To A. C. L. G. Günther 21 December [1867]
Summary
Thanks AG for information.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Date: | 21 Dec [1867] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.339) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5735 |
From Henry Holland 21 December [1867]
Summary
Has received a copy of an attack on CD ["Darwinian theory examined"] from the author, but does not know who it is.
| Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Dec [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 247 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5736 |
From Frederick Du Cane Godman 21 December [1867]
Summary
Sends a copy of his paper in Ibis [2d ser. 2 (1866): 88–109] on the birds of the Azores,
and one by G. R. Crotch on the Coleoptera [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1867): 359–91].
| Author: | Frederick Du Cane Godman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Dec [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5737 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Godman, F. D. C. | (1) |
| Holland, Henry | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Günther, Albert | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Godman, F. D. C. | (1) |
| Günther, Albert | (1) |
| Holland, Henry | (1) |
Species and varieties
Summary
On the origin of species by means of natural selection …so begins the title of Darwin’s most famous book, and the reader would rightly assume that such a thing as ‘species’ must therefore exist and be subject to description. But the title continues, …or…
Matches: 6 hits
- … & yet all the genera have 1/2 a dozen synonyms’ ( letter to H. E. Strickland, [4 February 1849] …
- … and explicit in the work of contemporary naturalists. In a letter to his friend Joseph Hooker, he …
- … I believe, from trying to define the undefinable’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1856] ). …
- … a selected quality to keep incipient species distinct’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] …
- … of hybrids might be produced by natural selection ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 1 March 1868 ). …
- … to ‘say no more but leave the problem as insoluble’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 8 [April] 1868 ). …
Living and fossil cirripedia
Summary
Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…
