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To J. D. Hooker 22 October [1864]

Summary

To Lyell’s chagrin, CD has come round again to A. C. Ramsay’s glacial theory.

On primrose and cowslip, CD maintains they are good species, notwithstanding Scott’s work.

CD defines species by power of remaining constant for a good long time and showing appreciable amount of difference from close species.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	22 Oct [1864]
Classmark:	DAR 115: 252
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4642

Matches: 17 hits

… To J. D. Hooker 22 October [1864] …
… DAR 115: 252 Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 Oct [1864] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… D. Hooker, [16? October 1864] and n. 7. See also Forms of flowers , pp. …
… in his hothouse in early September 1864 (see his notes in DAR 70: 115–6, and letter to …
… J. D. Hooker, 3 November [1864] and nn. 23 and 24). …
… between this letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 26[–8] October 1864 . CD enclosed …
… the letter from Asa Gray, 3 October 1864 (see letter from J. …
… D. Hooker, 26[–8] October 1864 ); the second page begins with the words ‘time to write, …
… War. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [16? October 1864] and n. 2, and letter from W. …
… H. Harvey, 8 November [1864] . Charles and Mary Elizabeth …
… Lyell stayed at Down from 15 to 17 October 1864 ( Emma Darwin’s diary, DAR 242). CD refers …
… letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 September 1864 and nn. 14 and 15. CD had long been a …
… 1862] , and this volume, letter to A. C. Ramsay, 12 July [1864] , and letter from J. …
… B. Jukes, 10 August 1864 and n. 2). However, he had also been impressed by Roderick …
… Murchison 1864b ; see letter from R. I. Murchison, 19 August 1864 , and letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, [23 August 1864] ). Lyell favoured the view that great rock-basins had been …
… cowslips, see letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 October [1864] and n. 11, and letter from J. …

From Joseph Beete Jukes 10 August 1864

Summary

CD’s support in JBJ’s controversy with Hugh Falconer is welcome. R. I. Murchison supports Falconer, and Lyell does not support their side strongly enough. Falconer and Jukes remain friends in private.

Author:	Joseph Beete Jukes
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	10 Aug 1864
Classmark:	DAR 168: 93
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4587

Matches: 15 hits

… From Joseph Beete Jukes 10 August 1864 …
… 168: 93 Joseph Beete Jukes Geol. Surv. Ireland, Dublin 10 Aug 1864 Charles Robert Darwin …
… also letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 October [1864] and n. 5). Waterford Harbour is on the …
… series of letters printed in the Reader in 1864, Jukes had debated the origin of mountain …
… primarily by the action of glaciers (see Ramsay 1862 and Reader , 6 February 1864, pp. …
… 173–4, 12 March 1864, pp. …
… 332–5, 30 April 1864, pp. 557–8). Falconer had been an outspoken critic of Ramsay’s …
… fissures in the earth’s surface (see letters from J. D. Hooker, 9 [March] 1864 and n. …
… 14, and 29 March 1864 ; Reader , …
… 27 February 1864, pp. …
… 268–9, 5 March 1864, pp. …
… 301–3, 2 April 1864, pp. 432–3; …
… of the Royal Geographical Society 8 (1864): 38–42). CD had largely supported Ramsay’s …
… see letter to A. C. Ramsay, 12 July [1864] and n. 5). Roderick Impey Murchison had …
… to the Royal Geographical Society on 23 May 1864 (see Murchison 1864a , pp. 221–41). In …

To J. D. Hooker 13 September [1864]

Summary

Pleased that Bentham is cautious about Naudin’s view of reversion. CD can show experimentally that crossing of races and species tends to bring back ancient characters.

Suggests Gärtner’s Bastarderzeugung [1849] be translated

and that Oliver review Scott’s Primula paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 78–126] for a future issue of Natural History Review.

Is working on Variation.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	13 Sept [1864]
Classmark:	DAR 115: 249a–b
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4612

Matches: 21 hits

… To J. D. Hooker 13 September [1864] …
… DAR 115: 249a–b Charles Robert Darwin Down 13 Sept [1864] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… 14. See letter to Asa Gray, 13 September [ 1864] and n. 3. …
… manuscript on Variation on 14 September 1864, beginning with a draft of the chapters on …
… this letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 5 September 1864 . Letter from J. …
… D. Hooker, 5 September 1864 . The reference is to George Bentham’s …
… the Linnean Society , which was read on 24 May 1864 ( Bentham 1864a , pp. x–xvii). Bentham …
… D. Hooker, 29 July 1864 and n. 3. Spruce is cited on Marcgravia umbellata in ‘Climbing …
… p. 105. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [4–]6 August 1864 and n. 8, and letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, [23 August 1864] . CD quoted Hooker’s remarks on Nepenthes in ‘Climbing …
… was in London from 25 August to 1 September 1864 (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 12, …
… s in ‘Climbing plants’ , p. 46. See letter to J. D. Hooker, [24 July 1864? ] and n. …
… the Natural History Review n.s. 4 (1864): 50–7. Both Godron’s and Naudin’s experiments …
… which was conveyed to him by Hooker (see letters from J. D. Hooker, 19 May 1864 and …
… 16 September 1864 , and letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 22 [May 1864] ). For a discussion of Naudin’s hypothesis and CD’s assessment …
… the letter from John Scott, 7 January [1864] and n. 11. For the significance of distant …
… See also letter to Asa Gray, 13 September [1864] . CD refers to the Natural History Review …
… of the Natural History Review for October 1864, p. 640. CD completed the manuscript of …
… s paper enclosed with the letter to Asa Gray, 13 September [1864] and nn. 11, 13, and 14. …
… to the letter to Asa Gray, 13 September [1864] . See letter from Richard Spruce to J. …

From John Scott 29 July [1864]

Summary

Asks for additional financial aid for trip to India.

