To Daniel Oliver [10 October 1860]
Summary
Delighted to try experiments on Drosera spathulata.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | [10 Oct 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 13 (EH 88205997) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2929 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To Daniel Oliver [10 October 1860] …
- … DAR 261.10: 13 (EH 88205997) Charles Robert Darwin Eastbourne [10 Oct 1860] Daniel Oliver …
- … the letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [October 1860] , was written. CD had asked Oliver to send …
- … see letter to Daniel Oliver, [29 September 1860] ). He inquired about the Australian …
- … species of Drosera in the letters to Daniel Oliver , 11 September [1860] and [22– …
- … 3 September 1860] . …
To Charles Lyell 15 April [1860]
Summary
Has resolved not to correct Owen’s misrepresentations in his review of Origin.
Discusses at length the theological implications of natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 15 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.208) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2761 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To Charles Lyell 15 April [1860] …
- … Mss.B.D25.208) Charles Robert Darwin Down 15 Apr [1860] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … Creator, Brahma’ (Wilson ed. 1970, p. 369). See letter to Asa Gray, 24 February [1860] . …
- … of several of his views. See letters to T. H. Huxley, 9 April [1860] , and to Charles …
- … Lyell , 10 April [1860]. CD was …
- … about the date: Saturday was 21 April 1860. Emma Darwin’s diary records that CD went to …
- … House on 21 April ( Athenæum , 28 April 1860, p. 584). This is possibly a repetition …
- … used in conversation with Lyell during his recent visit to Down, 9 to 12 March 1860. See …
- … also letter to Charles Lyell, 12 March [1860] . In Lyell’s scientific journal, there is a …
To T. H. Huxley 5 [December 1860]
Summary
Thanks THH for his note; pleased by what he says. Is too sensitive about shades of opinion of men like THH.
The Macmillan article on Origin [H. Fawcett, "A popular exposition of Mr Darwin on the origin of species", Macmillan’s Mag. 3 (1860): 81–92].
J. E. Gray’s misunderstanding of Origin.
Account of the encounter at Oxford BAAS meeting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 5 [Dec 1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5:130) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3009 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … To T. H. Huxley 5 [December 1860] …
- … Archives (Huxley 5:130) Charles Robert Darwin Down 5 [Dec 1860] Thomas Henry Huxley …
- … origin of species", Macmillan’s Mag. 3 (1860): 81–92]. J. E. Gray’s misunderstanding of …
- … had been developed out of an ape. ’ ( Fawcett 1860 , pp. 88). For a fuller account of the …
- … the letter to T. H. Huxley, 2 December [1860] , CD lamented that Huxley had not accepted …
- … University Press. 1985–. Fawcett, Henry. 1860. A popular exposition of Mr Darwin on the …
- … Darwin on the origin of species’, was published in the December 1860 issue of Macmillan’ …
- … s Magazine ( Fawcett 1860 ). Stating that all hostile critics had repudiated CD’s theory …
- … of direct induction, ratiocination, and then verification ( Fawcett 1860 , pp. 83–4). …
- … confrontation with Samuel Wilberforce at the 1860 meeting of the British Association for …
- … gave birth to Leonard Huxley on 11 December 1860. She was still grieving over the death of …
To J. D. Hooker 31 [August 1860]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 31 [Aug 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2886 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 31 [August 1860] …
- … 115: 71 Charles Robert Darwin Hartfield Down letterhead 31 [Aug 1860] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … back with him from Hartfield. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 September [1860] . …
- … the letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 September [1860] . Daniel Oliver was Hooker’s assistant in …
- … Gardens, Kew. See also letters to J. D. Hooker, 2 September [1860] , and to Daniel …
- … Oliver , 11 September [1860]. During his research …
- … carried out in Hartfield in July 1860, CD ascertained that the sticky tentacles borne on …
- … letter to Daniel Oliver, [22–3 September 1860] ; see also Insectivorous plants , pp. 280– …
From John Lubbock [after 28 April 1860?]
