To John Lubbock 9 February [1859]
Summary
CD sees JL’s cases of same organs varying greatly in allied forms as a serious difficulty in regard to his own ideas.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 9 Feb [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 27 (EH 88206476) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2411 |
To W. D. Fox [12 February 1859]
Summary
Undergoing hydropathic treatment for his old ailment.
The "Abstract" [Origin] is the cause. Only two chapters to do.
His satisfaction that he believes he has convinced Hooker and Huxley and staggered Lyell.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [12 Feb 1859] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 106) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2412 |
To W. E. Darwin [13 February 1859]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [13 Feb 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2414 |
To Mary Butler 20 February [1859]
Summary
Sends naturalists’ autographs.
Enjoyed fortnight at Moor Park.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mary Butler |
Date: | 20 Feb [1859] |
Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, MS 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 37)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2416 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 21 [February 1859]
Summary
Sends list of poultry breeds he would like.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 21 [Feb 1859] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2417 |
To Maria Hooker 21 February [1859?]
Summary
Has given proxy according to James Paget’s request. Almost sure it is in favour of [J. A.?] Kingdon [for election to Athenaeum?].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maria Sarah (Maria) Turner; Maria Sarah (Maria) Hooker |
Date: | 21 Feb [1859?] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2418 |
To John Lubbock 21 [March 1859]
Summary
Development of aphids; apparent absence of vermiform stage.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 21 [Mar 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 30 (EH 88206479) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2419 |
To George Howard Darwin 24 [February 1859]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 24 [Feb 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2420 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 March [1859]
Summary
Has finished geographical distribution chapter and asks JDH to read it.
Is it just to say embryological characters are of high importance in plant classification?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 Mar [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2422 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 5 March [1859]
Summary
Sends payment for poultry received.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 5 Mar [1859] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2423 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 [March 1859]
Summary
Will read JDH’s printers’ slips on variation.
CD has been so ill, he wonders whether he will get his book done, though so nearly completed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 [Mar 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2424 |
To T. H. Huxley 8 March [1859]
Summary
Sends THH questions about "serial homologies" and "vegetative repetition" in Mollusca and Radiata.
Abstract volume [Origin] nearly completed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 8 Mar [1859] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 61) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2425 |
To John Lubbock 8 March [1859]
Summary
Wants examples of insects (especially Diptera) in which embryo resembles adult, to show that the metamorphic stages may be lost.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 8 Mar [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 29 (EH 88206478) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2426 |
From T. H. Huxley [9–12 March 1859]
Summary
Serial homologies in the Mollusca. Gives instances of repetition of homological parts in Radiata.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [9–12 Mar 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 288 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2427 |
From J. D. Hooker [9 March 1859]
Summary
Outlines the basic categories of phanerogams.
Places Gymnospermae in the dicotyledons.
Evaluates the variable utility of embryological characters in plant classification.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [9 Mar 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 152–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2428 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 March [1859]
Summary
Sends MS [of Origin] on geographical distribution. Wants JDH to correct facts and say what he most vehemently objects to.
Has received JDH’s note on plant embryology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 Mar [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2429 |
To T. H. Huxley 13 [March 1859]
Summary
Thanks for THH’s examples of serially modified and homologous parts in Radiata. Cannot understand how he forgot such cases.
Agassiz’s Essay on classification [1859] utterly impracticable rubbish.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 13 [Mar 1859] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 258) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2430 |
To W. E. Darwin 14 [March 1859]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 14 [Mar 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2431 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 March [1859]
Summary
Will finish last chapter (except recapitulation) tomorrow.
Pleased with JDH’s response to geographical distribution chapter;
CD disagrees with Lyell’s view that glacial epoch is connected with position of continents.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Mar [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2432 |
From John Lubbock 15 March 1859
Summary
Embryology of Diptera. Development of insects; metamorphosis. JL feels all insects go through metamorphosis but that in some of them, part takes place before birth.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar 1859 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2433 |
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