Author:	John Scott
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	29 July [1864]
Classmark:	DAR 177: 112
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4578

Matches: 15 hits

… From John Scott 29 July [1864] …
… DAR 177: 112 John Scott Denholm 29 July [1864] Charles Robert Darwin …
… and the letter from John Scott, 2 August 1864 . CD’s letter to Scott has not been found. …
… for India to seek employment (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 19 May 1864 , letter to John …
… Scott, 21 May [1864] , and letter from …
… John Scott, 28 May [1864] ). The shipping agent was Henry Taylor (see letter from …
… J. D. Hooker, [29 July 1864] and n. 2). CD had …
… CD sent a cheque for £10 (see letter from John Scott, 2 August 1864 and nn. 1 and …
… 2). Between April and June 1864, CD had corresponded at length with Hooker regarding …
… to Thomas Anderson and Arthur Grote (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [4 June 1864] ). …
… see second letter from John Scott, 10 June [1864] ). After Scott left his position at the …
… to assist him financially (see letter to John Scott, 9 April 1864 ; see also letter from …
… John Scott, 16 May [1864] and n. …
… 11, and letter to John Scott, 21 May [1864] and n. 5). In his letter …
… to J. D. Hooker of 22 [May 1864] , CD wrote that he would pay for Scott’s voyage and …

To J. D. Hooker 10 December [1864]

Summary

Has found incipient stages of adhesive discs in Hanburia tendrils.

Huxley was probably right to have challenged Sabine, but the poor old man is sick.

CD remembers the old Disraeli novel [Tancred (1847)] that sneers at transmutation.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	10 Dec [1864]
Classmark:	DAR 115: 256
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4712

Matches: 20 hits

… To J. D. Hooker 10 December [1864] …
… DAR 115: 256 Charles Robert Darwin Down 10 Dec [1864] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… Friedrich Hildebrand, 25 June [ 1864] ). The paper is discussed in Forms of flowers , …
… this letter and the letter from C. V. Naudin, 6 December 1864 . Frances Harriet Hooker . …
… In his letter of [6 December 1864] , Hooker enclosed a description of Peponopsis …
… letter from C. V. Naudin, 6 December 1864 . The photograph of Naudin has not been found. …
… letter from J. D. Hooker, [6 December 1864] . The Scitamineae are now known as the order …
… sent the letter from T. H. Huxley to J. D. Hooker of 3 December 1864 with his letter …
… of [6 December 1864] . See letter from T. H. …
… Huxley to J. D. Hooker, 3 December 1864 and n. 6. CD refers to Edward Sabine . …
… See letter from E. J. Sabine, 7 December [1864] . See letter from J. …
… D. Hooker, [6 December 1864] and n. 10. …
… The Reader , 10 December 1864, p. 741, printed the responses of John Ruskin , Joseph …
… See letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 December [1864] and nn. 13 and 14. In ‘Climbing plants’ , …
… Botanic Gardens, Kew, for his experiments (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 15 June 1864 ). …
… In a note dated 10 December 1864, CD described the appearance of a thick layer of cellular …
… to a notice in the Reader , 3 December 1864, p. 710, of a speech by Benjamin Disraeli ( …
… see letter from J. D. Hooker, [6 December 1864] and n. 12). In Disraeli’s Tancred ( …
… letter from Daniel Oliver, [1 April 1864] ). The remainder of the letter is in Hooker’s …
… officinalis in June (see letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 21 June 1864 , and letter to …

From W. E. Darwin 18 May [1864]

Summary

Sends Pulmonaria anthers, with measurements of styles and pollen counts.

Author:	William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	18 May [1864]
Classmark:	DAR 110: A83–6, A94
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4500

Matches: 15 hits

… From W. E. Darwin 18 May [1864] …
… DAR 110: A83–6, A94 William Erasmus Darwin Southampton 18 May [1864] Charles Robert Darwin …
… example, letter from W. E. Darwin, 12 May [1864] and n. 2). Lyndhurst is a village in …
… the letter from W. E. Darwin [20 May 1864] . William had already sketched anthers from …
… of Pulmonaria angustifolia (see memorandum and letter from W. E. Darwin, 6 May 1864 and …
… 12 May [1864]). CD had then asked William to observe unopened anthers that were still in …
… bud (see letter to W. E. Darwin, 14 May [1864] and n. 6). For the sketches of marked …
… p. 107). See letter from W. E. Darwin, 12 May [1864] and n. 8. See letter from Emma …
… Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [17 May 1864] and n. 2. William often collected plants for CD …
… and letter from W. E. Darwin, [20 May 1864] and n. 2). William had already observed …
… longer, than those of short-styled (see letters from W. E. Darwin, 14 April [ 1864] and …
… 18 April 1864 and n. 7, and letter to W. …
… E. Darwin, 14 May [1864] and nn. 5 and 6). CD had asked for this comparison …
… short-styled and long-styled flowers in his letters to William of 14 May [1864] and [14– …
… 17 May 1864]. CD recorded these numbers in his abstract of William’s letters on Pulmonaria …

To E. A. Darwin 30 June 1864

Summary

Has heard nothing about the Copley Medal. Is grateful for Hugh Falconer’s interest [see 4546].

Supplies details about circumstances of his voyage on the Beagle.

Does not believe that his sea-sickness was the cause of his subsequent ill-health.

Encloses the requested list of publications [see 4550].

