To Cuthbert Collingwood 14 March [1861]
Summary
CD is not surprised at CC’s entire rejection of his views. Agrees that there is no direct proof of unlimited variation. Says natural selection should be viewed as comparable to wave theory of light: it is probable because it groups and explains a host of facts in several fields of science.
Agrees Louis Agassiz’s review [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 30 (1860): 142–55] is not unfair, but Agassiz misunderstands CD. His "categories of thought" are to CD merely empty words.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Cuthbert Collingwood |
Date: | 14 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add. MS. 37725, ff. 6–9b) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3088 |
From Cuthbert Collingwood 15 February 1866
Summary
Going to Orient as naturalist aboard the Rifleman. Offers CD his services.
Author: | Cuthbert Collingwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 212 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5008 |
To Cuthbert Collingwood 16 February [1866]
Summary
Regrets that his health prevents their meeting, but offers some suggestions for the expedition to the Malay Archipelago and coast of China: the search of caverns in the Malay Archipelago for fossil bones, deep sea dredging in the tropics, glacial action in any moderately steep mountains, means of geographical distribution, the history of domestic animals in these regions, and gestures and expressions of real savages as compared with our civilised expressions. [See 5008 and 5011.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Cuthbert Collingwood |
Date: | 16 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5008B |
From Cuthbert Collingwood 20 February 1866
Summary
Thanks for CD’s suggestions. [From CD’s notes on CC’s previous letter, these were (1) means of distribution; (2) domestic animals; (3) gestures of savages.]
Author: | Cuthbert Collingwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 213 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5011 |
From Cuthbert Collingwood 30 March 1868
Summary
Sends CD his book [Naturalist on the China Sea (1868)].
Author: | Cuthbert Collingwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Mar 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6073 |
letter | (5) |
Collingwood, Cuthbert | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Collingwood, Cuthbert | (2) |