To James Dwight Dana 21 December [1856]
Summary
Thanks for sending paper on geological development (Dana 1856). Discusses infertility of species. Discusses first part of Asa Gray’s paper (A. Gray 1856–7). Thanks for note on the Cave Rat. Discusses a new species of fossil cirripede, in the genus Chthamalus. Explains his interest in pigeon breeding.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
| Date: | 21 Dec [1856] |
| Classmark: | Catherine Barnes (dealer) (2003) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2020F |
To J. D. Dana 25 May [1857]
Summary
Thanks him for information concerning Crustacea.
Comments on natural history study in the U. S.
Mentions work done by Huxley on Crustacea ["Description of a new crustacean", J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 13 (1857): 363–9];
John Lubbock on larvae of Diptera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
| Date: | 25 May [1857] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Silliman Family Papers (MS 450) Box 19, folder 25) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2094 |
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- … letter to CD, 27 April 1857 , Dana had mentioned that Louis Agassiz had a collector who was to explore Pacific islands. He also told CD of William Stimpson’s progress in describing the Crustacea collected by the North Pacific Exploring Expedition. Thomas Henry Huxley devoted the final three lectures of his course on natural history to the Crustacea. These lectures, delivered at the School of Mines, were published in a series in the Medical Times & Gazette ( T. H. …
To James Dwight Dana 30 July [1860]
Summary
Has been able to do nothing in science of late due to illness [of Henrietta].
When JDD reads Origin, CD knows he will be opposed to it, but he will be liberal and philosophical, which is more than he can say for his English opponents.
Has not yet seen L. Agassiz’s attack, but in principle avoids answering.
No one understands Origin so well as Asa Gray.
At BAAS meeting at Oxford, CD’s side seems almost to have got the best of the battle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
| Date: | 30 July [1860] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2882 |
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- … 1857–62 ). The discussion, taken from advance sheets of the volume, was printed in the American Journal of Science and Arts 2d ser. 30 (1860): 142–55; it was also printed in Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3d ser. 6 (1860): 219–32. There is an annotated copy of the American Journal of Science and Arts article in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. For CD’s opinion of Agassiz’s ‘attack’, see the letter to T. H. Huxley, …
To James Dwight Dana 7 January [1863]
Summary
Responds to JDD’s letter [3845].
Discusses his own poor health.
"Man is our great subject at present."
Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)] sold 4000 copies on day of sale.
"The fossil bird [Archaeopteryx] … is a grand case for me." Wishes a skeleton could be found in the "so-called red sandstone foot-step beds".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
| Date: | 7 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3905 |
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- … 1857; the photograph is reproduced from a later print by Maull and Fox as the frontispiece to Correspondence vol. 8. See also Correspondence vol. 10, letter from E. A. Darwin, [April–May? 1862] . Charles Lyell’s Antiquity of man ( C. Lyell 1863a ) was published on 9 February 1863 ( Athenæum , 7 February 1863, p. 176). CD may also refer to Thomas Henry Huxley’s book, Evidence as to man’s place in nature ( T. H. …
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