From Hensleigh Wedgwood [January? 1860]
Summary
Prepared to think world infinitely old, but not that life originated with a single cell. Questions whether geological evidence supports gradual progress in organisation. HW thought scientific opinion during Vestiges debate was against this hypothesis. Argues that presence of same senses in lower animals and vertebrates does not imply descent; assumes resemblance is due to living in same world and thus having organs for the same purposes. Wants CD to know how others may see these questions.
Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Jan? 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 48: 83–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2389 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Wedgwood, Hensleigh Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Hensleigh Wedgwood [January? 1860] …
- … DAR 48: 83–5 Hensleigh Wedgwood unstated [Jan? 1860] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Wedgwood, Hensleigh. 1848. On the development of the …
- … Correspondence vol. 6, letter from Hensleigh Wedgwood, [before 29 September 1857] ). See …
To J. M. Rodwell 5 November [1860]
Summary
Comments on relationship between eye-colour and deafness in cats [discussed in Origin]. Asks for more information.
Mentions criticism of Origin.
Thanks for information about horses.
Hopes JMR writes his book on language. Mentions Hensleigh Wedgwood’s work [A dictionary of English etymology, 3 vols. (1859–65)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Medows Rodwell |
Date: | 5 Nov [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 328; Bradford Museums and Galleries: Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley (NH.6.40 p. 641) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2976 |
To Asa Gray 10 September [1860]
Summary
Has received second part of AG’s Atlantic Monthly article ["Darwin on the origin of species", 6 (1860): 109–16, 229–39], and would like to have it reprinted in England with the first part.
Regrets no reviewer has touched upon embryology, which he feels provides one of his strongest arguments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 10 Sept [1860] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (34) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2910 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … et étrangère n.s. 7: 233–55. Wedgwood, Hensleigh. 1859–[67]. A dictionary of English …
- … viz the resemblance of Embryos. — Hensleigh Wedgwood, above alluded to, is a very strong …
- … was a review of the first volume of Hensleigh Wedgwood’s Dictionary of English etymology ( …
- … number was sent to my Brother-in-law Hensleigh Wedgwood, on account of a Review of his …
To F. M. Wedgwood 5 March [1860–9]
Summary
Thanks for a shell of an edible mollusc and also specimens of blind cave animals, which he will present in FW’s name to the British Museum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frances Mosley (Fanny Frank) Mosley; Frances Mosley (Fanny Frank) Wedgwood |
Date: | 5 Mar [1860–9] |
Classmark: | Alan Wedgwood (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5984F |
From J. D. Hooker [11 May – 3 December 1860]
Summary
CD’s divergent series explains those anomalous plants that hover between what would otherwise be two species in a genus.
Inclined to see conifers as a sub-series of dicotyledons that developed in parallel to monocotyledons, but retained cryptogamic characters.
Mentions H. C. Watson’s view of variations.
Man has destroyed more species than he has created varieties.
Variations are centrifugal because the chances are a million to one that identity of form once lost will return.
In the human race, we find no reversion "that would lead us to confound a man with his ancestors".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [11 May – 3 Dec 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.5: 217 (Letters), DAR 47: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3036 |
To Charles Lyell 10 January [1860]
Summary
Comments on corrections [in Origin, 2d ed. (1860)], especially on use of Wallace’s name.
Discusses human evolution with respect to CL’s work. Cites expression as a source of evidence.
Andrew Murray’s criticisms of the Origin involving blind insects in caves [Edinburgh New Philos. J. n.s. 11 (1860): 141–51].
Humorously describes human ancestors.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 10 Jan [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.191) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2647 |
To Charles Lyell 1 [June 1860]
Summary
Comments on review of Origin by Andrew Murray [Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh 4 (1860): 274–91] and views of William Hopkins on Origin ["Physical theories and the phenomena of life" Fraser’s Mag. 61 (1860): 739–52; 62 (1860): 74–90]. The attacks will tell heavily.
Mentions Blyth’s failure to receive appointment as naturalist to China expedition of 1860.
Encloses letter from Asa Gray.
Discusses gestation period in domesticated dogs.
Comments on hybrid fertility.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 1 [June 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.214) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2820 |
letter | (7) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Mosley, F. M. | (1) |
Rodwell, J. M. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Mosley, F. M. | (1) |