To John Lubbock, P. L. Sclater, Charles Lyell, W. B. Carpenter, and Michael Foster [7 April 1874]
Summary
Circular requesting recipients to sign an enclosed [missing] statement [relating to appeal for Naples Zoological Station] if they approve of it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury; Philip Lutley Sclater; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; William Benjamin Carpenter; Michael Foster |
Date: | [7 Apr 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C52–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9384 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John Sclater, P. L. Lyell, Charles Carpenter, W. B. Foster, Michael …
- … To John Lubbock, P. L. Sclater, Charles Lyell, W. B. Carpenter, and Michael Foster [7 …
- … 1874] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury Philip Lutley Sclater Charles Lyell, …
- … John Lubbock . Philip Lutley Sclater was secretary of the Zoological Society, located at 11 Hanover Square, London W. ( DSB , Post Office London directory , 1875). Charles Lyell . …
Wilson, Leonard Gilchrist. 2002. A scientific libel: John Lubbock’s attack upon Sir Charles Lyell. Archives of Natural History 29: 73–87.
To subscribers to T. H. Huxley’s gift [25 April 1873]
Summary
A circular letter forwarding to subscribers a copy of Huxley’s letter of thanks [8873].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Subscribers to T. H. Huxley gift |
Date: | [25 Apr 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8876 |
From J. D. Hooker [2 June 1865]
Summary
JDH on the Lyell–Lubbock plagiarism controversy. His view of the true cause of Lubbock’s behaviour.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 24–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4849 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … it out to him ( letter from Charles Lyell to John Lubbock, 20 February 1863 , in BL MSS …
- … A scientific libel: John Lubbock’s attack upon Sir Charles Lyell. Archives of Natural …
- … letters from Charles Lyell with copies of his correspondence with John Lubbock (see letter …
- … and n. 7). In June 1865, John Lubbock was 31 and Charles Lyell was 67. Hooker is probably …
- … Lyell 1863a , see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] . Both Lubbock and Lyell appealed further to Hooker to help resolve their disagreement ( letter from John …
- … Charles Lyell’s The geological evidences of the antiquity of man. Archives of Natural History 13: 105–21. Hutchinson, Horace Gordon. 1914. Life of Sir John Lubbock, …
- … Lyell 1863a ) with Hooker, CD had praised the usefulness to science of compilers and compilations: ‘You know I value & rank high Compilers being one myself! ’ (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] ). See letter from Charles Lyell to J. D. Hooker, [31 May 1865] and enclosures. In the letter from John Lubbock to Charles Lyell, …
From Eliza Meteyard 19 February 1869
Summary
Her memorial [for civil list pension] with the signatures of CD, John Lubbock, and Charles Lyell has arrived. It is now going to W. E. Gladstone.
Author: | Eliza Meteyard |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Feb 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 162 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6622 |
From F. A. Hanbury 4 September 1871
Author: | Francis Alfred Hanbury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7923 |
To Eliza Meteyard [18 February 1869]
Summary
CD signed the petition, had Sir Charles Lyell do so also, and then forwarded the memorial to Sir John Lubbock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Eliza Meteyard |
Date: | [18 Feb 1869] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6618 |
To John Lubbock 19 [July 1855]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 19 [July 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 1 (EH 88206446) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1720 |
[Lubbock, John.] 1863d. [Review of Charles Lyell’s Antiquity of man.] Natural History Review n.s. 3: 211–19.
To Anton Dohrn 16 April and 9 August 1874
Summary
Has written to J. Murray to have account of the Zoological Station inserted in the Murray guidebook.
The circular about the Station has been printed; some have already signed.
Received R. Kossman’s paper on Anelasma ["Untersuchungen über die durch Parasitismus hervorgerufenen Umbildungen in der Familie der Pedunculata", Verh. Phys.-med. Ges. Würz. N. F. 5 (1874): 129–57]. The case is the most interesting ever recorded of gradation, i.e., from an animal with a stomach to one with roots like a plant.
