From John Lubbock [after 28 April 1860?]
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 28 Apr 1860?] |
Classmark: | DAR 48: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2394 |
To [Mary Holland] [April 1860]
Summary
Asks for information about birds eating berries of a mountain-ash.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mary Holland |
Date: | [Apr 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2395 |
From William Masters [after 7 April 1860]
Author: | William Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 7 Apr 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 77: 39–40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2622 |
To Williams and Norgate 1 April [1860]
Summary
Thanks for information about French dictionaries.
Asks that Westminster Review [of Apr 1860] be sent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 1 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | Swiss National Library, Helvetic Archives (SLA-Rhyn-06-d/02) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2739 |
To G. R. Waterhouse 1 April [1860]
Summary
Has no drone cells in collection of honeycombs. Discusses construction of cells by bees and ability of bees to judge distances in constructing comb.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | 1 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2740 |
To F. J. Pictet de la Rive 1 April [1860]
Summary
Thanks FJP for his review which CD has received and read. There have been many reviews in England opposed to CD but FJP’s is "the single one which seems … perfectly fair & just & candid". The only difference between them is that CD "attaches much more weight to the explanation of facts, & somewhat less weight to the difficulties" than FJP. "I always jump at any theory which groups & explains facts".
Would be proud to send FJP a copy of his Journal of researches.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | François Jules Pictet de la Rive |
Date: | 1 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (MS. fr. 1651, ff. 10–11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2741 |
To J. S. Henslow 2 April [1860]
Summary
Reminds JSH to send "sketch & account of the wasp’s comb in transitional state from horizontal to vertical, & the country whence procured".
Asks for information on spread of Anacharis [Elodea].
Sedgwick [in criticism of Origin] was not very fair, but Murray says it is splendid for selling copies to "the unfortunate students".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 2 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A65–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2742 |
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 |
To John Murray 4 April [1860]
Summary
Has not yet read Huxley’s review of Origin in Westminster Review [Apr 1860].
F. J. Pictet has published an excellent review, though opposed to CD, in Bibliothèque Universelle de Genève [Mar 1860].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 4 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 76) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2745 |
To Frederick Smith 4 April [1860]
Summary
Variations in sizes of bees’ cells.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederick Smith |
Date: | 4 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | H. R. Glennie (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2746 |
To W. B. Carpenter 6 April [1860]
Summary
Comments enthusiastically on WBC’s review ["The theory of development in nature", Br. & Foreign Med.-Chir. Rev. 25 (1860): 367–404].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | 6 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.6: 5 (EH 88205922) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2747 |
To Albert Way 7 April [1860]
Summary
Asks AW about archaeological evidence concerning the first appearance of dray horses.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albert Way |
Date: | 7 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.205) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2748 |
To Maxwell Tylden Masters 7 April [1860]
Summary
Much interested in MTM’s lecture at Royal Institution ["On the relation between the abnormal and normal formations in plants", Notes Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1860): 223–7].
Asks for information about crossing of varieties of peas. Describes his own experimental results: "the offspring out of the same pod, instead of being intermediate, was very nearly like the two pure parents; yet in one, there was a trace of the cross & the next generation showed still more plainly their mongrel origins".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 7 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2749 |
From J. S. Henslow 7 April 1860
Summary
Sketch and description of a [wasp’s] nest from Cuba. [Notes by CD on wasps’ nests and comb-building habits of hive-bees.]
Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Apr 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 166.1:180 [diagram here] |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2750 |
To T. H. Huxley 9 April [1860]
Summary
Owen on the branchiae of Balanidae.
The Edinburgh Review article on the Origin [by Owen, 111 (1860): 487–532] full of misrepresentations, with a brutal attack on THH.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 9 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 111) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2751 |
To John Murray 9 April [1860]
Summary
Asks that a copy of Origin [1860] be sent to R. A. von Kölliker.
A venomous review "manifestly by Owen" has appeared in Edinburgh Review.
Sedgwick has been fierce in Spectator, but fair and open.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 9 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.90–91) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2752 |
To William Marshall 9 April [1860]
Summary
Asks for information about Anacharis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Marshall |
Date: | 9 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 336 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2753 |
To a bookseller 9 April [1860]
Summary
Orders a copy of Matthew 1831 from a bookseller.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bookseller. |
Date: | 9 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller MS alb-54:068) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2753F |
To Charles Lyell 10 April [1860]
Summary
W. B. Carpenter’s review of Origin [in Br. & Foreign Med.-Chir. Rev. 25 (1860): 367–404] "very good and well balanced, but not brilliant".
"There is a brilliant review by Huxley" [Westminster Rev. 17 (1860): 541–70].
Asa Gray sends good case of selection producing black pigs in Virginia.
Great blow to CD that CL cannot admit potency of natural selection.
Owen’s review in Edinburgh Review [111 (1860): 487–532] "extremely malignant, clever".
Patrick Matthew has published extract in Gardeners’ Chronicle [7 Apr 1860] from his Naval timber and arboriculture [1831], a complete but not developed anticipation of natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 10 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.206) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2754 |
letter | (44) |
Darwin, C. R. | (37) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Masters, William | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Huxley, T. H. | (4) |
Lyell, Charles | (3) |
Masters, M. T. | (3) |
Bookseller. | (1) |
Bronn, H. G. | (2) |
Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (44) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
Holland, Mary | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Huxley, T. H. | (4) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (3) |
Marshall, William | (1) |
Masters, M. T. | (3) |
Masters, William | (1) |
Murray, Andrew | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Pictet de la Rive, F. J. | (1) |
Smith, Frederick (a) | (2) |
Stewardson, Thomas | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |
Waterhouse, G. R. | (1) |
Way, Albert | (1) |
Williams & Norgate | (2) |