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:	30 June 1864
Classmark:	ML 1: 247–8; DAR 154: 67
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4548A

Matches: 13 hits

… Linn. Soc. 1863. On the sexual relations of the three Forms of Lythrum. Linn. Soc. 1864. …
… To E. A. Darwin 30 June 1864 …
… ML 1: 247–8; DAR 154: 67 Charles Robert Darwin Down 30 June 1864 Erasmus Alvey Darwin …
… See letter from E. A. Darwin, 27 June [1864] . CD was nominated for the Copley Medal …
… at the meeting of the Council of the Royal Society , 23 June 1864 (Royal Society, Council …
… minutes, 23 June 1864). The reference is to Hugh Falconer . See …
… letter from E. A. Darwin, 27 June [1864] . The reference is to Robert FitzRoy . See …
… letter from E. A. Darwin, 27 June [1864] and n 7. Francis Beaufort . See …
… Down June 30th, 1864. I had not heard a word about the Copley Medal. Please give Falconer …
… letter from E. A. Darwin, 27 June [1864] and n. 6. In Origin , p. 1, CD had remarked …
… from E. A. Darwin to Hugh Falconer, 2 July 1864 . Journal of researches and Journal of …
… By Charles Darwin. [Read 16 June 1864. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 ( …
… of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 7 (1864): 69–83. [ Collected papers 2: 93–105. ] …

From W. E. Darwin 24 May 1864

Summary

Encloses drawings of Menyanthes and Pulmonaria anthers.

Author:	William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	24 May 1864
Classmark:	DAR 110: A89–93, B48–50
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4508

Matches: 14 hits

… From W. E. Darwin 24 May 1864 …
… May 24 th 1864’ pencil …
… 110: A89–93, B48–50 William Erasmus Darwin Southampton 24 May 1864 Charles Robert Darwin …
… see letter from W. E. Darwin, [19 May 1864] . William refers to the first set of short- …
… Pulmonaria angustifolia in his letter of 14 May [1864] . William had already sent drawings …
… of anthers from buds with his letter of 18 May [1864] ; see also letter from W. …
… 24’ double underl pencil ; ‘64’ del pencil ; ‘1864’ added above ‘64’, pencil ; ‘Menyanth’ …
… 8.2] crossed pencil Top of second page : ‘May 24 th 1864’ pencil Enclosure 1 : top …
… of enclosure : ‘May 24 th 1864’ pencil ; above right-hand column : ‘Menyanthes’ …
… pencil Top of enclosure 2 : ‘May 24 1864’ pencil Bottom of enclosure …
… 3 : ‘May 24 th 1864’ pencil Bottom of enclosure …
… 4 : ‘May 24 th 1864’ pencil Enclosure 5 : ‘ …
… May 24 th 1864’ pencil Enclosure 6 : ‘ …
… E. Darwin, [20 May 1864] and nn. 2 and 3. For William’s enclosed drawings of P. …

From W. E. Darwin 18 June [1864]

Summary

Doesn't think will be able to find Buckthorn. Sends reference from Revue de Deux Mondes. Is settled at the Bank.

Author:	William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	18 June [1864]
Classmark:	Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 19)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4538F

Matches: 13 hits

… From W. E. Darwin 18 June [1864] …
… letter from W. E. Darwin, [19 May 1864] and n. 8). …
… Family Papers (DAR 275: 19) William Erasmus Darwin 18 June [1864] Charles Robert Darwin …
… Press. 1985–. Siebold, Karl Theodor Ernst von. 1864. Ueber Zwitterbienen. Zeitschrift für …
… and W. E. Darwin to Thomas Salt, 12 April 1864 ). Corydalis claviculata , a synonym of …
… 1864b ); Wallace had sent CD a copy in May 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from …
… A. R. Wallace, 10 May 1864 and n. 5). …
… of his father some time before 19 May 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, frontispiece and …
… of ‘natural selection’. [Read 1 March 1864. ] Anthropological Review 2: clviii–clxx. …
… H. E. Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [18 May 1864] ). Pyrus torminalis is a synonym of Torminalis …
… tree. Revue des deux mondes , 1 March 1864, pp. 87–8, described recent observations by …
… a similar report in Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3d ser. 14 (1864): 158–9 was …
… taken from Siebold 1864 . William had been lodging at 1 Carlton Terrace, Southampton (see …

From John Scott 20 January 1865

Summary

Comments on his Primula paper [see 4213].

Describes his situation in Calcutta.

Author:	John Scott
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	20 Jan 1865
Classmark:	DAR 177: 114
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4751

Matches: 26 hits

… Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in March 1864 and, on the advice of CD and Joseph Dalton …
… 12). He departed for Calcutta on 28 August 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from …
… J. D. Hooker, 30 August 1864 , and this volume, letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 January …
… for Scott (see Correspondence vol. 12, letters from J. D. Hooker, [4 June 1864] and [ …
… 19 September 1864] ). Scott was given a position at Rungbee, a newly established Cinchona …
… 1863] ). In his letter of 16 May [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12), Scott remarked: ‘the …
… version of the paper from Scott in January 1864, together with a set of queries regarding …
… vol. 12, letter from John Scott, 7 January [1864] , and letter from Emma Darwin …
… to John Scott, 9 January 1864 ). Scott’s paper contained calculations of the comparative …
… 12, letter to Asa Gray, 13 September [1864] ). Gray wrote a review of the paper in the …
… letter to J. D. Hooker, [20–]22 February [1864] and n. 6). He eventually sent Hooker a …
… vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 September [1864] , and letter from J. …
… D. Hooker, 16 September 1864 ). He sent the paper, with references to its important …
… to review it ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 17 September [1864] ). Oliver’s brief notice of …
… in the Natural History Review for October 1864, p. 640. CD also sent a copy to Benjamin …
… vol. 12, letter from John Scott, 28 May 1864 ). CD and Hooker had suspected that Balfour …
… Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 April [1864] , and letter from J. …
… D. Hooker, 6 April 1864 ). Balfour had supplied Hooker with a character reference for …
… see Correspondence vol. 12, enclosure to letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 April 1864 ). See …
… also letter from John Scott, 28 May [1864] and the enclosed reference from Balfour. On …
… vol. 12, letter to John Scott, 9 April 1864 ). Scott initially declined (see ibid. , …
… letter from John Scott, 5 May [1864] ); however, when it became clear that his own …
… settled into a position abroad (see ibid. , letters from John Scott , 28 May [1864] and …
… 8 June 1864 ). CD made three separate payments to Scott, totalling £115, in each case …
… 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 April [1864] ). He repeatedly praised Scott’s abilities as …
… ibid. , letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 [May 1864] ), and Hooker, through his contacts in …

To J. D. Hooker 13 June [1864]

Summary

W. H. Harvey’s dandelion case worth publishing.

Suspects the uniform Primula elatior JDH referred to is a distinct species.

