From David Forbes [after 11 December 1860]
Author: | David Forbes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 11 Dec 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 150 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2621 |
From Alfred Russel Wallace [December? 1860]
Summary
Gives an extract from L. von Buch on the flora of the Canaries [Physikalische Beschreibung der Canarische Inseln (1825)].
Natural selection does not explain why animals of different groups in the same place often resemble each other.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Dec? 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 45: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2627 |
From J. M. Rodwell 6 December 1860
Summary
Discusses Origin, suggesting confirmation might come from studying reproduction in microscopic organisms.
Gives anecdotal observations of blind rats and white cats.
Author: | John Medows Rodwell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Dec 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 169–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3012 |
From J. D. Hooker [6–11 December 1860]
Summary
JDH’s page-by-page criticisms on Origin, first edition, as requested by CD for preparation of the third edition.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6–11 Dec 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 218 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3013 |
From T. H. Huxley [before 14 December 1860]
Summary
Would be glad to have Chauncey Wright’s [Origin] review for the Natural History Review.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 14 Dec 1860] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (39) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3022 |
From G. C. Wallich 14 December [1860]
Summary
Response to [3020]. CD has been misled by errors made in the Times notice [5 Dec 1860, p. 5]. GCW does not doubt that Foraminiferous matter as well as other deep sea deposits vary greatly in thickness, but positive results are difficult to establish. Some areas of the sea bed are bare but their extent has not been established. He now thinks that he was too hasty in the conclusion that deep currents produce abrasion and rounding of gravel.
Author: | George Charles Wallich |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR Pamphlet collection (bound in Wallich 1860) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3023A |
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 |
From J. D. Hooker 28 December 1860
Summary
CD’s article worth publishing in Gardeners’ Chronicle. JDH interprets CD’s observation in terms of selection. Has observed similar phenomenon in Cruciferae, where it can be taxonomically important.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Dec 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 143–4, 146–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3033 |
From Gideon Lincecum 29 December 1860
Summary
Gives observations on the habits of the "agricultural ant" of Texas.
Author: | Gideon Lincecum |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Dec 1860 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3035 |
letter | (9) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Forbes, David | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Lincecum, Gideon | (1) |
Rodwell, J. M. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Forbes, David | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Lincecum, Gideon | (1) |
Rodwell, J. M. | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Wallich, G. C. | (1) |
Wedgwood, Elizabeth | (1) |