From George Robert Waterhouse [February 1860]
Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Feb 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 152 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2674 |
To Asa Gray 1 February [1860]
Summary
CD is glad there is to be an American edition of Origin printed from the corrected 2d English edition.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 1 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (44) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2676 |
To Neil Arnott 16 February [1860?]
Summary
Discusses NA’s pamphlet on human progress. Suggests making it a book [A survey of human progress (1861)].
Comments on study of dead languages.
Denies that animals are "governed only by selfish motives".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Neil Arnott |
Date: | 16 Feb [1860?] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2677 |
To Richard Kippist? 1 February [1860]
Summary
CD is sending some books by carrier. Requests that he be given the 1st and also the 10th editions of Vestiges of creation [1844, 1853], and also the 2d edition of Baden Powell’s Unity of worlds [1856]. "No other editions will be of any service." [See Origin (1861), "Historical sketch".]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
Date: | 1 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | Gallery of History (dealers) (1997) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2678 |
To T. H. Huxley 2 [February 1860]
Summary
H. G. Bronn offers to superintend a German translation of Origin.
Bronn has reviewed Origin [Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie (1860), p. 112].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 2 [Feb 1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 80) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2679 |
To Herbert Spencer 2 February [1860]
Summary
Has prepared a historical sketch [of writers on origin of species] for foreign editions of Origin. It includes HS. He was too ill to provide it for the 1st ed.
Sorry Murray has not sent HS his copy of Origin, as he was instructed.
Huxley will put CD and E. A. Darwin down for HS’s gigantic [publishing] programme. Suggests Dr Drysdale be approached about it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Herbert Spencer |
Date: | 2 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | University of London, Senate House Library (MS.791/47) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2680 |
To John Murray 3 February [1860]
Summary
Has not yet obtained information for the most important correction for Journal of researches.
Has told P. T. A. Talandier that JM will declare that CD has full authority to give him right and profit of translation of Origin. Unless he hears by return, CD assumes JM does not object.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 3 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.86–87) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2681 |
To J. S. Henslow 3 February [1860]
Summary
Thanks for L. Jenyns’ very sensible letter [missing].
Will be delighted to see JSH whenever he can come.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 3 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2682 |
From Philip Lutley Sclater [3? February 1860]
Author: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3? Feb 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 289 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2683 |
To P. L. Sclater 4 February [1860]
Summary
Thanks PLS for list of Galapagos birds.
Mentions note he will add to Journal [of researches (1860)]
and correction he will make in Origin [3d ed. (1861)].
Asks PLS about variability in "abnormal parts of birds".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 4 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.195) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2684 |
To T. H. Huxley 4 February [1860]
Summary
Will write to H. G. Bronn accepting his offer. Asks THH to write to R. A. von Kölliker.
French arrangements fall between two stools.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 4 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 105) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2685 |
To John Murray 4 February [1860]
Summary
Final arrangements for new edition of Journal of researches [1860]. Wants one copy to give to P. L. Sclater, who has aided him.
Asks that copy of Origin be sent immediately to Schweizerbart for German translation.
Asa Gray is going to bring out an edition of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 4 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.84–85) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2686 |
To Heinrich Georg Bronn 4 February [1860]
Summary
Discusses possible translation of Origin into German. Could HGB advise E. Schweizerbart [Stuttgart publisher] about good translator. Suggests Bronn edit the translation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Date: | 4 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | State Library of South Australia (Archival collections D 4639(L)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2687 |
To Charles Lyell 4 February [1860]
Summary
Suggests references in Journal of researches 2d ed. in response to a query about the antiquity of man. Perplexed about S. S. Haldeman and Haldeman 1843–4. Glad to hear about A. C. Ramsay. Has received letter from H. G. Bronn.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 4 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 229 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2687F |
To John Murray 5 February [1860]
Summary
Thanks JM for highly flattering extract from German newspaper.
Asks JM to take steps to reserve to CD right of translation in Germany.
If there is to be a new title-page to Journal of researches, it would be a "splendid puff" to put in "7th thousand", or if Colburn’s 1500 can be added: "8th thousand".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 5 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.88–89) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2688 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 February [1860]
Summary
Urges JDH to work his essays into a book.
CD’s historical sketch ends with JDH’s introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2689 |
To C. J. F. Bunbury 9 February [1860]
Summary
Responds to CJFB’s criticisms of the Origin [see 2669].
If CD’s theory is a satisfactory explanation of the "principles of Homology, and of Embryology, and Rudimentary organs", the difficulty in imagining the transitions between classes of beings should not weigh against the understanding it provides such large classes of facts. Defends natural selection against criticism that it is not a vera causa. Comments on "Degeneracy", extinction of intermediate forms, and the effect of theory in natural history in opening up new fields of inquiry and giving rational instead of theological explanations of facts.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet |
Date: | 9 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds (Bunbury Family Papers E18/700/1/9/6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2690 |
To J. S. Henslow 9 February [1860]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 9 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A63–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2691 |
From P. L. Sclater 11 February 1860
Summary
Informs CD that Sylvicola aureola may be a distinct species but is a close ally of S. aestiva of N. and S. America and perhaps only a "climatic variety".
Author: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Feb 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 290, DAR 205.7: 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2692 |
To Charles Lyell 12 [February 1860]
Summary
Encloses letters from H. G. Bronn, Asa Gray, and C. J. F. Bunbury, concerning the Origin.
Will send review by Gray and a notice by Bronn.
Says Bronn will superintend the German translation.
Comments on lecture by Huxley [at Royal Institution, 10 Feb 1860, Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1858–62): 195–200]. Has remonstrated with him for saying sterility is "a universal and infallible criterion of species".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 12 [Feb 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.196) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2693 |
Darwin, C. R. | (37) |
Sclater, P. L. | (2) |
Boott, Francis | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Jukes, J. B. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Lyell, Charles | (6) |
Gray, Asa | (4) |
Bronn, H. G. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (49) |
Lyell, Charles | (7) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Gray, Asa | (5) |
Sclater, P. L. | (4) |