Scott’s paper on Passiflora shows variability of reproductive systems.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	13 June [1864]
Classmark:	DAR 115: 239
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4531

Matches: 14 hits

… To J. D. Hooker 13 June [1864] …
… H. Harvey, 19 May 1864 and n. 4. …
… DAR 115: 239 Charles Robert Darwin Down 13 June [1864] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… Kendrick Thwaites . See letter from J. D. Hooker, [11 June 1864] . See letter from J. …
… D. Hooker, [11 June 1864] and n. 3. Hooker …
… a letter from William Henry Harvey in his letter of [11 June 1864] . See letter from W. …
… See letter from J. D. Hooker, [11 June 1864] and n. 7. CD refers to James Veitch (1815– …
… a nursery in Chelsea. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] . See letter from W. …
… H. Harvey, 19 May 1864 and n. 4, letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] and n. 14, and enclosure to letter from J. …
… D. Hooker, [11 June 1864] . See letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] and n. 17. Henry Doubleday had first called CD’s attention to …
… CD refers to John Scott . See letter from J. D. Hooker, [11 June 1864] . Scott 1864d . …
… See first letter from John Scott, 10 June [1864] and n. 2. CD refers to Joseph Decaisne . …

From A. R. Wallace 29 May [1864]

Summary

Argues the antiquity of the human species because natural selection acts differently with respect to men. Changes in man are largely confined to head and brain. Warfare and sex are very uncertain as means of selection.

Gives CD complete credit for theory of natural selection.

Is beginning his narrative of his travels.

Lyell argues against tracing man as far back as Miocene times. R. I. Murchison’s argument that Africa is the oldest existing land implies that Africa is the place to look for early man.

Author:	Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	29 May [1864]
Classmark:	DAR 106: B14–19
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4514

Matches: 23 hits

… From A. R. Wallace 29 May [1864] …
… Russel Wallace London, Westbourne Grove Terrace, 5 29 May [1864] Charles Robert Darwin …
… the relationship between this letter and the letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] . In …
… his letter to Wallace of 28 [May 1864] , CD commented on Wallace 1864a and 1864b. Wallace …
… to Wallace 1864b . See letter from A. R. Wallace, 10 May 1864 and n. 6. See letter …
… to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] and nn. 11–18. Philip Lutley Sclater was a zoological …
… also Wallace 1864b , p. clxvii. See letter from A. R. Wallace, 10 May 1864 and n. 2. …
… to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] and n. 12. See letter …
… to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] and n. 13. See letter …
… to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] and nn. 18 and 20. Wallace had spent time with …
… See letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] and n. 20. In Wallace 1864b , Wallace …
… see letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] and n. 14). Thomas Henry Huxley , after a …
… see letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] and n. 16): Peculiarites of constitution, …
… of climate. See letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] and n. 17. See letter …
… apes. See letter from A. R. Wallace, 10 May 1864 and n. 6. See also n. 20, below. …
… See letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] and nn. 5 and 6. Wallace refers to his …
… See also Correspondence vol. 7. See letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] and n. 19. …
… publication on the topic was a revision of his 1864 paper, including some new conclusions, …
… also letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] and n. 11. In 1869, Wallace published The …
… Lyell’s letter to Wallace of 22 May 1864 , see Wallace 1905 , 1: 418– 19, and Marchant …
… also letter from A. R. Wallace, 10 May 1864 and n. 6. In the abstract written for the …
… See letter from A. R. Wallace, 10 May 1864 and n. 6. See also Wallace 1905 , 2: 419– …
… the Royal Geographical Society on 23 May 1864 ( Murchison 1864a ). Murchison believed that …

From T. H. Huxley to G. G. Stokes 6 December 1864

Summary

He is certain he heard "expressly excluded" [of Origin from consideration in Royal Society award of Copley Medal]. Believes GGS may have inadvertently substituted "excluded" for "omitted". THH then submits his reasons for objecting to the passage as a whole even with the word "omitted".

Author:	Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:	George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:	6 Dec 1864
Classmark:	CUL (George Stokes papers, Add. 7656 H1383)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4702

Matches: 16 hits

… From T. H. Huxley to G. G. Stokes 6 December 1864 …
… the meeting. See letter from T. H. Huxley to J. D. Hooker, 3 December 1864 , n. 10. …
… 7656 H1383) Thomas Henry Huxley unstated 6 Dec 1864 George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet …
… letter from G. G. Stokes to T. H. Huxley, 5 December 1864 . In his letter to J. …
… D. Hooker of 3 December 1864 , Huxley said that the term used in Edward Sabine’s …
… see letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 December 1864 ). Stokes evidently read Sabine’s address, …
… was seconded by Hugh Falconer (Royal Society, Council minutes, 23 June 1864). See …
… letter to John Lubbock, [1 January 1864] , n. 4, …
… and letter to Asa Gray, 13 September [1864] and n. 13. See first letter from G. …
… G. Stokes to T. H. Huxley, 5 December 1864 , and n. 5. The treasurer of the Royal …
… Jermyn S t London Dc r . 6 th . 1864 My dear Stokes I never had a clearer and more …
… G. G. Stokes to T. H. Huxley, 5 December 1864 and n. 2). See first letter from G. …
… G. Stokes to T. H. Huxley, 5 December 1864 and n. 3. In order to substantiate Sabine’ …
… medal to CD (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 December 1864 , n. 6, letter from T. H. …
… Huxley to J. D. Hooker, 3 December 1864 , and Appendix IV). See letter from J. …
… D. Hooker, 2 December 1864 . CD was nominated for the Copley Medal by George …

From W. D. Fox 28 November [1864]

Summary

Congratulates CD on the Copley Medal.

