From George Bentham 21 May 1863
Summary
Returns CD’s pamphlets.
Wishes CD would work out further what keeps certain species immutable for great periods.
Feels himself a convert, but cannot go all lengths with CD.
Feels some reviewers distort CD’s argument.
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 157 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4172 |
From J. D. Hooker 9 November 1856
Summary
JDH approves MS section on geographical distribution.
Never felt so shaky about species before.
His objections to some mechanisms of distribution that CD proposes.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Nov 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 105–10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1983 |
From Asa Gray 23 January 1860
Summary
American edition of Origin. AG’s assessment of the book’s weak and strong points. Suggests Jeffries Wyman would be a useful source of facts and hints for CD.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Jan 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 22–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2663 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 July [1858]
Summary
Correcting proof for CD–Wallace paper. Has begun abstract.
Large and small genera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 July [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 244 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2311 |
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- … Bentham 1858 . George Bentham was an expert on temperate and tropical plants and had not …
To Heinrich Fick 26 July [1872]
Summary
Thanks HF for his essay ["Über den Einfluss der Naturwissenschaft auf das Recht", Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 18 (1872): 248–77]. CD gives views favouring competition among trades unions and the working classes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Heinrich Fick |
| Date: | 26 July [1872] |
| Classmark: | Helene Fick ed. 1897–1908, 2: 314–15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8427F |
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- … Nevertheless under any system, temperate & frugal workmen will have an advantage & leave …
To J. D. Hooker 17 March [1863]
Summary
Lyell’s Antiquity of man lacks originality.
Statements in Lyell provoke CD to determine exact publication date of Origin and JDH’s introductory essay [to Flora Tasmaniae].
CD now believes in repeated periods of global cooling and migration.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 187 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4048 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 March [1863]
Summary
Ill health.
At work on Variation.
Reading JDH on Welwitschia.
Letter from Lyell defends his position on species.
Anger at Owen.
John Lubbock’s lectures.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 184 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4024 |
From J. D. Hooker [24 November 1846]
Summary
Thanks for reading paper. Accepts CD’s criticisms; discussion of some points.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [24 Nov 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 77–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1032 |
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- … more fully his Mexican type by ‘including temperate or dry or highland *parts of both [ …
To Asa Gray 7 January [1860]
Summary
Comments on AG’s memoir on Japanese plants [see 2599]; relationship of Japanese flora to N. American.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 7 Jan [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (15) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2645 |
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- … America, and of other parts of the northern temperate zone. [Read 14 December 1858 and 11 …
To J. D. Hooker 25 December [1844]
Summary
Questions on JDH’s sketch comparing floras of Australia, New Zealand, and western S. America; wishes to know botanical relations between other southern islands. Botanico-geographical discussions and comments on books sent by JDH.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Dec [1844] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-803 |
From Charles Lyell 16 January 1865
Summary
His view of Origin.
Belief of Duke of Argyll that substituting "variation" and "selection" for creation deifies them.
Thinks Argyll would accept evolution except for man.
A’s view of humming-birds.
Describes discussion with [Victoria,] Princess Royal of Prussia, about evolution.
New edition of Elements consistent with Origin.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Jan 1865 |
| Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 384–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4746 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 August 1881
Summary
Responds to JDH’s outline history of plant geography.
Considers Humboldt the "greatest scientific traveller who ever lived".
Discusses the origin and rapid radiation of angiosperms in Cretaceous period.
Comments on importance of work of Alphonse de Candolle, Saporta, Axel Blytt.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 6 Aug 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 518–23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13277 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 July [1866]
Summary
His reasons for rejecting Atlantis hypothesis connecting Madeira and Canary Islands.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 July [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 294, 294b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5167 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 May 1866
Summary
Refers to enclosure from Asa Gray
with whom he can talk calmly now that war is over. North had no right to resort to bloodshed.
Startled by CD’s attendance at Royal Society soirée.
Has asked E. B. Tylor to make up questions for consuls and missionaries, through whose wives a lot of most curious information [for Descent?] could be obtained.
Tying umbilical cord has always been a mystery to JDH.
