To Charles Lyell 18 July [1858]
Summary
Thanks for abstract of Etna paper [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 148 (1858): 703–86]. Never expected to see Élie de Beaumont’s theory ["craters of elevation"] so completely upset. "He must have picked out favourable cases for measurement."
More than satisfied by what was done at Linnean Society [joint reading of CD’s and Wallace’s papers: "Tendency of species to form varieties", Collected papers 2: 3–19]. Intends to prepare longer abstract.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 18 July [1858] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.155) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2309 |
To J. D. Hooker [18 July 1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [18 July 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 243 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2310 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 July [1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 July [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 244 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2311 |
To W. D. Fox 21 [July 1858]
Summary
After all, CD is now beginning to prepare an abstract of his species theory. Recounts the events leading to joint paper with A. R. Wallace at Linnean Society. Lyell and Hooker urge strongly that he publish a fuller abstract. It is impossible to do justice to subject in an abstract.
His sister, Marianne Parker, has died.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 21 [July 1858] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 118) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2312 |
To J. D. Hooker [5 August 1858]
Summary
Working on abstract, which now is to consist of a number of sections each to be read at Linnean Society and to be published as a unit. Has finished section on variation under domestication.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [5 Aug 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 246 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2313 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 [July 1858]
Summary
Six children have died of scarlet fever in Down village.
Writing abstract is amusing and improving work. Thanks JDH and Lyell for setting him to it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 [July 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 247 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2314 |
To William Jackson Hooker [30 July 1858]
Summary
Thanks WJH for an extract on seed transport by sea. [Letter sent with 2314.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Jackson Hooker |
Date: | [30 July 1858] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence S. American letters 1852–8, 38: 148) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2315 |
To J. D. Hooker [10 August 1858]
Summary
Thanks JDH for stylistic corrections on MS of large and small genera.
Observations, while walking along headlands, on thistle-down blown out to sea and then blown inland.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [10 Aug 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 245 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2318 |
To T. C. Eyton 4 August [1858]
Summary
Has finished arranging his pigeons’ skeletons. May consult TCE on them.
CD is at work on an abstract of his conclusions on species and varieties [Origin]. His "bigger book" [Natural selection] will take two or three more years.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 4 Aug [1858] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.156) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2319 |
To J. S. Henslow 4 August [1858]
Summary
CD and his family have come to the seashore, driven from home by scarlet fever at Down, death [of Charles Waring Darwin], and other family illness. Sorry to miss seeing JSH.
Would be grateful to hear his objections to CD’s species speculations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 4 Aug [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A53–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2320 |
To Asa Gray 11 August [1858]
Summary
Species migration since the Pliocene. Effect of the glacial epoch. Present geographical distribution, especially similarities of mountain floras, explained by such migration; mountain summits as remnants of a once continuous flora and fauna.
Cross-fertilisation in Fumariaceae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 11 Aug [1858] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (42 and 9a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2321 |
To Trenham Reeks? 13 August [1858]
Summary
Has been asked to set a price on slate relief slabs [see 2236]. Would appreciate advice from correspondent as he would like to buy pictures with the money.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Trenham Reeks |
Date: | 13 Aug [1858] |
Classmark: | British Geological Survey Archives (GSM 1/501) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2323 |
To John Phillips 1 September [1858]
Summary
Explains that he cannot serve as President of the Zoological Section at the BAAS meeting [1858].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Phillips |
Date: | 1 Sept [1858] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.157) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2324 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 8 September [1858]
Summary
Has finished with and is disposing of his pigeons.
Invites WBT to Down; would like to see his bees’ cells.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 8 Sept [1858] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2325 |
To W. E. Darwin 22 [September 1858]
Summary
Discusses domestic affairs.
Is working at the abstract of his book [Origin].
Asks WED to examine birds’ feet for dirt sticking to them, as this may represent a means of seed dispersal across seas.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 22 [Sept 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2328 |
To the Secretary, Royal Society 28 September 1858
Summary
Recommends W. B. Carpenter’s latest part of memoir on Foraminifera be published in Philosophical Transactions [R. Soc. Lond. 149 (1859): 1–41].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Royal Society of London |
Date: | 28 Sept 1858 |
Classmark: | The Royal Society (RR3: 41) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2330 |
To John Lubbock [November 1858]
Summary
Praise for abstract of JL’s paper on insects ["On the ova and pseudova of insects", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 9 (1857–9): 574–83].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [Nov 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 25 (EH 88206474) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2331 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 2 October [1858]
Summary
Ask some questions on pigeons.
Remarks on the discussion of bees’ cells at the Leeds BAAS meeting. CD fancies he has the true theory with regard to their construction.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 2 Oct [1858] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2332 |
To T. C. Eyton 4 October [1858]
Summary
Comments on TCE’s skeletons.
Must get advice from Hugh Falconer on names of some bones.
Preparing his abstract [Origin].
Asks about colours of horses and stripes on asses.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 4 Oct [1858] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.158) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2333 |
To [J. D. Hooker] [before 6 October 1858]
Summary
Asks whether there are dogs in Spain like English pointers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [before 6 Oct 1858] |
Classmark: | Tim Lewens (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2333F |
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Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
Babington, C. C. | (2) |
Bentham, George | (2) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (4) |
Busk, George | (1) |
Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
Chancellor of the Exchequer | (1) |
Covington, Syms | (1) |
Darwin, Emma | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (14) |
Egan, James | (2) |
Elliot, Walter | (1) |
Eyton, T. C. | (3) |
Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (12) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
Gould, A. A. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (5) |
Harcourt, E. W. V. | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (3) |
Higgins, John | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (44) |
Hooker, W. J. | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (4) |
Jenyns, Leonard | (4) |
Kippist, Richard | (1) |
Leighton, W. A. | (1) |
Librarian | (1) |
Linnean Society | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (3) |
Lyell, Charles | (5) |
Miller, W. H. | (1) |
Murchison, R. I. | (2) |
Paget, James | (1) |
Phillips, John | (1) |
Poole, Skeffington | (4) |
Reeks, Trenham | (2) |
Rolfe, R. M. | (1) |
Royal Society of London | (3) |
Shaw, H. N. | (1) |
Smith, Frederick (a) | (1) |
Spencer, Herbert | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (15) |
Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
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Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (156) |
Hooker, J. D. | (44) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (15) |
Darwin, W. E. | (14) |
Fox, W. D. | (12) |