From Aleksander Jelski [1860–82]
Summary
AJ, a collector, would like a few lines from CD and an autographed photograph.
Author: | Aleksander Jelski |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1860–82] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13848 |
From Robert Scot Skirving [1860?]
Summary
Tells of shooting wood-pigeons that had in their crops acorns that did not grow locally.
[Fragment of letter glued to 2197.]
Author: | Robert Scot Skirving |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1860?] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 250a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2196 |
From R. S. Skirving [1860?]
Summary
Pigeons in Egypt alight on trees rather than on the mud hovels of the natives [see Variation 1: 181].
[Two fragments glued to 2196.]
Author: | Robert Scot Skirving |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1860?] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 250b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2197 |
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [January? 1860]
Summary
Prepared to think world infinitely old, but not that life originated with a single cell. Questions whether geological evidence supports gradual progress in organisation. HW thought scientific opinion during Vestiges debate was against this hypothesis. Argues that presence of same senses in lower animals and vertebrates does not imply descent; assumes resemblance is due to living in same world and thus having organs for the same purposes. Wants CD to know how others may see these questions.
Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Jan? 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 48: 83–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2389 |
From John Lubbock [after 28 April 1860?]
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 28 Apr 1860?] |
Classmark: | DAR 48: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2394 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
From Joshua Toulmin Smith 6 January 1860
Summary
Sends a copy of his Ventriculidae [of the Chalk (1848)]. This group, he feels, is well represented by CD’s plate of graduating species [Origin, ch. 4].
Author: | Joshua Toulmin Smith |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 32.ii (EH 88206084) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2642 |
From Thomas Bridges [October 1860 or later]
Author: | Thomas Bridges |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Oct 1860 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 85: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2643 |
From Asa Gray 23 January 1860
Summary
American edition of Origin. AG’s assessment of the book’s weak and strong points. Suggests Jeffries Wyman would be a useful source of facts and hints for CD.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Jan 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 22–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2663 |
From John Murray 27 January 1860
Summary
Presents statement of expenses and anticipated profit of the new edition of 3000 copies [of Origin].
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Jan 1860 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 41913 p. 78) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2664B |
From Charles James Fox Bunbury 30 January 1860
Summary
On the Origin. Before expressing his disagreements, CJFB praises CD’s labour, patience, fairness, and other qualities which make the work "one of the most important that has ever appeared in Natural History". [See 2690.]
Author: | Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2669 |
From George Robert Waterhouse [February 1860]
Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Feb 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 152 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2674 |
From Philip Lutley Sclater [3? February 1860]
Author: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3? Feb 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 289 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2683 |
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