To W. H. Miller 1 December [1860]
Summary
Must prepare new edition of Origin.
Discusses structure of beehives. Mentions writings of Chauncey Wright on bees’ cells ["Remarks on the architecture of bees", Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 4 (1857–60): 432–3].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Hallowes Miller |
Date: | 1 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2564 |
To W. H. Miller 27 December [1860]
Summary
Discusses measurements of bees’ cells.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Hallowes Miller |
Date: | 27 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2609 |
To W. H. Miller 31 December [1860]
Summary
Thanks WHM for information about honeycombs. Discusses his own measurements of combs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Hallowes Miller |
Date: | 31 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.189) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2617 |
From David Forbes [after 11 December 1860]
Author: | David Forbes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 11 Dec 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 150 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2621 |
From Alfred Russel Wallace [December? 1860]
Summary
Gives an extract from L. von Buch on the flora of the Canaries [Physikalische Beschreibung der Canarische Inseln (1825)].
Natural selection does not explain why animals of different groups in the same place often resemble each other.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Dec? 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 45: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2627 |
To T. H. Huxley 2 December [1860]
Summary
Is sick of hostile reviews but they have helped in showing where he must expatiate and expand in new edition of Origin.
Has more confidence in the general truth of his view. Disappointed THH does not think it more probable than he did at first.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 2 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 149) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3003 |
To John Murray 3 December [1860]
Summary
Asks again how great a hurry there is for new edition [of Origin, 3d ed.]. Corrections will enlarge volume by a dozen or twenty pages, plus a short historical sketch. Would like "With Corrections" in title.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 3 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.80–81) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3004 |
To Jeffries Wyman 3 December [1860]
Summary
"You cannot tell how much your paper on Gestation has interested me" ["On some unusual modes of gestation in batrachians and fishes", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 27 (1859): 5–13].
Robert McDonnell has made curious discoveries on electrical organs of rays.
Is giving JW’s hog case in corrected ed. [3d] of Origin.
Would like account of tip of tail of young rattlesnake.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jeffries Wyman |
Date: | 3 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c 12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3005 |
To Charles Lyell 4 December [1860]
Summary
Sale of Origin requires new edition [3d (Apr 1861)].
Further discussion of geological elevation and subsidence in Europe. Compares evidence to that of South America. His theory that semi-fluid matter underlies earth’s crust.
Mentions David Forbes’s explanation of South American nitrate deposits.
Has followed CL’s advice not to reply directly to reviewers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 4 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.236) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3006 |
To Benjamin Silliman Jr 4 December [1860]
Summary
Thanks for information on cave rat.
CD is obliged for news of J. D. Dana’s recovery.
Will use BS’s information about cave rat in revised [3d] edition of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Silliman, Jr |
Date: | 4 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3007 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 December [1860]
Summary
Third edition of Origin will answer reviewers.
Drosera experiments detailed.
Hopes for W. H. Harvey’s conversion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3008 |
To T. H. Huxley 5 [December 1860]
Summary
Thanks THH for his note; pleased by what he says. Is too sensitive about shades of opinion of men like THH.
The Macmillan article on Origin [H. Fawcett, "A popular exposition of Mr Darwin on the origin of species", Macmillan’s Mag. 3 (1860): 81–92].
J. E. Gray’s misunderstanding of Origin.
Account of the encounter at Oxford BAAS meeting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 5 [Dec 1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5:130) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3009 |
To John Murray 5 December [1860]
Summary
Reminds JM that copies of diagram must be printed off [for Origin, 3d ed.]. It must be carefully reproduced or parts of the book will be as unintelligible as Hebrew. Hopes never again to have to make so many additions in order that many rather stupid reviewers will at least understand what he meant.
There is a good article on the Origin in Macmillan’s Magazine [by Henry Fawcett].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 5 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.60–61) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3010 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 December [1860]
Summary
Henry Fawcett’s article on Origin [Macmillan’s Mag. 3 (1860): 81–92] quotes JDH’s Oxford speech.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3011 |
From J. M. Rodwell 6 December 1860
Summary
Discusses Origin, suggesting confirmation might come from studying reproduction in microscopic organisms.
Gives anecdotal observations of blind rats and white cats.
Author: | John Medows Rodwell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Dec 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 169–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3012 |
To Henry Fawcett 6 December [1860]
Summary
Expresses his admiration for HF’s review of Origin in Macmillan’s Magazine (Fawcett 1860).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Fawcett |
Date: | 6 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3012F |
From J. D. Hooker [6–11 December 1860]
Summary
JDH’s page-by-page criticisms on Origin, first edition, as requested by CD for preparation of the third edition.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6–11 Dec 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 218 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3013 |
To W. E. Darwin [8 December 1860]
Summary
Asks identity of [Henry] Fawcett, who wrote a capital article on the Origin in Macmillan’s Magazine [3 (1860): 81–92], "A popular exposition of Mr Darwin".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [8 Dec 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3014 |
To Richard Kippist? 11 December [1860]
Summary
Orders several volumes: Mémoires du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle 8 (1822), Edinburgh Philosophical Journal 14 (1826), and BAAS Report containing Owen’s Presidential Address [1858, pp. xli–cx].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
Date: | 11 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 82) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3016 |
To Asa Gray 11 December [1860]
Summary
The pamphlet of AG’s Origin reviews [Natural selection not inconsistent with natural theology (1861)]. CD will bear half the costs of publishing.
Will write to Huxley about Chauncey Wright’s review of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 11 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (38) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3017 |
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Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Lincecum, Gideon | (1) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
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Forbes, David | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
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Kippist, Richard | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Miller, W. H. | (3) |
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