John Crawfurd’s paper on cultivated plants is shocking twaddle ["On the migration of cultivated plants in reference to ethnology", J. Bot. Br. & Foreign 4 (1866): 317–32].
R. T. Lowe back from Madeira.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 May 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 71–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5089 |
From Charles James Fox Bunbury to Charles Lyell 3 February 1866
Summary
Discusses Louis Agassiz’s theory of the glaciation of Brazil.
| Author: | Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 3 Feb 1866 |
| Classmark: | F. J. Bunbury ed. 1891–3, Later life 1: 134–6. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4995F |
From J. D. Hooker 26 November 1850
Summary
Falconer’s misbehaviour.
Geology of Khashia [Khasi] mountains. Speculations on mountain building and origin of Himalayas.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Nov 1850 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 314–15 JDH/1/10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1371 |
To Hugh Falconer 29 December [1862]
Summary
Has HF met with any cases of what gardeners call "sports" and what CD will call "bud-variations"?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 29 Dec [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3883 |
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- … rather often with flowers from warmer temperate regions grown in hot St. Domingo. Can you …
To J. D. Hooker 8 August [1866]
Summary
Admits that occasional transport is not a well-established hypothesis but believes it more probable than continental extension as an explanation for the stocking of islands.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 Aug [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 297 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5185 |
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- … measure from the Azores, not to Newfoundland, but to the more Southern & temperate States? …
To Daniel Mackintosh 13 November 1880
Summary
Comments on DM’s ["The Moel-Tryfan shelly deposits", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 37 (1881): 351–69].
Comments on cause of earthquakes.
Believes formation of ice lowered level of sea.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Mackintosh |
| Date: | 13 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 334 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12812 |
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- … attracted to them, and the land on the temperate regions would thus appear to have risen …
To John Murray 14 May [1859]
Summary
Approves specimen sheet [of Origin]. Sorry book will be so long. Has now written half of last chapter; it is as long as his estimate of the entire chapter. Now thinks it will run to 6000 or 7000 words. Will do his utmost to improve his style. Anxious to publish soon; he knows of two men already writing on the subject, starting from his Linnean Society paper ["On the tendency of species to form varieties", Collected papers 2: 3–19]. Will send a diagram for the book.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 14 May [1859] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.40–40A) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2462 |
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- … America, and of other parts of the northern temperate zone. [Read 14 December 1858 and 11 …
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Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
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- … on the mountains of Abyssinia, and likewise to those of temperate Europe. This is one of the most …
- … than at present in various parts of the tropics, where temperate forms apparently have crossed; but …
- … So again, on the island of Fernando Po, Mr. Mann found temperate European forms first beginning to …
- … of the torrid zone harmoniously blended with those of the temperate. So that under certain …
- … have co-existed for an indefinitely long period mingled with temperate forms. At one time …
- … cannot look to the peninsula of India for such a refuge, as temperate forms have reached nearly all …
- … of Java we see European forms, and on the heights of Borneo temperate Australian productions. If we …
- … continent to its southern extremity; but we now know that temperate forms have likewise travelled …
- … are on the mountains of Brazil a few southern and northern temperate and some Andean forms, which it …
- … number of forms in Australia, which are related to European temperate forms, but which differ so …
2.22 L.-J. Chavalliaud statue in Liverpool
Summary
< Back to Introduction At about the time when a statue of Darwin was being commissioned by the Shropshire Horticultural Society for his native town of Shrewsbury, his transformative contributions to the sciences of botany and horticulture were also…
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- … Moncur, who also worked on the north and south blocks of the Temperate House at Kew. The Palm House …
Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865
Summary
On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…
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- … lumbago– fundament–rash. Always been temperate– now wine comforts me much– could …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
Summary
At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … would migrate towards the equator during an ice age and that temperate species would survive at …
Rewriting Origin - the later editions
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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions. Many of his changes were made in…
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- … of similar species in both the northern and southern temperate zones. In the first edition of …
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
Summary
The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
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- … observed distributions, such as the presence of the same temperate species on distant mountains, and …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
Summary
[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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- … Settlement – a thoroughly convict colony – a healthy temperate climate – far removed from civilized …
