To J. D. Hooker 15 January [1861]
Summary
CD’s opinion of minor critics and commentators on Origin.
H. C. Watson’s notion of genera converging is dismissed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Jan [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3047 |
Matches: 20 hits
- … and augmented by the author. By Charles Darwin. New York: D. Appleton. 1860. Phillips, …
- … John. 1860. Life on the earth, its origin and succession. …
- … Macmillan and Co. Spencer, Herbert. 1860–2. First principles. London: George Manwaring; …
- … Bibliography Bree, Charles Robert. 1860. Species not transmutable, nor the result of …
- … Maclachlan & Stewart. Collins, William Wilkie. 1860. The woman in white. 3 vols. London. …
- … slowly after having contracted what was thought to be typhus fever in 1860. Hooker and …
- … George Bentham had begun work late in 1860 on an ambitious project to prepare a complete …
- … University Press. 1910–11. Freke, Henry. 1860. Observations upon Mr Darwin’s recently …
- … Correspondence vol. 8, letter from H. C. Watson, [3? January 1860] , and letter to H. …
- … C. Watson, [5–11 January 1860] . CD discussed Watson’s views and his objection to natural …
- … plants published in the first nine months of 1860 to the Natural History Review n.s. 1 ( …
- … Huxley, 3 January [1861] and n. 15. Stur 1860 . There is a copy of the work in the Darwin …
- … third volume of Watson 1847–59 , published in 1859. Phillips 1860 . CD’s annotated copy is …
- … in the Darwin Library–CUL. Bree 1860 . CD’s lightly annotated copy is in the Darwin …
- … had published a brief notice in October 1860 claiming to have preceded CD by publishing in …
- … There is a copy of this notice ( Freke 1860 ) in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. …
- … of Herbert Spencer’s First principles ( Spencer 1860–2 ) was published in January 1861. CD …
- … this work. His copy, which is not annotated, is in the Darwin Library–CUL. Collins 1860 . …
- … Olmsted 1860 . Hooker undertook a botanical expedition in the Himalayas between 1848 and …
- … 7: 330–40. ] Olmsted, Frederick Law. 1860. A journey in the back country in the winter of …
To Charles Lyell 2 February [1861]
Summary
Quotes passage from letter from Asa Gray dealing with views of Francis Bowen on heredity and Agassiz "(foolish man)" on heredity and languages.
Sent CL the Calcutta Review [with Edward Blyth’s review of Origin, 35 (1860): 64–88].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 2 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.238) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3054 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … review of Origin appeared in the September 1860 issue of the Calcutta Review , a copy of …
- … Sent CL the Calcutta Review [with Edward Blyth’s review of Origin , 35 (1860): 64–88]. …
- … Bibliography Agassiz, Louis. 1860. On the origin of species. American Journal of Science …
- … and Magazine of Natural History 3d ser. 6 (1860): 219–32. ] Bowen, Francis. 1860b. Remarks …
- … theory. [Read 27 March, 10 April, and 1 May 1860. ] Memoirs of the American Academy of …
- … Britain (see Correspondence vol. 8, letters to Charles Lyell , 12 September [1860] , 23 [ …
- … September 1860] , and …
- … 4 December [1860] ). Lyell approved the proposal ( ibid . , …
- … letter to Asa Gray, 24 October [1860] ). See also Correspondence vol. 9, Appendix III. …
- … the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 5 (1860–2): 102, Agassiz expressed his ‘general …
- … Academy of Arts and Sciences. 5 (1860–2): 102–10. Correspondence : The correspondence of …
- … Bowen] 1860a, Bowen 1860b , and Agassiz 1860 ) and had spoken out against the book at …
- … American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1860 (see Correspondence vol. 8). The reference …
To Asa Gray 5 June [1861]
Summary
AG’s review of John Phillips’ book [Life on earth (1860), in Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 31 (1861): 444–9].
Thinks his experiments will explain Primula dimorphism.
Insect fertilisation of orchids.
