From Hugh Falconer 31 December [1863]
Summary
Returns a letter wrongly addressed by CD [4361].
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Dec [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4362 |
From Charles Lyell 11 March 1863
Summary
Defends position he takes on species [in Antiquity of man]. CD overestimates CL’s capacity to influence public. Will not dogmatise on descent of man; prepared to accept it, but it "takes away much of the charm from my speculations on the past". Cannot go to Huxley’s length with regard to natural selection. Responds to CD’s comments on Antiquity of man.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Mar 1863 |
| Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 362–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4035 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Adam Sedgwick , one of CD’s former mentors, was critical of Origin (see Correspondence vol. 7, letter …
- … Adam Sedgwick, 24 November 1859 ). The orientalist John Crawfurd , to whom CD sent a presentation copy of Origin , published one of the first negative reviews of the book ( [Crawfurd] 1859 ; see Correspondence vol. 7, letter …
To J. D. Hooker [22–3 November 1863]
Summary
Tendril-bearing plants seem to CD "higher" organised with respect to adaptive sensibility than lower animals.
Wishes to encourage John Scott.
Death of JDH’s daughter makes CD cry over his own dead daughter Annie.
Sedgwick’s scientific merit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [22–3 Nov 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 211 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4345 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Adam Sedgwick was chosen for the award (Royal Society, Council minutes, 5 November 1863). See letter …
- … Adam Sedgwick’s stratigraphic mapping, based primarily on structural geology, which preceded Roderick Impey Murchison’s emphasis on fossils, in addition to structure, for classifying strata (see Secord 1986 ). See Sedgwick 1835 , and Correspondence vol. 3, letter …
To J. D. Hooker 5 [December 1863]
Summary
His bad health continues.
Thirty-two plants have come up from the earth attached to partridge’s foot.
Origin to be published in Italian.
Owen was wrong: Origin will not be forgotten in ten years.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 [Dec 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 213 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4353 |
From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 11 November [1863]
Summary
CD’s Copley Medal. The numbers were ten to eight in CD’s favour but the Cambridge men mustered strongly for Sedgwick.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Nov [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B116–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4671 |
From E. A. Darwin 9 November [1863]
Summary
Moncure Conway wants to call on CD.
EAD has seen the extract from Mill’s [System of] Logic which Carpenter read when arguing CD should have the Copley. Has CD seen it?
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Nov [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B13–14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4334 |
To John Lubbock 5 April [1863]
Summary
JL’s review of Lyell’s Antiquity of man (1863) [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 211–19].
Owen’s review of W. B. Carpenter in Athenæum [28 Mar 1863, pp. 417–19].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 5 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4075 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] and n. 17. For Wilberforce’s opposition to CD’s theory, see [Wilberforce] 1860 and Correspondence vol. 8, Appendix VI. The popular and controversial preacher John Cumming was the author of Moses right and Bishop Colenso wrong ( Cumming 1863 ). In a postscript to his review, Lubbock criticised Cumming’s misuse of geological authorities ([Lubbock] 1863c, p. 219); he charged Cumming with erroneously citing William Buckland , Edward Hitchcock , and Adam Sedgwick …
| letter | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
