To Charles Lyell 18 [and 19 February 1860]
Summary
Encloses reviews by Asa Gray and Bronn. Comments on Bronn review. Mentions review by Wollaston.
Comments on paper by W. H. Harvey in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1860): 145–6]. Discusses Harvey’s belief in the permanence of monsters.
Discusses CL’s objection that still-living primitive forms failed to develop.
The survival of Lepidosiren and other primitive types of fish and mammals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 18 and 19 Feb 1860 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.199) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2703 |
To Asa Gray 18 February [1860]
Summary
Thinks AG’s review is admirable.
Reactions of others to the Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 18 Feb [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (22) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2704 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
The Voyage of the Beagle
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It was a letter from his friend and former teacher, John Stevens Henslow, that brought the 22-year-old Charles Darwin news of the offer of a place on board the Admiralty surveying vessel HMS Beagle on a voyage to chart the coast of South America. During…
Conrad Martens
Summary
Conrad Martens was born in London, the son of an Austrian diplomat. He studied landscape painting under the watercolourist Copley Fielding (1789–1855), who also briefly taught Ruskin. In 1833 he was on board the Hyacinth, headed for India, but en route in…
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- … South American Survey, to whom FitzRoy had given him a letter of introduction. When the Beagle …
2.6 Adolf von Hildebrand bust
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< Back to Introduction In 1873, the German biologist Anton Dohrn commissioned a plaster bust of Darwin for the ‘fresco room’ of his new research centre, the Stazione Zoologica in Naples. It was a fitting memorial of a long association between the two…
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- … references and bibliography Dohrn’s letter to Darwin, 30 Nov. 1867: DCP-LETT-5701. Dohrn to Darwin …
- … Nature 8 (29 May 1873), p. 81. Thomas Huxley’s letter to Dohrn, 15 Nov. 1873, explaining plans …
- … for the Stazione: DCP-LETT-9412. Darwin’s follow-up letter to Dohrn, enclosing his personal …
- … Baer’ in the library, of which there is a photograph (pp. 218, 220). Christiane Groeben and Irmgard …
Robert FitzRoy
Summary
Robert FitzRoy was captain of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men lived in the closest proximity, their relationship revealed by the letters they exchanged while Darwin left the ship to explore the countries visited during the…
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- … In 1859, Darwin guessed that FitzRoy was the author of a letter to The Times, full of ‘ conceit …