Wishes that the "greatest curse on Earth", slavery, were abolished.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 5 June [1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (60) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3176 |
Matches: 18 hits
- … of John Phillips’ book [ Life on earth (1860), in Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 31 (1861): 444–9]. …
- … this work (see Correspondence vol. 9, Appendix VII). Murray 1860 . This paper was read …
- … Royal Society of Edinburgh on 20 February 1860. Before it was published, Murray sent CD a …
- … John Murray. 1859. Phillips, John. 1860. Life on the earth, its origin and succession. …
- … on the paper, see Correspondence vol. 8, letters to Andrew Murray , 28 April [1860] and …
- … 5 May [1860] , and to Charles …
- … Lyell , 1 [June 1860], and letter from …
- … Andrew Murray, 3 May 1860 . A. Gray 1861a (see Correspondence vol. 9, Appendix III). See …
- … beyond all belief. Gray’s review of Phillips 1860 ( A. Gray 1861b ) was published in the …
- … of this work (see Correspondence vol. 8, letter to John Phillips, 14 November [1860] ). …
- … An annotated copy of Phillips 1860 , inscribed ‘From the Author’, is in the Darwin …
- … Phillips at the University of Cambridge in 1860, addressed the question of the origin of …
- … 8, letter to Asa Gray, 10 September [1860] ). Phillips argued that the fossil record, …
- … of strata, and is still living’ and yet ‘gives no generic branches’ ( Phillips 1860 , p. …
- … 212). Phillips 1860 , pp. 108–14. Phillips argued that ‘the comparative fewness of the …
- … see Correspondence vol. 8, letters to J. D. Hooker, 13 [April 1860] , and to Gardeners’ …
- … Chronicle , [before 13 April 1860]). CD saw the dimorphic condition of Primula as …
- … vol. 8, letter to Asa Gray, 31 October [1860] . See also letter to Asa Gray, 11 April [ …
To Henry Fawcett 20 July 1861
Summary
"You could not possibly have told me anything which would have given me more satisfaction than what you say about Mr. Mill’s opinion." [See 2868.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Fawcett |
Date: | 20 July 1861 |
Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3215A |
Matches: 12 hits
- … their reviews of Origin had criticised CD’s method of reasoning ( [A. Sedgwick] 1860 and [ …
- … Wilberforce] 1860 ). Fawcett’s …
- … in Macmillan’s Magazine ( Fawcett 1860 ) countered these criticisms. The signature has …
- … University Press. 1985–. Fawcett, Henry. 1860. A popular exposition of Mr Darwin on the …
- … 16 July [1861] , this volume, Supplement, letter to Henry Fawcett, 6 December [1860] , and …
- … Fawcett 1860 ). Henrietta Emma Darwin was suffering from the after-effects of what was …
- … vol. 8, letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 May [1860] and n. 5). Fawcett had told CD about a …
- … letter to Henry Fawcett, 6 December [1860] and n. 6). Both Adam Sedgwick and Samuel …
- … London: John Murray. 1859. [Sedgwick, Adam. ] 1860. Objections to Mr Darwin’s theory of …
- … the origin of species. Spectator , 24 March 1860, pp. 285–6. [ …
- … Reprinted with revisions in ibid. , 7 April 1860, pp. 334–5. ] [ …
- … Wilberforce, Samuel. ] 1860. [Review of Origin. ] Quarterly Review 108: 225–64. …
To Daniel Oliver 26 February [1861]
Summary
Praise for DO’s paper on Hamamelidaceae ["On Sycopis", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 83–9, read 15 Mar 1860]. Everything points to its being a "bankrupt" family.
