862] , CD requested information concerning a case of dimorphism in the Caryophyllaceae that Hooker had mentioned; the genus Stellaria belongs to the Caryophyllaceae. CD thanked Hooker for his information on Stellaria in the letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 February [1862] . Stellaria bulbifera is a synoym of Pseudostellaria europaea . Maximowicz 1859, …
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