From Charles Kingsley 31 January 1862
Summary
CK defended CD’s theory at a shooting party with the Bishop of Oxford, the Duke of Argyll, and Lord Ashburton. The discussion started as a result of shooting some blue rock-pigeons which were different from blue rocks of other localities. CK held that all pigeons were descended from one species.
CK proposed that mythological races, e.g., elves and dwarfs, were intermediate species between man and apes, and have become extinct by natural selection; i.e., by competition with a superior white race of man.
Author: | Charles Kingsley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 169.1: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3426 |
From J. D. Hooker [before 15 February 1862]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 15 Feb 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 7v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3429 |
From J. D. Hooker [31 January – 8 February 1862]
Summary
Wrote a "frightful screed" about aristocracy’s being a necessary consequence of natural selection, and then burnt it.
H. W. Bates is the only man "thinking out" natural selection to any purpose. "I think I have driven Bates back to Nat. Sel. as the only way of solving his difficulties."
HWB’s mimetic butterflies.
JDH wishes he had time to do the same thing with plants.
Owen and Huxley involved in a "contemptible" squabble in the Edinburgh newspapers.
Maximovitch reports Stellaria bulbifera is a Siberian form which never ripens its seeds.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [31 Jan – 8 Feb 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 14; DAR 111: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3430 |
From J. E. Gray 1 February 1862
Summary
Agrees with CD’s estimate of the man [unidentified]. Hopes CD will use his influence with Lubbock to try to prevent the Council’s placing him at the head of the Zoological Society.
Author: | John Edward Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 206 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3433 |
From J. D. Hooker [8 February 1862]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [8 Feb 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3434 |
From Henry Holland [1 or 8 February 1862]
Summary
Suggests a change in the postscript [referred to in 3423].
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 or 8] Feb 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 235 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3435 |
From Charles Augustus Bennet, Lord Tankerville [9 February 1862]
Author: | Charles Augustus Bennet, 6th earl of Tankerville |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [9 Feb 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 157–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3441 |
From Maurice Alberts 10 February 1862
Summary
Has received diploma from the University of Breslau [honorary doctorate in medicine and surgery]. Should he forward it or will CD pick it up in London? [See 3226a and 3446.]
Author: | Maurice Alberts |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Feb 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 230: 9a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3442A |
From W. E. Darwin 12 February [1862]
Summary
Discusses his new microscope.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3443F |
From John Lubbock 13 February 1862
Summary
Hopes CD will come to lunch on Saturday. The Busks and J. D. Hooker are with JL.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Feb 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 170.1: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3444 |
From Maurice Alberts 13 February 1862
Summary
Has forwarded a diploma from the University of Breslau [Honorary Doctorate in Medicine and Surgery].
Author: | Maurice Alberts |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Feb 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 2v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3445 |
From Charles William Crocker 17 February 1862
Summary
Thanks for Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Separation of sexes in Billbergia.
Offers to experiment under CD’s direction, now that he has retired from Kew.
Author: | Charles William Crocker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Feb 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 254 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3449 |
From Andrew Crombie Ramsay 17 February 1862
Summary
In his paper for Geological Society ["Glacial origin of certain lakes", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 185–204] he will prove that all the lake-basins of the Alps were scooped out by glaciers.
Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Feb 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3450 |
From Asa Gray 18 February 1862
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Feb 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 106 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3451 |
From Searles Valentine Wood 18 February 1862
Summary
Variation in Mollusca. The most abundant forms vary most.
Author: | Searles Valentine Wood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Feb 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3452 |
From J. B. Innes 19 February [1862]
Summary
Reports on a bird, offspring of a male mule between a canary and greenfinch, and a hen canary.
Family news.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 167.1: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3454 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 February 1862?]
Summary
Box of Melastomataceae has arrived.
Talked with [Duke of] Argyll about Origin. He is between stools: Owen and Lyell.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Feb 1862?] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3455 |
From J. E. Gray 21 February 1862
Summary
Cites case of Owen’s getting compiler’s name removed from title of a British Museum catalogue.
Author: | John Edward Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 207 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3456 |
From J. D. Hooker 27 February 1862
Summary
Pleased at CD’s opinion of his Arctic plants paper. CD has caught great blunder.
Lack of Arctic–Asiatic species in mountains of tropical Asia does not trouble him. Species seem to indicate some "current of migration" from Europe and W. Asia southeastward to Ceylon – an awful staggerer to bridge migrations.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Feb 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 15–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3461 |
From Charles Lyell [28–31 March 1862]
Summary
Suggests that the height of the water which formed the shelves in Glen Roy was determined not by the height of the blocking glacier but by the height of a col. Notes problems in the idea.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28–31 Mar 1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.274) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3463 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (299) |
Hooker, J. D. | (44) |
Gray, Asa | (21) |
Darwin, W. E. | (17) |
Oxenden, G. C. | (17) |