To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 15 August 1873
Summary
Thinks it would be worth while testing for electrical changes in the leaves of insectivorous plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 15 Aug 1873 |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9013 |
To Charles Lyell 4 [February 1863]
Summary
Thanks CL for "the great book" [Antiquity of man (1863)].
Richard Owen "ought to be ostracised by every Naturalist in England".
CL’s book will "give the whole subject of change of species an enormous advance".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 4 [Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.287) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3967 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 February 1863]
Summary
Owen’s cutting critique of Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man] in Athenæum [21 Feb 1863, pp. 262–3]. JDH despises Owen’s mind too much to hate his individuality.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 105–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4007 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 May 1865]
Summary
All overworked at Kew.
Burchell collections enormous.
Lyell has sent MS of Principles p. 111 on changes of temperature. JDH thinks Lyell blunders and is out of his depth.
Charmed with E. B. Tylor’s book on man [Early history of mankind (1865)],
disappointed in Lubbock’s [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 May 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 22–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4836 |
From J. D. Hooker [6 March 1863]
Summary
Lyell’s position on mutability.
Directions for care of hothouse plants.
Falconer hostile to Lyell’s book.
JDH’s Wedgwood ware collection.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 114–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4036 |
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To J. D. Hooker 21 [September 1862]
Summary
Thanks for Haast’s observations. Particularly glad to get geological evidence of glacial action (in Southern Hemisphere).
Thinks Ramsay’s theory to large extent true, but thinks that in a much disturbed country some lakes would have been formed in depressions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 [Sept 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 161 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3735 |
From J. D. Hooker [17 February 1865]
Summary
Why botanists will not subscribe to Falconer’s bust with enthusiasm.
Scott has been offered curatorship at Calcutta Botanic Garden.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17 Feb 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 10–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4773 |
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- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 [February 1865] . Hooker may refer to the quarrel between Lyell and Falconer over Antiquity of man ( C. Lyell 1863a ): Falconer had publicly denounced Lyell in the Athenæum for not having sufficiently acknowledged in Antiquity of man his own research and that of others (see Correspondence vol. 11, Bynum 1984 , Grayson 1985 , and L. G. Wilson 1996 ). See letter to J. …
From John Lubbock 7 April 1863
Summary
JL is off to visit Scotch "kjökken möddings".
Hopes Lyell is not really vexed by his article.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4077 |
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- … letter to J. D. Hooker, [17 April 1863] and n. 4). For evaluations of this disagreement between Falconer and Lyell, see Bynum 1984 and L. G. Wilson 1996a . William Benjamin Carpenter had disputed the review of Carpenter 1862 written anonymously by Richard Owen in the Athenæum , 28 March 1863, pp. 417–19 (see Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix VII). See also letter to J. …
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Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |