From Daniel Mackintosh 11 November 1880
Summary
Has found three zones of stones in the Welsh and Pennine mountains which he accounts for by elevation and subsidence. Does CD think that these movements in historical times have been caused by earthquakes or by slow and gradual movements?
| Author: | Daniel Mackintosh |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12808 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Does CD think that these movements in historical times have been caused by earthquakes or …
- … letting me know if you think that in historical times the elevation or subsidence of the …
From Hermann Brehmer 17 April 1876
Summary
Discusses geographic distribution of tuberculosis and possible explanations for disease-free areas and populations.
Does not think a local population with some distinct physiological character can properly be designated as a race. Thinks local conditions, not natural selection, responsible for such characters. Ernst Haeckel agrees. Asks CD’s opinion.
| Author: | Hermann Brehmer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 285–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10454 |
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- … in man there can be no question of in historical times. My opponent continued in to his …
- … of natural selection in humans in historical times. This would be—as Wallace has already …
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. 1984. A historical catalogue of scientists and scientific books; from the earliest times to the close of the nineteenth century. New York and London: Garland Publishing.
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- … A historical catalogue of scientists and scientific books; from the earliest times to the …
Schiödte, J. M. C. (1815–84)
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- … A historical catalogue of scientists and scientific books; from the earliest times to the …
Train, Joseph, 1845. An historical and statistical account of the Isle of Man, from the earliest times to the present date; with a view of its ancient laws, peculiar customs, and popular superstitions. 2 vols. Douglas, Isle of Man: Mary A. Quiggin.
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1845. An historical and statistical account of the Isle of Man, from the earliest times to …
Collins’s peerage: Collins’s peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical. Greatly augmented, and continued to the present time. By Egerton Brydges. 9 vols. London: F. C. and J. Rivington [and others]. 1812.
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- … and historical. Greatly augmented, and continued to the present time. By Egerton Brydges. …
From A. R. Wallace 30 September 1862
Summary
Acknowledges 3d edition of Origin.
Praise of Herbert Spencer’s First Principles [1862].
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Sept 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106/7 (ser. 2): 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3742 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Saturday. I have not had time yet to read more than the “Historical Sketch” which is very …
To Leonard Horner 18 [March 1855]
Summary
CD has been a referee for LH’s Nile geology paper [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 145 (1855): 105–38]. Praises the work but offers criticism not in his report: Joseph Russegger’s statement about the baked Upper Sandstone deposit cannot be believed; LH’s paper is too long.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Horner |
| Date: | 18 [Mar 1855] |
| Classmark: | Kinnordy MS (private collection) (Sold at Sotheby’s (dealers), 9 July 2018, lot 373) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1649 |
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- … to ‘find a link connecting historical and geological time’ (p. 106). The reference is to …
Bancroft, H. H. (1832–1918)
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- … Developed a historical workshop employing up to fifty people at a time to help him produce …
Martin, John (1789–1854)
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- … Historical and landscape painter. ODNB Bibliography ODNB : Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times …
Jackson, P. T., III (1844–1918)
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- … historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time. …
Lamb’s textile industries of the United States: Lamb’s textile industries of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominent men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time. 2 vols. Edited by John Howard Brown et al. Boston, Mass.: James H. Lamb. 1911–16.
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- … historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time. …
Peacock, Edward (1831–1915)
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- … archaeological and historical subjects. Men and women of the time 1899 Notes and Queries , …
From R. E. Alison [March – July 1835]
Summary
Sends some historical data to illustrate the elevation of the coast at Valparaiso in recent times.
| Author: | Robert Edward Alison |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Mar – July 1835] |
| Classmark: | DAR 36: 425–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-247 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … historical data to illustrate the elevation of the coast at Valparaiso in recent times. …
Pelham, William (1590/1–1644)
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- … and historical. Greatly augmented, and continued to the present time. By Egerton Brydges. …
From T. H. Huxley 11 November 1866
Summary
Thanks for 4th ed. of Origin.
What a basting CD gives "our mutual friend" [Owen].
Glad he argrees with THH on Jamaica affair [Gov. Eyre and the "rebellion"].
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Nov 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 312 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5275 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of my work & have only had time to glance at your ‘Historical sketch’— What an unmerciful …
Milde, Julius (1824–71)
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- … time. ADB . Bibliography ADB : Allgemeine deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical …
From Henry Potonié 16 April 1878
Summary
Points out evolutionary comments by Alexander Braun in his Betrachtungen über die Erscheinung der Verjüngung in der Natur 1849–50.
| Author: | Henry Potonié |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Apr 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 58 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11476 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … to take up your valuable time unnecessarily. In the: “Historical sketch” of your work: “ …
- … historical sketch’ (in which he discussed the work of earlier evolutionists) in 1861 in Origin 3d ed. , pp. xiii–xix; it had gone through several revisions by the time …
Stanhope, P. H. (1805–75)
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- … Historical Manuscripts Commission. FRS 1827. ODNB Bibliography ODNB : Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times …
Morrison, Alfred (1821–97)
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- … historical autographs, and gems. ODNB Bibliography ODNB : Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times …
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Readers and critics in Commentary
St George Jackson Mivart
Summary
In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
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- … In 1874, the Catholic zoologist St George Jackson Mivart caused Darwin and his son George serious …
