To Charles Lyell 10 April [1860]
Summary
W. B. Carpenter’s review of Origin [in Br. & Foreign Med.-Chir. Rev. 25 (1860): 367–404] "very good and well balanced, but not brilliant".
"There is a brilliant review by Huxley" [Westminster Rev. 17 (1860): 541–70].
Asa Gray sends good case of selection producing black pigs in Virginia.
Great blow to CD that CL cannot admit potency of natural selection.
Owen’s review in Edinburgh Review [111 (1860): 487–532] "extremely malignant, clever".
Patrick Matthew has published extract in Gardeners’ Chronicle [7 Apr 1860] from his Naval timber and arboriculture [1831], a complete but not developed anticipation of natural selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 10 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.206) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2754 |
To H. G. Bronn 10 April [1860]
Summary
Has received copies of translation of Origin. Thanks HGB for undertaking it.
Comments on review by F. J. Pictet ["Sur l’origine de l’espèce, par Charles Darwin: analyse et critique",Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. n.s. 7 (1860): 231–55].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
| Date: | 10 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2755 |
To Williams & Norgate 10 April [1860]
Summary
Asks Williams & Norgate to forward one copy of the German translation of Origin (Bronn trans. 1860) to Jan van der Hoeven, and another to Jacob Moleschott.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
| Date: | 10 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | Alexander Autographs (dealers) (20 February 2005, Lot 273) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2755F |
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Bronn, H. G. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Williams & Norgate | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Bronn, H. G. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Williams & Norgate | (1) |
