To Charles Kingsley 15 July [1866]
Summary
Thanks for information about the publication of CK’s lectures.
Discusses the migration of the eye in flatfish.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
| Date: | 15 July [1866] |
| Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (6 April 2022, lot 237) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5155F |
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- … To Charles Kingsley 15 July [1866] …
- … 6 April 2022, lot 237) Charles Robert Darwin Down 15 July [1866] Charles Kingsley …
- … 186–8. See also Correspondence vol. 14, letter from Charles Kingsley, 12 July 1866 , n. 3. …
- … this letter and the letter from Charles Kingsley, 12 July 1866 ( Correspondence vol. 14). …
- … Kingsley, Charles. 1866b. Superstition. A lecture delivered at the Royal Institution, April 24, 1866. …
From Charles Kingsley 12 July 1866
Summary
Asks for CD’s opinion of the manner of migration of the eye of flatfish.
| Author: | Charles Kingsley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 July 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5154 |
Kingsley, Charles. 1866b. Superstition. A lecture delivered at the Royal Institution, April 24, 1866. Fraser’s Magazine 73: 705–16.
To J. D. Hooker 8 February [1867]
Summary
On the Duke of Argyll and a review of his Reign of law.
Asa Gray’s theological view of variation. God’s role in formation of organisms; JDH’s view of Providence.
Insular and continental genera.
Owen on continuity and ideal types
and on bones of Mauritius deer.
On man.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 10–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5395 |
From A. R. Wallace [19 June 1867]
Summary
CD is invited to see ARW’s collections at Bayswater.
ARW has written an answer to the Duke of Argyll and North British Review criticisms.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [19 June 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B41–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5634 |
From Robert Monsey Rolfe 8 December 1866
Summary
Sending annual Down charities cheque.
| Author: | Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Dec 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 234 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5298 |
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- … 1866 My dear M r Darwin Your letter was forwarded to me in the Country where we are passing a few days in visiting some friends in Hampshire— But we hope to be back at Holwood on Monday— I am sorry that you sh d have had the trouble of writing to me, but I lose no time in sending you a cheque for my annual contribution to the Downe Charities— We have met here M r Charles Kingsley …
From Robert Monsey Rolfe 14 January 1867
Summary
Will introduce Charles Kingsley to CD.
| Author: | Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Jan 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 235 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5360 |
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- … Charles Kingsley had been an occasional correspondent of CD’s since 1859 (see Correspondence vols. 7, 10, 13, and 14), and they may have met in 1854 at a meeting of the Linnean Society (see Colloms 1975 , p. 185). Rolfe also refers to Frances Eliza Kingsley . There is no extant correspondence between CD and Lady Cranworth ( Laura Rolfe ); however, in a letter dated [15 September 1866], …
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