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From Edouard Claparède   6 September 1862

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Acknowledges CD’s approval of his review of Origin in Revue Germanique [16 (1861): 523–59; 17 (1861): 232–63]. Praises natural selection;

criticises C.-A. Royer’s [French] translation.

Author:  Jean Louis René Antoine Edouard (Edouard) Claparède
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Sept 1862
Classmark:  DAR 161.1: 149
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3715

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  • … 1861): 232–63]. Praises natural selection; criticises C. -A. Royer’s [French] translation. …
  • … Auguste Royer (see n.  5, below). See letter to Edouard Claparède , [ c. 16 April 1862]. …
  • c. 16 April 1862]. There is an annotated copy of this review in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Royer

To C. E. Brown-Séquard   16 April [1862]

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French translation of 3d edition of Origin has been greatly delayed.

Very pleased with CEB-S’s intent to write a review and with his near agreement. CD believes that so many really good judges concur with him in the main that his views will ultimately prevail. Continental reviews have been more positive than British ones. Édouard Claparède’s ["M. Darwin et sa théorie de la formation des espèces", Rev. Ger. 16 (1861): 523–59; 17 (1861): 232–63] is too favourable.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Édouard Brown-Séquard
Date:  16 Apr [1862]
Classmark:  Royal College of Physicians of London (MS-BROWC/981/97)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3508

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  • … Séquard, 13 January 1862 . Royer trans.  1862. See letter to C.  E.  Brown-Séquard, 2  …

To Asa Gray   10–20 June [1862]

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Thanks AG for praise of Orchids and his notes on several American species of orchid. Comments on AG’s observations.

Is experimenting [on dimorphism] with Rhexia and Melastoma.

Asks AG’s opinion of a paper by Thomas Meehan ["On the uniformity of relative characters between allied species of European and American trees", Proc. Philadelphia Acad. Nat. Sci. (1862): 10–13] which is the best case of the apparently direct action of the conditions of life CD has seen.

Requests postage stamp for his ill son [Leonard].

Thanks AG for observations on Cypripedium and gives recent observations of his own.

Arethusa is very pretty; structure seems like that of Vanilla.

Finds the little (so-called imperfect) flowers of Viola and Oxalis curious: the pollen-grains emit their tubes whilst within the anthers, and they travel in straight lines right to the stigmas.

Sympathises with events in the U. S.

Reports on French translation of Origin by Mlle C. Royer, "one of the cleverest & oddest women in Europe".

Alphonse de Candolle says he wants direct proof of natural selection; "he will have to wait a long time for that".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  10–20 June [1862]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (66)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3595

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  • … on French translation of Origin by Mlle C. Royer, "one of the cleverest & oddest women in …
  • Royer, who must be one of the cleverest & oddest women in Europe: is ardent Deist & hates Christianity, & declares that natural selection & the struggle for life will explain all morality, nature of man, politicks &c & …

From C. E. Brown-Séquard   13 January 1862

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Apologises for not answering CD sooner about where he will publish review [of Origin]. Review is to appear in his own journal, but will postpone publishing it until the French translation of 3d ed. appears. Expresses substantial agreement with CD’s views.

Author:  Charles Édouard Brown-Séquard
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Jan 1862
Classmark:  DAR 160.3: 327
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3385

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  • … Letter to C.  E.  Brown-Séquard, 2 January [1862]. Clémence Auguste Royer’s French …

To Charles Edouard Brown-Séquard   2 January [1862]

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Pleased to hear through Miss Pennington that CEB-S intends to review Origin in a French journal. Suggests 3d ed. as this will soon appear in French translation. Does not expect perfect agreement on so complex a subject as descent.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Édouard Brown-Séquard
Date:  2 Jan [1862]
Classmark:  Royal College of Physicians of London (MS-BROWC/981/96)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3372

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  • C.  E.  Brown-Séquard, 13 January 1862  and n.  2. CD may be referring to a meeting of the Philosophical Club of the Royal Society that he attended on 20 May 1858, at which Brown-Séquard was a guest speaker (Philosophical Club minutes, Royal Society; Bonney 1919 , p.  139). Clémence Auguste Royer’ …

To Asa Gray   15 March [1862]

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Gives some observations on changes in pistil position with age in Monochaetum. Asks whether AG can observe Rhexia for similar movements.

"One of the best men, though at present unknown", H. W. Bates, has taken up natural selection.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  15 Mar [1862]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (64)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3473

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  • Royer’s French translation of Origin was not in fact published until 31 May 1862 ( Journal Générale de l’Imprimerie et de la Librairie 2d ser.  6 (pt 3): 341. See also letter to J.  D. Hooker, 26 [March  1862] , and letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] . Winkler trans.  1860. Tiberius Cornelius Winkler sent CD a copy of his Dutch translation of Origin in 1861 (see Correspondence vol.  9, letter from T.  C.   …