To George Henslow 7 December [1871]
Summary
Refers GH to vol. 2, p. 431 of Variation for the "perplexed conclusion" at which CD has arrived on variation and design. Has nothing to add to this statement.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Henslow |
| Date: | 7 Dec [1871] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (C.452) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8099 |
From George Henslow 5 December 1871
Summary
Has frequently defended evolution and natural selection among his clergy brethren.
Now elicits CD’s views on chance.
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 172 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8097 |
Henslow, George. 1871b. Genesis and geology: A plea for the doctrine of evolution; being a sermon preached, November 5th, 1871, at St. John’s Church, Marylebone, by the Rev. George Henslow. London: Robert Hardwicke.
Henslow, George. 1871a. Phyllotaxis; or, the arrangement of leaves in accordance with mathematical laws. [Read 20 February 1871.] Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute 6 (1873): 129–40.
To Hubert Airy 10 [December] 1871
Summary
Discusses movement of ears and contraction of the platysma.
Discusses phyllotaxy, citing work of Carl Nägeli and Chauncey Wright.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hubert Airy |
| Date: | 10 [Dec] 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8060 |
From Hubert Airy 12 December 1871
Summary
Thanks for letter and reference to Nägeli’s observations on leaf arrangement in the bud.
| Author: | Hubert Airy |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Dec 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8105 |
From J. D. Hooker 23 July 1871
Summary
Identifies Henslow’s mouse that used tail as prehensile climbing organ as Mus messorius.
Has not seen the Quarterly Review.
Inquires after Lyell’s health.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 July 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 264 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7879 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 July [1871]
Summary
Honoured by Abutilon name; describes observations on its fertilisation.
Henrietta’s marriage a great loss to him.
Latest Quarterly Review has article, "evidently by Mivart", that cuts CD into mincemeat.
Asks for name of species of mouse J. S. Henslow used to keep [see 598].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 July [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 199–200 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7878 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 January [1871]
Summary
Finished the last proofs of Descent a few days ago. "I shall be well abused."
St George Mivart’s Genesis [of species]: very good, unfortunately theological. Will tell heavily against natural selection but not against evolution, and this is "infinitely more important".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 Jan [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 186–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7448 |
From Francis Darwin [22 June 1878]
Summary
Describes his talk with Julius von Sachs about canary-grass.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [22 June 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12131F |
To Albert Günther 3 October [1871]
Summary
Thanks AG for answer about Galaxias.
Asks him to mention questions about the ears of Mus to other naturalists.
Will send another copy of Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].
AG has proved Ceratodus to be a "wonderfully interesting creature" ["Descripton of Ceratodus", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 161 (1871): 511–72].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Date: | 3 Oct [1871] |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (15) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7983 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1871 and n. 6. CD refers to John Stevens Henslow . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 July [1871] and n. 6. CD was probably recalling an abstract of an article by Josef Schöbl ( Schöbl 1871 ) in Nature ; see letter from Albert Günther, 1 October 1871 and n. 6. See letter from Albert Günther, 1 October 1871 and n. 2. CD refers to Wright 1871a and 1871b, and to St George …
From J. M. Herbert [28 March] 1834
Summary
A letter full of news of Cambridge and friends: the BAAS meeting at Cambridge; charges of corruption in the University; the Cambridge petition on behalf of Dissenters.
| Author: | John Maurice Herbert |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Mar] 1834 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 126 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-240 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Henslow , Adam Sedgwick , Charles Babbage , and George Peacock . A copy, made by Joseph Romilly , University Registrary, is in the Cambridge University Archives (CUR 118). See also Winstanley 1940 , pp. 83–96. The third university was Trinity College, Dublin ( Cumberland ). Herbert continued the letter by writing vertically across the first page. The appeal to abolish religious tests in the universities failed. They were not repealed until 1871. ‘ …
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