Author:	William Darwin Fox
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	28 Nov [1864]
Classmark:	DAR 164: 182
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4683

Matches: 10 hits

… Wadham College, Oxford; he received his BA from Oxford University in 1864 ( Alum. Oxon. ). …
… From W. D. Fox 28 November [1864] …
… DAR 164: 182 William Darwin Fox Delamere 28 Nov [1864] Charles Robert Darwin …
… voted to award CD the Copley Medal on 3 November 1864 (Royal Society, Council minutes). …
… CD’s health had improved since the spring of 1864 (see letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] and n. 5; however, he was still weak and suffered …
… from sickness (see, for example, letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 [June 1864] , letter to John …
… Lubbock, 19 November [1864] and n. …
… 5, and letter from William Jenner, 24 November 1864 ). …
… Gilbert Basil Fox , born 16 December 1864, was the twelfth child of W. D. Fox and his …

To A. R. Wallace 15 June [1864]

Summary

Short reply to ARW’s long letter. Reaffirms belief in sexual selection.

Postscript on M.-J.-P. Flourens’ "little dull book against me" [Examen du livre de M. Darwin (1864)].

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:	15 June [1864]
Classmark:	The British Library (Add. MS 46434: 47)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4535

Matches: 14 hits

… To A. R. Wallace 15 June [1864] …
… Add. MS 46434: 47) Charles Robert Darwin Down 15 June [1864] Alfred Russel Wallace …
… M. -J. -P. Flourens’ "little dull book against me" [ Examen du livre de M. Darwin (1864)]. …
… John Murray. 1871. Flourens, Marie-Jean-Pierre. 1864. Examen du livre de M. Darwin sur l’ …
… this letter and the letter from A. R. Wallace, 29 May [1864] . See letter from A. …
… R. Wallace, 29 May [1864] . …
… In his letter of 29 May [1864] , Wallace raised a number of objections to CD’s view that …
… see letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] and nn. 18 and 20). CD discussed sexual …
… J. Harvey 1997a . CD refers to Flourens 1864 , pp. 64–5. The original reads: Le livre de …
… descent (see letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] and n. 19, and letter from A. …
… R. Wallace, 29 May [1864] and n. 16). CD refers to the book that was eventually to be …
… See letter from A. R. Wallace, 29 May [1864] and n. 17. CD refers to Examen du livre …
… by Marie Jean Pierre Flourens ( Flourens 1864 ). Flourens was permanent secretary of the …
… DBF ). CD’s annotated copy of Flourens 1864 is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia …

From J. H. Balfour 22 September 1864

Summary

Does not know an Edinburgh nurseryman who can supply the cowslips and primroses CD wants; will try to get them from the Botanic Garden.

Hears from Hooker that CD is also examining Lythrum.

Author:	John Hutton Balfour
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	22 Sept 1864
Classmark:	DAR 160: 33
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4620

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… From J. H. Balfour 22 September 1864 …
… DAR 160: 33 John Hutton Balfour Wotton-under-Edge 22 Sept 1864 Charles Robert Darwin …
… s experiments on this plant between 1862 and 1864, see Correspondence vol. 12, Appendix …
… work on dimorphism, see the letter to Daniel Oliver, 17 September [1864] and n. 4. …
… Henry John Reynolds–Moreton, third earl of Ducie ( Burke’s peerage 1864). Letter to J. …
… H. Balfour, 15 September [1864] . The British Association for the Advancement of …
… meeting in Bath from 14 to 21 September 1864 ( Report of the thirty-fourth meeting of the …
… also letter from J. D. Hooker, [19 September 1864] . Balfour refers to Joseph Dalton and …
… Court | Wotton under Edge 22 Sept 1864 My Dear Sir Your letter has been forwarded to me at …
… letter to J. H. Balfour, 15 September [1864] and n. 2. Balfour was regius keeper of the …
… forms of Lythrum salicaria ’ at the Linnean Society on 16 June 1864. For an account of …
… By Charles Darwin. [Read 16 June 1864. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 ( …

From Benjamin Dann Walsh 1 March 1865

Summary

Sends his paper on "Willow-galls" [Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 543–644].

Lengthy criticism of Agassiz’s views on species as stated in his Essay on classification [1857].

Interested by CD’s trimorphism in Lythrum. Thinks some great mystery may lie in the fact that in some genera, some species are tri-, some di-, and some monomorphic, and in other genera, Apis, Vespa, Bombus, all the known species are dimorphic.

Author:	Benjamin Dann Walsh
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	1 Mar 1865
Classmark:	Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4778

