To Charles Lyell 25 December [1870]
Summary
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 |
To Armand de Quatrefages 23 August [1870]
Summary
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 |
From J. D. Hooker [7 March 1870]
Summary
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]
Summary
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 |
From Bartholomew James Sulivan 27 June 1870
Summary
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 July [1870]
Summary
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 |
From Alfred Russel Wallace 22 January 1870
Summary
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 September [1870]
Summary
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 |
From J. D. Hooker 24 September 1870
Summary
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 |
From J. D. Hooker [22 May 1870]
Summary
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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Lyell, Charles | (1) |
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Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
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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