To J. D. Dana 20 February [1863]
Summary
Received JDD’s book [Manual of geology (1862)]
and pamphlet on man ["On the higher subdivisions in the classification of mammals", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 35 (1863): 65–71].
Fully admits JDD’s objections are valid. But is convinced of the general truth of his own views (with much incidental error), because they embrace so many phenomena and explain them.
Discusses some mistakes Owen has made;
Falconer’s disagreement with Owen ["On the mammalian genus Plagiaulax", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 348–69].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
Date: | 20 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4000 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To J. D. Dana 20 February [1863] …
- … Owen’s conclusions in Falconer 1862 . See also letter from J. D. Dana, 5 February 1863 . …
- … letter and the letter from J. D. Dana, 5 February 1863 . The references are to Dana’s …
- … 1863c , and the letter from J. D. Dana, 5 February 1863 . CD had apparently received …
- … and this volume, letter from J. D. Dana, 5 February 1863 ). CD refers to Dana’s Manual …
- … see letter from J. D. Dana, 5 February 1863 ); in Origin , CD emphasised ‘the …
- … 1863] ). Dana had suffered a nervous breakdown in 1859, from which he was just beginning to recover (see Correspondence vol. 7, letter to J. D. …
From J. D. Dana 5 February 1863
Summary
Hopes CD has received a copy of his [Manual of] Geology [1862]; justifies his assertion that geology provides no evidence to support the view that life has evolved through a method of development from species to species.
Author: | James Dwight Dana |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3969 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From J. D. Dana 5 February 1863 …
- … Dana 1863a ; see letter to J. D. Dana, 7 January [1863] and n. 3). CD did not receive …
- … 82, 292–302, and letter to J. D. Dana, 20 February [1863] ). Dana defined ‘comprehensive …
- … my theory. ’ See letter to J. D. Dana, 7 January [ 1863] . The references are to the …
- … 1863] ). There is a copy of Dana 1863a in the Darwin Library–Down. CD had sent Dana a presentation copy of Origin in November 1859 (see Correspondence vol. 7, letter to J. D. …
From James Dwight Dana 4 December 1862
Summary
Illness has prevented his reading Origin. He has, however, expressed his [negative] opinion on the subject of mutability of species in his Manual of geology [1862]. Since his persuasions are so strong, he can do no less.
Author: | James Dwight Dana |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Dec 1862 |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3845 |
To Charles Lyell 14 August [1863]
Summary
Congratulates CL on finding Arctic shells.
Comments on paper by E. B. Hunt ["On the origin, growth, substructure and chronology of the Florida reef", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 35 (1863): 197–210].
Mentions J. D. Dana’s health.
George Bentham’s statement on species [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1863): xi–xxix].
Praises Bates’s book [Naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 14 Aug [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.296) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4267 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 35 (1863): 197–210]. Mentions J. D. Dana’s health. George Bentham’s …
- … Dana of 20 February [1863] ; no letters have been found. However, see letter from J. D. …
- … Dana’s main reservations related to Hunt’s estimates of the chronology of coral reef formation, which he argued would be complicated by changes of sea-level during the post-Tertiary period ( Hunt 1863 , p. 209 n. ). CD appears to refer to correspondence that followed his letter to J. D. …
To Asa Gray 25 February [1864]
Summary
Has not worked for six months due to illness.
Has been looking at climbing plants.
Hermann Crüger’s paper shows that CD was right about Catasetum pollination. Crüger’s account of pollination of Coryanthes "beats everything".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 25 Feb [1864] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (80) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4415 |
To James Dwight Dana 7 January [1863]
Summary
Responds to JDD’s letter [3845].
Discusses his own poor health.
"Man is our great subject at present."
Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)] sold 4000 copies on day of sale.
"The fossil bird [Archaeopteryx] … is a grand case for me." Wishes a skeleton could be found in the "so-called red sandstone foot-step beds".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
Date: | 7 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3905 |
Matches: 2 hits
To Charles Lyell 17 [February 1863]
Summary
Criticises Dana’s classification of man and his use of fore-limbs as a basis for systematic classification.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 17 [Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.288) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3993 |
From Leo Lesquereux 14 December 1864
Summary
Fossil flora of the Carboniferous. Variation of forms found in coal analogous to succession of forms in peat-bogs.