Hydropathy at Malvern may take him from Drosera. Requests Dionaea and Cypripedium.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 26 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 39 (EH 88206022) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3072 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 83–9, read 15 Mar 1860]. Everything points to its being a "bankrupt" …
- … insectivorous plant species in the summer of 1860 (see Correspondence vol. 8). Oliver was …
- … date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Oliver, Daniel. 1860. On Sycopsis. [ …
- … Read 15 March 1860. ] Transactions …
- … of the Linnean Society of London 23 (1860–2): 83–8. [Vols. 8,9] Origin : On the origin of …
- … genus of Hamamelidaceae, a family of trees and shrubs ( Oliver 1860 ). Oliver read it at a …
- … meeting of the Linnean Society of London on 15 March 1860. …
- … Oliver 1860 . For CD’s reasons for believing that such patterns indicate that a group is …
- … the attention of botanists. ’ ( Oliver 1860 , p. 87). Oliver, after describing the …
- … and hence be important for establishing affinity ( Oliver 1860 , p. 88). Oliver assisted …
To Cuthbert Collingwood 14 March [1861]
Summary
CD is not surprised at CC’s entire rejection of his views. Agrees that there is no direct proof of unlimited variation. Says natural selection should be viewed as comparable to wave theory of light: it is probable because it groups and explains a host of facts in several fields of science.
Agrees Louis Agassiz’s review [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 30 (1860): 142–55] is not unfair, but Agassiz misunderstands CD. His "categories of thought" are to CD merely empty words.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Cuthbert Collingwood |
Date: | 14 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add. MS. 37725, ff. 6–9b) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3088 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … Company. London: Trübner. Agassiz, Louis. 1860. On the origin of species. American Journal …
- … Magazine of Natural History 3d ser. 6 (1860): 219–32. ] ]Collingwood, Cuthbert. 1860a. On …
- … Louis Agassiz’s review [ Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 30 (1860): 142–55] is not unfair, but Agassiz …
- … Society of Liverpool on 10 December 1860. In the paper, Collingwood contrasted Darwin’s …
- … in his critical review of Origin ( Agassiz 1860 ). Collingwood concluded that Agassiz’s …
- … Philosophical Society of Liverpool 15 (1860–1): 81–99. Correspondence : The correspondence …
- … University Press. 1985–. Higgins, Henry Hugh. 1860. On Darwin’s theory of the ""Origin of …
- … and Philosophical Society of Liverpool 15 (1860–1): 42–9. Origin 3d ed. : On the origin of …
- … men, among domesticated animals’ ( Agassiz 1860 , p. 153). Collingwood then stated that …
- … 1860b was written to defend Agassiz 1860 against the view expressed by Henry Hugh Higgins …
- … so distinguished a naturalist’ ( Higgins 1860 , p. 42). In Collingwood 1860b , pp. 83– …
- … as ‘categories of thought’ ( Agassiz 1860 , p. 142). Agassiz discussed the concept of ‘ …
To Journal of Horticulture [17 May 1861]
Summary
Thanks Mr Beaton for his answer [to 3147].
Asks further questions on points raised in Beaton’s previous papers: whether crossing white and blue varieties of Anemone apennina produced many pale shades; whether the Mathiola incana and M. glabra which crossed freely were artificially or naturally crossed.
CD is delighted by Beaton’s assertion that "not a flower in a thousand is fertilised by its own immediate pollen".
Recounts his experiments with Leschenaultia formosa to show insect fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Journal of Horticulture |
Date: | [17 May 1861] |
Classmark: | Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 1 (1861): 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3162 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … s experiments, see Correspondence vol. 8, letters to J. D. Hooker, 18 [April 1860] and …
- … 26 April [1860] , and letters from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [20 April 1860] and [ …
- … 28 April 1860] . The results of some of CD’s experiments on Leschenaultia are recorded in …
- … book (DAR 157a). See Correspondence vol. 8, letters to James Drummond , 16 May 1860 and …
- … 20 December [1860] , and letter from …
- … James Drummond, 17 September 1860 . The letter in which Drummond related this information, …
- … two points quoted in his paper (June 26, 1860) from the “king of British cross-breeders”— …
- … crossed. Mr. Beaton’s statement (July 24, 1860) that if the pollen of five kinds of …
- … begonias in the Cottage Gardener , 26 June 1860, pp. 193–5, Beaton included the following …
- … of species. ’ ( Cottage Gardener , 26 June 1860, p. 195). Mathiola glabra is a synonym of …
- … published in the Cottage Gardener , 24 July 1860, pp. 253–5, in which he disputed the …
To Asa Gray 23 [January 1861]
Summary
Is glad AG will publish [pamphlet of his reviews of Origin]. Insists on bearing the costs. Encloses list of institutions and individuals to whom he would send copies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 23 [Jan 1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3050 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … Leigh Hunt . In the issue of 18 February 1860, p. 160, the Leader and Saturday Analyst …
- … 24 January 1861] ). In the autumn of 1860, CD asked Gray whether he would be interested in …
- … Gray 1860a ). See Correspondence vol. 8, letters to Asa Gray , 10 September [1860] , 19 …
- … October [1860] , 24 …
- … October [1860] , and …
- … 11 December [1860] , and letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 11 December [1860] . CD and Gray had agreed to share the costs of printing …
- … vol. 8, letter to Asa Gray, 11 December [1860] ). In addition to his considerable private …
- … sale of the first two editions of Origin in 1860. See Correspondence vol. 8, ‘Journal’ ( …
To Asa Gray 17 February [1861]
Summary
Distribution of AG’s pamphlet.
