To John Lubbock 29 [May 1860]
Summary
Local affairs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 29 [May 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 40 (EH 88206484) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2817 |
To John Lubbock 28 November [1860]
Summary
Praise for a paper on the Entomostraca by Lubbock (Lubbock 1862). Thanks for the compliment paid to the Origin and for his general comments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 28 Nov [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 40b (EH 88206449) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3001 |
To J. D. Hooker [20? July 1860]
Summary
CD’s reaction to review of the Origin [by Samuel Wilberforce] in Quarterly Review [see 2881].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [20? July 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 33a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2875 |
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 Daniel Oliver 20 October [1860]
Summary
Will take Natural History Review, but cannot write for it.
Has mass of notes on irritability in orchids,
but he ought to work on Variation.
Drosera was an interlude while away from home. Expectations for effect of carbonate of ammonia on Dionaea. The important phenomenon in Drosera is the segregation of the red fluid within the leaf, not action of carbonate of ammonia on the red fluid.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 20 Oct [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 20 (EH 88206004) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2956 |
To Williams & Norgate 10 February [1866]
Summary
Orders Richard Owen’s Anatomy of vertebrates [1866–8],
subscribes to Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
and orders three back numbers of Medical Times and Gazette.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 10 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (ASHCOMBE COLLECTION/V/52) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5002 |
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 |
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 W. E. Darwin 6 [June 1861]
Summary
Writes regarding the possibility of banking partnership for WED; second note arranges a meeting between the involved parties in London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 6 [June 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 69–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3178 |
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 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John William Lubbock died on 20 June 1865, having suffered from ‘gout and general debility’ since 1860 ( DNB ). Lubbock 1865 , which had been in preparation since the end of 1863, was published in May ( Publishers’ Circular 28: 264, 284). See also Correspondence vol. 12, letter to John Lubbock, [1 January 1864] and n. 5, and letter …
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 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 |
From Hugh Falconer 9 July [1860]
Summary
Hyaena remains show how recently Sicily was joined to Africa.
Reports on the Oxford meeting of BAAS.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 July [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 164.1: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2863 |
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 |
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 |
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- … letter from C. E. Brown-Séquard, 13 January 1862 . Huxley refers to Samuel Wilberforce , bishop of Oxford. Wilberforce’s criticisms of Origin , made at the 1860 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Oxford, had been vigorously answered by Huxley, Joseph Dalton Hooker , and John Lubbock ( …
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Lubbock, John | (2) |
Brady, G. S. | (1) |
Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Lyell, Charles | (5) |
Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Innes, J. B. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
Lyell, Charles | (5) |
Lubbock, John | (4) |
Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
Innes, J. B. | (3) |