From John Higgins 16 June 1860
Summary
Has not received any replies from the parties.
Either he or his son will value the property after JH’s return to Alford.
| Author: | John Higgins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 June 1860 |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/3/7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2837F |
To John Higgins 13 June [1860]
Summary
Discusses possible purchase of land.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 13 June [1860] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/3/3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2831 |
From John Higgins 19 June 1860
Summary
Sends a plan of the Anwick Estate: will value it on Saturday next (23 June 1860).
Will purchase it for CD at the auction on 25 June if he can secure favourable terms.
| Author: | John Higgins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 June 1860 |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/3/14) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2836F |
To Charles Lyell 20 [June 1860]
Summary
Blyth’s effort to raise money for a Chinese expedition.
Comments on free-will in animals.
Says natural selection is not in the same category with Huxley’s "force" and "matter".
Discusses remarkable variation in period of gestation in dogs and ducks.
Discusses Arctic flora.
Has been working on orchids; they beat woodpeckers in adaptation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 20 [June 1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.219) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2838 |
To Charles Lyell 14 [June 1860]
Summary
Mentions letters from Edward Blyth and William Hopkins.
Sees little in review of Origin by J. A. Lowell [Christian Examiner (1860): 449–64].
Sees only one sentence approaching natural selection in paper by Hermann Schaaffhausen. Emphasises importance of natural selection.
Comments on Agassiz’s view of species.
Cites account of flint tools in travel book by F. P. Wrangell [Narrative of an expedition to the Polar Sea (1840)]. Mentions Eskimo tools.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 14 [June 1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.216) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2832 |
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- … Darwin’s theory is not development ex ovo ; that is the theory of Oken, of Agassiz, of the author of the “Vestiges of Creation”; … of Bonnet and of Priestley, who . . . held “that all the germs of future plants, organical bodies of all kinds, and the reproducible parts of them, were really contained in the first germ. ” Andrew Murray refers to Lorenz Oken, Louis Agassiz , Robert Chambers , Charles Bonnet , and Joseph Priestley . Sabine ed. 1840, p. cxvii. The book had been translated from Wrangel 1839 by Elizabeth …
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