Insectivorous plants.
Informs AG of his [CD’s] notice on Pumilio in Gardeners’ Chronicle [5 Jan 1861; Collected papers 2: 36–8].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 17 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (54) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3064 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … volume of autobiographical recollections of Charles Robert Leslie (Taylor ed. 1860). …
- … vol. 8, letter to Asa Gray, 31 October [1860] , in which CD asked Gray to examine the …
- … Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 23 [September 1860] , letter from Charles …
- … Lyell, 25 September 1860 , and letter to …
- … Asa Gray, 24 October [1860] . The Times was carrying lengthy accounts of the worsening …
- … 8, letter to Asa Gray, 11 December [1860] ). See letter to T. H. Huxley 17 February [ …
- … children from April 1859 until February 1860, when Camilla Ludwig assumed the position. …
- … vol. 8, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 December [1860] , and letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, 28 December 1860 . The genus Senecio includes ragworts and groundsel. See …
To J. D. Hooker 27 [March 1861]
Summary
H. W. Bates’s excellent article against glacial period [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 5 (1860): 352–3] leaves CD "dumbfounded".
H. C. Watson’s hostility.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 [Mar 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3102 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … period [ Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 5 (1860): 352–3] leaves CD "dumbfounded". H. C. …
- … to Charles Lyell, 15 and 16 [February 1860] ). Hooker had apparently sent CD a copy of the …
- … periodical had begun publication in July 1860. For CD’s opinion of this number, see the …
- … of the Linnean Society of London 23 (1860–2): 495–566. Correspondence : The correspondence …
- … Magazine of Natural History in February 1860, CD suspected, rightly, that Thomas Vernon …
To Oswald Heer? 20 April [1861?]
Summary
Thanks for correspondent’s Untersuchungen [? Über das Klima und die Vegetationsverhältnisse des Tertiärlandes (1860)]. CD has always considered subject interesting and important.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Oswald Heer |
Date: | 20 Apr [1861?] |
Classmark: | Catherine Barnes (dealer) (2002) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2765 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … die Vegetationsverhältnisse des Tertiärlandes (1860)]. CD has always considered subject …
- … Down’. CD’s presentation copy of Heer 1860 is in the Darwin Library–CUL. It is annotated …
- … Bibliography Heer, Oswald. 1860. Untersuchungen über das Klima und die …
- … of Heer’s Untersuchungen , published in 1860 (see n. 3, below). The year is suggested by …
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 5 January 1861]
Summary
Describes how adhesive bladders enable the achenia of Pumilio argyrolepsis to attach themselves to the soil. James Drummond sent seeds to CD with a memorandum on the achenia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [before 5 Jan 1861] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 5 January 1861, pp. 4–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3042 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … selection, see Correspondence vol. 8, letter from J. D. Hooker, 28 December 1860 . …
- … in Perth, Western Australia, in May 1860 (see Correspondence vol. 8). At the suggestion …
- … Australia. In his letter of 8 October 1860 ( Correspondence vol. 8), Drummond included …
- … argyrolepis . See ibid . , letters to James Drummond , 20 December [1860] , and to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 26 December [1860], and letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, 28 December 1860 . This word was misprinted as ‘attachedf’ in the Gardeners’ …
To Asa Gray 11 April [1861]
Summary
Huxley and CD fear Chauncey Wright’s review is too general.
