To Thomas Spring Rice [before 7 July 1838]
Summary
Express their concern that the offer for sale to the British Museum, by G. A. Mantell and Thomas Hawkins, of two valuable collections, has been declined.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; William Buckland; Adam Sedgwick; John Phillips; William Whewell; Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Charles Stokes; William John Hamilton; Edward Stanley; Richard Owen; William Clift; Charles Babbage; John Bostock; Peter Mark Roget; John Taylor; Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2d Marquess of Northampton; William John Broderip |
| Addressee: | Thomas Spring Rice |
| Date: | [before 7 July 1838] |
| Classmark: | House of Commons papers; accounts and papers, 1837/38, XXXVI, 307 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-421F |
From W. B. Dawkins 1 December 1875
Summary
Asks CD to sign papers for Royal Society candidacy of W. B. Clarke.
| Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 131 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10285 |
To T. H. Huxley 25 November [1859]
Summary
Rejoices over THH’s lecture ["On species and races, and their origin", 10 Feb 1860, Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1858–62): 195–200] to be given at Royal Institution. Offers pigeon illustrations.
Adam Sedgwick has sent a "slashing" letter [2548] about Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 25 Nov [1859] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 74) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2554 |
From Andrew Crombie Ramsay 29 December 1858
Summary
Responds to CD’s queries about the thickness of various geological formations. [See Origin, p. 284.]
| Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Dec 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 398 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2387 |
From Hugh Falconer 31 December [1863]
Summary
Returns a letter wrongly addressed by CD [4361].
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Dec [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4362 |
From Charles Lyell [before 20 November 1860]
Summary
Discusses the possibility of a land-bridge connecting Biscay with Ireland and the consequent occurrence in southern Ireland of Asturian plants which are absent from England.
Asks if Hooker or anyone has criticised Edward Forbes’ botanical migration of five floras in the British Isles ["On the connexion between the distribution of existing fauna and flora of the British Isles, and the geological changes which have affected their area", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846): 336–432].
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 20 Nov 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170.2: 80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2902 |
Matches: 1 hit
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 |
From J. S. Henslow 6 February 1832
Summary
News of Cambridge: the recent examinations; memorial tablet for Marmaduke Ramsay.
| Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1832 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 110 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-157 |
From J. S. Henslow to J. D. Hooker 10 May 1860
Summary
Describes Sedgwick’s attack on CD’s views [at Cambridge Philosophical Society] and his own defence, though he believes CD has pressed his hypothesis too far.
| Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 May 1860 |
| Classmark: | MS Add. 9537/2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2794 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John Phillips was president of the Geological Society and professor of geology at Oxford University. The title of Phillips’s lecture was ‘Life on the earth, its origin and succession’ ( Phillips 1860 ). Phillips addressed, among other topics, the question of natural selection and the mutability of species ( Phillips 1860 , pp. 200–17). Adam Sedgwick …
From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 11 November [1863]
Summary
CD’s Copley Medal. The numbers were ten to eight in CD’s favour but the Cambridge men mustered strongly for Sedgwick.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Nov [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B116–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4671 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Adam Sedgwick , professor of geology at the University of Cambridge. According to the council minutes, only seventeen, rather than eighteen, of the twenty-one council members were present at the meeting. Warren De la Rue , Philip de Malpas Grey-Egerton, Robert Godwin-Austen, and Joseph Henry Green were absent; however, it was not unusual for all but De la Rue to miss meetings (see Royal Society Council minutes, 1863, and Lyons 1944 , pp. 272–5). See also letter from Edward Sabine to John Phillips, …
From John Lubbock 3 November 1864
Summary
Congratulates CD on receiving the Copley Medal.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Nov 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4653 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Bostock, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Lyell, Charles | (3) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Bostock, John | (1) |
