To Asa Gray 3 April [1860]
Summary
Thinks AG’s review [of Origin] will aid much in making people think about subject.
Has been savagely and unfairly reviewed by Adam Sedgwick in the Spectator [24 Mar 1860],
but thinks F. J. Pictet’s review in opposition ["Sur l’origine de l’espèce", Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. n.s. 7 (1860): 231–55] a very fair one.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 3 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (47) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2743 |
From Frederick Smith 3 April 1860
Summary
Has studied CD’s Jamaican hive-bees and finds them identical to Apis mellifica.
Discusses the structure of wasps’ and bees’ nests
and the occurrence of winged and apterous individuals within some insect genera and species.
| Author: | Frederick Smith |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Apr 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177 (fragile) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2744 |
| letter | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Smith, Frederick (a) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Smith, Frederick (a) | (1) |
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
Descent
Summary
There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…
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- … ’. Endnotes: * Descent 2: 403: ‘When the principles of breeding and of …