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 28 Apr 1860?] |
Classmark: | DAR 48: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2394 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … From John Lubbock [after 28 April 1860? ] …
- … and 1st Baron Avebury High Elms, Farnborough [after 28 Apr 1860? ] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Bibliography Claparède, Edouard. 1860. Zur Morphologie der zusammengesetzten Augen bei den …
- … 191–214. [Reprinted in Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3d ser. 6 (1860): 455–7. ] …
- … Haeckel, Ernst. 1860. Ueber die Augen und Nerven der Seesterne. Zeitschrift für …
- … the letter to Andrew Murray, 28 April [1860] , CD responds to criticisms of his views on …
- … see letter to Andrew Murray, 28 April [1860] ). It could also be Murray 1860b , an …
- … of the blind insects found in caves in Europe and in the United States. Haeckel 1860 . …
- … Claparède 1860 . The Archiv für wissenschaftliche Zoologie was co-edited by Karl Theodor …
- … 1859, but the volume itself is dated 1860. Claparède’s study of arthropod eyes had led him …
To Johann Nicolaus Trübner? 14 October [1860]
Summary
Orders a copy of September number of Silliman’s Journal. A friend has recommended an article in it [A. Gray and D. Treadwell, "Discussion between two readers of Darwin’s treatise on the origin of species", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 30 (1860): 226–39].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Nicolaus (Nicholas) Trübner |
Date: | 14 Oct [1860] |
Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2948 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To Johann Nicolaus Trübner? 14 October [1860] …
- … C)/8 Charles Robert Darwin Eastbourne 14 Oct [1860] Johann Nicolaus (Nicholas) Trübner …
- … post on its return to Down (see letter to Charles Lyell, 5 [October 1860] ). The family’s …
- … to Down was delayed until 10 November 1860 owing to Henrietta Emma Darwin’s illness (‘ …
- … of Darwin’s treatise on the origin of species", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 30 (1860): 226–39]. …
- … letter to Charles Lyell, 26 [September 1860] ). The date is based on the reference to [ …
- … a copy ( letter to Asa Gray, 26 September [1860] ), CD had sent it on to Lyell to read and …
To J. D. Hooker 2 September [1860]
Summary
CD has a low opinion of British entomologists.
Lyell’s ingenious difficulties with natural selection show he is in earnest.
Asks JDH to observe beetles and variation of stripes in mules on his Syrian tour.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 Sept [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2905 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 2 September [1860] …
- … DAR 115: 73 Charles Robert Darwin Down 2 Sept [1860] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 [June 1860] ). In fact, CD refers to the letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 31 [August 1860] . See …
- … letter to Daniel Oliver, 11 September [1860] . No review of Origin appeared in the journal …
- … Murray. 1859. [Wilberforce, Samuel. ] 1860. [Review of Origin. ] Quarterly Review 108: …
- … letter. The note was incorrectly endorsed ‘1860’ by Hooker. Hooker may have sent CD a …
- … 528–9). Letter from Charles Lyell, 28 August 1860 . CD refers to the possibility of Hooker …
- … in the Quarterly Review ( [Wilberforce] 1860 ). There is a note in CD’s hand about stripes …
From Alfred Swaine Taylor to Edward Cresy 10 December 1860
Summary
CD may be interested in a reference to a method of detecting 1/195000 of a grain of sodium chloride.
Also, on Drosera, suggests it would be interesting to try substances such as gun-cotton, in which nitrogen is in very different states from a salt of ammonia.
Author: | Alfred Swaine Taylor |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | 10 Dec 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 14–15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3015 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … From Alfred Swaine Taylor to Edward Cresy 10 December 1860 …
- … DAR 58.1: 14–15 Alfred Swaine Taylor London, Regents Park 10 Dec 1860 Edward Cresy, Jr …
- … and medicine. London. Taylor, Alfred Swaine. 1860. Facts and fallacies connected with the …
- … James’s Terrace | Regents Park Dec 10 1860 Dear Mr Cresy I saw a passage in the Chemical …
- … the letter from Edward Cresy, 30 October 1860 . Cresy subsequently sent Taylor’s …
- … letter to CD (see letter to Edward Cresy, 12 December [1860] ). …
- … The Chemical News 2 (1860): 281 reported the discovery of a new alkali metal (later called …
- … spectrum analysis (see Bunsen and Kirchhoff 1860). The great advantage of this method, the …
- … by Charles Mitchell , published the two 1860 volumes of Chemical News ; thereafter the …
- … Palmer (the Rugeley poisoner). In 1860 Taylor issued a detailed paper demonstrating that …
- … to the Lancet (1859 (2)): 248. ( Taylor 1860 , pp. 219–20 and 220 n. 1). See also Coley …
To J. D. Hooker 26 April [1860]
Summary
CD intrigued by the pollination mechanism of Leschenaultia formosa.
CD interested in Thomas Bell’s rumour that Owen avows his review.
Curved styles and their relation to pollination.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2769 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 26 April [1860] …
- … DAR 115: 50 Charles Robert Darwin Down 26 Apr [1860] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … and Richard Owen . See letter from J. D. Hooker, [20 April 1860] . See letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [20 April 1860] . …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 [April 1860] , and letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [20 April 1860] . The female organs of Leschenaultia formosa are shaped in …
To J. D. Hooker 7 May [1860]
Summary
To understand Leschenaultia pollination CD requires field observations in the native country.
Has observed two forms of cowslips, which he calls male and female. The same two forms are found in primroses.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 May [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2785 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 7 May [1860] …
- … DAR 115: 52 Charles Robert Darwin Down 7 May [1860] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … to the letter from J. D. Hooker, [28 April 1860] . Leschenaultia formosa is a native of …
- … s pollination mechanism (see letters to J. D. Hooker, [26 February or 4 March 1860] and …
- … 12 March [1860] ). CD’s experiments are recorded in his Experimental book, pp. 50–2 (DAR …
- … selection , pp. 132–3). See also letter from Henry Doubleday, 3 May 1860 . Henrietta Emma …
- … Darwin was seriously ill throughout much of 1860. Emma Darwin’s diary records the onset of …
- … 157a). See letters to J. D. Hooker, 15 [May 1860] , and to James …
- … Drummond , 16 May 1860. CD’ …
- … s observations on cowslips, dated 8 May 1860, are recorded in his Experimental book, p. …
To Daniel Oliver 11 September [1860]
Summary
Requests observations on Drosera and Dionaea,
and asks DO to look up Buchanan and Wight on insectivorous plants ["Conspectus of Indian Utricularia", Hooker’s J. Bot. 1 (1849): 372–4].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 11 Sept [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 9 (EH 88205993) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2913 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To Daniel Oliver 11 September [1860] …
- … DAR 261.10: 9 (EH 88205993) Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 Sept [1860] Daniel Oliver …
- … Dated by the relationship to the letters to J. D. Hooker, 2 September [1860] and …
- … 6 September [1860] . See letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 2 September [1860] . Lindley 1846 , pp. …
- … to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 15 [September 1860]. Francis Hamilton Buchanan and Robert Wight …
- … of the lobes. ’ ( ibid . , p. 290). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 May [1860] . See …
- … letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 15 [September 1860] and n. 3. …
- … carried out in July, August, and September 1860, in which he tested the effects of various …
To Charles Lyell 5 [October 1860]
Summary
Discusses views of T. V. Wollaston concerning island species related to those of mainland; possible land connection between islands and mainland.
Comments on bats of Atlantic islands.
Plant extinction on St Helena.
Experiments on Drosera.
Bronn’s objections [to the Origin] at end of his translation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 5 [Oct 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.231) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2938 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … To Charles Lyell 5 [October 1860] …
- … Mss.B.D25.231) Charles Robert Darwin Eastbourne 5 [Oct 1860] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … was the Darwin children’s governess from 1860 to 1865. The translation she made of Bronn’s …
- … letter to Charles Lyell, 26 [September 1860] . Hugh Falconer and Isidore Geoffroy Saint- …
- … Hilaire . See letter to Charles Lyell, 3 October [1860] . See …
- … letter from Charles Lyell, [after 3 October 1860] . CD discussed the history of changes in …
- … in Journal of researches 2d ed. , pp. 488–9. Bronn trans. 1860, chap. 15. See preceding …
- … See letter to Charles Lyell, 23 [September 1860] . CD told Gray of his wish to send a copy …
- … Jules Pictet de la Rive in the letter to Asa Gray, 10 September [1860] . [Gray] 1860c. …
- … See letter to Charles Lyell, 26 [September 1860] . The third part of [Gray] 1860b. …
To J. S. Henslow 10 November [1860]
Summary
The stone hatchets are a great muddle. Would like a copy of Jacques Boucher [de Crèvecoeur] de Perthes’s book [Antiquités Celtiques et antédiluviennes (1847–64)].
Is studying action of carbonate of ammonia on Drosera. Asks if this has been done.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 10 Nov [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A83–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2981 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To J. S. Henslow 10 November [1860] …
- … DAR 93: A83–4 Charles Robert Darwin Eastbourne 10 Nov [1860] John Stevens Henslow …
- … Bree had attacked Origin in a recently published book ( Bree 1860 ). See letter to J. …
- … S. Henslow, 26 October [1860] . See letter to J. …
- … S. Henslow, 26 October [1860] , in which CD discussed Henslow’s …
- … letter published in the Athenæum , 20 October 1860, p. 516. …
- … published in the Athenæum , 3 November 1860, pp. 592–3. He again discussed the confusion …
- … Wurtz [and others]. Bree, Charles Robert. 1860. Species not transmutable, nor the result …
To Jeffries Wyman 3 December [1860]
Summary
"You cannot tell how much your paper on Gestation has interested me" ["On some unusual modes of gestation in batrachians and fishes", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 27 (1859): 5–13].
Robert McDonnell has made curious discoveries on electrical organs of rays.
Is giving JW’s hog case in corrected ed. [3d] of Origin.
Would like account of tip of tail of young rattlesnake.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jeffries Wyman |
Date: | 3 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c 12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3005 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … To Jeffries Wyman 3 December [1860] …
- … Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c 12) Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 Dec [1860] Jeffries Wyman …
- … was offered. See letter to Benjamin Silliman Jr, 4 December [1860] . See also letter from …
- … Jeffries Wyman , [ c . 15] September 1860. See Journal of researches , p. 114. Wyman …
- … letter to Jeffries Wyman, 3 October [1860] . In Wyman 1859 Wyman discussed the different …
- … 15] September 1860. See letter to J. …
- … M. Rodwell, 5 November [1860] and n. 9. Henry Wentworth Acland , Regius professor of …
- … and the United States in the summer of 1860. The prince and his entourage visited Harvard …
- … Robert M’Donnell has not been found. See letter to T. H. Huxley, 22 November [1860] . See …
- … letter to Jeffries Wyman, 3 October [1860] . See …
- … letter to Asa Gray, 3 April [1860] , and letter from Jeffries Wyman , [ c . …
To Edward Cresy 2 November [1860]
Summary
Thanks for pamphlet by A. S. Taylor.
"… we have had a terrible week with my poor girl [Henrietta] on the point of death".
Discusses experiments involving placing solutions of ammonia and other substances on leaves of plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | 2 Nov [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2973 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To Edward Cresy 2 November [1860] …
- … DAR 143 Charles Robert Darwin Eastbourne 2 Nov [1860] Edward Cresy, Jr …
- … on Drosera and Dionaea , begun in July 1860, are in DAR 54, 60.1, and 60.2. CD’s initial …
- … Bibliography Taylor, Alfred Swaine. 1860. Facts and fallacies connected with the research …
- … Dated by the relationship to the letter from Edward Cresy, 30 October 1860 . See …
- … letter from Edward Cresy, 30 October 1860 and enclosure. Cresy also forwarded to CD the …
- … letter from A. W. von Hofmann to Edward Cresy, 27 October 1860 . The pamphlet …
- … Alfred Swaine Taylor was probably Taylor 1860 , which discussed chemical tests for arsenic …
- … Cresy and his wife visited Down on 18 September 1860, shortly before the Darwins left for …
To H. G. Bronn 5 October [1860]
Summary
Answers HGB’s criticism of Origin.