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… See Correspondence vol. 12, letters to B. D. Walsh, 4 December [1864] and [ …
… 4 December 1864 ? ]. Walsh had requested photographs of CD and John Obadiah Westwood (see …
… 12, letter from B. D. Walsh, 7 November 1864 ). The photograph of CD, taken by William …
… Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 543–644]. Lengthy criticism of Agassiz’s views …
… also letter from W. E. Darwin, [19 May 1864] . Walsh was a student at Trinity College, …
… from B. D. Walsh, 29 April – 19 May 1864 and nn. 1 and 3). See Correspondence vol. …
… 12, letter from J. O. Westwood, 2 December 1864 . CD enclosed Westwood’s letter, which …
… Medal was presented to CD on 30 November 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12 and Appendix …
… 1990. Meinert, Frederik Vilhelm August. 1864. Miastor Metraloas: yderligere Oplysning om …
… By Charles Darwin. [Read 16 June 1864. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 ( …
… of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 7 (1864): 69–83. [ Collected papers 2: 93–105. ] …
… 13: 513–27. Walsh, Benjamin Dann. 1864–5. On phytophagic varieties and phytophagic …
… his letter to B. D. Walsh, [4 December 1864? ] ( Correspondence vol. 12). Thomas Say . …
… Cynips , a genus of gall-wasps, in March 1864 ( Walsh 1864a ). See also n. 20, below. ‘ …
… vol. 12, letter to Asa Gray, 28 May [1864] . There is an annotated copy of Mohl 1863 in …
… also Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] , and letters from …
… William Bennett , 29 April 1864 and …
… 25 May 1864 and n. 1. …
… s notes on this species, dated between July 1864 and July 1866, are in DAR 111: A37–40 and …
… varieties and phytophagic species’ ( Walsh 1864–5 ) and his article ‘On the insects, …
… of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia in November and December 1864, respectively. …
… There are heavily annotated copies of Walsh 1864–5 and 1864b, inscribed by Walsh, in the …
… translation and discussion (Siebold trans. 1864) of Frederik Vilhelm August Meinert’s …
… on reproduction in insect larvae ( Meinert 1864 ). Meinert confirmed Wagner’s observations …
… 12, letter to B. D. Walsh, 4 December [1864] . In Walsh 1864c Walsh had criticised Louis …
… appeared in the Reader , 31 December 1864, p. 837. The article favourably reviewed …
… vol. 12, letter from B. D. Walsh, 29 April [– 19 May] 1864 , letter to B. …
… D. Walsh, 21 October [1864] , and letter from …
… John Lubbock, 3 November 1864 ). There is an annotated copy of Walsh 1864a , inscribed by …
… which appeared in the October–December 1864 issue of Entomologische Zeitung , the journal …
… society of Stettin ( Osten-Sacken 1864 ). Magna est veritas et praevalebit : ‘truth is …
… 12, letter from B. D. Walsh, 7 November 1864 ); for a discussion of Agassiz’s views on …
… vol. 12, letter from B. D. Walsh, 4 December [1864] and nn. 4 and 5. Rock Island, …
… tour through the American Midwest in 1864 ( Lurie 1960 , p. 341). See also Correspondence …
… 12, letter from B. D. Walsh, 7 November 1864 . In his ‘Essay on classification’ (J. …
… paper in his letter to Walsh of 4 December [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12). CD wrote an …
… 12, letter to B. D. Walsh, 4 December [1864] . Walsh argued that unity of habits was …
… Murray. 1859. Osten-Sacken, Charles Robert. 1864. Ueber den wahrscheinlicher Dimorphismus …

To B. D. Walsh 4 December [1864]

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Discusses Agassiz’s misrepresentations of his views and J. D. Dana’s "wild notions".

The reception is friendlier from younger scientists in France, and many of the best men in Germany.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:	4 Dec [1864]
Classmark:	Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4695

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… To B. D. Walsh 4 December [1864] …
… History, Chicago (Walsh) Charles Robert Darwin Down 4 Dec [1864] Benjamin Dann Walsh …
… also letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 [July 1864] and n. 6. See letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 …
… this letter and the letter from B. D. Walsh, 7 November 1864 . See letter from B. …
… D. Walsh, 7 November 1864 . CD refers to Walsh’s paper, ‘On certain entomological …
… VII and n. 1. In his letter of 26 October 1864 , Ernst Haeckel discussed the favourable …
… 7: 233–55. Pictet de la Rive, François Jules. 1864. Note sur la succession des mollusques …
… Walsh 1864b , p. 220). See letter to Louis Agassiz, 12 April 1864 , and letter from B. …
… D. Walsh, 7 November 1864 . In …
… the letter to Louis Agassiz, 12 April 1864 , CD thanked Agassiz for a presentation copy of …
… 1863 , and this volume, letter to A. R. Wallace, 1 January 1864 . See letter from B. …
… D. Walsh, 7 November 1864 and n. 2. Agassiz formulated a theory of the ice age in …
… 1991 . In his letter of 7 November 1864 , Walsh suggested that the Swiss palaeontologist …
… is an annotated copy of Pictet de la Rive 1864 , with a long note by CD attached, in the …
… also letter to Asa Gray, 25 February [1864] and n. 11. In 1859, Dana suffered a nervous …
… Review ( Lubbock 1865a ). See letter to B. D. Walsh, 21 October [1864] , and letter from …
… John Lubbock, 3 November 1864 . An annotated copy of Walsh 1864a is in the Darwin Pamphlet …
… CUL. See letter from B. D. Walsh, 7 November 1864 . CD had requested information on the …
… his letter to Walsh of 21 October [1864] . In his letter of 1 March 1865 ( Correspondence …
… CD refers to a photograph taken by William Erasmus Darwin in 1864 (see letter from W. …
… E. Darwin, [19 May 1864] and n. 8, and frontispiece to this volume). The letter to John …
… letter from J. O. Westwood, 2 December 1864 , when this letter was written. On Westwood’ …

To Henry Holland 6 November [1864]

Summary

Thanks for congratulations on award of Copley Medal by the Royal Society.

Discusses his long period of ill health.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Henry Holland, 1st baronet
Date:	6 Nov [1864]
Classmark:	Peter Harrington (dealer) (September 2020)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4661F

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… To Henry Holland 6 November [1864] …
… September 2020) Charles Robert Darwin Down 6 Nov [1864] Henry Holland, 1st baronet …
… see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Henry Holland, 4 November [1864] , nn. 6 and 7. …
… throughout much of 1863 and the early part of 1864 (see Correspondence vols. 11 and 12). …
… Williams & Norgate. Spencer, Herbert. 1864–7. The principles of biology. 2 vols. London: …
… letter and the letter from Henry Holland, 4 November [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12). …
… The Royal Society of London awarded CD the Copley Medal in 1864 (see Correspondence vol. …
… 12, letter from Henry Holland, 4 November [1864] ). Herbert …
… Spencer ’s Principles of biology ( Spencer 1864–7 ) was issued in instalments beginning in …
… vol. 12, letter from Henry Holland, 4 November [1864] and n. 5). For Holland’s …

From J. D. Hooker [11 June 1864]

Summary

CD’s photograph looks like J. R. Herbert’s Moses in the fresco in the House of Lords.

JDH is delighted about oxlip, but hybridity does not explain some large patches that are uniform and do not vary towards either cowslip or primrose.

Encloses letter from W. H. Harvey discussing Myosotis sylvatica and the common dandelion.

