From William Henry Harvey 24 August 1860
Summary
Continues earlier discussion, admitting his opinions have been modified. Still regards natural selection as one agent of several. States areas of disagreement.
| Author: | William Henry Harvey |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Aug 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 33–40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2898 |
To A. D. Bartlett 24 August [1860]
Summary
Sends copy of Origin.
Discusses stripes on hybrid of donkey and wild ass.
Will let ADB know if lady consents to sending rabbits to [Zoological] Gardens.
Asks about gestation of Canidae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
| Date: | 24 Aug [1860] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4273 |
| letter | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Harvey, W. H. | (1) |
| Bartlett, A. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Bartlett, A. D. | (1) |
| Harvey, W. H. | (1) |
John Murray
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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…
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- … to open negotiations with his own publisher ( Letter 824 ). Lyell’s talk with Murray must have …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … Florula juvenalis . Montpellier. [Abstract in DAR 71: 82–4.] 128: 12 ——. 1854. …
