To William Sharpey 2 June [1857]
Summary
Supports nomination of John Lindley for award of Royal Medal of the Royal Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Sharpey |
| Date: | 2 June [1857] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Lowell Autograph File 84) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2100 |
To T. H. Huxley 16 December [1857]
Summary
THH’s catalogue [THH and R. Etheridge, A catalogue of the collection of fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology (1865), part published in 1857] best résumé he has seen of science of natural history. On classification he is not quite sure that he wholly goes along with THH. Encloses a few criticisms of THH’s preface.[enclosure survives as copy only].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 16 Dec [1857] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 151); DAR 145: 178 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2185 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 December [1857]
Summary
Species with marked varieties.
Dana’s pamphlet also too metaphysical for CD.
Natural selection chapter on hybridism completed.
Doubts JDH will resist theory in his introduction to Flora Tasmaniae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Dec [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 218 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2194 |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Addressee
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Sharpey, William | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Sharpey, William | (1) |
