To Charles Lyell 18 May [1860]
Summary
Comments on enclosed letters from Asa Gray and Wallace [missing].
Discusses hybrid fertility in rabbits and hares, and pheasants and fowls.
Asks about paper by Hermann Schaaffhausen ["Über Beständigkeit u. Umwandlung der Arten", Verh. Naturhist. Ver. Preuss. Rheinlande 10 (1853): 420–51].
Mentions criticism by Sedgwick and William Clark at Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Notes importance of CL and Hooker in defending Origin.
Comments on papers by D. A. Godron ["Considérations sur les migrations des végétaux", Acad. Stanislas Mem. Soc. Sci. Nancy (1853): 329–67].
Mentions receiving anonymous verses.
A Manchester newspaper lampoon shows CD has proved "might makes right" to be a universal law.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 18 May [1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.212) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2806 |
To A. R. Wallace 18 May 1860
Summary
Pleasure in ARW’s approbation of the Origin. Other supporters among scientists. ARW’s generosity.
Attacks by Owen, Sedgwick, and others.
Anticipation of natural selection by Matthew in 1830.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 18 May 1860 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 21–23v) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2807 |
To Asa Gray 18 May [1860]
Summary
Bitter and incessant attacks on the Origin.
Any truth in it has been saved only by a small body of men like Lyell, AG, Hooker, and Huxley.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 18 May [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (14) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2808 |
To W. D. Fox 18 May [1860]
Summary
Attacks [on Origin] are "hot and heavy". Adam Sedgwick and William Clark at Cambridge Philosophical Society opened a battery. J. S. Henslow defended in grand style.
Slow progress on bigger book.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 18 May [1860] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 128) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2809 |
To John Murray 18 May [1860]
Summary
Thanks for six copies of Journal of researches [1860 ed.].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 18 May [1860] |
| Classmark: | Dunedin Public Library (Reed collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2810 |
To Williams & Norgate 18 May [1860]
Summary
Requests a copy of Unger 1852 (Versuch einer Geschichte der Pflanzenwelt; an attempt at a history of the vegetable kingdom).
Requests a copy of the issue of British and Foreign Medical Review which contains a review of Origin, if it is a different publication from British and Foreign Medical and Chirurgical Review
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
| Date: | 18 May [1860] |
| Classmark: | Lanier family (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2810F |
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Journal of researches
Summary
Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…
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