To Charles Lyell 5 [July 1860]
Summary
Glad CL plans trip to Amiens to investigate flints and post-glacial period.
Mentions support by Huxley, Hooker, and Lubbock at Oxford BAAS meeting. Asa Gray also goes on fighting.
Likes article by William Hopkins ["Physical theories and the phenomena of life", Fraser’s Mag. 61 (1860): 739–52; 62 (1860): 74–90].
Comments on hybrids of hare and rabbit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 5 [July 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.221) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2860 |
To Charles Lyell 30 July [1860]
Summary
Comments on BAAS meeting: "our side seems to have got on very well". Asa Gray, too, is fighting nobly.
Comments on review [by Samuel Wilberforce] in the Quarterly [Rev. 108 (1860): 225–64].
Mentions a favourable review in the London Review.
Wonders if German translation [of the Origin] by Bronn has drawn attention to the subject.
The Natural History Review to be edited by Huxley and others.
Expects CL’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)] to be a bombshell.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 30 July [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.222) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2881 |
To Charles Lyell 4 May [1860]
Summary
Is sending CL an arrow-head. Says John Lubbock tells of vast numbers of flint tools in peat in France. Urges CL to conduct further research on the subject.
Comments on paper by J. S. Newberry concerning palaeozoic deposits in America [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 29 (1860): 208–18]
and on A. von Keyserling’s view of species change.
Mentions J. W. Salter’s chart arranging Spirifer.
Comments on Andrew Murray’s paper on the Origin ["On Mr Darwin’s theory of the origin of species", Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh 4 (1860): 274–91].
A Manchester newspaper article says CD has proved "might is right".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 4 May [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.210) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2782 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Garioch, Inverurie. Early in April 1860, John Lubbock travelled with Joseph Prestwich and …
- … John Lubbock tells of vast numbers of flint tools in peat in France. Urges CL to conduct further research on the subject. Comments on paper by J. S. Newberry concerning palaeozoic deposits in America [ Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 29 (1860): …
To Charles Lyell 8 [May 1860]
Summary
Did not know about separation between Silurian and Cambrian.
Cannot attend Geological Society meeting.
Etty [Henrietta Darwin] ill.
Sedgwick in his attack at Cambridge Philosophical Society states "there must be [on CD’s theory] large genera not varying".
Discusses migration of plants and animals from Old World to New.
Views of Asa Gray on Aster.
Mentions flora of coal period.
Has been elected to Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 8 [May 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.211) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2788 |
To Charles Lyell 17 March [1863]
Summary
His better opinion [of work of Boucher de Perthes].
Explains his position on CL’s treatment of species.
Mentions positive response to his ideas on the part of a German professor [Ernst Haeckel], Alphonse de Candolle, and a botanical palaeontologist [Gaston de Saporta].
Notes negative reaction of entomologists.
Mentions Falconer’s objections [to Antiquity].
Mentions work of Hooker.
Comments on paper by Owen ["On the aye-aye", Rep. BAAS 32 (1862) pt 2: 114–16]
and CD’s review of Bates’s paper [Collected papers 2: 87–92].
Thinks Natural History Review is excellent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 17 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.291) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4047 |
To Charles Lyell 2 September [1859]
Summary
CL’s research on flint tools.
Promises to send proof-sheets of Origin. Discusses his view of species.
Ill health of himself and his family.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 2 Sept [1859] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.167) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2486 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Lubbock, 19 [July 1855] ). Greenstreet Green (or Grinstead Green) is a village close to Farnborough, Kent. See letter to John Murray, 2 September [1859] . The diagram, which illustrates the divergence of animals and plants through the action of natural selection, is in Origin , between pp. 116 and 117. CD refers to the letter from Alfred Russel Wallace that accompanied Wallace’s manuscript on geographical distribution ( Wallace 1860 ). …