Reports the praise for AG’s pamphlet.
J. S. Henslow is dying.
Francis Bowen strikes CD as weak and unobservant; presumes he is a metaphysician, which accounts for his "entire want of common sense".
Does wild Apocynum catch flies in U. S.?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 11 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (53) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3115 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … theory. [Read 27 March, 10 April, and 1 May 1860. ] Memoirs of the American Academy of …
- … me’ (see Correspondence vol. 8, letters to J. D. Hooker, 18 [April 1860] , and to Asa …
- … Gray , 25 April [1860]). The second ( Bowen 1860b ) CD repudiated as being ‘absurd’, ‘ …
- … see ibid . , letter to Asa Gray, 26 November [1860] ). In Bowen 1861 , Bowen denied the …
- … vol. 8, letter to Asa Gray, 31 October [1860] ). Gray’s observations on Spiranthes are …
- … Academy of Arts and Sciences. 5 (1860–2): 102–10. Correspondence : The correspondence of …
- … book, to pay the printers with’. In May 1860, CD had received £21 17 s . 6 d . Gray had …
- … had published two reviews of Origin in 1860. The first ([Bowen] 1860a) CD described as …
To J. D. Hooker 4 February [1861]
Summary
Changes in admission to Athenaeum.
Slowly working at his volume on Variation.
Experiments on insectivorous and "sensitive" plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3057 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … which an extract from it is quoted. J. Richardson 1861 . Trollope 1861 . Collins 1860 . …
- … Olmsted 1860 . William Henslow Hooker , the Hookers’ eldest son, was 8 years old. …
- … Bibliography Collins, William Wilkie. 1860. The woman in white. 3 vols. London. …
- … J. D. Hooker, [26 November – 4 December 1860] ( Correspondence vol. 8), to restrict his …
- … Murray. 1875. Olmsted, Frederick Law. 1860. A journey in the back country in the winter of …
- … meeting of the Linnean Society on 21 June 1860 and published in 1861 ( Hooker 1861 ). See …
- … from T. H. Huxley, [before 14 December 1860] . The third edition of Origin was published …
To George Busk 5 April [1861]
Summary
Sends two letters from G. Lincecum about ants ("perhaps the most marvellous instinct ever recorded") for possible publication. [See Gideon Lincecum, "The habits of the ""agricultural ants"" of Texas", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 6 (1862): 29–31.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Busk |
Date: | 5 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (SP.704A) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3112 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … described by Mr. S. B. Buckley’ ( ibid . , p. 31). The reference is to Buckley 1860 . …
- … Bibliography Buckley, Samuel Botsford. 1860. The cutting ant of Texas. …
- … of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1860): 233–6. Correspondence : The correspondence of …
- … Letters from Gideon Lincecum , 29 December 1860 ( Correspondence vol. 8), and 4 March …
- … of Lincecum’s letter of 29 December 1860 was read at a meeting of the Linnean Society on …
To T. H. Huxley 17 February [1861]
Summary
Chauncey Wright’s review of Origin: A. Gray asks that THH append a list of philosophical books on subject if he accepts it for Natural History Review.
Sends Gray’s pamphlet of his (republished) reviews [Natural selection not inconsistent with natural theology (1861)] for notice.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 17 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 169) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3063 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Chauncey Wright . See Correspondence vol. 8, letters to Asa Gray , 11 December [1860] and …
- … 14 December [1860] , and letter from T. …
- … H. Huxley, [before 14 December 1860] . The publishing firm of Nicholas Trübner served as …
- … the opportunity to criticise Huxley’s February 1860 lecture on CD’s theory at the Royal …
- … Henrietta Anne Huxley had given birth to Leonard Huxley on 11 December 1860. The Huxleys’ …
- … born child, Noel, had died in September 1860 (L. Huxley ed. 1900, 1: 151, 216). Huxley …
To John Murray 10 September [1861]
Summary
Asks that a copy of Origin [3d ed.] be sent to Mlle Clémence-Auguste Royer; she has arranged with a publisher for a French translation.
Origin is exciting much attention in Germany.
Surprised to receive a Dutch translation.
Has never seen an advertisement [of 3d ed.], which is a pity. Hopes "Bishop of Oxford & Co." have not made JM sorry he published it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 10 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 104–105) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3250 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … September 1861 by German authors. These include: Köstlin 1860 , Meding 1861 , Pelzeln …
- … 1861 , and Wagner 1860 . For discussions of the reception of Origin in Germany, see …
- … Cornelius Winkler’s Dutch translation of Origin appeared in 1860 (Winkler trans. …
- … 1860). See letter from T. C. Winkler, 7 July 1861 . A copy of the translation is in the …
- … Press. [Vols. 9,10] Köstlin, Otto. 1860. Ueber die Unverändlichkeit der organischen …
To J. D. Hooker 23 [April 1861]
Summary
Lieut. F. W. Hutton’s original review [Geologist 4 (1861): 132–6, 183–8] understands that mutability cannot be directly proved.
CD met Bentham at Linnean Society and asked him to write up his views on mutability.
Opinion of Owen.
Conversation with Lyell on antiquity of man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 [Apr 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3098 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Essays and reviews. London: John W. Parker. 1860. Hutton, Frederick Wollaston. 1861. Some …
- … since 1855 and regularly since January 1860. His copies are in the Darwin Library–CUL. …
- … 8, letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 March [1860] ). Bentham’s paper, ‘On the species and genera …
- … 8, letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 March [1860] . Thomas Bell was president of the Linnean …
- … 1860b), see Correspondence vol. 8, letters to Asa Gray , 25 April [1860] , and to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 26 April [1860]. The editor of the Edinburgh Review , in which [R. Owen] …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, [20 April 1860] ). CD visited Charles Lyell during his recent …
- … 18 April 1847] ). Essays and reviews (1860), which comprised seven essays (six by liberal …
To Frances Julia Wedgwood 11 July [1861]
Summary
Admires FJW’s article ["The boundaries of science", Macmillan’s Mag. 4 (1861): 237–47]. Thinks she understands his book [Origin] perfectly.
On design in nature: the more CD thinks on the subject the less he can see proof of it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood |
Date: | 11 July [1861] |
Classmark: | LL 1: 313–14; Christie’s (dealers) (3 March 2004) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3206 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … part series of articles on CD’s theory published in 1860 and reprinted in A. Gray 1861a . …
- … 8, letter to Asa Gray, 26 November [1860] . The letter sold at Christie’s was complete and …
- … Wellesley index ). The first part of the dialogue appeared in the June 1860 issue ([F. …
- … J. Wedgwood] 1860–1). The articles take the form of a dialogue between the religiously …
- … and scientific inquiry ([F. J. Wedgwood] 1860–1, 4: 244–7). The problem of the existence …
- … is bound to fail ([F. J. Wedgwood] 1860– 1, 4: 244–5). The discussion continues: …
To Asa Gray 21 July [1861]
Summary
Is writing his paper on orchids.
Is surprised that AG gets little or no response with Drosera.
Describes the two forms of Primula and asks whether AG knows any analogous cases of dimorphism.
Reports that John Stuart Mill approves of CD’s scientific method.
Discusses American politics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 21 July [1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (61) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3216 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … the Republican platform in the election of 1860, which opposed on constitutional grounds …
- … University Press. Olmsted, Frederick Law. 1860. A journey in the back country in the …
- … insectivorous plants during the summer of 1860 (see Correspondence vol. 8); he continued …
- … vol. 8, letter to Asa Gray, 26 November [1860] ). Letter from Henry Fawcett, …
- … 16 July [1861] . Olmsted 1860 . CD had read Frederick Law …
- … s A journey in the back country late in 1860 and found it to be ‘a remarkably interesting …
- … vol. 8, letter to Asa Gray, 26 November [1860] ). Olmsted was highly critical of Southern …
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Hooker, J. D. | (18) |
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Darwin, W. E. | (6) |
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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: 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 …
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 …
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 …