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To Oswald Heer? 20 April [1861?]
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Thanks for correspondent’s Untersuchungen [? Über das Klima und die Vegetationsverhältnisse des Tertiärlandes (1860)]. CD has always considered subject interesting and important.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Oswald Heer |
| Date: | 20 Apr [1861?] |
| Classmark: | Catherine Barnes (dealer) (2002) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2765 |
To Frederick Wollaston Hutton 20 April 1861
Summary
Comments on FWH’s article ["Some remarks on Mr Darwin’s theory", Geologist (1861): 132–6, 183–8]. Does not adduce direct evidence of species change but believes it because so many phenomena thus explained.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frederick Wollaston Hutton |
| Date: | 20 Apr 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 145 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3122 |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Addressee
| Heer, Oswald | (1) |
| Hutton, F. W. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Heer, Oswald | (1) |
| Hutton, F. W. | (1) |
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New material added to the American edition of Origin
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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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- … Soon after Origin was published, Darwin received a letter from Asa Gray offering to arrange an …
- … Darwin responded favourably to Gray’s proposal in his letter of 21 December [1859] ( Correspondence …
- … had been fixed through the process of stereotyping (see letter from Asa Gray, 23 January [1860] and …
- … of species; Darwin sent this off to Gray enclosed in his letter of [8 or 9 February 1860]. He had …
- … [1860] and 1 February [1860]). A month later, in his letter of 8 March [1860], Darwin sent …
- … (especially that given by Hewett Cottrell Watson in his letter of [3? January 1860]) that Darwin …
- … changes he intended to make in the American edition in the letter to Lyell, 18 [and 19 February 1860 …
- … corrected Second Edition with additional corrections” (letter to Asa Gray, 1 February [1860]). …
- … resulting from three separate printings of Origin (see letter to Asa Gray, 22 May [1860] and …
- … A celebrated author and divine, &c., &c. Page 420, 9 fifteen lines from top, …
- … of Origin ( Origin 3d ed., pp. 363–6). See also letter from John Lubbock, [after 28 April …
St George Jackson Mivart
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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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- … it for publication in the next issue of the Quarterly ( letter from G. H. Darwin, 29 July 1874 …
- … kind of thing Murray would be likely to wish to circulate ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 1 August [1874] …
- … them explicitly, he might be thought to endorse them ( letter from G. H. Darwin, 5 August 1874 ). …
- … of encouraging licentiousness. A postscript to Darwin’s letter, which may belong to another letter, …
- … on board Darwin’s comments and sent a fair copy of his letter with his letter of 6 [August] 1874 …
- … hope’ for certain preliminary restrictions, and that (p. 420) ‘we can only make a really successful …
- … of words having been used in a Pickwickian sense’ ( letter to John Murray, 18 October 1874 ). In …
- … Huxley’s protégé, and Huxley’s reaction was savage ( letter to G. H. Darwin, [6 December 1874] ). …
- … have Mivart admit his authorship of the attack on George ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 December 1874 …
- … unjustifiably attacked a friend of mine.’ ( Enclosure to letter from J. D. Hooker, 21 December 1874 …
- … , felt to be due to Mr Darwin. For when I read his letter in August, I certainly felt that he …
- … Archives) Huxley did not share this letter with Darwin but wrote to him, ‘he not …
- … he is not devoid of all the instincts of a gentleman’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 23 December 1874 …
- … of London.) Mivart swiftly replied to Huxley’s letter : again, Darwin did not see this. …
- … Confidential Dear Huxley, I thank you for your letter of yesterday’s date as also for …
- … in my own name. The way however, in which you take my letter makes it necessary for me, in …
- … delayed through no fault of mine. Thus, as I said in my letter, I did not feel in August as I have …
- … This was the misunderstanding I dreaded & to which my last letter referred. As to the …
- … to Mr Darwin Senior because, from his expression in the last letter I received from him, I thought …