Author:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	[11 June 1864]
Classmark:	DAR 101: 225–6; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (letters to J. D. Hooker, vol. 11, no. 178 JDH/2/1/11)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4529

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… From J. D. Hooker [11 June 1864] …
… vol. 11, no. 178 JDH/2/1/11) Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [11 June 1864] Charles Robert Darwin …
… See also letter from W. H. Harvey, 19 May 1864 and n. 4. Harvey refers to John Bain , …
… by the relationship between this letter and the letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] . …
… In 1864, the Saturday following 10 June was 11 June. CD enclosed a …
… with his letter to Hooker of 10 June [1864] . See frontispiece to this volume, and letter …
… from W. E. Darwin, [19 May 1864] . John Rogers Herbert painted a series of frescos, …
… the case in his letter of 10 June [1864] . The common dandelion, Taraxacum officinale , is …
… Daniel Oliver . Hooker did not visit Down until 24 July 1864 (see letter from J. D. …
… Hooker to Asa Gray, 29 July 1864 , Gray Herbarium of Harvard University). Hooker’s …
… 1865). See letter from J. D. Hooker [29 July 1864] . Hooker refers to John Scott . …
… See letter from John Scott, 8 June 1864 and letter from …
… John Scott, 10 June [1864] . See letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] and n. 17. Hooker refers to the cowslip, Primula veris , and …
… Harvey . See enclosure to letter from W. H. Harvey, 19 May 1864 , and letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] . The Hookers visited the …
… Harveys in Ireland during the first two weeks of July 1864 (see letter from J. …
… D. Hooker, 23 June 1864 ). See enclosure. …
… In his letter of 19 May 1864 , Harvey had described a specimen of the common dandelion …

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Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health

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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…

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… Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864 : ‘the venerable beard gives the …
… Darwin corresponded little during the first three months of 1864, dictating nearly all his letters …
… had consulted in 1863. In a letter of 26[–7] March [1864] , Darwin exclaimed to his close friend, …
… letters of advice from Jenner. In a letter of 15 December [1864] to the surgeon and naturalist …
… his cousin William Darwin Fox in a letter of 30 November [1864] , ‘the Copley being open to all …
… five years earlier. His primary botanical preoccupation in 1864 was climbing plants. He had become …
… ( Correspondence vol. 11). In a letter of [27 January 1864] , Darwin wrote to Hooker: ‘The …
… produce tendrils’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [8 February 1864] ). Darwin’s excitement about his …
… & therefore sacred’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 June [1864] ). When Darwin asked Oliver …
… light of axioms’ ( letter from Daniel Oliver, [17 March 1864] ). Though Darwin replied with his …
… . . .’ When he told Asa Gray in a letter of 29 October [1864] that he was continuing to study …
… addition to his work on climbing plants, Darwin engaged in 1864 in botanical observations and …
… were produced. Continuing from these earlier studies, in 1864 he conducted crossing experiments …
… in causing sterility both within and between species in his 1864 paper, ‘Three forms of Lythrum …
… trimorphic Lythrum , and when his health permitted in 1864 he drew up the results (see …
… Darwin remarked to Hooker in a letter of 26 November [1864] that nothing had interested him so …
… species with the common oxlip. In a letter of 22 October [1864] , Darwin triumphantly wrote to …
… flowers ). A household enterprise Darwin’s 1864 correspondence with family members …
… Forms of flowers . The greatest assistance in 1864, however, was provided by William, Darwin …
… minute and painstaking observations, writing on 14 April [1864] , ‘I can do as much pollen work …
… letter from Emma and Charles Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [20 May 1864] ), or his excitement when he …
… for my stomach’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 17 February [1864] ). Darwin was also impressed …
… to inspire the research of others as well; he influenced the 1864 publication of a paper by another …
… publish his new material on them. Nevertheless, his work in 1864 contributed to his 1869 paper …
… continuing identification of insect pollinators in 1864 and following years. John Scott again …
… on the orchid Oncidium to the Linnean Society in 1864 (Scott 1864b). Recognising Scott’s skills …
… paid by Darwin himself ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [1 April 1864] ). Hooker’s series of …
… over them’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 April 1864] ). Hooker warned Darwin: ‘Do pray …
… careful treatment’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 8 April 1864 ). Nevertheless, Hooker solicited and …
… hastening the fall’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 April 1864 ). In his reply of 25 April [1864] …

Darwin's health

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On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…

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… of a fashionable spinal ice treatment. In April 1864, Darwin attributed his improved health to Dr …
… gaining vigour .’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] ) Why was Darwin’s so ill? …
… vol. 12, letter to F. T. Buckland, 15 December [1864] ). On Darwin’s early stomach …
… vol. 4). Throughout the winter of 1863 and spring of 1864, he was sick almost daily (see …
… Chapman. In a letter to J. D. Hooker, [20-] 22 February [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12), …
… in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) on several occasions in 1864 and 1865. ‘Bad hysteria & sickness …
… 12, letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1864] . Treatments and medications …
… doses of chalk, magnesia, and other antacids in March 1864 (see Emma Darwin’s diary, DAR 242, and n. …
… vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] ). …

Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants

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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…

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… an important focus for his experiments. By the spring of 1864, he was thinking of expansion, telling …
… vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March 1864 ). The plan was quickly set in motion, and …
… the work, while William Ledger did the building. By August 1864, he had spent £126 10s. on the new …
… was replaced after Darwin’s death, and one section of the 1864 greenhouse was subsequently …
… vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, [25 January 1864] ). In view of the importance of Darwin …

Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex

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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…

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… the mating process. In a letter to Alfred Russel Wallace in 1864, Darwin claimed that sexual …
… (Correspondence vol. 12, letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] ). Darwin’s theory of …

Diagrams and drawings in letters

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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…

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… W. E. Darwin's observations on Pulmonaria , 14 April [1864] Ernst Haeckel's …

