From J. D. Hooker [2 June 1865]
Summary
JDH on the Lyell–Lubbock plagiarism controversy. His view of the true cause of Lubbock’s behaviour.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 24–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4849 |
To Charles Lyell 25 March [1865]
Summary
Mentions Miss Buckley’s information on roosting in trees [see Variation 1: 181 n.].
Refers to Duke [of Argyll] and his Lamarckian view of change.
Roosting habits and behaviour of pigeons in Egypt.
Criticises Herbert Spencer’s works.
Has finished Elements; comments on Laurentian stages.
Remarks on his health
and forthcoming work [Variation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 25 Mar [1865] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.307) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4794 |
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- … 12–13 March [1863] , and letter from Charles Lyell, 15 March 1863 ). This instance of …
- … 1863] ( Correspondence vol. 11). CD had corresponded with Lyell on Lamarckian evolution on several occasions, and in particular following the publication of Antiquity of man ( C. Lyell 1863a ), which CD felt had insufficiently distinguished the two theories (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Charles Lyell, …
From Charles Lyell 16 January 1865
Summary
His view of Origin.
Belief of Duke of Argyll that substituting "variation" and "selection" for creation deifies them.
Thinks Argyll would accept evolution except for man.
A’s view of humming-birds.
Describes discussion with [Victoria,] Princess Royal of Prussia, about evolution.
New edition of Elements consistent with Origin.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 384–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4746 |
From Henry Holland 2 January 1865
Summary
Thanks for Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
T. S. Cobbold’s book on the Entozoa [1864].
Remarks on development of the tapeworm.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 245 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4735 |
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- … to J. D. Hooker, 23 [June 1863] ). In the letter to Charles Lyell, 25 October [1859] ( …
- … 1863, and 1864 (see Correspondence vols. 10–12). The reference is to the opening address delivered to the Royal Society of Edinburgh by its president, George Douglas Campbell , eighth duke of Argyll ( G. D. Campbell 1864 ). See letter from Charles Lyell, …
To Henry Wentworth Acland 8 December [1865]
Summary
Acknowledges HWA’s oration.
Discusses design in nature, Asa Gray’s views, and his own confusion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Wentworth Acland, 1st baronet |
Date: | 8 Dec [1865] |
Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Acland d. 81, fols. 63–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4948 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 May 1865
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 20–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4826 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 May 1865]
Summary
All overworked at Kew.
Burchell collections enormous.
Lyell has sent MS of Principles p. 111 on changes of temperature. JDH thinks Lyell blunders and is out of his depth.
Charmed with E. B. Tylor’s book on man [Early history of mankind (1865)],
disappointed in Lubbock’s [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 May 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 22–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4836 |
From B. D. Walsh 29 May 1865
Summary
Discusses several subjects, including examples of "Unity of coloration",
the origin of gall-producing poison,
Wagner’s theory of viviparous larvae,
and stridulation in insects.
Sends a reference supporting CD’s statement in Origin that flies check propagation of horses and cattle.
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 179, 179a; DAR 207: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4839 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 April [1865]
Summary
On Lubbock’s plans.
Visited by Antoine Auguste Laugel.
Guessed right on Bentham’s "Planchon".
Much struck by Thomson’s article on nomenclature [see 4812]; importance of this subject.
Sorry best scientists read so little; few read any long papers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Apr [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 265 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4814 |
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- … Charles Lyell , who was working on the tenth edition of Principles of geology ( C. Lyell 1867–8 ), and whose Elements of geology had reached a sixth edition in January 1865 ( C. Lyell 1865 ). CD had expressed his admiration for Lyell’s work in this genre on several occasions (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] , …
To Fritz Müller 10 August [1865]
Summary
Has read and admires FM’s work on species.
Observations on Crustacea are good and original; asks FM to dissect and check some of CD’s observations on cirripedes.
Has sent "Climbing plants" paper [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 1–118] and would like to send Orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 10 Aug [1865] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4881 |
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- … Charles Lyell, 28 [September 1860] and nn. 4–6). For a discussion of the problem of the orifice see Newman 1993 , pp. 368–71. CD refers to his discovery in 1848 of the small ‘complemental’ males attached to the bodies of hermaphrodites in the barnacle genus Scalpellum (see Living Cirripedia (1851) , pp. 281–93, and letter from Henry Holland, 2 January 1865 , n. 5). CD did not name in his published writings the German author who doubted this discovery; however, in 1863 …
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Darwin in Conversation exhibition
Summary
Meet Charles Darwin as you have never met him before. Come to our exhibition at Cambridge University Library, running from 9 July to 3 December 2022, and discover a fascinating series of interwoven conversations with Darwin's many hundreds of…
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- … 9 July – 3 December 2022 Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University …