From John Scott 3 March 1863
Summary
JS criticises natural selection as based on an innate "continuously watchful selective principle".
Seeks seed of wild Rocky Mountain maize.
What is CD’s view on origin of maize?
Seeks information on self-sterility of Passiflora and Lobelia.
Weeping habit of trees.
Intended to say bisexual plants presented more established varieties than unisexual, not that they are more variable.
Explains his opinion that homomorphically fertilised Primula will produce only their own form. Is trying homomorphic crosses with different coloured Primula varieties.
Asks to read Asa Gray’s 2d review of Orchids.
Has finally successfully fertilised Gongora, but it was done by unnatural means.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 108: 179 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4021 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … principle". Seeks seed of wild Rocky Mountain maize. What is CD’s view on origin of maize? …
- … of the wild Maize , which occurs on the Rocky Mountains; from description it appears to be …
- … Sir | Yours very respectfully | J. Scott 2.1 I have … Mountains; 2.2] cross in margin, …
- … brown crayon 2.1 Rocky Mountains; 2.2] underl brown crayon 2.8 I have … specimen. 2.9] …
From J. D. Hooker [28 March 1863]
Summary
Evidence of tropical floras continuous since Tertiary cannot fit CD’s position on intermittent cold periods.
Agrees with CD on reversion and latency.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 121–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4064 |
From A. C. Ramsay 6 May 1863
Summary
Glad CD likes his Presidential Address to Geological Society [1863].
Will continue the practice [of discussing the break in succession of strata].
Has devised a diagram showing number of genera and species in each geological formation and the number that pass from formation to formation.
Describes the glaciated terrain of S. Wales.
Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4143 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … land ice did a deal of it. There are no mountains here, but all the country is hilly. Ever …
To J. D. Hooker 25 [August 1863]
Summary
CD’s illness: he is vomiting "vegetable" cells.
Dutrochet has published the best of CD’s observations on tendrils [see Climbing plants, p. 1 n.].
Lyell has found Joshua Trimmer’s Arctic shells on Moel Tryfan.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 [Aug 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 204 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4274 |
From Julius von Haast 5 March 1863
Summary
Sends copy of his December letter [see 3851], which he fears is lost.
Has been in the Southern Alps and has discovered a wonderful pass.
Author: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 1–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4026 |
To Charles Lyell 6 March [1863]
Summary
Comments at length on CL’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)]. CD is "greatly disappointed that you have not given judgment and spoken fairly out what you think about the derivation of species".
Lists large number of queries concerning minor points.
Praises especially the chapters on language and glaciers.
Comments on the temperature of Africa during the glacial period, especially with regard to the views of Hooker.
Mentions Owen’s paper on the aye-aye [Rep. BAAS 32 (1862) pt 2: 114–16].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 6 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.289) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4028 |
To J. D. Hooker [9 May 1863]
Summary
Lists the six honest believers in his species theory in England.
Asa Gray complains that Lyell acts like a judge on species, whereas CD complains of Lyell’s indecision.
CD working on divergence of leaves.
Distribution of Cameroon plants and the glacial theory.
Survival of island relics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [9 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 192 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4148 |
From J. D. Hooker 23 October 1863
Summary
With scientific party to Amiens to look at gravel-pits, the geology of which JDH describes at length.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Oct 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 167–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4321 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 April 1863
Summary
Attacks by Falconer [Athenæum 4 Apr 1863, pp. 459–60] and Joseph Prestwich on Lyell.
W. B. Carpenter fails to attack Owen.
Welwitschia male cones with useless ovules marvellous example of lost function and retained structure.
JDH evaluates his sons.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 128–31; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Director’s correspondence 174 (New Zealand letters, 1854–1900): 281–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4111 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 [March 1863]
Summary
CD’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man.
Geographical distribution during and between glacial periods.
Latent characters and reversion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 [Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 188 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4061 |
From J. D. Hooker [13 May 1863]
Summary
Lyell is "half-hearted but whole-headed" for CD’s theory. George Bentham wholly converted.
Bates’s book delightful but has a Darwinistic bias.
Cameroon plants.
JDH defends Bates against J. E. Gray’s slanders.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 137–40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4165 |
From Isaac Anderson-Henry 26–7 January 1863
Author: | Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26–7 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3948 |
From Alfred Russel Wallace 14 January [1863]
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3915 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … still in weak health. Have you ever tried mountain air. A residence at 2000 or 3000 ft. …
From J. D. Hooker [27 August 1863]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27 Aug 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4276 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of East Nepal and the Sikkim Himalaya Mountains. Journal of the Horticultural Society of …
From S. P. Woodward 14 February 1863
Summary
Points out some errata in the Origin.
Discusses the factors producing the shape of the cells of the honeycomb.
Reports case of two varieties of musk-rat that behave very differently but are, according to Waterhouse, the same.
Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 154 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3984 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Rat | 2 vars in Habits | Bees different Habits | Buffaloes | W. of Rocky Mountains’ ink …
To J. D. Hooker [28 August 1863]
Summary
Admits, at last, that New Zealand must have been connected to some continent, but not Australia.
Climbing plants: asks for more plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [28 Aug 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 205 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4280 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … die rather than admit Australia. How I wish mountains of New Caledonia were well worked. — …
To Isaac Anderson-Henry 2 February [1863]
Summary
Suggests collecting seeds at different heights from British Columbia.