Author: | Leo Lesquereux |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Dec 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR Pamphlet Collection–CUL (bound with G256) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4715 |
To J. D. Hooker 24[–5] February [1863]
Summary
CD’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man and of Owen’s comment on it.
Disappointed Lyell has not spoken out on species and on man.
Pleasure of new hothouse and the plants JDH supplied for it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24[–5] Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 183 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4009 |
From Alfred Russel Wallace 14 January [1863]
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3915 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1863 (see n. 6, below). The letter from CD has not been found. In his letter to Hugh Falconer of 5 [and 6] January [1863] , CD described himself as having been ‘knocked up of late with extraordinary facility’. See also letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 January [1863] , letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 January [1863] and letter to J. D. Dana, …
From Robert Swinhoe 14 August 1863
Summary
Sends two interesting cases: a flamingo with barnacles covering its legs
and castrated wild asses of Kutch.
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Aug 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2 (Letters): 253 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4268 |
To Hugh Falconer 22 April [1863]
Summary
Good of HF to tell him about Brazilian beast. So intermediate a form is "very glorious". Must assume it is very old.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 22 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4121 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Dana, 5 April [1857] , and Correspondence vol. 10, letter to Hugh Falconer, 14 November [1862] . Falconer and Charles Lyell had exchanged letters in the Athenæum , arguing about the attribution of credit for research reported in C. Lyell 1863a ; see letter to Charles Lyell, 18 April [1863] …
To J. D. Dana 6 December [1853]
Summary
Responds to JDD’s objections to his views on the three pairs of appendages in larvae of cirripedes. Reports observations which confirm his views.
Gives his confidential opinion of A. White, C. S. Bate, T. Bell, and W. Baird.
Interested in JDD’s observation that Crustacea are not most developed in the tropics. If JDD ever works it out either in number of species or rank, CD would be glad to have result.
Comments on article by Henri Milne-Edwards ["Crustacés", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) 18 (1852): 109–66].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
Date: | 6 Dec [1853] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1542 |
To Asa Gray 2 January [1863]
Summary
Thanks AG for Cypripedium and Mitchella.
Plans to investigate pollination of Cypripedium.
Has finished Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Would welcome facts on "bud-variations".
Hears that Cinchona is dimorphic.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 2 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (56) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3897 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 and 22 May [1863]
Summary
The Lyell–Falconer squabble.
Discusses island vs continental floras and their degree of modification.
Critical of Wallace.
CD’s observations on phyllotaxy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 and 22 May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 193 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4167 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Dana, 5 April [1857] and nn. 7–8). It was intended that when the collection was completed the Purbeck fossils would be transferred to Owen for description and publication ( Falconer 1857b , p. 262). Lyell apparently transferred the fossils to Owen earlier than had been arranged. Owen published descriptions of the fossils in 1871 ( Owen 1871 ). See letter from J. D. Hooker, [13 May 1863] . …
To Charles Lyell 6 March [1863]
Summary
Comments at length on CL’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)]. CD is "greatly disappointed that you have not given judgment and spoken fairly out what you think about the derivation of species".
Lists large number of queries concerning minor points.
Praises especially the chapters on language and glaciers.
Comments on the temperature of Africa during the glacial period, especially with regard to the views of Hooker.
Mentions Owen’s paper on the aye-aye [Rep. BAAS 32 (1862) pt 2: 114–16].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 6 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.289) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4028 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1863] , and letter to T. H. Huxley, 26 [February 1863] . CD refers to James Manby Gully’s hydropathic establishment at Great Malvern, Worcestershire. Lyell’s letter has not been found; however, some indication of its contents is given by the letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 March [1863] . CD may refer to the letter from J. D. Dana, …
To Isaac Anderson-Henry 2 May [1863]
Summary
Convinced length of stamens has no relation to powers of fertilisation in many plants.
Suggests experiments on Pelargonium and Phlox.
Advises about use of microscope.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry |
Date: | 2 May [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4136 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1863 . CD possessed both a simple microscope and a compound microscope, and had long held the view that these instruments should be used together in scientific work (see Correspondence vol. 4, letter to J. D. Hooker, [1 May 1847] , and letter to Richard Owen, [26 March 1848] , and Correspondence vol. 5, letter to J. D. Dana, …
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Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
Dana, J. D. | (2) |
Lesquereux, Leo | (1) |
Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Dana, J. D. | (3) |
Lyell, Charles | (3) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Dana, J. D. | (5) |
Lyell, Charles | (3) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |