From Henry Holland 10 December [1859]
Summary
Comments on the Origin. Outlines difficulties he finds in CD’s theory. Believes CD must define natural selection more accurately and mentions instances in which that principle is an insufficient cause to account for the form of certain structures.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 148–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2578 |
From Henry Holland [3–14] January [1862]
Summary
Condolences on death of Charlotte Langton [née Wedgwood].
Is waiting to hear from Lord Tankerville [see 3339].
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3–14] Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 238 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3388 |
From Henry Holland 15 January [1862]
Summary
Has read CD’s Primula paper.
Regrets to hear that CD and family are victims to the influenza epidemic.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 239 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3390 |
From Henry Holland [21 January 1862?]
Summary
Has received a satisfactory answer from Lord Tankerville.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21 Jan 1862?] |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 236 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3400 |
From Henry Holland 30 January [1862]
Summary
Is preparing a volume of his articles [Essays on scientific and other subjects (1862)], to one of which he would like to add a postscript referring to CD’s Origin [pp. 100–1]. Sends proposed postscript for CD’s approval.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 240 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3423 |
From Henry Holland [1 or 8 February 1862]
Summary
Suggests a change in the postscript [referred to in 3423].
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 or 8] Feb 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 235 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3435 |
From Henry Holland 26 March [1862]
Summary
Gives CD advice on the illness of one of his sons [presumably Horace].
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 241 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3485 |
From Henry Holland [c. April 1862]
Summary
Louis Pasteur’s memoir "is a very able and convincing one" ["Mémoire sur les corpuscles organisés qui existent dans l’atmosphère", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) 3d ser. 16 (1861): 5–98].
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. Apr 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 237 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3490 |
From Henry Holland 19 May [1862]
Summary
Thanks for Orchids.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 242 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3562 |
From Henry Holland [10 February 1863]
Summary
Cites [C. F.?] Burdach as the source of a note on atavism in alternate generations.
Wants to talk to CD about inheritance.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [10 Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 243 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3959 |
From Henry Holland 4 November [1864]
Summary
Congratulations on the Copley Medal.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Nov [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 244 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4659 |
From Henry Holland 2 January 1865
Summary
Thanks for Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
T. S. Cobbold’s book on the Entozoa [1864].
Remarks on development of the tapeworm.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 245 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4735 |
From Henry Holland 25 June [1865]
Summary
Thanks for "Climbing plants" [see 4861].
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 June [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 246 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4865 |
From Henry Holland 21 December [1867]
Summary
Has received a copy of an attack on CD ["Darwinian theory examined"] from the author, but does not know who it is.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 247 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5736 |
From Henry Holland 27 January [1868]
Summary
Congratulations on George Darwin’s success at Cambridge.
Has still not discovered the author of "Darwinian theory examined".
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 248 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5805 |
From Henry Holland 11 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks for copy of Variation. Comments on it, especially on Pangenesis.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 249 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5862 |
From Henry Holland 20 April [1868]
Summary
Sends CD a copy of a book he has had printed mainly for the interest of his children and grandchildren [later published as Recollections of past life (1872)].
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 250 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6131 |
From Henry Holland 4 November [1870]
Summary
A month in the West Indies, where he saw the luxuriant struggle of tropical vegetation, has brought HH "still more closely within the circle" of CD’s doctrine.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Nov [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 251 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7357 |
From Henry Holland [16 December 1871]
Summary
Sends CD a ptarmigan.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [16 Dec 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 252 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7412 |
From Henry Holland 19 February [1871]
Summary
Thanks for copy of Descent.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 253 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7490 |
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