To Asa Gray 1 February [1860]
Summary
CD is glad there is to be an American edition of Origin printed from the corrected 2d English edition.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 1 Feb [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (44) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2676 |
From Asa Gray to J. D. Hooker 5 January 1860
Summary
Opinions on the Origin: AG thinks it masterly; Agassiz considers it very poor.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 Jan 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 20–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2638 |
To Asa Gray 8 March [1860]
Summary
Further additions and corrections for American Origin.
Views of Owen, G. H. K. Thwaites, and W. H. Harvey on CD’s theories.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 8 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (31) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2726 |
From Asa Gray 23 January 1860
Summary
American edition of Origin. AG’s assessment of the book’s weak and strong points. Suggests Jeffries Wyman would be a useful source of facts and hints for CD.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Jan 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 22–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2663 |
To T. H. Huxley 9 January [1860]
Summary
Sends ticket to pigeon show.
A quotation from Erasmus Darwin’s Zoonomia [1794, 1796] shows that he anticipated Lamarck.
G. Grote impressed by Times review [26 Dec 1859, p. 8].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 9 Jan [1860] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 96) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2646 |
From B. P. Brent [May–June 1860?]
Summary
Cannot supply a case of atavism in canaries.
Will lend CD back issues of Cottage Gardener.
Cites case of bird (tumbler hen) laying egg in another’s nest.
| Author: | Bernard Peirce Brent |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [May–June 1860?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.3: 297 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2778 |
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- … letter from B. P. Brent, [after August 1856] ). Between April and September 1860, Brent published a series of articles in the Cottage Gardener describing the different canary breeds. CD may have inquired about reversion in canaries in response to these articles. In the 10 April issue of the Cottage Gardener 24 (1860): 25–6, Brent discussed the citril finch, supposed by some authorities to be the ancestral form of the European canary. On 17 …
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| Gray, Asa | (2) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Gray, Asa | (4) |
| Brent, B. P. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
