CD memorandum 24 April 1859
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 24 Apr 1859 |
Classmark: | DAR 206 (Letters) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2454 |
To ? [after 2 November 1859]
Summary
Origin will be published 22 Nov. Fears correspondent will find the conclusions "abominable".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [after 2 Nov 1859] |
Classmark: | Michael S. Hollander (dealer) (Catalogue 15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2541 |
To Charles Lovegrove 14 December [1859–71]
Summary
Acknowledges contribution to Down Coal and Clothing Club.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lovegrove |
Date: | 14 Dec [1859-71] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13822 |
From William Charles Linnaeus Martin [1859–61]
Summary
MS of a paper called "Comments on Mr Darwin’s grand theory", which generally supports CD but proposes that present flightless birds are primitive. Paper supplemented by a diagram showing the phylogeny of birds.
Author: | William Charles Linnaeus Martin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1859–61] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 56/1–15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13827 |
To Matthias Mull [after 24 November 1859]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mathias Mull |
Date: | [after 24 Nov 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 424a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13829 |
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [13–19 March 1859]
Summary
HW has confirmed the report in the Times of a shower of fish (minnows and sticklebacks) that fell on the Wedgwood colliery.
Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13–19 Mar 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 262 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13854 |
To John William Lubbock 2 April [1859]
Summary
Comments on water rising in their wells.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John William Lubbock, 3d baronet |
Date: | 2 Apr [1859] |
Classmark: | The Royal Society (LUB: D25) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1846 |
To John Innes 4 March [1859]
Summary
Much concerned by death of JBI’s mother.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 4 Mar [1859] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2232 |
To A. C. Ramsay 24 June [1859]
Summary
Comments on ACR’s "The old glaciers [of Switzerland and N. Wales", in Peaks, passes, and glaciers: a series of excursions by members of the Alpine Club, ed. J. Ball (1859)]. Discusses erratic blocks in the Jura. Notes views of Lyell.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 24 June [1859] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Ramsay 306: 4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2291 |
From A. C. Ramsay 6 January 1859
Summary
Responds to CD’s queries concerning faults; is sending sections of the kind he wants. The Merionethshire fault with a downthrow of 12000ft. [See Origin, p. 285.]
Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1859 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 399 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2398 |
From Richard Hill 10 January 1859
Summary
Will secure information on indigenous and naturalised bees as CD requests.
Believes Mexican and Jamaican Melipona are different.
Author: | Richard Hill |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan 1859 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 218 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2399 |
To Syms Covington 16 January 1859
Summary
Regrets SC’s increasing deafness, but advises that aurists are humbugs.
Tells of illnesses in family and his own poor health. "I never know 24 hours comfort."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Syms Covington |
Date: | 16 Jan 1859 |
Classmark: | Brian Sirl (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2400 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 January [1859]
Summary
At work on abstract.
Continues argument on effectiveness of dispersal. Has doubts about relationship of isolation to highness of Australian flora. Questions about survival of European plants introduced in Australia.
CD receives the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 Jan [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2401 |
To John Phillips 21 January [1859]
Summary
Acknowledges the honour that the Council [of the Geological Society] have conferred upon him [award of Wollaston Medal]. Will attend the anniversary meeting if his health permits, but cannot attend the dinner.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Phillips |
Date: | 21 Jan [1859] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Geological collections) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2402 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 January [1859]
Summary
Wallace has written and is well satisfied with the joint presentation.
CD requests some facts to make case in his abstract for former glacial action in Himalayas.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Jan [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2403 |
From J. D. Hooker 25 January 1859
Summary
Relieved by Wallace’s letter.
At work on introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae.
European plants naturalised in Australia are almost all adapted to invading disturbed ground.
JDH supports Asa Gray against Alphonse de Candolle as foreign member of Royal Society.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Jan 1859 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 131–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2404 |
To A. R. Wallace 25 January [1859]
Summary
Expresses pleasure and relief at ARW’s response to joint publication of their pieces about natural selection.
Plans for the "abstract" [Origin].
Birds’ nests as evidence of variation of instincts.
Their collection of bees’ combs.
Praises ARW’s article.
Lyell’s and Hooker’s views [of species issue].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 25 Jan [1859] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2405 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 January [1859]
Summary
CD not convinced that naturalisation of European plants abroad is strictly dependent on creation by agriculture of disturbed ground.
More than half through his chapter on geographical distribution.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 Jan [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2406 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 4 February [1859]
Summary
Wants white breeds of poultry.
Poor health necessitates a trip to Moor Park, Farnham.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 4 Feb [1859] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2407 |
To John Lubbock [6 February 1859]
Summary
JL’s brother’s accident.
Thinks JL should tackle systematics of anomalous insects from studies of internal organs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [6 Feb 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 26 (EH 88206475) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2408 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (199) |
Lyell, Charles | (7) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
Hill, Richard | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (40) |
Hooker, J. D. | (34) |
Murray, John (b) | (25) |
Lyell, Charles | (23) |
Huxley, T. H. | (15) |
Darwin, C. R. | (239) |
Hooker, J. D. | (40) |
Lyell, Charles | (30) |
Murray, John (b) | (27) |
Huxley, T. H. | (17) |