To John Tyndall 20 October 1868
Summary
Invites JT to come to Down with the Asa Grays and Hookers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 20 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 6 (EH: 88205944) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6424 |
To John Tyndall 7 October 1868
Summary
Asks JT to distribute some circulars about the work of Gustavus Hinrichs of Iowa, whom CD wishes to help.
Admires JT’s Norwich address [to Mathematics and Physics Section, BAAS meeting, Rep. BAAS 38: 1–6] and his Fortnightly Review paper on scientific discovery [7 (1867): 645–60].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 7 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 5 (EH: 88205943) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6413 |
From John Tyndall 9 October 1868
Summary
Gustavus Hinrichs is also a [not highly regarded] correspondent of JT’s; he will put GH’s papers on the table at Royal Institution to ease CD’s conscience.
Dined with the Asa Grays at Hooker’s. Told Mrs Gray that CD’s ill health was a benefit because it caused him to ponder a great deal.
Author: | John Tyndall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: C1–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6414 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From John Tyndall 9 October 1868 …
- … DAR 106: C1–2 John Tyndall Royal Institution 9 Oct 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … the importance of ‘pondering’ in science, see the letter to John Tyndall, 7 October 1868 . …
- … Hinrichs , see the letter to John Tyndall, 7 October 1868 . Tyndall refers to James Dwight …
Tyndall, John. 1868. [Presidential address to the section for mathematics and physics.] Report of the 38th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Norwich, Transactions of the sections, pp. 1–6.
To T. H. Huxley [13–21 September 1868]
Summary
Sends a page to be sent on to Charles William Nunn.
Offers sympathy for the illness of THH’s son, Henry (Harry) Huxley.
Wishes he could have attended the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting at Norwich.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [13–21 Sept 1868] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6381F |
To B. D. Walsh 31 October 1868
Summary
Thanks BDW for extracts about "drumming" [of male Cicada to attract females].
Asa Gray and Hooker doubt that 13–year and 17–year Cicada forms should be considered distinct species. CD is inclined to agree with them.
Suggests observations be made of ratio of females to males in the rarer form.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 31 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 16) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6437 |
From G. D. Hinrichs 31 August 1868
Summary
Explains "Pantogen".
Summarises his papers.
Asks for help in finding a publisher.
Criticises d’Archiac’s review of Origin [in Paléontologie stratigraphique 2 (1864)].
Author: | Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 221 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6337 |
To T. H. Farrer 29 October [1868]
Summary
Suggests THF write a paper on violets. Asa Gray, once a sceptic, now declares he is convinced whole structure of a flower is adapted for a cross with another individual.
Urges THF not to give up Pangenesis lightly. "It has thrown light on my mind in regard [to] a great series of complex phenomena."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 29 Oct [1868] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6435 |
To G. D. Hinrichs 16 September 1868
Summary
Acknowledges letter of 31 August and various works. Regrets he is unable to help GH with his works but will seek to interest Tyndall. Discourages GH on prospect of publication of his new book in England.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs |
Date: | 16 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois History and Lincoln Collections (Hinrichs Papers, IHLC MS 712, Box 5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6367 |
From J. D. Hooker [20 August 1868]
Summary
Reports on Norwich address [Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): lviii–lxxv]. Left out some things, i.e., Asa Gray’s being superseded.
Tyndall says CD and JDH are types of "unconscious merit".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [20 Aug 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 227–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6326 |
From J. D. Hooker 30 August 1868
Summary
The newspapers’ pother about his mild theology.
Tyndall’s reference to JDH and CD as the two "modestest" men in science.
Huxley offended the clergy twice without cause or warrant.
William Hooker ill.
Astronomers do not like JDH’s reference to them.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 229–32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6333 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 August [1868]
Summary
Pleased at success of JDH’s address. Has read several press reports.
Spectator pitches into JDH about theology ["Dr Hooker on the evidences", 22 Aug 1868, pp. 986–7].