Delighted he will examine the complemental males of Scalpellum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Date: | 16 Apr and 9 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 702) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9414 |
To A. W. Merriam 13 April 1873
Summary
Thanks AWM for "Comus" and an abusive New Orleans Mardi Gras newspaper editorial; he cannot tell from the "wonderful mistakes" whether the writer is "witty, ignorant, or blunders for the sake of fun".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arthur Walter Merriam |
Date: | 13 Apr 1873 |
Classmark: | Tinker 1953, p. 331 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8858F |
To J. D. Hooker [17 June 1865]
Summary
Huxley’s capital, witty letter.
Charles Kingsley has written of his interest in "Climbing plants".
Health has been very bad.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [17 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 271 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4862 |
From J. D. Hooker [15 June 1865]
Summary
Impressed by Tylor’s book [see 4836].
Encloses admirable note from Huxley on Lyell–Lubbock affair.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 28; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 2: 131) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4855 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 June [1865]
Summary
Bad month of sickness. John Chapman’s ice bag on spine.
Does not quite agree with JDH about Lubbock’s plagiarism charges. Lyell’s memory must have failed him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 June [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 269, 269b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4846 |
From Charles Lyell to J. D. Hooker [31 May 1865]
Summary
Emcloses copies of correspondence concerning his dispute with John Lubbock.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [31 May 1865] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/1/14 f.323); The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen. 113/3650–3, 3813–20, 3821–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4844F |
Matches: 6 hits
- … written to Lyell in March 1865 (letter from John Lubbock to Charles Lyell, 13 March 1865; …
- … remain, dear Sir Charles, | Yours truly | John Lubbock w Sir C Lyell B t . 53 Harley St …
- … Lyell sent copies of the enclosed letters regarding his dispute with John Lubbock to CD and Thomas Henry Huxley as well as Hooker (letter from Charles Lyell …
- … Lyell claimed, in the note on page 11 of Lyell 1863c , that Lubbock had written his paper ( Lubbock 1861 ) after Lyell had completed his chapter on Danish shell-mounds; see n. 6, above. Lyell’s explanation of the discrepancy is given in the third enclosure (letter from Charles Lyell to John Lubbock, …
- … Lubbock, John. 1865a. Pre-historic times, as illustrated by ancient remains, and the manners and customs of modern savages. London and Edinburgh: Williams & Norgate. Lyell, Charles. …
- … Lyell later informed Huxley that he showed the correspondence to George Busk (letter from Charles Lyell to T. H. Huxley, 5 June 1865, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives, Huxley papers , 6: 104). Lubbock consulted Busk and John …
To J. D. Hooker [4 June 1865]
Summary
Agrees with JDH on Lyell–Lubbock controversy except that Lubbock’s printed note does not seem to him insulting. Hopes JDH can heal the breach.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [4 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 270 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4852 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 February 1868
Summary
Rejoices over news of Variation sales.
Pall Mall Gazette review [7 (1868): 555, 636, 652] is undoubtedly by G. H. Lewes [see 5951].
Dinner at Lyells’.
Dean Stanley favours a monument to Faraday in Westminster Abbey.
Perceval Wright is back from Seychelles and reports on plants he collected.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 198–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5874 |
From J. D. Hooker [after 28 April 1866]
Summary
Orchids.
Lyell has written to JDH about coal-plants of Melville Island.
Has glanced at first edition of Principles and has no doubt that Lyell meant the whole globe was cooler when land was massed at poles. JDH doubts this.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 28 Apr 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5076 |
From F. H. Hooker 6 September [1865]
Summary
They have left Kew to improve J. D. Hooker’s health.
Author: | Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Sept [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 239–40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4890 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 November [1864]
Summary
CD’s Lythrum paper has given him as much satisfaction as working out complemental males in cirripedes.
Response to award of Copley Medal.
Letters from Germany and France support natural selection.
Now that climbing plants are done, CD asks for Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 Nov [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 254a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4682 |
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Hooker, F. H. | (2) |
Lubbock, John | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Lubbock, John | (3) |
Lyell, Charles | (3) |
Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (30) |
Hooker, J. D. | (15) |
Lubbock, John | (5) |
Lyell, Charles | (4) |
Henslow, F. H. | (2) |