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To Charles Lyell   25 December [1870]

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Thanks CL for his book [The student’s elements of geology (1871)].

Is correcting proofs [of Descent].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  25 Dec [1870]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.386)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7401

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  • … Darwin, C. R. Lyell, Charles
  • … To Charles Lyell   25 December [1870] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.386) Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 Dec [1870] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … Bibliography Lyell, Charles. 1871. The student’s elements of geology. London: J. Murray. …

To Armand de Quatrefages   23 August [1870]

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Thanks QdeB for his continued support of CD’s election to French Academy.

Discusses views of Milne-Edwards on species.

Comments on views of Élie de Beaumont.

"I fear my next book [Descent] … will greatly displease you."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:  23 Aug [1870]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.382)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7308

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  • … N.J. : Rutgers University Press. Lyell, Charles. 1830–3. Principles of geology, being an …
  • … Principles of geology ( Lyell 1830–3 ), Charles Lyell vigorously opposed Elie de Beaumont …

From J. D. Hooker   [7 March 1870]

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Does not give much for botanical results of Round Island, but the zoology is wonderful.

Lyell’s new book [The student’s elements of geology (1870)]. Urges Lyell to make it Elementary principles.

Grove is disgusted with CD for being disquieted by William Thomson: "Take another dose of Huxley’s penultimate address to Geol. Soc." [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): 28–53].

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [7 Mar 1870]
Classmark:  DAR 103: 42–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6646

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  • … of the British Islands. London: Macmillan. Lyell, Charles. 1871. The student’s elements of …
  • … also Correspondence vol.  17, letter from Charles Lyell, 2 November 1869 . For Hooker’s …
  • … at 6 Queen Anne Street, Charles and Mary Elizabeth Lyell , and Mary Boott . CD’s letter to …
  • … of geology ( Lyell 1871 ); also to Thomas Henry Huxley and T.  H.  Huxley 1866 . Charles

From J. D. Hooker   [6 or 7 July 1870]

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Has CD read E. Claparède ["Remarques à propos de l’ouvrage de M. Alfred Russel Wallace sur la théorie de la sélection naturelle", Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. n.s. 38 (1870): 160–89]? Is it worth translating?

CD and J.-F. de Brandt are "en lutte for Ac. of Sc. [France]. What a farce it is".

His work on Nepenthes supports Miquel’s and Wallace’s view of the zoology of Borneo and Sumatra.

Brian Hodgson on dogs.

H. C. Bastian’s book [The modes of origin of lowest organisms (1871)] unsatisfactory.

Lyell does not share CD’s view of Bentham’s address.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [6 or 7 July 1870]
Classmark:  DAR 103: 55–56
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7267

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  • … and by the reference to a visit from Charles Lyell on Tuesday. In 1870, the first Tuesday …
  • … 1870 issues of Nature. Hooker refers to Charles Lyell and to George Bentham’s presidential …

From Bartholomew James Sulivan   27 June 1870

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Tells of his health and family matters.

Congratulates CD on being honoured by Oxford.

Discusses the state of Tierra del Fuego and the success of missionaries there.

Author:  Bartholomew James Sulivan
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 June 1870
Classmark:  DAR 177: 293
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7246

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  • … 25 December 1866  and nn.  12 and 13). Charles Lyell . Presumably Sulivan refers to Robert …

To J. D. Hooker   8 July [1870]

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Thinks well of Claparède’s criticism; worth publishing as an answer to Wallace. Bates thinks Wallace’s heterodox views have done mischief to the cause of evolution. Wallace thinks Claparède’s article very weak, CD concludes, because Claparède has arrived at an unpleasant judgment very much like Lyell’s about Bentham’s address.

CD would wager Lyell lately has said something about European Proteaceae.

Does not remember anyone before Wallace on Sumatra and Java.

CD does not think he has a chance against Brandt in French Academy election.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  8 July [1870]
Classmark:  DAR 94: 177–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7271

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  • … 6 July 1870  and n.  3. CD refers to Charles Lyell and George Bentham . See letter to J.   …

From Alfred Russel Wallace   22 January 1870

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Plans for his new book, Contributions to the theory of natural selection (1870), which will contain his papers on the subject.

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Jan 1870
Classmark:  DAR 106: B90–1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7085

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  • … 1870b , Thomas Henry Huxley , and Charles Lyell . Wallace 1870b , ‘The measurement of …

To J. D. Hooker   27 September [1870]

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Comments on JDH’s report of Liverpool meeting.

Huxley’s address.

Sir Roderick [Murchison]’s "apotheosis".

Tyndall’s lecture is "grand" except for egotistical beginning. Some Frenchmen have pitched into CD for using the "as if" reasoning, which Tyndall shows is justified.

Has just read George Rolleston’s address in Nature.

Anton Dohrn says German public have high opinion of Lyell.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  27 Sept [1870]
Classmark:  DAR 94: 181–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7328

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  • … has not been found. CD refers to Charles Lyell . See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 24  …

From J. D. Hooker   24 September 1870

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Reports on the 1870 BAAS meeting at Liverpool. Huxley’s address was over the heads of the laymen.

Tyndall’s was eloquent to listen to, disappointing to read.

George Rolleston’s "Rococo" address [Nature 2 (1870): 423–7, 442–6].

Murchison.

Lyell.

Has done an immense lot of work.

Regrets CD has not kept the simple title "Origin of man" [for Descent].

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Sept 1870
Classmark:  DAR 103: 57–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7323

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  • … Science, held at Liverpool , p.  80). Charles Lyell . British Museum . Bentham and Hooker  …

From J. D. Hooker   [22 May 1870]

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Willy is back from New Zealand. JDH perturbed by what to do with him.

J. W. Dawson’s Bakerian lecture for Royal Society is full of errors, and JDH is forced to recommend that it not be published. [An abstract of the lecture was published: "On the pre-Carboniferous floras of north-eastern America", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 18 (1869–70): 333–5.]

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [22 May 1870]
Classmark:  DAR 103: 47–50
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7198

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  • … Pyenson 1991 , pp.  179–81, 183–4). Charles Lyell and Roderick Impey Murchison . Dawson …
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Darwin in Conversation exhibition

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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 …