Explains HGB’s case of differences in rats by adaptation.
CD’s view explains homological and embryological resemblances of each type.
Does not believe all development is at same rate. Cites Australian forms.
Does not see force of objection that origin of life must be explained.
Asks if C. L. Brehm’s subspecies of birds are really characteristic of regions of Germany.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Date: | 5 Oct [1860] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2940 |
Matches: 15 hits
- … To H. G. Bronn 5 October [1860] …
- … Charles Robert Darwin Eastbourne Down letterhead 5 Oct [1860] Heinrich Georg Bronn …
- … the first part of Bronn’s German translation of Origin in April 1860 (see letter to H. …
- … G. Bronn, 10 April [1860] ); he received the third and final part in July (see letter to …
- … H. G. Bronn, 14 July [1860] ). An incomplete copy of …
- … the book (Bronn trans. 1860) is in the Darwin Library–CUL. At CD’s suggestion, Bronn had …
- … in Kentucky ( Silliman 1851 ). See letter from Benjamin Silliman Jr, 27 October 1860 . …
- … see letter to H. G. Bronn, 4 February [1860] ). CD refers to reading this final chapter. …
- … the third edition of Origin . Bronn trans. 1860, p. 520: ‘Nur aus dem Widerstreite der …
- … for scientific research. ’] Bronn trans. 1860, pp. 504–5. Bronn discussed the case of …
- … distant past. ’ (translated from Bronn trans. 1860, p. 515). Perhaps because of Bronn’s …
- … 3d ed. , p. 517). Bronn referred to ‘viele Eiszeiten’ (Bronn trans. 1860, p. 517). …
- … Bronn trans. 1860, p. 517. See also Origin , p. …
- … 313. Bronn trans. 1860, p. 519. Bronn had made the same point in his review of Origin ( …
- … is tipped into CD’s copy of Bronn trans. 1860 (Darwin Library–CUL). The final page was …
To J. D. Hooker 12 [June 1860]
Summary
Progress of [Thomas?] Thomson and G. H. K. Thwaites on accepting mutability.
Bee orchid pollination.
JDH has written to CD on homologies of stigma in Goodeniaceae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 [June 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2830 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 12 [June 1860] …
- … DAR 115: 62 Charles Robert Darwin Down 12 [June 1860] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … this is dated 24 May, 24 June, and 8 July 1860. Probably Charles Paget Hooker , aged 5. …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 [May 1860] . Hooker 1859 . George Henry Kendrick Thwaites …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 [May 1860] . Daniel Oliver was Hooker’s assistant in the …
- … Letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , [4–5 June 1860]. CD refers to information obtained from …
- … to the Gardeners’ Chronicle , [4–5 June 1860]. There would not have been enough time for …
- … the preceding letter. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 June [1860] , and letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, 8 June 1860 . CD subsequently published Hooker’s observations in a …
To Charles Lyell 23 February [1860]
Summary
Gradation in the eye.
Hooker intends to reply [to W. H. Harvey’s article in Gard. Chron. (1860): 145–6].
Discusses Aspicarpa with respect to correlation.
Comments on monstrous animals.
Discusses objections of Bronn and Asa Gray to natural selection. Cites parallel between natural selection and Newton’s concept of gravitation.
Mentions German experiments on spontaneous generation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 23 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.200) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2707 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … To Charles Lyell 23 February [1860] …
- … Mss.B.D25.200) Charles Robert Darwin Down 23 Feb [1860] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … to W. H. Harvey’s article in Gard. Chron. (1860): 145–6]. Discusses Aspicarpa with respect …
- … to Charles Lyell, 15 and 16 [February 1860] . CD had discussed Alexis Jordan’s work in a …
- … refers to Jordan 1852 , a copy of which is in the Darwin Library–CUL. [Wollaston] 1860 . …
- … letter to Charles Lyell, 18 [and 19 February 1860] . John Lindley was the editor of the …
- … Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 18 February 1860, pp. 145–6). …
- … Harvey’s points in the issue of 25 February 1860, pp. 170–1. CD discussed correlation of …
- … Brewsters life of Newton’ on 23 February 1860 (see Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, …
- … of David Brewster’s biography of Isaac Newton was published in November 1860 ( Publisher’ …
- … s Circular (1860), p. 579). Brewster referred to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s attack on …
- … letter to Charles Lyell, 18 [and 19 February 1860] and n. 5. CD refers to the experiments …
- … Letter from Herbert Spencer, 22 February 1860 . Dana 1857 . There is a copy in the Darwin …
To [the Royal College of Surgeons of England] 28 December [1860]
Summary
Asks whether, during the past year, Richard Owen’s edition of John Hunter’s new work has been published [Memoranda on vegetation (Hunter 1860), or Essays and observations on natural history, anatomy, physiology, psychology, and geology (Hunter 1861)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Royal College of Surgeons of England |
Date: | 28 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | Donald R. Markey (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3035F |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To [the Royal College of Surgeons of England] 28 December [1860] …
- … Bibliography Hunter, John. 1860. Memoranda on vegetation . London: Taylor and Francis. …
- … collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 28 Dec [1860] Royal College of Surgeons of England …
- … published [ Memoranda on vegetation (Hunter 1860), or Essays and observations on natural …
- … Hunter ’s Memoranda on vegetation ( Hunter 1860 ) was published posthumously by the Royal …
- … at the college. CD’s lightly annotated copy of Hunter 1860 is in the Darwin Library–CUL. …
To J. D. Hooker [3 July 1860]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [3 July 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2856 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [3 July 1860] …
- … D. Hooker, 2 July 1860 . …
- … DAR 115: 66 Charles Robert Darwin Sudbrook Park [3 July 1860] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … Emma Darwin wrote in her diary on 3 July 1860 ‘came to Hartfield. ’ The house of Emma’s …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, [2 July 1860] . CD stayed at Sudbrook Park until Saturday, …
- … on his return to Down (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 July [1860] ). Letter from J. …
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Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
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- … On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of …
- … in railway stations ( letter to Charles Lyell, 14 January [1860] ). By May, with the work …
- … be nice easy reading.’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 May [1860] ). Origin : reactions and …
- … his main argument ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 January [1860] ). Darwin’s magnanimous …
- … utterly smashed’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 3 July [1860] ). (A chronological list of all the …
- … the only track that leads to physical truth’ (Sedgwick 1860) that most wounded Darwin. Having spent …
- … investigation.—’ ( letter to J. S. Henslow, 8 May [1860] ). Above all else Darwin prided …
- … ample lot of facts.’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 18 February [1860] ). To those who objected that his …
- … as real.’ ( letter to C. J. F. Bunbury, 9 February [1860] ). This helps to explain why Darwin was …
- … progression ( letter to Charles Lyell, 18 [and 19 February 1860] ). To this and Lyell’s many other …
- … than a success ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 February [1860] ). I think geologists …
- … to reasoning.’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 18 May 1860 ). Darwin began to tabulate (and …
- … and five botanists ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 March [1860] ). Others, like François Jules …
- … at it, makes me sick!’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 3 April [1860] ). By the end of 1860, Darwin …
- … those of embryology ( letter to Asa Gray, 10 September [1860] ). Only his theory, he believed, …
- … of species ( see letter from T. H. Huxley, 6 August 1860 ). But Baer in fact eventually opposed …