Describes experiment on seeds from short anthers.
C. V. Naudin writes he has discovered cause of hybrid sterility.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry |
Date: | 2 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3964 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of East Nepal and the Sikkim Himalaya Mountains. Journal of the Horticultural Society of …
From George Clendon Jr 10 November 1863
Summary
Suggests a possible explanation of the supposed paucity of intermediate forms in fossil formations.
Author: | George Clendon, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Nov 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 178 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4336 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … by the subsidence of the neighbouring land or a mountain chain is upheaved. Variation and …
To Julius von Haast 22 January 1863
Summary
Thanks JvH for his address [to the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury], his Geological Report [Topographical and geological exploration of the western districts of the Nelson province, New Zealand (1861)],
and for the "honourable" notice of Origin.
CD especially interested in JvH’s facts on the old glacial period.
Asks about fossil remains [of supposed living mammalia] which CD thinks may be like "the Solenhofen bird-creature" [Archaeopteryx].
Urges the recording of rate and manner of spreading of European weeds and plants and observation on which native plants "most fail".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Date: | 22 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3935 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of New Zealand’s Southern Alps. The mountain range offered considerable evidence of …
From Isaac Anderson-Henry 7 May 1863
Summary
CD is right on heterostyly in Primula. High praise. Has confirmed it with Primula polyanthus.
Author: | Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4146 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … synonym of Phyllodoce empetriformis , mountain heath). CD may have mentioned to Anderson- …
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Benjamin Renshaw
Summary
How much like a monkey is a person? Did our ancestors really swing from trees? Are we descended from apes? By the 1870s, questions like these were on the tip of everyone’s tongue, even though Darwin himself never posed the problem of human evolution in…
Matches: 1 hits
- … he wrote to Darwin about a local girl living in a mountain town on the island of Tenerife. …
Darwin & coral reefs
Summary
The central idea of Darwin's theory of coral reef formation, as it was later formulated, was that the islands were formed by the upward growth of coral as the Pacific Ocean floor gradually subsided. It overturned previous ideas and would in itself…
Matches: 3 hits
John Lubbock
Summary
John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and seventy surviving letters he went on to exchange with Darwin is a large number considering that the two men lived…
4.40 'Phrenological Magazine'
Summary
< Back to Introduction Among the stranger uses of Rejlander’s photograph of Darwin (the very popular profile view) was as an illustration in Lorenzo Niles Fowler’s Phrenological Magazine of 1880; it accompanied an article titled ‘Charles Darwin – A…
Matches: 1 hits
- … and off-hand, and acts on the spur of the moment.’ The ‘mountain of Firmness’ over his ears makes …
Monte Sarmiento
Summary
Peaks in Tierra del Fuego
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- … Fitzroy sends mountain heights in Tierra del Fuego. …
Frances Power Cobbe
Summary
Cobbe was born in Dublin, Ireland, and educated at home, at Newbridge House, county Dublin, except for two years at a school in Brighton: she hated the school. After she left, she kept house for her mother and father, and after her mother's death for…
Matches: 1 hits
- … referred to her in a letter to Darwin as a 'disenchanting mountain of flesh'. Cobbe, …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
Summary
This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…
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- … volcanic phenomena in South America; and on the formation of mountain chains and volcanos, as the …
Darwin and barnacles
Summary
In a letter to Henslow in March 1835 Darwin remarked that he had done ‘very little’ in zoology; the ‘only two novelties’ he added, almost as an afterthought, were a new mollusc and a ‘genus in the family Balanidæ’ – a barnacle – but it was an oddity. Who,…
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- … at the same low tide, resembles a miniature volcanic mountain range extruded by the rock itself, and …
Women’s scientific participation
Summary
Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
4.22 Gegeef et al., 'Our National Church', 2
Summary
< Back to Introduction The second version of Our National Church. The Aegis of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity was commissioned by the freethinker, radical and secularist George Jacob Holyoake. It was published by John Heywood of Manchester and London…
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- … version of the print was published, and is now raised to the mountain top, the highest point in the …
Darwin on childhood
Summary
On his engagement to his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, in 1838, Darwin wrote down his recollections of his early childhood. Life. Written August–– 1838 My earliest recollection, the date of which I can approximately tell, and which must have been before…
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- … admirer was old Peter Hailes the bricklayer, & the tree the Mountain Ash on the lawn. All …
Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network
Summary
The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but he broadened his continuing investigations into the nature and origin of species. Far from being a recluse, Darwin was at the heart of British scientific society,…
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- … research into contemporary theories of volcanic activity, mountain formation, and the elevation of …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
Summary
At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
Interview with Emily Ballou
Summary
Emily Ballou is a writer of novels and screenplays, and a prize-winning poet. Her book The Darwin Poems, which explores aspects of Darwin’s life and thoughts through the medium of poetry, was recently published by the University of Western Australia Press.…
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- … just the beginning of light. William dove off the mountain cascading into blue vapour, …
Review: The Origin of Species
Summary
- by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is already exciting much attention. Two American editions are announced, through which it will become familiar to many…
Rewriting Origin - the later editions
Summary
For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions. Many of his changes were made in…
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- … migrated through the tropical regions near the equator along mountain ranges – these would have …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
Summary
[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…