To W. H. Miller 27 December [1860]
Summary
Discusses measurements of bees’ cells.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Hallowes Miller |
Date: | 27 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2609 |
To John Murray 30 [January 1860]
Summary
Suggests it would be easier and cheaper if he were given one or two pages in preface [to Journal of researches] for two or three important errors. Would like to take out one sentence if present preface is not stereotyped. Table of contents is shabby.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 30 [Jan 1860] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.92–93) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2616 |
To W. H. Miller 31 December [1860]
Summary
Thanks WHM for information about honeycombs. Discusses his own measurements of combs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Hallowes Miller |
Date: | 31 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.189) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2617 |
To Edward Cresy [12 November 1860]
Summary
Thanks for information about the weight of water.
Describes experiments on Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | [12 Nov 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2620 |
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 William Masters [after 7 April 1860]
Author: | William Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 7 Apr 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 77: 39–40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2622 |
From Daniel Oliver [15–16 October 1860]
Summary
Extracts from botanical literature dealing with Dionaea, intercrossing, and sensitivity. [Bot. Ztg. (1833): 96; Thomas Nuttall, Genera of N. American plants (1818)].
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15–16 Oct 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.2: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2623 |
From Bernard Peirce Brent [1860?]
Author: | Bernard Peirce Brent |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1860?] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 217 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2624 |
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 |
To S. P. Woodward 9 [July 1860]
Summary
Regrets he cannot answer SPW’s questions.
Discusses antiquity of subaerial volcanoes.
Disagrees "entirely & absolutely" with L. von Buch’s "elevation-crater-theory".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 9 [July 1860] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2630 |
From Asa Gray [10 January 1860]
Summary
Agassiz denounces Origin as "atheistical";
AG is currently reviewing it [in Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 29 (1860): 153–84].
Jeffries Wyman praises it, though not a convert.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [10 Jan 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 26a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2631 |
To John Murray [25 January 1860]
Summary
CD asks how soon JM will go to press with Journal [of researches]; thinks he had better look it over to see if progress of science has made any correction necessary.
P.S. Asa Gray has written that Origin has caused great excitement in U. S. Agassiz has denounced it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | [25 Jan 1860] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.64–67) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2632 |
To Thomas Henry Huxley 1 January [1860]
Summary
Will keep THH’s secret [of authorship of Times review of Origin]. It has made deep impression.
J. D. Dana’s illness.
Daily News accuses him of plagiarising Vestiges.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 1 Jan [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 94) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2633 |
To [John Hawkshaw?] 1 January [1860]
Summary
Returning Thomas George Bonney’s certificate, which it was a pleasure to sign.
Delighted that JH is interested in his book [Origin?]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Hawkshaw |
Date: | 1 Jan [1860] |
Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 139), Geological Society of London (Membership certificates, 1860, p. 116) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2633F |
From William Whewell 2 January 1860
Summary
Thanks CD for the Origin. WW is not yet a convert but there is so much "of thought and of fact" in what CD has written that "it is not to be contradicted without careful selection of the ground and manner of the dissent".
Author: | William Whewell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2634 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 January [1860]
Summary
High praise and detailed comments on JDH’s introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae, which CD has now finished reading.
Disagrees on power of transoceanic migration. Advocates glacial transport of plants.
CD’s response to reviews of Origin in Saturday Review [8 (1859): 775–6] and John Lindley’s in Gardeners’ Chronicle [but see 2651].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Jan [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2635 |
From H. C. Watson [3? January 1860]
Summary
Notes by HCW on the Origin dealing especially with divergence and convergence. Believes there is some natural tendency to converge into groups in opposition to divergence generated by natural selection.
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3? Jan 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 135–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2636 |
To Charles Lyell 4 [January 1860]
Summary
Praises CL’s work on human species.
A critical review of Origin in Saturday Review [24 Dec 1859].
A letter from J. G. Jeffreys criticises CD’s geological statements.
A note from William Whewell concerning Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 4 [Jan 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.190) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2637 |
To J. T. Smith 4 January 1860
Summary
Remembers reading Smith’s memoir in Geological Transactions on the anomalous nature of Ventriuculidae. Asks for a copy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joshua Toulmin Smith |
Date: | 4 Jan 1860 |
Classmark: | Indiana University, The Lilly Library (Sieveking MSS) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2637F |
To H. C. Watson [5–11 January 1860]
Summary
Discusses the possibility of "convergence" occurring; believes it could be only very limited.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Date: | [5–11 Jan 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 136a (verso); The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/5: 77–87) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2639 |
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