From George Stewardson Brady 19 March 1865
Summary
CD’s statement in Origin that clover is utterly dependent on humble-bee for fertilisation has been questioned by his friend’s evidence of visits by other insects. Asks CD’s opinion.
Author: | George Stewardson Brady |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 276 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4790 |
To John Lubbock 8 March [1859]
Summary
Wants examples of insects (especially Diptera) in which embryo resembles adult, to show that the metamorphic stages may be lost.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 8 Mar [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 29 (EH 88206478) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2426 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … manual, and directory 1859 and 1860. John William Lubbock , John Lubbock’s father was …
- … John Lubbock , 16 [March 1859] and 21 [March 1859] . Ellen Frances Lubbock . The Mid-Kent Railway Company had financed a short railway extension from Beckenham to Lewisham, along what was known as the Farnborough extension. The line had opened for business in 1857, but Farnborough never became a station on it. In 1859, there was a movement to finance a further extension from the Crystal Palace station, near Penge, to Norwood, which may have included Farnborough. The line was not constructed due to financial disagreement with the Brighton Railway Company in 1860. …
To Andrew Murray 28 April [1860]
Summary
Has read MS of AM’s review [of Origin, read at Edinburgh Royal Society, 20 Feb 1860]; has no complaints. Has never heard of a hostile reviewer’s doing so kind and generous an action [as sending his MS for CD’s criticism?]. Sends some remarks on details.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray |
Date: | 28 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | Dartmouth College Library (MSS 000566); R. D. Pyrah (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2772 |
From John Lubbock 22 and 26 March 1865
Summary
JL’s MS at printer’s [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Apologises for failure to post letter.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 and 26 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4791 |
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 W. E. Darwin [25 May 1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [25 May 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3157 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … W. E. Darwin, [4 March 1860] ). See letter to John Lubbock, [25 May 1861] and letter to …
- … John Lubbock in May and June of 1861. All pertain to negotiations carried out in connection with William’s appointment as partner in a Southampton bank. Postmarks on envelopes that contained three of the letters, preserved in DAR 210.6, confirm the dating. Lubbock’s ‘friend’ was George Atherley , partner in the Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southampton, for which Lubbock’s bank, Robarts, Lubbock & Co . , were the London agents ( Banking almanac 1861). Prior to 1860, …
Lubbock, John. 1862e. On the geologico-archæological discoveries in Denmark, Switzerland, and France. [Read 19 February 1862.] Report of the Proceedings of the Geological and Polytechnic Society of the West Riding of Yorkshire 4 (1860-2): 238–73.
From Robert Patterson 18 October 1860
Author: | Robert Patterson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Oct 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 46.1: 89–90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2954 |
To J. B. Innes 1 September [1863]
Summary
Family and local news, and memories of old times.
CD’s youngest son, Horace, is too delicate to go to school.
CD has had a bad summer, is still ill, can do very little work – "Botany … is all that I am good for".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 1 Sept [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4287 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 April [1865]
Summary
On Lubbock’s plans.
Visited by Antoine Auguste Laugel.
Guessed right on Bentham’s "Planchon".
Much struck by Thomson’s article on nomenclature [see 4812]; importance of this subject.
Sorry best scientists read so little; few read any long papers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Apr [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 265 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4814 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … John Lubbock, 22 and 26 March 1865 and n. 3). The reference is to Auguste Laugel . In 1860, …
- … John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London: Macmillan. Jordan, Alexis. 1864. Diagnoses d’espèces nouvelles ou méconnues, pour servir de matériaux à une flore réformée de la France, et des contrées voisines. Paris: F. Savy. Laugel, Antoine Auguste. 1860. …
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 Athenæum 18 April [1863]
Summary
Attacks the doctrine of "heterogeny" (spontaneous generation during each geological period) as completely lacking in evidence.
Defends natural selection as connecting large classes of facts in natural history. That certain forms have not changed since remote epochs is not an objection of any force.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | 18 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Athenæum, 25 April 1863, pp. 554–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4108 |
To William Erasmus Darwin [4 March 1860]
Summary
Discusses the direction of WED’s studies.
Tells of the response to the Origin and the impact that it has made in England and abroad.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [4 Mar 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2675 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … John Lubbock’s wife, Ellen Frances Lubbock , and to Lubbock’s brother Montagu, who was 18 years old. Emma Darwin’s diary records that she went to London on 24 February 1860. …
- … John Lubbock, 17 December [1859] ). William served in the University Volunteers and was also an officer in the Down Corps ( F. Darwin 1914 , p. 20). On 29 January 1860, …
From T. H. Huxley 20 January 1862
Summary
The Witness attacks THH’s lecture.
Assures CD he spoke more favourably of his doctrines than the reports show.
Agrees with CD’s arguments on sterility of hybrids and predicts physiological experiments will produce physiological species sterile inter se. Has come even closer to CD’s view especially since Primula paper. Will soon be more Darwinian than CD.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 291 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3396 |
From Thomas Henry Huxley 16 January 1864
Summary
Asks CD to sign certificate nominating Flower for Royal Society.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 300 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4388 |
From J. B. Innes 13 June 1868
Summary
Writes about difficulties in which S. J. O. Horsman, curate at Down, has involved himself and others. Horsman has said he would resign. JBI offers to give up his interests in the living at Down.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 June 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6241 |
From John Lubbock to Emma Darwin 6 November 1863
Summary
Returns a borrowed extract from the [Zoological?] Record.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 6 Nov 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4331 |
To W. E. Darwin [26 May 1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [26 May 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3160 |
To T. H. Huxley 10 November [1860]
Summary
On the prospectus of Natural History Review. Suggests it might offer information on whether subjects that correspondents may wish to investigate have been done already.
Henrietta still very seriously ill.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 10 Nov [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 143) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2979 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John Lubbock , Robert M’Donnell, Daniel Oliver , Philip Lutley Sclater , Charles Wyville Thomson , and Edward Perceval Wright . CD’s copies of the Natural History Review (1861–5) are in the Darwin Library–CUL. Huxley’s oldest son had died in September (see letter to T. H. Huxley, 18 September [1860] ). …
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 ). …
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