Natural Science and Femininity

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Discussion Questions|Letters A conflation of masculine intellect and feminine thoughts, habits and feelings, male naturalists like Darwin inhabited an uncertain gendered identity. Working from the private domestic comfort of their homes and exercising…

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… Letter 4377 - Haeckel, E. P. A. to Darwin, [2 January 1864] Haeckel sends Darwin some …
… Letter 4436 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [26-27 March 1864] Darwin thanks Hooker for …
… Letter 4469 - Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, [20 April 1864] Hooker discusses the scientific …
… Letter 4472 - Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, [26 or 27 April 1864] Hooker once again discusses …

'An Appeal' against animal cruelty

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The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…

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… for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Annual Report, 1864, p. 32; Animal World , 1 February …
… with the RSPCA; however, the RSPCA Annual Report for 1864 records that 'a benevolent lady, …
… the Royal Horticultural Gardens, South Kensington, in June 1864 ( The Times , 27 May 1864, p. 11, …
… Darwin 2: 200). Although the RSPCA considered in 1864 that many game preservers had …
… were 'awakening to its barbarity' (RSPCA Annual Report 1864, p. 32), the use of the steel …
… payments being recorded from 1854 to 1861, in 1863 and 1864, from 1871 to 1875, and in 1878 and 1880 …

Women’s scientific participation

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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…

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… Letter 4523 - Wedgwood, L. C. to Darwin, [6 June 1864] Darwin’s niece, Lucy, responds …
… Letter 4436 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [26-27 March 1864] Darwin thanks Hooker for …
… - Wright, Charles to Gray, A., [20, 25, 26 March & 1 April 1864] Charles Wright tells …

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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… and Scotland (Lubbock 1862a, 1862b, and 1863a). In the July 1864 issue of Natural History Review …
… address for the British Association meeting at Bath in 1864 (C. Lyell 1864). 3 By …
… Darwin’s theory ([Lubbock] 1863b, p. 213). In May 1864, Lubbock received a letter from …
… 3. Letters from Charles Lyell to John Lubbock, 22 February 1864 and 24 February 1864 (British …
… 12. Letter from Hugh Falconer to John Lubbock, 24 May [1864], in (British Library, Add. MSS 49640) …
… and gentlemen in the formation of the X Club, 1851–1864. Isis 89: 410–44. Bynum, William …
… History Review n.s. 3: 211–19. Lubbock, John. 1864. Cave-men. Natural History Review n …
… revised. London: John Murray. Lyell, Charles. 1864. Presidential address. Report of the …

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…

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… & succeeding in India. John Scott to Darwin, 1864. I was astounded at …

Have you read the one about....

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... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.

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… ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …

Science: A Man’s World?

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Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…

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… Letter 4377 - Haeckel, E. P. A. to Darwin, [2 January 1864] Haeckel sends Darwin some …
… Letter 4441 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, [30 March 1864] Lydia Becker sends Darwin a copy …

Scientific Networks

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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…

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… Letter 4463 — Scott, John to Darwin, C. R., 14 Apr [1864] Scott thanks Darwin for his …
… Letter 4468 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 19 [Apr 1864] Darwin makes another plea to his …
… Letter 4469 — Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, C. R., 20 Apr 1864 Hooker again refuses to help Scott, …
… Letter 4471 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 25 Apr [1864] Darwin thinks his friend Kew …
… Letter 4611 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, 13 Sept [1864] Darwin sends abstract of John Scott …
… Letter 4441 — Becker, Lydia to Darwin, C. R., 30 Mar 1864 Becker sends Darwin a copy of her …

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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… Civil War. DARWIN: 157 February 1864… My dear Gray. It is now six months since I …
… 1863 157 C DARWIN TO A GRAY 25 FEBRUARY 1864 158 C DARWIN TO A GRAY 28 …
… 27 OCTOBER 1862 168 TO ASA GRAY 29 OCTOBER 1864 169 FROM ASA GRAY 5 …

Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865

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On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…

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… a period of severe illness, which improved by March 1864 under the care of the physician William …
… his brain or heart to be ‘primarily affected’. In March 1864, Darwin began to consult Jenner, who …
… Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864], letter from William Jenner to …

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…

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… daughter reveal (J. D. Hooker to Darwin, 16 September 1864 ). In addition to his fears for …

Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments

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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…

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… for the Copley Medal of the Royal Society of London in 1864, had staunchly supported his candidacy, …
… to CD’s theory of transmutation, in or before November 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12, letter to …
… ), and wrote up his results on his voyage to India in late 1864, despite suffering from sea-sickness …
… in learned societies and in the popular press. In December 1864, George Douglas Campbell, the duke …
… this and that modification of structure’ (G. D. Campbell 1864, pp. 275–6). Campbell argued further …

3.5 William Darwin, photo 2

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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s son William, who had become a banker in Southampton, took the opportunity of a short visit home to Down House in April 1864 to photograph his father afresh. This half-length portrait was the first to show Darwin with a…

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… the opportunity of a short visit home to Down House in April 1864 to photograph his father afresh. …
… among the prints that William posted to his father in May 1864, since the photograph subsequently …
… simply inscribed by hand on the back in pencil ‘C. Darwin 1864’ – the accuracy of the dating …
… Erasmus Darwin   date of creation April 1864   computer-readable date 1864-04 …
… William Darwin’s letter to his father [19 May 1864] sending prints of his recent photograph (DCP …

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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… far more satisfied with the results. In 1860-61 and again in 1864 Charles Darwin sat for his eldest …
… photographs of Darwin.The years between 1860 and 1864 took a physical and emotional toll on Darwin, …
… and the Botany Libraries (left) and Charles Darwin, 1864, William Darwin, Dar 225:113, …
… took the first portrait with his ‘venerable beard’ in 1864. Image: Charles Darwin, 1881, …

Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small

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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…

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… able to work’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, [ c . 10 April 1864] ). To the physician Henry Holland, …
… History every day’ ( letter to Henry Holland, 6 November [1864] ). Writing to the clergyman and …

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