To Joseph Prestwich 12 March [1860]
Summary
Asks if JP can send criticism of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Prestwich |
| Date: | 12 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2729 |
To T. H. Huxley 27 November [1859]
Summary
Sends references for materials useful for THH’s lecture.
Breeding and crossing. Pigeon fanciers.
Responses to Origin: A. C. Ramsay, Charles Kingsley, Quatrefages de Bréau.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 27 Nov [1859] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 76) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2558 |
From W. B. Dawkins 26 April 1874
Summary
Asks CD’s support for his application for the Chair of Geology at Oxford.
| Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 128 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9429 |
From Alfred Tylor 8 June 1872
Summary
AT is trying to publish his paper with important evidence on "the pluvial period".
| Author: | Alfred Tylor |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 June 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 199 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8376 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 March 1864
Summary
John Scott’s career.
Huxley’s vicious attack on anthropologists.
Critique of Joseph Prestwich’s theory of rivers.
Bitter feelings between the Hookers and the Veitch family of nurserymen.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Mar 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 193–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4439 |
From Charles Lyell 30 September 1861
Summary
Asks for copy of CD’s paper ["Ancient glaciers of Caernarvonshire", Collected papers 1: 163–71]. Gathers that drift of Moel Tryfan is glacial.
Believes Glen Roy roads formed later than submergence of Scotland.
Asks CD’s opinion concerning relative chronology of various glacial deposits, particularly a flint tool find in the Ouse River near Bedford.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Sept 1861 |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.112/2813-16) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3270 |
To Charles Lyell 2 December [1859]
Summary
Comments on note from Charles Kingsley saying CD’s theory is not opposed to a high conception of the Deity.
Mentions negative views of Origin of Sedgwick, John Crawfurd, Roderick Murchison, John Phillips, and Joseph Prestwich.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 2 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.181) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2565 |
Prestwich, Joseph. 1859. On the occurrence of flint implements, associated with the remains of animals of extinct species in beds of a late geological period, in France at Amiens and Abbeville, and in England at Hoxne. [Read 26 May 1859.] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 150 (1860): 277–317.
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- … Prestwich, Joseph. 1859. On the occurrence of flint implements, associated with the remains of animals of extinct species in beds of a late geological period, in France at Amiens and Abbeville, and in England at Hoxne. [Read 26 May 1859. ] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 150 (1860): …
To Charles Lyell 4 May [1860]
Summary
Is sending CL an arrow-head. Says John Lubbock tells of vast numbers of flint tools in peat in France. Urges CL to conduct further research on the subject.
Comments on paper by J. S. Newberry concerning palaeozoic deposits in America [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 29 (1860): 208–18]
and on A. von Keyserling’s view of species change.
Mentions J. W. Salter’s chart arranging Spirifer.
Comments on Andrew Murray’s paper on the Origin ["On Mr Darwin’s theory of the origin of species", Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh 4 (1860): 274–91].
A Manchester newspaper article says CD has proved "might is right".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 4 May [1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.210) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2782 |
To Charles Lyell 25 [June 1860]
Summary
Encloses arrow-heads.
Comments on gestation in dogs.
Mentions BAAS meeting at Oxford.
Etty’s illness.
Criticises views of J. W. Dawson on organic and geological change.
The problems of distinguishing varieties and species.
Discusses facts explained by his theory.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 25 [June 1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.220) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2843 |
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- … 1860] . CD refers to the shaped stones known as celts that had been found in alluvial deposits and identified as arrowheads or hatchets by Jacques Boucher de Crèvecoeur de Perthes. Recently celts had been found in association with the remains of extinct animals. Lyell, Hugh Falconer , Joseph Prestwich , …
To Asa Gray 3 July [1860]
Summary
Origin has "stirred up the mud with a vengeance"; AG and three or four others have saved CD from annihilation and are responsible for the attention now given to the subject. Reports events at Oxford BAAS meeting.
New evidence supports AG’s view of a warm post-glacial period.
Discusses his recent orchid observations.
Poses AG a question on design in nature.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 3 July [1860] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (41) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2855 |
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- … 1860 for a tour in France, Belgium, and Germany. His purpose was to investigate the flint implements and fossils first discovered by Jacques Boucher de Crèvecoeur de Perthes. Before his departure, Lyell had discussed the possibility of a second post-glacial warm period with Hugh Falconer and Joseph Prestwich ( …
To J. D. Hooker 22 [June 1859]
Summary
CD making extensive corrections on proofs of Origin. Worries that style is too dry.
Doubts about Joseph Prestwich’s discovery [of flint tools].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 [June 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2471 |
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- … Joseph Prestwich announced the discovery of flint implements in cave deposits that also contained the bones of extinct species of animals. It and other important papers about excavations made around this time began to establish the thesis of Jacques Boucher de Crèvecoeur de Perthes that mankind had existed before the recent geological period (‘l’homme antédiluvienne’), contemporary with extinct species, and was therefore much older than any known historical population. Prestwich’s results were published in Prestwich 1860. …
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