To Charles Lyell 4 May [1860]
Summary
Is sending CL an arrow-head. Says John Lubbock tells of vast numbers of flint tools in peat in France. Urges CL to conduct further research on the subject.
Comments on paper by J. S. Newberry concerning palaeozoic deposits in America [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 29 (1860): 208–18]
and on A. von Keyserling’s view of species change.
Mentions J. W. Salter’s chart arranging Spirifer.
Comments on Andrew Murray’s paper on the Origin ["On Mr Darwin’s theory of the origin of species", Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh 4 (1860): 274–91].
A Manchester newspaper article says CD has proved "might is right".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 4 May [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.210) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2782 |
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- … Society (Mss.B.D25.210) Charles Robert Darwin Down 4 May [1860] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
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- … 28 [April 1860] . Letter from Charles Lyell, 2 May 1860 . The Manchester Guardian , 20 …
- … 1860 . See letter to Charles Lyell, 27 and 28 April [1860] . The note from Alexandr …
- … Charles Lyell, 20 September [1859] ). He revisited France and also toured sites in Germany in September 1860 ( …
To Charles Lyell 18 May [1860]
Summary
Comments on enclosed letters from Asa Gray and Wallace [missing].
Discusses hybrid fertility in rabbits and hares, and pheasants and fowls.
Asks about paper by Hermann Schaaffhausen ["Über Beständigkeit u. Umwandlung der Arten", Verh. Naturhist. Ver. Preuss. Rheinlande 10 (1853): 420–51].
Mentions criticism by Sedgwick and William Clark at Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Notes importance of CL and Hooker in defending Origin.
Comments on papers by D. A. Godron ["Considérations sur les migrations des végétaux", Acad. Stanislas Mem. Soc. Sci. Nancy (1853): 329–67].
Mentions receiving anonymous verses.
A Manchester newspaper lampoon shows CD has proved "might makes right" to be a universal law.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 18 May [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.212) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2806 |
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- … Mss.B.D25.212) Charles Robert Darwin Down 18 May [1860] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … To Charles Lyell 18 May [1860] …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 20 May [1860] ). See letter to Charles Lyell, 4 May [1860] . …
- … information, see the letter from Charles Lyell, 19 June 1860 ; see also Wilson ed. 1970, …
To Charles Lyell 8 [May 1860]
Summary
Did not know about separation between Silurian and Cambrian.
Cannot attend Geological Society meeting.
Etty [Henrietta Darwin] ill.
Sedgwick in his attack at Cambridge Philosophical Society states "there must be [on CD’s theory] large genera not varying".
Discusses migration of plants and animals from Old World to New.
Views of Asa Gray on Aster.
Mentions flora of coal period.
Has been elected to Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 8 [May 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.211) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2788 |
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- … Society (Mss.B.D25.211) Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 [May 1860] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … To Charles Lyell 8 [May 1860] …
- … See letter from Charles Lyell, 7 May 1860 . CD refers to Roderick Impey Murchison . In the …
- … 16 May 1860 (see letter from Charles Lyell, 7 May 1860 ). Édouard Amant Isidore Hippolyte …
- … Charles Lyell , 17 June 1856 and [1 July 1856] . CD was drafting chapters on pigeons that were eventually published in Variation (see ‘Journal’; Appendix II). CD had been elected as a corresponding member of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia (see letter to Thomas Stewardson, 8 May 1860 ). …
To Charles Lyell 22 May [1860]
Summary
Mentions American edition of Origin.
A "savage" review [by John Duns] in North British Review [32 (1860): 455–68].
Comments on views of G. H. K. Thwaites on the survival of simple forms as a problem in his theory.
Mentions imperfection of geological record.
Marine origin of coal.
Illness of Etty.
Encloses article by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire on hare–rabbit crosses [Histoire naturelle générale (1854–62) 3: 222].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 22 May [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.213) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2812 |
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- … Mss.B.D25.213) Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 May [1860] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … To Charles Lyell 22 May [1860] …
- … Library–CUL. See letter to Charles Lyell, 18 May [1860] . [Duns] 1860 . There is a copy …
- … Adam Sedgwick . See letter to Charles Lyell, 18 May [1860] . See preceding letter and …
- … Charles Lyell, 11 October [1859] . Lyell was intending to publish an extensively revised edition of his Elements of geology . Instead, he included this material in his book on the antiquity of man ( C. Lyell 1863 , pp. 448– 50). Andrew Crombie Ramsay and Joseph Beete Jukes . See letter from J. B. Jukes, 27 February 1860 . …
From Charles Lyell 2 May 1860
Summary
It is small comfort to be told you will be succeeded in lineal descent by angels when Lamarck and Darwin have made your ancestors without souls. However, can the progressive system not be seen as most consonant with a higher destiny if all spiritual natures advance? The link of common descent to inferior beings like idiots should be obvious. Infants die before they become responsible. Pope’s An essay on Man [1733] shows how man was "In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast", without speculation on his genealogy.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 May 1860 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/5: 176–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2779A |
From Charles Lyell 7 May 1860
Summary
Saw Salter’s Spirifer specimens; a very good proof of indefinite modifiability.
Beginning to think gap between Cambrian and Lower Silurian enormous.
Édouard Lartet to give paper before Geological Society ["On coexistence of man with certain extinct quadrupeds", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 16 (1859–60): 471–5].
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 May 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 396 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2787 |
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Darwin in Conversation exhibition
Summary
Meet Charles Darwin as you have never met him before. Come to our exhibition at Cambridge University Library, running from 9 July to 3 December 2022, and discover a fascinating series of interwoven conversations with Darwin's many hundreds of…
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- … 9 July – 3 December 2022 Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University …