From John Cattell 12 May 1860
Summary
Cannot provide plants CD requested.
Has sowed several kinds of lettuce seed near each other and has never observed them to cross naturally [see Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 173 n.].
Author: | John Cattell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 May 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 77: 171–2a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2796 |
To Williams & Norgate 13 [May 1860]
Summary
Orders latest issues of North British Review and Dublin Magazine of Natural History. Also would like an order placed for him for a French translation of F. Unger, Versuch einer Geschichte der Pflanzen-Welt [1852], if such a translation has appeared.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 13 [May 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2797 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 [May 1860]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 [May 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2798 |
To Francis Galton 13 May [1860]
Summary
Does FG know Mansfield Parkyns well enough to submit query to him? [Probably about domestication of Columba guinea in Abyssinia. See Variation 1: 183.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 13 May [1860] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2799 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 May [1860]
Summary
Instructs JDH on how to pollinate Leschenaultia.
Evidence of Leschenaultia and the dioecious condition of cowslips and Auricula is making necessity of insect pollination "clear and clearer".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 May [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2800 |
To J. S. Henslow 14 May [1860]
Summary
Thanks JSH for his defence [see 2794].
He is not hurt for long by what his attackers say. His conclusions were arrived at after long study. He has certainly erred, but not so much as "Sedgwick and Co." think.
Asks JSH to send names of plants that vary greatly in length of pistil.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 14 May [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A70–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2801 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [May 1860]
Summary
Lyell, de facto, first to stress importance of geological changes for geographical distribution.
Asa Gray has given CD too much credit for theories of geographical distribution.
Reaction to hostile criticism
and debt to Lyell, Huxley, JDH, and W. B. Carpenter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 [May 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2802 |
To James Drummond 16 May 1860
Summary
Asks JD to observe Leschenaultia formosa to verify CD’s hypothesis of how it is fertilised. Also suggests an experiment to determine whether it is fertilised by nocturnal insects.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Drummond |
Date: | 16 May 1860 |
Classmark: | J. S. Battye Library of Western Australian History, State Library of Western Australia (Accession 2275A) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2803 |
From Henry Doubleday 16 May 1860
Summary
Answers CD’s questions about his experiments with primroses, cowslips, and oxlips. HD is aware experiments must often be repeated many times. Has never met with the oxlip except where primrose and cowslip grow together.
Author: | Henry Doubleday |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 May 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 162.2: 238 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2804 |
To J. S. Henslow 17 May [1860]
Summary
Sends characters by which he can divide all primroses and cowslips into what he suspects will be male and female plants. Believes these forms are first step in formation of a dioecious plant.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 17 May [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A72–3, A116 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2805 |
To Charles Lyell 18 May [1860]
Summary
Comments on enclosed letters from Asa Gray and Wallace [missing].
Discusses hybrid fertility in rabbits and hares, and pheasants and fowls.
Asks about paper by Hermann Schaaffhausen ["Über Beständigkeit u. Umwandlung der Arten", Verh. Naturhist. Ver. Preuss. Rheinlande 10 (1853): 420–51].
Mentions criticism by Sedgwick and William Clark at Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Notes importance of CL and Hooker in defending Origin.
Comments on papers by D. A. Godron ["Considérations sur les migrations des végétaux", Acad. Stanislas Mem. Soc. Sci. Nancy (1853): 329–67].
Mentions receiving anonymous verses.
A Manchester newspaper lampoon shows CD has proved "might makes right" to be a universal law.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 18 May [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.212) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2806 |
To A. R. Wallace 18 May 1860
Summary
Pleasure in ARW’s approbation of the Origin. Other supporters among scientists. ARW’s generosity.
Attacks by Owen, Sedgwick, and others.
Anticipation of natural selection by Matthew in 1830.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 18 May 1860 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 21–23v) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2807 |
To Asa Gray 18 May [1860]
Summary
Bitter and incessant attacks on the Origin.
Any truth in it has been saved only by a small body of men like Lyell, AG, Hooker, and Huxley.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 18 May [1860] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2808 |
To W. D. Fox 18 May [1860]
Summary
Attacks [on Origin] are "hot and heavy". Adam Sedgwick and William Clark at Cambridge Philosophical Society opened a battery. J. S. Henslow defended in grand style.
Slow progress on bigger book.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 18 May [1860] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 128) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2809 |
To John Murray 18 May [1860]
Summary
Thanks for six copies of Journal of researches [1860 ed.].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 18 May [1860] |
Classmark: | Dunedin Public Library (Reed collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2810 |
To Williams & Norgate 18 May [1860]
Summary
Requests a copy of Unger 1852 (Versuch einer Geschichte der Pflanzenwelt; an attempt at a history of the vegetable kingdom).
Requests a copy of the issue of British and Foreign Medical Review which contains a review of Origin, if it is a different publication from British and Foreign Medical and Chirurgical Review
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 18 May [1860] |
Classmark: | Lanier family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2810F |
To J. D. Hooker 20 May [1860]
Summary
Gives references to experiments on cowslip for W. H. Harvey.
Suggests possible sources of error in results. Feels evidence is overwhelming that cowslip and primrose are varieties.
Has received laudatory verses on the Origin from some botanist; suspects Francis Boott.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 May [1860] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2811 |
To Charles Lyell 22 May [1860]
Summary
Mentions American edition of Origin.
A "savage" review [by John Duns] in North British Review [32 (1860): 455–68].
Comments on views of G. H. K. Thwaites on the survival of simple forms as a problem in his theory.
Mentions imperfection of geological record.
Marine origin of coal.
Illness of Etty.
Encloses article by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire on hare–rabbit crosses [Histoire naturelle générale (1854–62) 3: 222].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 22 May [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.213) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2812 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 [May 1860]
Summary
Floral anatomy.
Wallace’s capital response on reading Origin.
E. W. Binney has published on coal-plants living in marine waters ["On the origin of coal", Mem. Lit. & Philos. Soc. Manchester 2d ser. 8 (1848): 148–94], an old CD idea.
Waste of pollen in horse chestnut will make a good case against perfection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 [May 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2813 |
To Asa Gray 22 May [1860]
Summary
Opinions and reviews of Origin.
CD’s view on design in nature; although he does not believe in the necessity of design, he finds it hard to conclude that everything is the result of "brute force".
Comments on Owen’s review of Origin [Edinburgh Rev. 111 (1860): 487–532].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 22 May [1860] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (26 and 37a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2814 |
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Cattell, John | (2) |
Doubleday, Henry | (2) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Brent, B. P. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
Lyell, Charles | (4) |
Henslow, J. S. | (3) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
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Hooker, J. D. | (10) |
Lyell, Charles | (6) |
Henslow, J. S. | (4) |
Cattell, John | (2) |
Doubleday, Henry | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Lubbock, John | (2) |
Murray, Andrew | (2) |
Williams & Norgate | (2) |
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Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Galton, Francis | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
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