To H. G. Bronn 13 April [1860]
Summary
Thanks HGB for sending copies of his Untersuchungen [1858] and Morphologische Studien [1858] and for a portrait.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Date: | 13 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.207) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2757 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 [April 1860]
Summary
Sends a letter concerning priority [of Patrick Matthew] for JDH to read and post.
Angered at Owen’s review.
Huxley’s Royal Institution lecture ends well.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 [Apr 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2758 |
To M. T. Masters 13 April [1860]
Summary
Discusses crosses in sweetpeas and the difference between monstrosities and slight variations. Discusses peloric flowers.
Thanks for correction about furze.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 13 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2759 |
To T. H. Huxley 14 April [1860]
Summary
On THH’s "Deep-sea soundings in the North Atlantic" ["Report on the examination of specimens of bottom" in Deep-sea soundings made in H.M.S. "Cyclops", Lieut. Commander J. Dayman (1858)]. Suggests further investigations be made of deposits of calcareous organisms.
THH’s "extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science" ["The origin of species", Westminster Rev. 17 (1860): 541–70].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 14 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 115) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2760 |
To Charles Lyell 15 April [1860]
Summary
Has resolved not to correct Owen’s misrepresentations in his review of Origin.
Discusses at length the theological implications of natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 15 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.208) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2761 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 17 April [1860]
Summary
Sends queries for "Fanciers"
and asks about the mating of the queen bee.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 17 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2762 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 [April 1860]
Summary
What a base dog Owen is for praising his own work in reviewing Origin [anonymously].
J. H. Balfour is narrow-minded.
CD cannot understand pollination of Goodenia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 [Apr 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2763 |
To T. H. Huxley [after 20 April 1860]
Summary
Asks whether THH had by mistake taken the National Review containing W. B. Carpenter’s review.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [after 20 Apr 1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 255) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2765A |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [13 April 1860]
Summary
CD acknowledges that Patrick Matthew, in his appendix to Naval timber and arboriculture (1831), anticipated by many years CD’s explanation of the origin of species by natural selection. CD was ignorant of the work. If another edition of Origin is called for, CD will insert a notice to the foregoing effect.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [13 Apr 1860] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 21 April 1860, pp. 362–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2766 |
To Asa Gray 25 April [1860]
Summary
Origin reviews. Is annoyed at Richard Owen’s malignity [Edinburgh Rev. 111 (1860): 487–532].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 25 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2767 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 April [1860]
Summary
CD intrigued by the pollination mechanism of Leschenaultia formosa.
CD interested in Thomas Bell’s rumour that Owen avows his review.
Curved styles and their relation to pollination.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2769 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 April [1860]
Summary
Sends list of plants with asymmetry in nectar-secreting surfaces and pistils bent in that direction. Shows insect agency so important that structure has changed. Asks for contrary or confirming examples and that request be passed on to Daniel Oliver.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 67 (EH 88206050) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2770 |
To Charles Lyell 27 and 28 April [1860]
Summary
Thanks CL for loan of paper by J. S. Newberry ["Notes on the ancient vegetation of N. America", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 29 (1860): 208–18].
Mentions reviews of the Origin.
Discusses evolution of the domestic dog, especially with respect to the views of Owen, Pallas, and Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.
Mentions W. B. Carpenter’s views on taxonomy.
Discusses hybridisation of plants and animals.
Comments on progress in human evolution.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 27 and 28 Apr 1860 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.209) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2771 |
To Andrew Murray 28 April [1860]
Summary
Has read MS of AM’s review [of Origin, read at Edinburgh Royal Society, 20 Feb 1860]; has no complaints. Has never heard of a hostile reviewer’s doing so kind and generous an action [as sending his MS for CD’s criticism?]. Sends some remarks on details.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray |
Date: | 28 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | Dartmouth College Library (MSS 000566); R. D. Pyrah (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2772 |
To Andrew Murray 28 [April 1860]
Summary
In his former note CD omitted to criticise AM’s explanation that the function of hybridisation is to prevent extinction should the males of a rare species die out.
Disputes that "Oken, Lamarck & Co throw some light on Classification, Embryology & Rudimentary organs". In the case of embryology there must be introduced the principle of variations not supervening at a very early age and being inherited at corresponding ages. In classification descent alone will not do; it must be combined with the principle of divergence of character and descent from dominant and increasing forms.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray |
Date: | 28 [Apr 1860] |
Classmark: | R. D. Pyrah (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2773 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 April [1860]
Summary
JDH has settled the Leschenaultia case, but it remains a difficulty to CD.
Goodenia, like bee orchid, seems a case of a structure with an evident function, which is not carried out. Is curvature of styles an incidental result of growth or a pollination adaptation?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2776 |
To M. T. Masters 25 April [1860]
Summary
Glad to hear of MTM’s papers [? "On a peloria and semidouble flower of Ophrys aranifera, Huds.", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 207–11 and "Observations on the morphology and anatomy of the genus Restio, Linn.", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 211–55].
CD doubts the value, for origin of species, of parallels between peloria in "distinct groups".
Gärtner proved the stigma can select its own pollen from a mixture of foreign pollens. But much evidence shows varieties of same species are prepotent over a plant’s own pollen.
MTM’s father [William] believes that variation goes on for a long time once it has commenced.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 25 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School Archives (SR/Darwin box 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4818 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Huxley, T. H. | (4) |
Lyell, Charles | (3) |
Masters, M. T. | (3) |
Bronn, H. G. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Huxley, T. H. | (4) |
Lyell, Charles | (3) |
Masters, M. T. | (3) |
Bronn, H. G. | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Murray, Andrew | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Williams & Norgate | (2) |
Bookseller. | (1) |
Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Holland, Mary | (1) |
Marshall, William | (1) |
Pictet de la Rive, F. J. | (1) |
Smith, Frederick (a) | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |
Waterhouse, G. R. | (1) |
Way, Albert | (1) |