From Charles Lyell 15 March 1863
Summary
Lyell has received compliments for letting readers draw own inferences [on species question]. Now feels he earlier did Lamarck injustice. [CD’s] substitution of variety-making power for volition [as in Lamarck] in some respects only a change of names.
Thinks Huxley taking on too many responsibilities.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 364–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4041 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … In his letter to Lyell of 12–13 March [1863] , CD offered suggestions regarding the text …
- … Malvern, Worcestershire (see letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] ). CD wrote a …
- … rule in 1863 ( EB ). See letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] . Lyell refers to …
- … on progression, see the letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] ; see also n. 15, …
- … see also Appendix VII. See letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] , n. 9. In C. …
- … 1863] and n. 6. See also letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] . T. H. Huxley …
- … 1863] ; Lyell refers to CD’s letters to him of 6 March [1863] and 12–13 March [1863]. The …
- … and n. 19, and letters to Charles Lyell , 6 March [1863] and 12–13 March [1863] ). In the …
From A. R. Wallace 22 October [1867]
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Oct [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B46–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5656 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … In his letter of 12 and 13 October [1867] , CD had praised Wallace’s article in the …
- … between this letter and the letter to A. R. Wallace, 12 and 13 October [1867] . …
- … 7). See letter to A. R. Wallace, 12 and 13 October [1867] and n. 12. See letter to A. …
- … 12 and 13 October [1867] and n. 13. The ‘new Natural History Review ’ was the Journal of Travel and Natural History (see letter …
- … 12 St James’s Square ( Post Office London directory 1867; see letter to A. R. Wallace, 12 and 13 …
- … Murray, 12 August 1867 and n. 1). See letter to A. R. Wallace, 12 and 13 October [ …
To Charles Lyell 17 March [1863]
Summary
His better opinion [of work of Boucher de Perthes].
Explains his position on CL’s treatment of species.
Mentions positive response to his ideas on the part of a German professor [Ernst Haeckel], Alphonse de Candolle, and a botanical palaeontologist [Gaston de Saporta].
Notes negative reaction of entomologists.
Mentions Falconer’s objections [to Antiquity].
Mentions work of Hooker.
Comments on paper by Owen ["On the aye-aye", Rep. BAAS 32 (1862) pt 2: 114–16]
and CD’s review of Bates’s paper [Collected papers 2: 87–92].
Thinks Natural History Review is excellent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 17 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.291) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4047 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … found (see n. 1, above). See letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] and n. 3. In …
- … has not been identified. In his letter to Lyell of 12–13 March [1863] , CD suggested that …
- … Grove . Lamarck 1809 . See letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] and n. 9. CD’s …
- … Lyell , 6 March [1863] and 12–13 March [1863] ). See letter from Charles Lyell, 15 March …
- … 1863] and n. 44, and 12–13 March [1863] and n. 11. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 …
To J. D. Hooker 13 [March 1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 [Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4039 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … his own words’. See also letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] . See letter from …
- … Lyell, 11 March 1863 . See letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] . See letter from …
- … letters to John Scott , 11 December [1862] and 19 December [1862] ). CD refers to James Manby Gully’s hydropathic establishment in Great Malvern, Worcestershire, where Anne Elizabeth Darwin , CD’s eldest daughter and favourite child, died in 1851 (see Correspondence vol. 5). CD stayed at near-by Malvern Wells with his family from 3 September to 12 or 13 …
From A. R. Wallace 30 August [1868]
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Aug [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B65–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6334 |
To J. D. Hooker [28 August 1863]
Summary
Admits, at last, that New Zealand must have been connected to some continent, but not Australia.
Climbing plants: asks for more plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [28 Aug 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 205 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4280 |
To M. T. Masters 8 July [1862]
Summary
CD has been experimenting on the fertility of peloric flowers, with the forlorn hope of illustrating sterility of hybrids; seeks further plants or seeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 8 July [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3645 |
To Richard Owen 21 [June 1846]
Summary
B. J. Sulivan has just arrived with fossil bones from Patagonia. Wants to arrange meeting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | 21 [June 1846] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/204) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-984 |
To A. R. Wallace 19 August [1868]
Summary
The problem of dimorphic plants and their fertility.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 19 Aug [1868] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 143–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6322 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 23 June 1874
Summary
Has found Pinguicula excited by bits of leaves; appears to digest leaves and seeds. Plant not only insectivorous but graminivorous. Asks WTT-D to identify seeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 23 June 1874 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 12–13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9508 |
From J. J. Weir [before 17] October 1868
Summary
Both sexes of Crossoptilon auritum (eared pheasant) obtained the red cheeks the first year.
Coloration of the linnet.
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 17] Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: A36, 53; DAR 84.1: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6421 |
From Richard Spruce [before 1 April 1869]
Summary
Sends CD a paper ["Ant-agency in plant structure", published in Spruce Notes of a botanist on the Amazon and Andes, ed. A. R. Wallace (1908)] on plant structures he believes are the work of insects; asks him to forward it to the Linnean Society [read 15 Apr 1869].
Writes of his support for the Origin, before which he had been much concerned by the delimitation of so-called species.
Author: | Richard Spruce |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 1 Apr 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 241 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6690 |
From H. W. Bates 10 September 1868
Summary
Because of work on the first number of the new Royal Geographical Society magazine, a manual of geography, and other things, HWB finds he must decline CD’s invitation.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6360 |
From Hugh Falconer 24 August [1863]
Summary
Sends information about Pliocene fauna of the "Forest Bed" of the Norfolk coast.
A genus described as extinct by Owen is found by E. A. I. H. Lartet to exist in Russia.
Edouard Suess attributes to Oswald Heer and HF the generalisation "That the time during which a new species is formed, is (as a rule) very short in comparison with the time during which it persistently presents the same peculiar specific characters". [Edouard Suess, "Über die Verschiedenheit und die Aufeinanderfolge der tertiären Landfaunen in der Niederung von Wien", Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien (Math-naturw. Klasse) 47 (1863): 306–31.] [See 4277.]
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Aug [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4273A |
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 |
From Frederick Currey 5 July 1866
Summary
Fritz Müller’s paper ["Notes on climbing plants"] is about to appear [in J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9]. Would CD approve of figures being reduced in size?
Author: | Frederick Currey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 July 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 307 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5146 |
From Leslie Stephen 14 January 1881
Author: | Leslie Stephen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 255 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13014 |
To E. H. Sieveking 11 December 1877
Summary
Would like the letters from grandfather [Erasmus Darwin] to J. A. H. Reimarus to be published.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Henry Sieveking |
Date: | 11 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.528) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11275 |
From J. D. Hooker 26 August 1863
Summary
JDH working on the New Zealand flora.
Jules Planchon excited about CD’s Linum experiments.
T. F. Jamieson’s paper on glaciers gives great pleasure.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Aug 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 157–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4275 |
From Louisa Albano 22 April 1871
Summary
Replies to CD’s letter;
inquires about CD’s intended terms for Italian translator of Descent; hopes to offer best terms herself.
Author: | Louisa Albano |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7704 |
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