From Chauncey Wright 24 May 1872
Summary
Has replied [in North Am. Rev. 115 (1872): 1–30] to Mivart’s communication to the North American Review [114 (1872): 451–68].
Discusses the degree of fixedness of different characters in organisms.
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 May 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 168 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8351 |
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- … From Chauncey Wright 24 May 1872 …
- … DAR 181: 168 Chauncey Wright Cambridge, Mass. 24 May 1872 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … not been found. See letter to Chauncey Wright, 6 April 1872 ; Wright refers to his paper …
- … 1871b ). See letter to Chauncey Wright, [11 or 21] April [1872] and n. 2. Wright refers …
- … 11 November 1871] . See letter to Chauncey Wright, 6 April 1872 . Wright refers to Leslie …
From Chauncey Wright 2 September 1872
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Sept 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 170 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8507 |
From Chauncey Wright 29 August 1872
Summary
Discusses ideas on the development of language; agrees with CD that it is a process governed by unconscious selection; he considers it analogous to unconscious selection of domestic animals by savages. Remarks on the differing views of Max Müller and W. D. Whitney regarding the origin of language and its development. Comments on the extent to which unintentional effects can be ascribed directly to the agency of free intelligent wills.
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 169 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8493 |
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- … From Chauncey Wright 29 August 1872 …
- … DAR 181: 169 Chauncey Wright London, Covent Garden 29 Aug 1872 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 1872 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). See letter to Chauncey Wright, 3 June [1872] . …
- … See letter to Chauncey Wright, 3 June [1872] and n 4. William Dwight Whitney had …
- … selection’ (see letter to Chauncey Wright, 3 June [1872] and n. 5). The passage is from …
From Chauncey Wright 9 September 1872
Summary
Discusses the mental powers and habits of animals and considers that those of man are not separated from those of animals by any sort of fundamental barrier; the gulf seems formidable only from a self-conscious, human point of view. Man’s important distinction is his greater ability to act and respond independently of external stimuli, in consequence of his internal accumulation of personal experience.
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Sept 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 171 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8515 |
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- … From Chauncey Wright 9 September 1872 …
- … DAR 181: 171 Chauncey Wright London 9 Sept 1872 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter to Chauncey Wright, 6 September [1872] . Wright refers to Jean-Charles Houzeau …
- … 1872. Études sur les facultés mentales des animaux comparées à celles de l’homme par un voyageur naturaliste. 2 vols. Brussels: Hector Manceaux. Paris: Hachette et Cie. Thayer, James Bradley. 1878. Letters of Chauncey Wright …
From Chauncey Wright 3 April 1872
Summary
Discusses Mivart’s reply ["Genesis of species", North Am. Rev. 114 (1872): 451–68] to CW’s review and to Huxley.
Asks whether CD knows anyone to whom he could usefully send a copy of his phyllotaxy paper [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415].
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8273 |
From Hubert Airy 31 May 1872
Summary
A review and criticism of Chauncey Wright’s paper on phyllotaxy [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415]. Does not believe that the "distributive" and "cyclical" properties, which CW claims characterise the existing spiral orders of leaf arrangement, can be shown to be advantageous to plants. CW’s speculations on the origins of the spiral arrangement of leaves are purely hypothetical.
Author: | Hubert Airy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 May 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8362 |
From Auguste Houzeau de Lehaie 4 November 1872
Author: | Charles Auguste Benjamin Hippolyte (Auguste) Houzeau de Lehaie |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Nov 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 274 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8599 |
From Chauncey Wright 1 August 1871
Summary
Discusses revising his North American Review article [see 7829] for publication as a pamphlet in England.
Plans to publish a further article on phyllotaxy.
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Aug 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 165 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7890 |
From St G. J. Mivart 10 January 1872
Summary
Agrees to close their correspondence. Defends his position against criticisms of Huxley and Chauncey Wright; assures CD of his continuing friendly feelings.
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 199 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8154 |
From R. F. Cooke 1 November 1871
Summary
Suggests CD have Origin [6th ed.] stereotyped.
Will sell out remaining copies of Descent at forthcoming trade sale, print off 500 or 1000 more, and then have the type distributed.
14 copies of C. Wright’s pamphlet have been sold.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Nov 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 404 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8044 |
From J. B. Thayer 29 January 1878
Summary
Is using CD’s correspondence with Chauncey Wright in his book on CW [Letters of Chauncey Wright (1878)].
Author: | James Bradley Thayer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11338 |
From St G. J. Mivart 4 January 1872
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Jan 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 197 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8143 |
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- … Chauncey Wright’s review of Genesis of species ( Wright 1871a , Mivart 1871a ) in the April 1872 …
- … 1872 My dear Sir I herewith forward, by book post, a separate copy of my reply to Prof. Huxley’s criticism on the “Genesis of Species”— I had hoped to have been able to have sent you at the same time my reply to M r Chauncey Wright …
From Hubert Airy [before 15] July 1872
Summary
Outlines his theory on the origin of existing orders of leaf arrangement. Believes spiral and whorled orders have evolved from a primitive distichous arrangement. These arrangements permit a compact bud form of small surface area that can withstand external changes in temperature, and in particular can tolerate frost.
Author: | Hubert Airy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 15] July 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8412 |
From Hubert Airy 7 December 1873
Summary
Illustrates, with reference to different species of Gasteria, the role of twisting in the development of leaf arrangement.
Author: | Hubert Airy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Dec 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9175 |
From R. F. Cooke 21 April 1875
Summary
V. O. Kovalevsky has paid for the Expression plates.
Still has 400 copies of Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet
and 450 of Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Apr 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 448 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9944 |
From Fritz Müller 16 January 1872
Summary
Has no objection to CD’s alluding to FM’s idea that sexual selection has come into play in mimetic butterflies.
Reports observations on other butterflies and on termites.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 142: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8161 |
letter | (16) |
Wright, Chauncey | (6) |
Airy, Hubert | (3) |
Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
John Murray | (2) |
Mivart, S. G. J. | (2) |
Airy, Hubert | (3) |
Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
Houzeau de Lehaie, Auguste | (1) |
John Murray | (2) |
Mivart, S. G. J. | (2) |
Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Thayer, J. B. | (1) |
Wright, Chauncey | (6) |