From J. D. Hooker [20 April 1860]
Summary
CD’s observations on curved styles read well. JDH seeks morphological rationale of curvature in the position of nectaries.
He has avoided lecturing to Royal Family’s children at Buckingham Palace.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [20 Apr 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 139–40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2764 |
To T. H. Huxley [after 20 April 1860]
Summary
Asks whether THH had by mistake taken the National Review containing W. B. Carpenter’s review.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | [after 20 Apr 1860] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 255) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2765A |
| letter | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
4.20 Frederick Waddy, caricature
Summary
< Back to Introduction A series of portrait caricatures drawn by Frederick Waddy appeared in the journal Once a Week through 1872. It clearly emulated the more famous series in Vanity Fair, and indeed, Waddy’s drawing of Darwin has the same title or…
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- … < Back to Introduction A series of portrait caricatures drawn by Frederick Waddy …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
Summary
A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
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- … A celebrated author and divine, &c., &c. Page 420, 9 fifteen lines from top, …
St George Jackson Mivart
Summary
In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
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- … hope’ for certain preliminary restrictions, and that (p. 420) ‘we can only make a really successful …