- … other animals’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 10 January [1860] )— he and others were well aware that …
- … after 4 hours battle’ (letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 July 1860). Other correspondents informed Darwin …
- … thing for subject.—’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 3 July [1860] ). Further details of the meeting, …
- … theological reform tract Essays and reviews in January 1860 as to that of Origin itself. …
- … ( letter from J. S. Henslow to J. D. Hooker, 10 May 1860 ). What worried Darwin most about such …
- … support altogether (letters to Charles Lyell, 1 June [1860] and 11 August [1860] ). As …
- … view the subject’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 15 February [1860] ); later he became ‘fairly sick’ …
- … of his geological argument, he wrote to Lyell on 6 June [1860] : 'I am beginning to despair …
- … Darwin was not, however, entirely preoccupied in 1860 with his critics and the reception of Origin …
- … two days after the second edition was issued, on 9 January 1860, he turned to preparing the first …
- … compressed arguments of Origin . Many of the letters of 1860 pertain to his collection of further …
- … in the fertilisation of plants. In the spring and summer of 1860, he began to investigate the …
- … changed structure.’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 April [1860] ). Tracing the complicated …
British Association meeting 1860
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Several letters refer to events at the British Association for the Advancement of Science held in Oxford, 26 June – 3 July 1860. Darwin had planned to attend the meeting but in the end was unable to. The most famous incident of the meeting was the verbal…
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- … the Advancement of Science meeting in Oxford, June–July 1860 Several letters in the year 1860 …
- … Advancement of Science held in Oxford, 26 June – 3 July 1860. Darwin had planned to attend the …
- … broken down” (letter to Charles Lyell, 25 [June 1860] ). Undoubtedly the most famous …
- … are less well known. The following account of the 1860 meeting of the British Association in …
- … by their precise attribution. Athenæum , 7 July 1860, p. 19: Introduction to the reports …
- … lively during the week. Athenæum , 7 July 1860, pp. 25–6: Thursday session of Section D. …
- … monkey was the gift of speech. Athenæum , 14 July 1860, pp. 64–5: Saturday session, …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … should not be in conflict. A TREMENDOUS FURORE: 1859-1860 In which Darwin distributes …
- … in the long run prevail. CERTAIN BENEFICIAL LINES: 1860 Asa Gray presents his argument …
- … 1859 70 A GRAY TO JD HOOKER, 5 JANUARY 1860 71L AGASSIZ, JULY 1860 …
- … 100 A GRAY, ATLANTIC MONTHLY FOR JULY, AUGUST AND OCTOBER, 1860 101 GRAY’S ARTICLE IN THE …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
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- … response to Darwin (see letters from Asa Gray, [10 January 1860], [17 January 1860], and 23 January …
- … of stereotyping (see letter from Asa Gray, 23 January [1860] and n. 2). The firm agreed, however, to …
- … of species (two letters to Baden Powell, 18 January 1860), Darwin subsequently changed his mind. On …
- … this off to Gray enclosed in his letter of [8 or 9 February 1860]. He had earlier sent Gray some …
- … given by Hewett Cottrell Watson in his letter of [3? January 1860]) that Darwin wanted inserted at …
- … American edition in the letter to Lyell, 18 [and 19 February 1860]. Darwin suggested to Gray that …
- … additional corrections” (letter to Asa Gray, 1 February [1860]). By 1 May 1860, D. Appleton …
- … printings of Origin (see letter to Asa Gray, 22 May [1860] and enclosure) and were preparing to …
- … American edition of Origin was available in July 1860 (see [Gray] 1860b, p. 116). It is …
- … Charles Darwin Down, Bromley, Kent, Feb. 1860 [Darwin’s …
- … 363–6). See also letter from John Lubbock, [after 28 April 1860?]. 4 Origin , p. 188. …
Natural Selection: the trouble with terminology Part I
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Darwin encountered problems with the term ‘natural selection’ even before Origin appeared. Everyone from the Harvard botanist Asa Gray to his own publisher came up with objections. Broadly these divided into concerns either that its meaning simply wasn’t…
Essay: Design versus necessity
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—by Asa Gray DESIGN VERSUS NECESSITY.—DISCUSSION BETWEEN TWO READERS OF DARWIN’S TREATISE ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, UPON ITS NATURAL THEOLOGY. (American Journal of Science and Arts, September, 1860) D.T.—Is Darwin’s theory atheistic or pantheistic…
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- … (American Journal of Science and Arts, September , 1860) D.T.—Is Darwin’s theory atheistic …
Essay: Natural selection & natural theology
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—by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted…
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- … Monthly for July , August , and October , 1860, reprinted in 1861. I …
