From John Tyndall 10 April 1873
Author: | John Tyndall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Apr 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: C12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8855 |
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- … From John Tyndall 10 April 1873 …
- … DAR 106: C12 John Tyndall Royal Institution 10 Apr 1873 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 10 th April 1873 My dear Darwin. I have got £100 with a sweet good letter from Armstrong— He desires me to call upon him again if more be needed. We shall, however, have quite sufficient for our purpose. I was also sure of Farrer, and he has justified my confidence in him. Ever heartily yours | John Tyndall …
To John Tyndall 7 March [1871]
Summary
Ogle wants very much to meet JT.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 7 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 10 (EH 88205948) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7552 |
From Charles Lyell 1 September 1874
Summary
Comments on Tyndall’s [Presidential] Address at Belfast meeting [of BAAS] and praise of CD’s work there. Mentions criticism of Belfast clergy.
CL saw some crustacean footprints while in Ireland.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Sept 1874 |
Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 445-6; The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9619 |
Tyndall, John. 1872a. The ‘prayer for the sick’: hints towards a serious attempt to estimate its value. Contemporary Review 20: 205–10.
Tyndall, John. 1862. On the conformation of the Alps. The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. 4th ser. 24: 169–73.
From Joseph Prestwich 2 January 1880
Summary
Having reviewed the history of the Glen Roy debate ["On the origin of the parallel roads of Lochaber, and their bearing on other phenomena of the glacial period", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 170 (1880): 663–776], JP wishes to know whether it is accurate to say CD has abandoned the marine theory.
Author: | Joseph Prestwich |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12394 |
To J. D. Hooker [6 April 1873]
Summary
Wants to discuss raising a testimonial fund for Huxley and whether Huxley would stand this.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [6 Apr 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 261–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8843 |
From T. F. Jamieson to Charles Lyell 17 October 1862
Summary
TFJ returns CD’s "too flattering" letter concerning Glen Roy [see 3761]. Further discussion of [A. C.] Ramsay’s, [J. D.] Hooker’s, and CL’s arguments about the formation of glacial lakes.
Author: | Thomas Francis Jamieson |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 17 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen. 112/2859–60) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3757F |
From G. J. Romanes [6 or 13 or 20] March 1881
Summary
Intends experiment to see if cats released in country can find their way back.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6, 13 or 20] Mar 1881 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 107 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13069 |
To J. D. Hooker 26[–7] March [1864]
Summary
John Scott has left Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
Asks JDH to ask Tyndall whether Frankland exaggerates the effect of snowfall on advance of European glaciers.
Huxley and Falconer squabble too much in public.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26[–7] Mar [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 225 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4436 |
From John Tyndall 8 June [1872]
Summary
Sends CD a copy of the memorial supporting Hooker’s case against A. S. Ayrton’s interference in the administration of Kew Gardens.
Author: | John Tyndall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 June [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: C9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8375 |
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 |
From J. D. Hooker [24 March 1863]
Summary
Has been looking at separation of sexes in poplars.
Interested in reversion.
Does not understand all CD said on inheritance.
JDH now remembers that Origin was "published" some time before it was "distributed" and therefore appeared prior to his own essay [see also 2478].
Impossible to say whether some Dipterocarpaceae survived a cold period or have developed since.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 154, DAR 101: 123–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2027 |
From J. D. Hooker [15 and] 20 November [1862]
Summary
Sends CD West Ireland soundings.
More detail on his review "a la Lindley" [see 3797].
Bates’s paper ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566] is capital.
Andrew Murray’s article plays into CD’s hands through sheer ignorance.
JDH is on Royal Society Council.
Has no recollection of applying natural selection to Polynesians. None but a German would dig out such a passage if it exists [see 3812].
Has caused Tyndall to modify his pseudo-geology.
Has not seen Duke of Argyll’s review [Edinburgh Rev. 116 (1862): 378–97]. [The Duke] did not understand Orchids the least little bit, nor the Origin, when JDH saw him.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 and 20 Nov 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 71–2, 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3807 |
From G. J. Romanes 14 December 1880
Summary
Glad CD thinks experiment worth trying [see 12904]. Has written to John Tyndall for permission to do it at Royal Institution.
Paper on echinoderms written [with J. C. Ewart, "Locomotor system of Echinodermata", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 172 (1881): 829–85].
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12913 |
From J. D. Hooker 16 September 1864
Summary
Rejoices that CD is beginning "the book of books", Variation.
Suggests that changes in colour of pollen, stigma, and corolla, as Scott reports in his Primula paper, may be related to changes in the insects required for pollination.
Supports Gärtner translation by Ray Society.
Comments on recent addresses by Lyell [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): lx–lxxv], Bentham [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 8 (1864): ix–xxiii], and Murchison [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): 130–6].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 243–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4614 |
To B. W. Savile [before 8 October 1881]
Summary
There is ‘some gradation in perfection with mammals in the mammery glands’. Discusses milk secretion in Echidna. Instances a fish in which the ova hatch in a sack on the male and the young feed on mucus secreted by the sack lining; ‘here … we see what might be the commencement of a simple mammery gland’.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bourchier Wrey Savile |
Date: | [before 8 Oct 1881] |
Classmark: | Record n.s. 1 (1882): 149 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13366 |
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- … 10 October 1881 , in which Savile stated that his reply was delayed because he had been away for two days. These letter fragments are from an article published by Savile in the Record , an Anglican newspaper, after CD’s death. In the article, Savile reported that before writing to CD he had asked John Tyndall ‘ …
From John Tyndall 9 October 1868
Summary
Gustavus Hinrichs is also a [not highly regarded] correspondent of JT’s; he will put GH’s papers on the table at Royal Institution to ease CD’s conscience.
Dined with the Asa Grays at Hooker’s. Told Mrs Gray that CD’s ill health was a benefit because it caused him to ponder a great deal.
Author: | John Tyndall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: C1–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6414 |
To Herbert Spencer 13 November 1875
Summary
CD cannot remember whether he was on the committee of the Jamaica affair [for prosecution of Governor Eyre in 1866] but he subscribed £10.
It is curious and amusing how positivists hate all men of science, possibly because their prophet [Comte] made laughable and gigantic blunders in predicting the course of science.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Herbert Spencer |
Date: | 13 Nov 1875 |
Classmark: | University of London, Senate House Library (MS.791/111) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10258 |
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- … 10 under the heading ‘Jamaica’ for 19 November 1866 in his Account books–cash account (Down House MS). Charles Lyell had served on the Jamaica committee ( ODNB s.v. Jamaica Committee). CD, Lyell, and Thomas Henry Huxley had joined the Jamaica committee; however, a number of men of science, including Joseph Dalton Hooker and John Tyndall , …
To J. D. Hooker 3 November [1864]
Summary
Asks JDH to verify an observation on Dicentra – what CD thought was a branch in the young plant now looks like a gigantic leaf in the old.
Concurs on Spencer’s clever emptiness.
Ramsay exaggerates role of ice. Sorry to hear that Tyndall grows dogmatic.
Admits difficulty of making case for Wallace’s Royal Medal at this time.
Will soon finish the first draft of Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Nov [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 253 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4650 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
Tyndall, John | (3) |
Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
Conway, M. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Savile, B. W. | (1) |
Spencer, Herbert | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (29) |
Hooker, J. D. | (16) |
Tyndall, John | (4) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Romanes, G. J. | (2) |