Feels JDH has "immensely advanced the belief in evolution of species".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Aug [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 85–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6327 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 February 1868
Summary
Rejoices over news of Variation sales.
Pall Mall Gazette review [7 (1868): 555, 636, 652] is undoubtedly by G. H. Lewes [see 5951].
Dinner at Lyells’.
Dean Stanley favours a monument to Faraday in Westminster Abbey.
Perceval Wright is back from Seychelles and reports on plants he collected.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 198–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5874 |
From J. D. Hooker [3 March 1868]
Summary
Now quite understands Pangenesis. Satisfaction given by it, as CD says, may depend on one’s mental constitution. In all cases of descent JDH has always thought "all the properties of the parents are transmitted in the one cell and were diffused to every part of the future offspring".
Tyndall believes he feels atoms as firmly as St Paul believed he saw Christ.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 204–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5971 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1868 (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 16, Appendix II)). The X Club was established in 1864 by Hooker, Tyndall, Thomas Henry Huxley , George Busk , Edward Frankland , Herbert Spencer , John …
- … 1868] . Hooker refers to the moss Bryum androgynum (now Aulacomnium androgynum ) and the orchid Malaxis paludosa (a synonym of Hammarbya paludosa , the bog orchid), in which foliar embryos at leaf-tips can effect vegetative reproduction ( Mabberley 1997 ). John Tyndall . …
To J. D. Hooker 6 January [1868]
Summary
Thanks for plant names.
H. C. Watson a renegade about natural selection. Discusses HCW’s views.
F. Müller’s letter enclosed.
Friedrich Hildebrand’s experiments are splendid for Pangenesis [Die Geschlechter-Vertheilung bei den Pflanzen (1867)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 39–40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5779 |
From J. D. Hooker 22 June 1868
Summary
The grass [see 6243] is Sporobolus elongatus, common in the tropics.
Visit to Oxford with X Club.
On his forthcoming address.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 June 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 218–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6254 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1868 . CD had sent a grass grown from a seed found in locust dung to Hooker for identification; Hooker had sent it to William Munro , an expert on grasses. On the X-club, a dining club established in 1864 primarily for younger ‘men of science’, see Barton 1998 . Hooker refers to John and Ellen Frances Lubbock ; Thomas Henry and Henrietta Anne Huxley ; William and Eliza Taylor Spottiswoode ; John Tyndall ; …
From G. A. Gaskell 13 November 1878
Summary
Discusses three "laws of race preservation" which are evolving: (1) natural selection; (2) the sociological law of sympathetic selection, or indiscriminate survival; (3) moral law – social selection or the "Birth of the Fittest".
Author: | George Arthur Gaskell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Nov 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11744 |
To J. D. Hooker [10–]12 November [1862]
Summary
So JDH did write the Gardeners’ Chronicle review [of Orchids]! CD guessed it from the little slap at R. Brown.
Dawson’s lecture has nothing new. Absurd to assume Greenland under water during whole of glacial period. Suggests absence of certain plants in Greenland due to seeds not surviving in sea-water. Suggests an experiment on vitality in sea-water of plants that might be in Greenland. Is more willing to admit a Norway–Greenland land connection than most other cases.
Urges JDH to warn Tyndall on his glacial theory of valleys in Switzerland.
Is working on cultivated plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [10–]12 Nov [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 169 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3801 |
To Charles Lyell 14 October [1862]
Summary
Further comments on Jamieson’s theory of the formation of the roads of Glen Roy; paper by Jamieson dealing with glaciation in Scotland ["On the ice-worn rocks of Scotland", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 164–84].
Comments on paper by A. C. Ramsay on the glacial formation of lakes ["On the glacial origin of certain lakes", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 185–204].
Criticises remarks by John Tyndall on glacial formation of Swiss valleys.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 14 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.267), The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen. 112/2840–3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3761 |
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Hinrichs, G. D. | (1) |
Tyndall, John | (1) |
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Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Hinrichs, G. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
Tyndall, John | (4) |
Hinrichs, G. D. | (2) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |