To ? 28 April [1863?]
Summary
Discusses exchange of photographs with Édouard Claparède, "for whom I feel the highest respect".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 28 Apr [1863?] |
Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (6 August 1975, lot 176) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13866 |
To an editor 24 March [1863?]
Summary
Encloses a dialogue on species from a New Zealand newspaper [S. Butler’s First dialogue on evolution, from the Christchurch Press].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 24 Mar [1863?] |
Classmark: | Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4058 |
To Athenæum 18 April [1863]
Summary
Attacks the doctrine of "heterogeny" (spontaneous generation during each geological period) as completely lacking in evidence.
Defends natural selection as connecting large classes of facts in natural history. That certain forms have not changed since remote epochs is not an objection of any force.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | 18 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Athenæum, 25 April 1863, pp. 554–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4108 |
To Athenæum 5 May [1863]
Summary
Replies to a reviewer’s statement, that any theory of descent will connect large classes of facts, by pointing out that no other explanation has been as satisfactory as natural selection. But whatever view is adopted "signifies extremely little in comparison with the admission that species have descended from other species and have not been created immutable".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | 5 May [1863] |
Classmark: | Athenæum, 9 May 1863, p. 617 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4142 |
To W. E. Darwin 22 February [1863 or later]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 22 Feb [1863 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 131 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13799 |
To T. H. Huxley 23 January [1863 or 1864]
Summary
THH’s efforts to obtain Copley Medal for CD fail. Thanks THH for kind words of sympathy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 23 Jan [1863-4] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 254) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2662 |
To W. E. Darwin 29 [June 1863?]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 29 [June 1863?] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3367 |
To J. D. Hooker [after 10 June 1863]
Summary
Notes on drops of nectar on sepals of cypripedium.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [after 10 June 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 151: 331 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3585F |
To [Friedrich Emil Suchsland] [after 19 January 1863]
Summary
Returns book by Friedrich Rolle. Author has sent copies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Emil Suchsland |
Date: | [after 19 Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 618, item 441) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3772 |
To Daniel Oliver 20 [January 1863]
Summary
Has been copying out references from Natural History Review [possibly D. Oliver, "The structure of the stem in dicotyledons; being references to the literature of the subject", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 298–329].
Suggests DO study high incidence of separate sexes in freshwater plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 20 [Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 38 (EH 88206021) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3776 |
To Thomas Henry Huxley 10 [January 1863]
Summary
CD overwhelmed by THH’s praise.
Agrees with his reservations about species theory but not wholly about sterility and gives his reasons for differing.
On Natural History Review, Hugh Falconer, and R. Owen.
Has written a review [Collected papers 2: 87–92] of H. W. Bates’s paper ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 10 [Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 183) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3852 |
To Charles Turner [1 April – 16 June 1863?]
Summary
Asks correspondent whether, when growing hollyhocks, he finds it necessary to space out the different varieties to prevent crossing and thus to obtain true seed [see Variation 2: 108].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Turner |
Date: | [1 Apr – 16 June 1863?] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3886 |
To George Henry Turnbull [16? February 1863]
Summary
Thanks for letting Horwood superintend erection of hothouse.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Turnbull |
Date: | [16? Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 5 (EH 88206057) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3893 |
To T. H. Huxley [before 25 February 1863]
Summary
Two criticisms (one by Henrietta Darwin) of THH’s Lectures [to working men].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [before 25 Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 181) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3896 |
To Asa Gray 2 January [1863]
Summary
Thanks AG for Cypripedium and Mitchella.
Plans to investigate pollination of Cypripedium.
Has finished Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Would welcome facts on "bud-variations".
Hears that Cinchona is dimorphic.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 2 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (56) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3897 |
To Williams & Norgate [7 February 1863 or earlier]
Summary
Wishes to order Botanische Zeitung for 2 and 9 January 1863.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | [7 Feb 1863 or earlier] |
Classmark: | Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections (Paul Philemon Kies Autograph Collection, 1533–1970: 1 Autograph letters, 1533–1970 box 1, folder 55) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3897F |
To J. D. Hooker 3 January [1863]
Summary
Indignant over Owen’s conduct as described in Hugh Falconer’s article on elephants ["On the American fossil elephant of the regions bordering the Gulf of Mexico", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 43–114].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 178 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3898 |
To John Lubbock 4 January [1863]
Summary
Praises JL’s article ["North American archaeology", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 1–26]
and Hugh Falconer on the American fossil elephant [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 43–114].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 4 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3900 |
To Hugh Falconer 5 [and 6] January [1863]
Summary
His admiration for HF’s paper on American fossil elephant.
Notes "temporary irruption of S. American forms into N. America".
Rejoices that HF has "smashed" case of Mastodon on Timor.
Shares HF’s anger at Owen.
He is eager to hear about fossil bird [Archaeopteryx].
Comments on criticisms of species theory by [Johann Andreas?] Wagner.
Describes research on fertilisation of Melastomataceae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 5 and 6 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3901 |
To James Dwight Dana 7 January [1863]
Summary
Responds to JDD’s letter [3845].
Discusses his own poor health.
"Man is our great subject at present."
Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)] sold 4000 copies on day of sale.
"The fossil bird [Archaeopteryx] … is a grand case for me." Wishes a skeleton could be found in the "so-called red sandstone foot-step beds".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
Date: | 7 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3905 |
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