From Henry Fawcett 16 July [1861]
Summary
Elaborates on his article ["A popular exposition of Mr Darwin on the origin of species", Macmillan’s Mag. 3 (1860): 81–92]. Was anxious to point out that CD’s method of investigation is philosophically correct. Asks permission to call.
Author: | Henry Fawcett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 29–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2868 |
From Leonard Jenyns 31 December 1861
Summary
Thanks CD for his contribution to the memoir of Henslow [L. Jenyns, Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow (1862)].
Author: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Dec 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3355 |
To Henry Fawcett 20 July 1861
Summary
"You could not possibly have told me anything which would have given me more satisfaction than what you say about Mr. Mill’s opinion." [See 2868.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Fawcett |
Date: | 20 July 1861 |
Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3215A |
To J. D. Hooker 23 [April 1861]
Summary
Lieut. F. W. Hutton’s original review [Geologist 4 (1861): 132–6, 183–8] understands that mutability cannot be directly proved.
CD met Bentham at Linnean Society and asked him to write up his views on mutability.
Opinion of Owen.
Conversation with Lyell on antiquity of man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 [Apr 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3098 |
To W. B. Clarke 25 October [1861]
Summary
Thanks WBC for his account of glacial action in Australia. A mundane cooler period would throw a flood of light on geographical distribution. Has sketched a large MS on subject but does not know whether he will live to publish it.
Questions WBC on striated granite boulders.
Asks him to make a botanical experiment on insect fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Branwhite Clarke |
Date: | 25 Oct [1861] |
Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 139/36X, pp. 263–72) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3298 |
letter | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Clarke, W. B. (b) | (1) |
Fawcett, Henry | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Fawcett, Henry | (2) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
Clarke, W. B. (b) | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |