From J. D. Hooker [15 March 1863]
Summary
JDH battling with Lyell over treatment of species question in Antiquity of man. Distressed by Lyell’s raising false priority issue between JDH and CD. Falconer involved in a priority squabble.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 Mar 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 117–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4040 |
From Charles Lyell 15 March 1863
Summary
Lyell has received compliments for letting readers draw own inferences [on species question]. Now feels he earlier did Lamarck injustice. [CD’s] substitution of variety-making power for volition [as in Lamarck] in some respects only a change of names.
Thinks Huxley taking on too many responsibilities.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Mar 1863 |
| Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 364–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4041 |
To [Thomas White Woodbury] 15 March [1863]
Summary
TWW should look at bee and comb specimens received by CD from Africa.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas White Woodbury |
| Date: | 15 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | B. Altman & Co. (New York Times, 12 October 1975, p. 39) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4042 |
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Woodbury, T. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Woodbury, T. W. | (1) |
3.15 George Charles Wallich, photo
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< Back to Introduction In the years around 1868–1871, when professional photographers competed for sittings with Darwin, a doctor called George Charles Wallich approached him with a similar request. Wallich was planning to publish a set of his own…
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- … < Back to Introduction In the years around 1868–1871, when professional photographers …
2.13 Edgar Boehm, statue in the NHM
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< Back to Introduction Edgar Boehm’s marble statue of Darwin in the Natural History Museum was commissioned by the committee of the Darwin Memorial Fund. This body had been set up by Darwin’s friends after his death in 1882, with the aim of providing…
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Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
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- … appears in Origin 4th ed., p. 301. 36. p. 315. This sentence also appears in Origin …
