To E. S. Morse 23 April 1877
Summary
Thanks for ESM’s address ["What American zoologists have done for evolution", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 25 (1876)].
J. A. Allen’s work is important as apparently showing change through direct action of [external] conditions.
CD has given up trying to understand E. D. Cope and Alpheus Hyatt on acceleration and retardation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Sylvester Morse |
Date: | 23 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10938 |
To E. S. Morse 21 October 1879
Summary
Thanks for ESM’s paper [see 12201].
Remarks on progress of Japan.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Sylvester Morse |
Date: | 21 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12265 |
To E. S. Morse 9 [April] 1880
Summary
[Copy erroneously dated March.]
Has forwarded ESM’s letter to Nature ["Omori shell mounds", Collected papers 2: 222–3].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Sylvester Morse |
Date: | 9 [Apr] 1880 |
Classmark: | Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12570 |
To E. S. Morse 3 December 1871
Summary
Obliged for ESM’s article ["On adaptive coloration of the Mollusca", Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 14 (1870–1): 141–5]. Glad to have error corrected about protective colouring of shells.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Sylvester Morse |
Date: | 3 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8092 |
To E. S. Morse 16 September 1873
Summary
Thanks for ESM’s paper ["On the systematic position of the Brachiopoda", Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 15 (1873): 315–72]. "What a wonderful change … to look at these ""shells"" as ""worms""."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Sylvester Morse |
Date: | 16 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9058 |
From E. S. Morse 18 May 1877
Summary
Lectured on Darwinism in Cincinnati, Minneapolis, Buffalo, and to 3500 people in New York City.
Despite close friendship with Cope and Hyatt and many explanations by the latter, he cannot understand their views.
Thanks CD for appreciation of his papers.
Author: | Edward Sylvester Morse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 May 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 245 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10966 |
From E. S. Morse 26 August 1879
Summary
Sends proofs [of "The shell mounds of Omori, Japan", Tokyo Univ. Mem. 1 (1879)], which may interest CD for the changes between ancient and modern forms.
Author: | Edward Sylvester Morse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Aug 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 246 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12201 |
From E. S. Morse 23 March 1880
Summary
Offended by F. V. Dickins’ review [Nature 21 (1880): 350] of his Omori mound paper. Asks CD to have it reviewed elsewhere and encloses a letter to Nature he wants CD to forward. [See 12571.]
Author: | Edward Sylvester Morse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Mar 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 247; Nature, 15 April 1880, pp. 561–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12544 |
Morse, E. S. | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |