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 Richard Frean 22 February 1863
Summary
Glad RF approves of book [Origin].
Impossible in many cases to conjecture how structures acquired.
Comments on degeneration of civilised man.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Frean |
| Date: | 22 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 298 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4005 |
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- … 1861. [Review of Origin & other works. ] Zoologist 19: 7577–611. Origin : On the origin of …
To J. D. Hooker 5 March [1863]
Summary
Ill health.
At work on Variation.
Reading JDH on Welwitschia.
Letter from Lyell defends his position on species.
Anger at Owen.
John Lubbock’s lectures.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 184 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4024 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [c. 26 September 1863]
Summary
Encloses a cutting from the Field: C. R. Bree on zebra-striped asses.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 26 Sept 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4314 |
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- … and Variation 1: 55–64; 2: 41–3). The zoologist Charles Robert Bree was a surgeon at the …
From Philip Henry Gosse 30 May 1863
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Asks CD’s help with problem that arose when he tried to impregnate an orchid following CD’s text in Orchids.
| Author: | Philip Henry Gosse |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4194 |
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- … refers to Orchids . Although primarily a zoologist, Gosse devoted much time during his …
From J. D. Hooker [15 March 1863]
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JDH battling with Lyell over treatment of species question in Antiquity of man. Distressed by Lyell’s raising false priority issue between JDH and CD. Falconer involved in a priority squabble.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 Mar 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 117–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4040 |
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- … John Monteiro , a mining engineer and zoologist residing in Luanda, Angola, to try to …
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 |
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- … 1861. [Review of Origin & other works. ] Zoologist 19: 7577–611. Origin : On the origin of …
From J. D. Hooker 23 October 1863
Summary
With scientific party to Amiens to look at gravel-pits, the geology of which JDH describes at length.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 167–70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4321 |
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- … The reference is to the Swedish geologist and zoologist Otto Martin Torell and to Torell …
To H. W. Bates 4 March [1863]
Summary
CD relates Asa Gray’s pleasure over HWB’s paper and Gray’s plans to write abstract [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 285–90].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 4 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4022 |
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- … Bates’s paper reviewed by the American zoologist Samuel Steman Haldeman (see letter to …
From James Anderson 1 April 1863
Summary
Sends CD seeds of Cattleya crispa as requested [see Collected papers 2: 77–8].
Anticipates success for his attempts to cross orchids artificially. Has not had a single seed germinate from a pod that was not produced by artificial crossing.
| Author: | James Anderson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4071 |
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- … taking up residence in Devonshire, the zoologist Gosse had become interested in orchid …
From J. D. Hooker 6 January 1863
Summary
Falconer’s elephant paper.
Owen’s conduct.
Falconer’s view of CD’s theory: independence of natural selection and variation.
JDH on Tocqueville,
the principles of the Origin,
and the evils of American democracy.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 88–91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3902 |
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- … I do wish he had cut it into 4—for a non-Zoologist like me it is an apalling thing to have …
From Hugh Falconer 18 January [1863]
Summary
Jaw with teeth found associated with Archaeopteryx fossil. Waterhouse pronounces it a fish’s jaw.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3926 |
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- … had recently been described by the Russian zoologist August David Krohn as ovarian ( Krohn …
From J. D. Hooker [7 May 1863]
Summary
Falconer going to France in defence of his views.
On scientific squabbling.
Herschel’s theory of the earth.
Bates’s book.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [7 May 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 135–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4144 |
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- … Falconer, 24 April [1863] and n. 6). The zoologist Armand de Quatrefages was a supporter …
From J. D. Hooker [15 January 1863]
Summary
JDH on Asa Gray’s sanguine view of the Civil War and slavery.
Wishes to discuss variation with CD, a subject that Huxley does not understand.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 Jan 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 101–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3919 |
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- … 1: 425). Hooker refers to the physician and zoologist William Benjamin Carpenter . In his …
From Henry Fletcher Hance 10 May 1863
Summary
Sends sketch of Catasetum tridentatum fruit at request of Edward Bradford.
