To John Tyndall 4 February 1876
Summary
Sends congratulations and a teapot on the occasion of JT’s engagement.
Is pleased JT is not giving up on the spontaneous generation question. Feels strongly that subject will not be clear until it is understood how J. S. Burdon Sanderson and others succeeded in getting bacteria in infusions they had boiled for a long time.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 4 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 24 (EH 88205962) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10379 |
To John Tyndall 5 June [1876]
Summary
CD has quite given up the marine theory [of Glen Roy] and has accepted glacier lakes. "Nothing makes me gnash my teeth so much as that confounded paper of mine." It is a lesson "never in science to infer one explanation is right because no other one seems possible".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 5 June [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 25 (EH 88205963) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10532 |
From John Tyndall 2 February 1876
Summary
Tells CD of his engagement to Louisa, eldest daughter of Lord Claud Hamilton.
His investigations [into spontaneous generation] continue. He will deal with Bastian’s work [The modes of origin of lowest organisms (1871)].
The medical journals see that the end of the nonsense they have so long countenanced is nigh.
Author: | John Tyndall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: C20–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10377 |
From John Tyndall 5 February 1876
Summary
JT will not quit the subject [of spontaneous generation] until light is let in on every cranny of the question.
Author: | John Tyndall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms. 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 39)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10381 |
From John Tyndall 5 February 1876
Summary
The teapot is exquisite. Louisa says to say "the gift is worthy of the giver. Nothing higher can be said."
Author: | John Tyndall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms. 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 39)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10382 |
letter | (5) |
Tyndall, John | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Tyndall, John | (2) |