To T. H. Huxley 3 July [1860]
Summary
Has had a report on Oxford BAAS meeting from Hooker. Asks THH to write about it. Has heard he fought nobly with Owen and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce. Regrets trouble he has caused his friends.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 3 July [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 121) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2854 |
To Daniel Oliver 3 November [1860]
Summary
DO’s candidacy for Professorship of Botany [at University College, London].
Henrietta’s health is better.
Paper in Botanische Zeitung [T. Nitschke, "Über die Reizbarkeit der Blätter von Drosera rotundifolia", 18: 229–34, 237–45, 245–50] missed leading point that plants close longer over animal substances. Carbonate of ammonia works on Lemna and Euphorbia roots.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 3 Nov [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 24 (EH 88206008) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2975 |
To Asa Gray 28 January [1860]
Summary
If an American edition of Origin is considered worth while, CD would like AG’s reviews prefixed to it.
Will use all his strength to produce first part of his three-volume big work [Variation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 28 Jan [1860] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2665 |
To John Innes 28 December [1860]
Summary
News of Etty’s health and of neighbours.
Pleased that JBI likes Origin.
CD never expected to convert people in less than 20 years, though now convinced he is "in the main right". Bishop of Oxford’s review made "splendid fun" of him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 28 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3032 |
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- … Oxford’ ( [Wilberforce] 1860 ). Henrietta Emma Darwin had been ill for some time. She had …
- … Emma & some relations in the House are going to a Ball at the Lubbocks. I see John occasionally but have not seen any other member of the Family for an age. — I am heartily glad that you can give a pretty good account of your son & M rs . Innes, to whom pray give our very kind remembrances & Believe me Dear Innes | Yours very truly | C. Darwin …
To W. D. Fox 17 December [1860]
Summary
Writes of family photographs and health.
Is at work on an enlarged [3d] edition of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 17 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 130a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3025 |
To T. H. Huxley [26 January 1860]
Summary
Has arranged with Baily the poulterer for pigeons for THH to exhibit at Royal Institution lecture.
E. A. Darwin will subscribe to H. Spencer’s book [First principles: a system of philosophy (1862)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [26 Jan 1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 119) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2673 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 [June 1860]
Summary
CD writes of his admiration for pollination contrivances in Gymnadenia. Ask George Bentham whether this plant should be removed from genus Orchis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 [June 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 69 (EH 88206052) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3290 |
To T. H. Huxley 20 July [1860]
Summary
On the Fraser’s Magazine review by Hopkins [see 2860] and the Quarterly Review article by Wilberforce ["Darwin’s Origin of species", 108 (1860): 225–64]. The course of opinion since Oxford BAAS meeting. Asa Gray.
Need for Natural History Review, but fears it will be a burden for THH and lessen his original work. His own problem with work: if he had other duties he would be able to do absolutely nothing in science.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 20 July [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 125) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2873 |
To John Lubbock [18 November 1860]
Summary
Drawing up paper on Drosera but will not publish till results are tested.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [18 Nov 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 39 (EH 88206483) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2988 |
To Charles Lyell 15 April [1860]
Summary
Has resolved not to correct Owen’s misrepresentations in his review of Origin.
Discusses at length the theological implications of natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 15 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.208) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2761 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 March [1860]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2719 |
To Charles Lyell 10 April [1860]
Summary
W. B. Carpenter’s review of Origin [in Br. & Foreign Med.-Chir. Rev. 25 (1860): 367–404] "very good and well balanced, but not brilliant".
"There is a brilliant review by Huxley" [Westminster Rev. 17 (1860): 541–70].
Asa Gray sends good case of selection producing black pigs in Virginia.
Great blow to CD that CL cannot admit potency of natural selection.
Owen’s review in Edinburgh Review [111 (1860): 487–532] "extremely malignant, clever".
Patrick Matthew has published extract in Gardeners’ Chronicle [7 Apr 1860] from his Naval timber and arboriculture [1831], a complete but not developed anticipation of natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 10 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.206) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2754 |
To Asa Gray 22 July [1860]
Summary
Greatly praises AG’s discussion of Origin in Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. [4 (1860): 411–15; 424–6].
Mentions other reviews of Origin; believes the BAAS meeting at Oxford greatly advanced the subject. Has heard his views are gaining ground in Germany.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 22 July [1860] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2876 |
To Charles Lyell 1 [June 1860]
Summary
Comments on review of Origin by Andrew Murray [Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh 4 (1860): 274–91] and views of William Hopkins on Origin ["Physical theories and the phenomena of life" Fraser’s Mag. 61 (1860): 739–52; 62 (1860): 74–90]. The attacks will tell heavily.
Mentions Blyth’s failure to receive appointment as naturalist to China expedition of 1860.
Encloses letter from Asa Gray.
Discusses gestation period in domesticated dogs.
Comments on hybrid fertility.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 1 [June 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.214) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2820 |
To John Murray [25 January 1860]
Summary
CD asks how soon JM will go to press with Journal [of researches]; thinks he had better look it over to see if progress of science has made any correction necessary.
P.S. Asa Gray has written that Origin has caused great excitement in U. S. Agassiz has denounced it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | [25 Jan 1860] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.64–67) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2632 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 June [1860]
Summary
CD’s response to criticism of natural selection. Exasperated at not being understood. He tries to narrow the gap between himself and JDH.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 June [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2821 |
To Asa Gray 8 June [1860]
Summary
Discusses recent reviews of Origin and has made a note on Owen’s [see 2737].
Has become interested in the floral structures of orchids.
Notes his recent observations on Primula; believes he has found male and female forms.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 8 June [1860] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (40) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2825 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 March [1860]
Summary
Lyell and CD would urge JDH to make his essays into a book, but see he has embarked on a huge project with G. Bentham [Genera plantarum, 3 vols. (1862–83)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2728 |
From Charles Théophile Gaudin [15 August 1860]
Summary
Offers to supply CD with information about a new "race" of bees with a larger proboscis. They produce more honey as a result of being able to probe to greater depths.
Author: | Charles-Théophile Gaudin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 Aug 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 164 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2897 |
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