CD incorrectly asserted that Catasetum is male [Orchids, pp. 236–8].
| Author: | Henry Fletcher Hance |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 95 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4152 |
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- … sparrow is Passer montanus . I am no zoologist myself, & do not pretend to know whether …
From A. C. Ramsay 6 May 1863
Summary
Glad CD likes his Presidential Address to Geological Society [1863].
Will continue the practice [of discussing the break in succession of strata].
Has devised a diagram showing number of genera and species in each geological formation and the number that pass from formation to formation.
Describes the glaciated terrain of S. Wales.
| Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4143 |
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- … interest you both as a geologist & a Zoologist. Sir Charles Lyell writes me that he hopes …
From Hugh Falconer 3 January [1863]
Summary
Describes an astounding "sort of mis-begotten-bird-creature", the Archaeopteryx, a grand Darwinian case.
His elephant paper is out in Natural History Review [(1863): 43–114].
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3899 |
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- … See also De Beer 1954 . The German zoologist and palaeontologist Johann Andreas Wagner was …
From Asa Gray 26 May 1863
Summary
Discusses recent correspondence in the Athenæum: the disagreement between Lyell and Hugh Falconer and Owen’s remarks on heterogeny [see 4110].
Briefly discusses orchids and some problems in phyllotaxy.
Mentions the political situation and the quarrelsome behaviour of the English.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 135 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4186 |
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- … n. 12, above. Alexander Agassiz was a zoologist, and since 1859 had been employed as an …
To George Maw 28 February [1863]
Summary
Thanks GM for a curious lily.
Recommends some papers on coal.
Gives his opinion on the importance of forming theories if one is to be a good and original observer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Maw |
| Date: | 28 Feb [1863] |
| Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4018 |
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- … 1861. [Review of Origin & other works. ] Zoologist 19: 7577–611. Origin : On the origin of …
To the Geological Society of London [c. 28 December 1863]
Summary
Recommendation of the admission of George Maw to the fellowship of the Geological Society of London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Geological Society of London |
| Date: | [c. 28 Dec 1863] |
| Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/F/1/6 No.2179) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4360F |
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- … 1861. [ Review of Origin & other works. ] Zoologist 19: 7577–611. Origin : On the origin …
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2.27 William Couper bust, New York
Summary
< Back to Introduction In 1909 the centenary of Darwin’s birth and the fifty years anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species coincided. In recognition of this historic milestone, a grand celebration and international colloquium took place…
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- … sent a cablegram on the occasion, with greetings from the zoologists gathered for a commemorative …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
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- … Von Baer, towards whom all zoologists feel so profound a respect, expressed about the …
Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists
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The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade, and contained 165 portraits of German and Austrian scientists. The work was lavishly produced and bound in blue velvet with metal embossing. Its ornate…
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- … wonderfully good. ' Among the names of geologists, zoologists, physicians, and …
Darwin and barnacles
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In a letter to Henslow in March 1835 Darwin remarked that he had done ‘very little’ in zoology; the ‘only two novelties’ he added, almost as an afterthought, were a new mollusc and a ‘genus in the family Balanidæ’ – a barnacle – but it was an oddity. Who,…
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- … has occasioned much doubt and difference of opinion among zoologists’. How and why did …
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
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- … he counted among this number four geologists, four zoologists or palaeontologists, two physiologists …
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … Henri Milne-Edwards and Armand de Quatrefages, both leading zoologists in Paris. Quatrefages had …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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- … reminded him that the work was ‘written for geologists & zoologists’, and that throughout his …
Essay: Natural selection & natural theology
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—by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted…
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- … to the great bewilderment of systematic botanists and zoologists, and increasing disagreement as to …
Essay: What is Darwinism?
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—by Asa Gray WHAT IS DARWINISM? The Nation, May 28, 1874 The question which Dr. Hodge asks he promptly and decisively answers: ‘What is Darwinism? it is atheism.’ Leaving aside all subsidiary and incidental matters, let us consider–1. What the…
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- … regarding it mainly from the geological side. As some of our zoologists and palaeontologists may …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … among botanists who complained that it was always the zoologists who had their fees remitted. Darwin …
