To Charles Lyell 5 [October 1860]
Summary
Discusses views of T. V. Wollaston concerning island species related to those of mainland; possible land connection between islands and mainland.
Comments on bats of Atlantic islands.
Plant extinction on St Helena.
Experiments on Drosera.
Bronn’s objections [to the Origin] at end of his translation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 5 [Oct 1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.231) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2938 |
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- … Mss.B.D25.231) Charles Robert Darwin Eastbourne 5 [Oct 1860] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … To Charles Lyell 5 [October 1860] …
- … Gray] 1860b. See letter to Charles Lyell, 26 [September 1860] . Hugh Falconer and Isidore …
- … Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire . See letter to Charles Lyell, 3 October [1860] . …
- … See letter from Charles Lyell, [after 3 October 1860] . CD discussed the history of …
- … pp. 229–39). See letter to Charles Lyell, 23 [September 1860] . CD told Gray of his wish …
- … Gray] 1860c. See letter to Charles Lyell, 26 [September 1860] . The third part of [ …
To Charles Lyell 3 October [1860]
Summary
Comments on letter from Jeffries Wyman.
Discusses reprinting reviews by Asa Gray.
Mentions views of W. S. Symonds on the geological record.
Discusses descent of turtles and tortoises.
The universality of variation.
Notes only a few species leave modified descendants.
Discusses Apteryx.
Variation among pigeons.
Comments on fertility among hybrids.
Does not agree that he makes natural selection do too much work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 3 Oct [1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.230) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2935 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Mss.B.D25.230) Charles Robert Darwin Eastbourne 3 Oct [1860] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … To Charles Lyell 3 October [1860] …
- … and sent to CD an illegible phrase from the letter to Charles Lyell, 28 [September 1860] . …
- … 1860 . See letter to Charles Lyell, 18 May [1860] and n. 3. The German naturalists …
- … ed. 1881 2: 337–8). See letter from Charles Lyell, 30 September 1860 . Hugh Falconer . …
- … See letter from Charles Lyell, 30 September 1860 . CD gave the results of his measurements …
- … hares and rabbits ( letter to Charles Lyell, 28 [September 1860] ). Cited in Lewes …
From Charles Lyell 6 October 1860
Summary
Wonders why the coracoid bone in the flightless Apteryx is so large when the clavicles are reduced. The clavicles are even separate in the ostrich. The large coracoid in reptiles is explained by the connection to the forelimbs.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Oct 1860 |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/7: 22) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2940A |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From Charles Lyell 6 October 1860 …
- … collection Coll-203/A3/7: 22) Charles Lyell, 1st baronet 6 Oct 1860 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … corresponded with CD about Apteryx ( letter from Charles Lyell, 30 September 1860 , and …
- … letter to Charles Lyell, 3 October [1860] ), the layout of the text seems to indicate that …
To Charles Lyell 8 October [1860]
Summary
Encloses advertisement [for C. R. Bree, Species not transmutable (1860)].
Discusses Bronn’s chapter of criticisms.
Mentions variation in rats.
Has ordered book by Bree.
Discusses suggestion that southern corners of Australia may once have been islands.
Mentions "wild speculations" about change in earth’s axes.
CL’s ideas on variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 8 Oct [1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.232) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2942 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Mss.B.D25.232) Charles Robert Darwin Eastbourne 8 Oct [1860] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … To Charles Lyell 8 October [1860] …
- … by Camilla Ludwig . See letter to Charles Lyell, 5 [October 1860] . See letter to H. G. …
- … Gray] 1860b. See letter to Charles Lyell, 5 [October 1860] . Hooker 1859 , p. xxviii. CD …
- … 1: 214–17). See letter from Charles Lyell, 6 October 1860 . Camilla Ludwig , the Darwin …
- … William Pengelly early in 1860. Charles James Fox Bunbury , Lyell’s brother-in-law and a …
- … Charles Lyell lent me’ (Bunbury ed. 1891–3, Middle life 3: 231). In the event, Oswald Heer , the Swiss palaeobotanist, undertook the description of the Bovey Tracey plants ( Heer 1861 ). See Correspondence vol. 9. Bunbury’s father, Henry Edward Bunbury, died in April 1860. …
From Charles Lyell [after 3 October 1860]
Summary
CD would have carried the public more if he had explained adaptations by multiple causes, some unknown and some well known, i.e., natural selection.
Discusses Hooker’s views of extinction on St Helena.
Work on antiquity of man suspended.
Stopped by 11th edition of Principles of geology [1872].
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 3 Oct 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 397 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2937 |
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- … From Charles Lyell [after 3 October 1860] …
- … DAR 205.9: 397 Charles Lyell, 1st baronet unstated [after 3 Oct 1860] Charles Robert …
- … the relationship to the letter to Charles Lyell, 3 October [1860] , in which CD asks about …
- … seeds. See also letter to Charles Lyell, 26 [September 1860] . The number of one of CD’s …
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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 …
