To George Rolleston 6 June [1860]
Summary
CD’s plans are uncertain because of his daughter’s [Henrietta Darwin] fever.
If GR would kindly reserve rooms for CD near college, CD will write before the meeting [of British Association at Oxford] if he is prevented from coming.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Rolleston |
| Date: | 6 June [1860] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.6119/) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2822A |
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- … Association meeting ( letter to George Rolleston, 1 June [1860] ). CD was unable to attend …
To George Rolleston [1860–82]
Summary
Envelope only, addressed to Professor Rolleston in Oxford.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Rolleston |
| Date: | [1860–82] |
| Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 76) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13891F |
To George Rolleston 1 June [1860]
Summary
Thanks for invitation [to stay with GR at Oxford], but his poor state of health requires him to stay in private lodgings.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Rolleston |
| Date: | 1 June [1860] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.6119/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2820A |
To J. D. Hooker 30 May [1860]
Summary
Harvey’s letter to JDH more accepting of natural selection than CD expected.
Battle over Origin is raging in the United States.
Weary of hostile reviews.
Doubts about going to Oxford [for BAAS meeting].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 May [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2818 |
Rolleston, George (1829–81)
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- … George Rolleston 1829–81 Physician and physiologist. Appointed physician to the British Civil Hospital at Smyrna (Izmir), Turkey, 1855, during the Crimean War. Physician to Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, and Lee’s Reader in anatomy at Christ Church, Oxford, 1857. Linacre Professor of anatomy and physiology, Oxford University, 1860– …
To Cuthbert Collingwood 14 March [1861]
Summary
CD is not surprised at CC’s entire rejection of his views. Agrees that there is no direct proof of unlimited variation. Says natural selection should be viewed as comparable to wave theory of light: it is probable because it groups and explains a host of facts in several fields of science.
Agrees Louis Agassiz’s review [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 30 (1860): 142–55] is not unfair, but Agassiz misunderstands CD. His "categories of thought" are to CD merely empty words.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Cuthbert Collingwood |
| Date: | 14 Mar [1861] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add. MS. 37725, ff. 6–9b) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3088 |
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 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Rolleston, George | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Collingwood, Cuthbert | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Rolleston, George | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Collingwood, Cuthbert | (1) |
