To Charles Lyell 4 [January 1860]
Summary
Praises CL’s work on human species.
A critical review of Origin in Saturday Review [24 Dec 1859].
A letter from J. G. Jeffreys criticises CD’s geological statements.
A note from William Whewell concerning Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 4 [Jan 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.190) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2637 |
To William Whewell 16 April [1839]
Summary
Thanks WW for wedding gift.
Expresses admiration for his History of the inductive sciences [1837].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Whewell |
Date: | 16 Apr [1839] |
Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-506 |
To J. S. Henslow 14 October [1837]
Summary
CD’s reasons for his reluctance to take the Secretaryship of the Geological Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 14 Oct [1837] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 42 DAR/1/1/42) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-382 |
To ? [February 1838 – February 1841?]
Summary
Asks correspondent if he would prefer the President’s signature alone or with those of other scientific men.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [Feb 1838 – Feb 1841?] |
Classmark: | B. Altman (dealer) (3 October 1982) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13864 |
To C. T. Whitley [8 May 1838]
Summary
Treasures recollections of old friends but seldom sees any. Has turned "a complete scribbler".
His scientific activities.
No wife in sight so far.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Thomas Whitley |
Date: | [8 May 1838] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-411A |
To Robert Mallet 26 August [1846]
Summary
Thanks RM for "Dynamics of earthquakes" [Trans. R. Irish Acad. 21 (1848): 50–106]. It has cleared up his ideas on undulations. Now wishes he had said nothing about them in Journal of researches. Sends his paper ["Certain volcanic phenomena in S. America", Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Wishes RM would investigate Chile. Speculates whether earthquakes coincide with moon or tides.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Mallet |
Date: | 26 Aug [1846] |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-992 |
To Charles Lyell 6 March [1863]
Summary
Comments at length on CL’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)]. CD is "greatly disappointed that you have not given judgment and spoken fairly out what you think about the derivation of species".
Lists large number of queries concerning minor points.
Praises especially the chapters on language and glaciers.
Comments on the temperature of Africa during the glacial period, especially with regard to the views of Hooker.
Mentions Owen’s paper on the aye-aye [Rep. BAAS 32 (1862) pt 2: 114–16].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 6 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.289) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4028 |
From S. P. Woodward 4 June 1856
Summary
SPW and Waterhouse agree on island faunas; gives Australia and Tasmania as examples. The "stream of migration" from Asia to Tasmania.
Looks forward eagerly to the publication of CD’s "specific" researches.
Invites CD to send his memoranda [on Manual of Mollusca].
Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 June 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 303 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1889 |
To Asa Gray 3 July [1860]
Summary
Origin has "stirred up the mud with a vengeance"; AG and three or four others have saved CD from annihilation and are responsible for the attention now given to the subject. Reports events at Oxford BAAS meeting.
New evidence supports AG’s view of a warm post-glacial period.
Discusses his recent orchid observations.
Poses AG a question on design in nature.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 3 July [1860] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (41) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2855 |
From T. H. Huxley 26 April 1873
Summary
Concern for Lady Lyell;
will clear away work and set off for holiday in June.
Sends Critiques and addresses.
A life of J. D. Forbes [by J. C. Shairp, P. J. Tait, and A. A. Reilly (1873)] suggests that THH and Tyndall conspired to keep JDF from getting the Copley Medal. THH feels obliged to correct this.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Apr 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 223–24a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8882 |
To Richard Owen [November 1847–51]
Summary
"I had not heard before of Whench [Whewell?] having scolded you; I am rather glad of it …
What a grand number of novelties Hooker no doubt will bring home".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | [Nov 1847–51] |
Classmark: | John K. Lattimer (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13833 |
To William Whewell 16 February [1839]
Summary
Asks WW to alter, before printing, the passages in WW’s Presidential Address to the Geological Society [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1839): 93] which pointedly allude to the delay in publication of CD’s Beagle journal; they might annoy FitzRoy, who, as Captain, has a right to first use of the papers of all officers on board.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Whewell |
Date: | 16 Feb [1839] |
Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-496 |
From B. D. Wrangham [before 16 September 1880]
Summary
An extract from a life of Kepler about the motions of Mars.
Author: | Bartlett Downs Wrangham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 16 Sept 1880] |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 72756) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12713F |
To Charles Lyell [2 June 1847]
Summary
Comments on correspondence between CL and Whewell [concerning university reform].
Criticises S. G. Morton’s "Hybridity in animals" [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 3 (1847): 39–50, 203–12].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [2 June 1847] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.60) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1093 |
To Charles Babbage [June – September 1837]
Summary
At Lyell’s request sends his copy of Whewell’s History of inductive sciences [1837] to CB.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Babbage |
Date: | [June – Sept 1837] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 37190: 322) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-358 |
To B. D. Walsh [19] April [1866]
Summary
CD has followed Lyell’s advice and avoided controversy over Origin but encourages BDW to attack S. H. Scudder and others who argue foolishly or misquote him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | [19] Apr [1866] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5061 |
To Caroline Darwin 27 February 1837
Summary
Has just given a paper [on "Sand tubes"] at Cambridge Philosophical Society and exhibited some specimens. It went well, with Whewell and Sedgwick taking an active part.
Herschel thinks 6000–odd years since the creation not nearly long enough to explain the separations from a single stock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Date: | 27 Feb 1837 |
Classmark: | DAR 154: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-346 |
To William Lonsdale [27 April 1839 or earlier]
Summary
Returns Whewell’s presidential address to the Geological Society of London (Whewell 1839), and suggests that ‘rules’ be changed to ‘customs’.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Lonsdale |
Date: | [27 Apr 1839 or earlier] |
Classmark: | University Archives (dealers) (3 March 2021, lot 73) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-496F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … William Whewell ’s presidential address to the Geological Society of London (see n. 2, below). The last Saturday in April 1839 was 27 April. Immediately after Whewell delivered his presidential address to the Geological Society of London on 15 February 1839, CD had asked him to make his comments on the delay in publishing CD’s researches from the Beagle voyage less pointed to avoid annoying the Beagle ’s captain, Robert FitzRoy ( Correspondence vol. 2, letter …
From William Henry Harvey 24 August 1860
Summary
Continues earlier discussion, admitting his opinions have been modified. Still regards natural selection as one agent of several. States areas of disagreement.
Author: | William Henry Harvey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Aug 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 33–40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2898 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 2 October [1858]
Summary
Ask some questions on pigeons.
Remarks on the discussion of bees’ cells at the Leeds BAAS meeting. CD fancies he has the true theory with regard to their construction.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 2 Oct [1858] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2332 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … William Whewell had read Robert Leslie Ellis’s paper ( Ellis 1858 ) at the meeting. Ellis held that the positioning of bees’ eyes allowed bees to build cell walls that were inclined at 120 o angles (see Athenæum , 16 October 1858, p. 492). The meeting was reported in The Times , 28 September 1858, p. 10. In the notice, Tegetmeier’s paper was erroneously ascribed to Henry Tibbats Stainton , not to Whewell. The Athenæum , 16 October 1858, p. 492, also carried an account (see letter …
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