From Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood 25 December [1860?]
Summary
Charlotte [Wedgwood Langton?] reports from Mr Wallis on time of day that sundew opens.
Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Dec [1860?] |
Classmark: | DAR 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3030 |
To Charles Lyell 20 [June 1860]
Summary
Blyth’s effort to raise money for a Chinese expedition.
Comments on free-will in animals.
Says natural selection is not in the same category with Huxley’s "force" and "matter".
Discusses remarkable variation in period of gestation in dogs and ducks.
Discusses Arctic flora.
Has been working on orchids; they beat woodpeckers in adaptation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 20 [June 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.219) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2838 |
To Hugh Falconer 12 July [1860]
Summary
Eldest daughter [Henrietta] very ill.
CD enjoys Owen’s having had "a good setting down".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 12 July [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2865 |
To J. D. Hooker [3 July 1860]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [3 July 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2856 |
To Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny 16 July [1860]
Summary
Confirms CGBD’s impression given in a letter to J. S. Henslow that CD in the Origin did not touch directly upon the final causes of sexuality, which CD considers one of the "profoundest mysteries in nature". CD is inclined to stress sexuality as the means of keeping forms constant and checking variation although he grants its role in the origination of varieties. [See 2869.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny |
Date: | 16 July [1860] |
Classmark: | Magdalen College, Oxford (MC:F26/C1/118) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2869A |
To A. G. More 3 July [1860]
Summary
Thanks for orchid specimens.
On 10th and 11th will be at Tunbridge Wells.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Goodman More |
Date: | 3 July [1860] |
Classmark: | Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2857 |
To Asa Gray 22 July [1860]
Summary
Greatly praises AG’s discussion of Origin in Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. [4 (1860): 411–15; 424–6].
Mentions other reviews of Origin; believes the BAAS meeting at Oxford greatly advanced the subject. Has heard his views are gaining ground in Germany.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 22 July [1860] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2876 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Wedgwood lived, from 10 July 1860 to 2 August (‘Journal’; Appendix II). CD had taken the water-cure at Edward Wickstead Lane’s establishment at Sudbrook Park, Richmond, Surrey, from 28 June 1860 to 7 July (‘Journal’; Appendix II). He refers to the long-continued illness of Henrietta Emma Darwin . …
From J. D. Hooker [11 May – 3 December 1860]
Summary
CD’s divergent series explains those anomalous plants that hover between what would otherwise be two species in a genus.
Inclined to see conifers as a sub-series of dicotyledons that developed in parallel to monocotyledons, but retained cryptogamic characters.
Mentions H. C. Watson’s view of variations.
Man has destroyed more species than he has created varieties.
Variations are centrifugal because the chances are a million to one that identity of form once lost will return.
In the human race, we find no reversion "that would lead us to confound a man with his ancestors".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [11 May – 3 Dec 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.5: 217 (Letters), DAR 47: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3036 |
letter | (8) |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Wedgwood, Elizabeth | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Daubeny, C. G. B. | (1) |
Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Daubeny, C. G. B. | (1) |
Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |