From George Bentham 16 January 1863
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 154 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3920 |
From George Bentham [c. 14 April 1863]
Summary
Asks CD whether he knows of "anything worth looking at" that has appeared abroad on his theory of the origin of species.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 14 Apr 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4096 |
From George Bentham 21 April 1863
Summary
Has not yet read the pamphlets [selection of reviews of Origin, sent by CD at GB’s request]. Though GB does not go so far as Hooker in accepting all of CD’s hypotheses and does not feel up to a thorough discussion of his views, he hopes in his Linnean Anniversary Address [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1863): xi–xxix] to speak on the present state of the [species] question.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4118 |
From George Bentham 21 May 1863
Summary
Returns CD’s pamphlets.
Wishes CD would work out further what keeps certain species immutable for great periods.
Feels himself a convert, but cannot go all lengths with CD.
Feels some reviewers distort CD’s argument.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 157 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4172 |
To George Bentham 15 April [1863]
Summary
Sends GB a selection of reviews of the Origin from his collection of about 90, with his opinion of some of them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 15 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 700) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4100 |
To George Bentham 22 April [1863]
Summary
Disagrees with GB when he says he is not up to treating the whole subject [the present state of the species question]. He is especially equipped to handle the "great subject of affinities in relation to descent and independent creation".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 22 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 701) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4120 |
To George Bentham 22 May [1863]
Summary
Natural selection implies that a form remains unaltered unless an alteration is to its benefit. This is not inconsistent with some forms remaining stable for long periods. Natural selection must at present be grounded entirely on general considerations. Of details we are still greatly ignorant.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 22 May [1863] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 711–13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4176 |
To George Bentham 19 June [1863]
Summary
GB’s address [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1863): xi–xxix] pleased him as much as Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man] disappointed him on species question. GB has done a "real good turn to the right side".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 19 June [1863] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 709–10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4217 |
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