Review: The Origin of Species
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- by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is already exciting much attention. Two American editions are announced, through which it will become familiar to many…
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- … (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is already exciting much …
Darwin and Down
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Charles and Emma Darwin, with their first two children, settled at Down House in the village of Down (later ‘Downe’) in Kent, as a young family in 1842. The house came with eighteen acres of land, and a fifteen acre meadow. The village combined the…
Rewriting Origin - the later editions
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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions. Many of his changes were made in…
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- … the last proof sheets on 26 December 1859 ; published 1860 1 st US ‘revised and augmented’ …
- … 2 nd to 3 rd editions; US edition By June 1860 Darwin was at least open to the …
- … be needed ‘ soon, ever, or never ’. By November 1860 he had heard that it was , and it was …
- … additions now sent.— In the meantime, in July 1860, a ‘revised and augmented’ American …
- … he had yet to start it on 28 January, but on 2 February 1860 he told Herbert Spencer that it was …
- … (see letter from Jeffries Wyman, [ c . 15] September 1860 ). Among pigs in a particular …
- … who only began corresponding with Darwin in November 1860, too late for the third edition. …
The whale-bear
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Darwin came to regard ‘bear’ as a ‘word of ill-omen’. In the first edition of Origin he told the story of a black bear seen swimming for hours with its mouth wide open scooping insects from the water ‘like a whale’. He went on to imagine that natural…
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- … ( William Henry Harvey to Charles Darwin, 24 August 1860 ) Darwin came to regard ‘bear’ as …
From morphology to movement: observation and experiment
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Darwin was a thoughtful observer of the natural world from an early age. Whether on a grand scale, as exemplified by his observations on geology, or a microscopic one, as shown by his early work on the eggs and larvae of tiny bryozoans, Darwin was…
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
Syms Covington
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When Charles Darwin embarked on the Beagle voyage in 1831, Syms Covington was ‘fiddler & boy to Poop-cabin’. Covington kept an illustrated journal of his observations and experiences on the voyage, noting wildlife, landscapes, buildings and people and,…
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- … a new ear-trumpet for him from London, and again in 1860 . Covington still assisted …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … implements of early humans (C. Lyell 1859). In September 1860 he visited sites in both France and …
- … ( Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 4 May [1860] and n. 3; Hutchinson 1914, 1: 51). …
- … book, Prehistoric times (Lubbock 1865). By 1860, Lyell had begun work on a sixth edition …
- … completed and set in type for Elements of geology in 1860 and then re-set in 1861 for …
- … well as the Swiss lake-dwellings, was originally written in 1860 for the sixth edition of the ‘ …
- … discoveries and conclusions which had been made before 1860; but I gladly took advantage of the …
- … to them, or to any authors of later date than the summer of 1860, I must have expanded the plan of …
- … expenditures, and condition of the institution for the year 1860 15 (1861): 284–343. Translated by …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 10 January [1860] ). In the same letter he reminded Lyell of …
- … who was already ill-disposed towards Owen following his 1860 review of Origin , wrote to Falconer …
- … exercise Darwin was Huxley’s assertion, first made in his 1860 review of Origin , that in order …
- … and Viola species, had interested Darwin since 1860; it continued to capture his attention ( …
Darwin and Fatherhood
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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
Religion
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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
Darwin’s Photographic Portraits
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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…
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- … to the copy he had sent five years previously in his 1860 letter to Hooker , Darwin exclaimed …
- … matter, and he was far more satisfied with the results. In 1860-61 and again in 1864 Charles Darwin …
- … most transformative photographs of Darwin.The years between 1860 and 1864 took a physical and …
- … his ‘venerable beard’! Images: Charles Darwin, 1860-61, William Darwin, Courtesy of Harvard …
Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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- … Bridges, Thomas (b) [Oct 1860 or after] [Keppel …