To S. P. Woodward 9 [July 1860]
Summary
Regrets he cannot answer SPW’s questions.
Discusses antiquity of subaerial volcanoes.
Disagrees "entirely & absolutely" with L. von Buch’s "elevation-crater-theory".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 9 [July 1860] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2630 |
From Asa Gray [10 July 1860]
Summary
Cases of "dioecio-dimorphism" as in primroses are widespread. AG always considered them the first step toward bisexuality.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [10 July 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2819 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 July 1860
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 July 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 141–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2852 |
To J. D. Hooker [2 July 1860]
Summary
CD, ill and despondent about hostile reviews, is cheered by JDH’s account of Oxford battle, particularly by willingness of JDH and Huxley to fight for CD’s theory in public.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [2 July 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2853 |
To T. H. Huxley 3 July [1860]
Summary
Has had a report on Oxford BAAS meeting from Hooker. Asks THH to write about it. Has heard he fought nobly with Owen and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce. Regrets trouble he has caused his friends.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 3 July [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 121) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2854 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker [3 July 1860]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [3 July 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2856 |
To A. G. More 3 July [1860]
Summary
Thanks for orchid specimens.
On 10th and 11th will be at Tunbridge Wells.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Goodman More |
Date: | 3 July [1860] |
Classmark: | Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2857 |
To J. D. Hooker [4 July 1860]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [4 July 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2858 |
To John Lubbock [4 July 1860]
Summary
Birth of JL’s child.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [4 July 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 38 (EH 88206482) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2859 |
To Charles Lyell 5 [July 1860]
Summary
Glad CL plans trip to Amiens to investigate flints and post-glacial period.
Mentions support by Huxley, Hooker, and Lubbock at Oxford BAAS meeting. Asa Gray also goes on fighting.
Likes article by William Hopkins ["Physical theories and the phenomena of life", Fraser’s Mag. 61 (1860): 739–52; 62 (1860): 74–90].
Comments on hybrids of hare and rabbit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 5 [July 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.221) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2860 |
To T. H. Huxley [5 July 1860]
Summary
THH’s long account of Oxford meeting. Has he no reverence for a bishop?
W. Hopkins’ review in Fraser’s Magazine is nothing new.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [5 July 1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 123) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2861 |
To J. O. Westwood 9 July [1860]
Summary
Thanks JOW for the bees. The pollen-masses that were attached to one of them have unaccountably been lost.
Does not know of a paper by Charles Morren on orchids and insects, and would be glad to have the reference [see 3267, and Orchids, p. 270 n.].
Has spent so much money recently he is unwilling to subscribe for the purchase of T. V. Wollaston’s collection for the [Oxford] Museum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Obadiah Westwood |
Date: | 9 July [1860] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological collections) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2862 |
From Hugh Falconer 9 July [1860]
Summary
Hyaena remains show how recently Sicily was joined to Africa.
Reports on the Oxford meeting of BAAS.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 July [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 164.1: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2863 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 July [1860]
Summary
Floral anatomy; pistil curvature and pistil movement. CD’s rule that bent pistils occur in "gangway" into nectaries.
The book JDH is planning, which he and CD discussed at Kew, should deal with plant reproduction.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 July [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2864 |
To Hugh Falconer 12 July [1860]
Summary
Eldest daughter [Henrietta] very ill.
CD enjoys Owen’s having had "a good setting down".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 12 July [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2865 |
To Emma Gärtner 14 July [1860]
Summary
Thanks for memoir of her father [G. Jäger, Zum Andenken an Dr. C. F. von Gärtner (1851)] and engravings.
Declines gift of CFvG’s collection of hybrid plants. Suggests Kew Herbarium.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Gärtner |
Date: | 14 July [1860] |
Classmark: | Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas (KU MSS P87: 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2866 |
To H. G. Bronn 14 July [1860]
Summary
Responds to HGB’s critique of Origin [appended to German translation of Origin]. Comments on English reviews.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Date: | 14 July [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2867 |
To J. S. Henslow 16 July [1860]
Summary
Discusses Charles Daubeny’s views on sexuality of plants [Rep. BAAS 30 (1860) pt 2: 109–10]. "There is no greater mystery in the whole world, as it seems to me, than the existence of sexes, – more especially since the discovery of Parthenogenesis."
Says apropos of the FitzRoy Bible incident [at Oxford BAAS meeting], "I think his mind is often on verge of insanity."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 16 July [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A74–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2869 |
To Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny 16 July [1860]
Summary
Confirms CGBD’s impression given in a letter to J. S. Henslow that CD in the Origin did not touch directly upon the final causes of sexuality, which CD considers one of the "profoundest mysteries in nature". CD is inclined to stress sexuality as the means of keeping forms constant and checking variation although he grants its role in the origination of varieties. [See 2869.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny |
Date: | 16 July [1860] |
Classmark: | Magdalen College, Oxford (MC:F26/C1/118) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2869A |
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Darwin, C. R. | (34) |
Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Hardy, Charles | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Huxley, T. H. | (4) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Lubbock, John | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (38) |
Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
Huxley, T. H. | (4) |
Gray, Asa | (3) |
Falconer, Hugh | (2) |