To Charles Lyell 10 November [1856]
Summary
Illnesses of Mrs Horner and Emma Darwin.
Death of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood.
Mentions work on his "Big Book" [Natural selection].
Remarks on J. A. H. de Bosquet’s discovery of a Chthamalus in the Chalk.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 10 Nov [1856] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.140) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1984 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Wedgwood died on 6 November 1856 ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 161). She had broken her hip in an accident in September (see letter to W. D. Fox, 3 October [1856] ). Lyell had been working for several years on an analysis of the volcanic geology of Madeira and intended to publish a paper in collaboration with Georg Hartung (see K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 232, 282). The paper was eventually abandoned, but Hartung later published most of their results ( Hartung 1864 ). …
To J. D. Hooker 31 May [1866]
Summary
Comments on JDH’s list – very good, but Orchids and Primula paper have too indirect a bearing to be worth mentioning. The Eozoon is a very important fact and to a much lesser degree the Archaeopteryx. Müller’s Für Darwin [1864] perhaps the most important contribution.
CD has forgotten to mention Bates on variation and JDH’s Arctic paper ["Distribution of Arctic plants", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 251–348] in new edition of Origin.
Now finds that Owen claims to be originator of natural selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 31 May [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 290 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5106 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Wedgwood III , on 29 May; he returned to Down on Saturday 2 June 1866 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). William Robert Grove had asked Hooker for recent evidence supporting CD’s theory for use in preparing his presidential address for the British Association for the Advancement of Science. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 29 May 1866 and nn. 3 and 4. In 1864, …
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
| Darwin, Emma | (12) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (12) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (3) |
Addressee
| Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (6) |
| Darwin, Emma | (5) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (5) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
| Darwin, Emma | (17) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (17) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (14) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (6) |
