To Asa Gray 22 May [1860]
Summary
Opinions and reviews of Origin.
CD’s view on design in nature; although he does not believe in the necessity of design, he finds it hard to conclude that everything is the result of "brute force".
Comments on Owen’s review of Origin [Edinburgh Rev. 111 (1860): 487–532].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 22 May [1860] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (26 and 37a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2814 |
To John Lubbock 25 May [1860]
Summary
Local affairs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 25 May [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 32 (EH 88206481) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2815 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 [May 1860]
Summary
Convinced selection is the efficient cause. Less convinced of physical causes than JDH because he sees adaptation everywhere and that must be due to selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 29 [May 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2816 |
To John Lubbock 29 [May 1860]
Summary
Local affairs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 29 [May 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 40 (EH 88206484) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2817 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 May [1860]
Summary
Harvey’s letter to JDH more accepting of natural selection than CD expected.
Battle over Origin is raging in the United States.
Weary of hostile reviews.
Doubts about going to Oxford [for BAAS meeting].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 May [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2818 |
From J. D. Hooker [11 May – 3 December 1860]
Summary
CD’s divergent series explains those anomalous plants that hover between what would otherwise be two species in a genus.
Inclined to see conifers as a sub-series of dicotyledons that developed in parallel to monocotyledons, but retained cryptogamic characters.
Mentions H. C. Watson’s view of variations.
Man has destroyed more species than he has created varieties.
Variations are centrifugal because the chances are a million to one that identity of form once lost will return.
In the human race, we find no reversion "that would lead us to confound a man with his ancestors".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [11 May – 3 Dec 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.5: 217 (Letters), DAR 47: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3036 |
From John Cattell [after 5 May 1860]
Author: | John Cattell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 5 May 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 53.2: 167r |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9213 |
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Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
Hooker, J. D. | (10) |
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Henslow, J. S. | (3) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
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Hooker, J. D. | (11) |
Lyell, Charles | (6) |
Henslow, J. S. | (5) |
Cattell, John | (2) |