To A. D. Bartlett 24 August [1860]
Summary
Sends copy of Origin.
Discusses stripes on hybrid of donkey and wild ass.
Will let ADB know if lady consents to sending rabbits to [Zoological] Gardens.
Asks about gestation of Canidae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
Date: | 24 Aug [1860] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4273 |
To Charles Lyell 14 [June 1860]
Summary
Mentions letters from Edward Blyth and William Hopkins.
Sees little in review of Origin by J. A. Lowell [Christian Examiner (1860): 449–64].
Sees only one sentence approaching natural selection in paper by Hermann Schaaffhausen. Emphasises importance of natural selection.
Comments on Agassiz’s view of species.
Cites account of flint tools in travel book by F. P. Wrangell [Narrative of an expedition to the Polar Sea (1840)]. Mentions Eskimo tools.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 14 [June 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.216) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2832 |
To Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther 6 March [1860]
Summary
Reports on the snakes he collected in the Galapagos.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Date: | 6 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2725 |
To T. H. Huxley 21 [January 1860]
Summary
Sends copy of 2d ed. of Origin, with list of corrections.
Is at work on "fuller work" [Variation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 21 [Jan 1860] |
Classmark: | Janet Huxley (private collection); Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 102) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2660 |
To Charles Lyell 15 and 16 [February 1860]
Summary
Auguste Bravard’s discoveries magnificent.
Bravard has sent pamphlets [Observaciones geológicas (1857) and Monografia de los terrenos marinos terciarios (1858)] with strange doctrine that Pampean deposit is subaerial.
Review of Origin by Wollaston [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 5 (1860): 132–43] clever and misinterprets CD only in a few places.
Wallace’s MS ["Zoological geography of the Malay Archipelago", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 4 (1860): 172–84] admirably good.
Henslow "will go very little way with us". "He, also, shudders at the eye!"
Baden Powell says CD’s statement about eye is conclusive.
Leonard Jenyns cannot go as far as CD, yet cannot give good reason.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 15 and 16 Feb 1860 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.198); The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B1/ Lyell Temp Box 3.1 Folder_6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2700 |
To Charles Lyell 23 [September 1860]
Summary
Hopes to get Asa Gray’s review of Origin republished.
Argues for single origin of mammals.
Encloses two phylogenetic diagrams indicating possible descent of mammals.
Comments on rodents, marsupials, and dingo in Australia,
and on a paper on the survival of stumps as a result of root grafting.
Argues that man had a single progenitor and consists of a single species.
Comments on destruction of non-white races.
Discusses introduction of rodents to islands by man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 23 [Sept 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.227) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2925 |
To Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny 16 July [1860]
Summary
Confirms CGBD’s impression given in a letter to J. S. Henslow that CD in the Origin did not touch directly upon the final causes of sexuality, which CD considers one of the "profoundest mysteries in nature". CD is inclined to stress sexuality as the means of keeping forms constant and checking variation although he grants its role in the origination of varieties. [See 2869.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny |
Date: | 16 July [1860] |
Classmark: | Magdalen College, Oxford (MC:F26/C1/118) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2869A |
From J. D. Hooker [11 May – 3 December 1860]
Summary
CD’s divergent series explains those anomalous plants that hover between what would otherwise be two species in a genus.
Inclined to see conifers as a sub-series of dicotyledons that developed in parallel to monocotyledons, but retained cryptogamic characters.
Mentions H. C. Watson’s view of variations.
Man has destroyed more species than he has created varieties.
Variations are centrifugal because the chances are a million to one that identity of form once lost will return.
In the human race, we find no reversion "that would lead us to confound a man with his ancestors".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [11 May – 3 Dec 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.5: 217 (Letters), DAR 47: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3036 |
To F. M. Wedgwood 5 March [1860–9]
Summary
Thanks for a shell of an edible mollusc and also specimens of blind cave animals, which he will present in FW’s name to the British Museum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frances Mosley (Fanny Frank) Mosley; Frances Mosley (Fanny Frank) Wedgwood |
Date: | 5 Mar [1860–9] |
Classmark: | Alan Wedgwood (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5984F |
To Charles Lyell 14 January [1860]
Summary
Review of Origin in Gardeners’ Chronicle [31 Dec 1859].
Criticises views of J. G. Jeffreys on non-migration of shells. Cites case of Galapagos shells.
Mentions Edward Forbes’s theory of submerged continental extensions. Cites Hooker’s [introductory] essay [in Flora Tasmaniae (1860)] for evidence against any recent connection between Australia and New Zealand.
Discusses Huxley’s views of hybrid sterility.
Questions whether Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire believed in species change. Mentions views of Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.
The distribution of cave insects.
CD’s study of man.
The problems of locating French and German translators.
Huxley’s criticism of Owen’s views on human classification.
The sale of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 14 Jan [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.192) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2650 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 [March 1860]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 [Mar 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2730 |
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