To ? 19 March [1860–1?]
Summary
Recommends papers on Styrian Cave insects and American cave animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 19 Mar [1860–1] |
Classmark: | King’s College London Archives (TH/PP MISC) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13770G |
To William Erasmus Darwin [4 March 1860]
Summary
Discusses the direction of WED’s studies.
Tells of the response to the Origin and the impact that it has made in England and abroad.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [4 Mar 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2675 |
To Asa Gray 2 March [1860]
Summary
Has been ill with pleurisy.
Sends more corrections and additions for American edition of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 2 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (24) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2718 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 March [1860]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2719 |
To T. H. Huxley 4 March [1860]
Summary
Gardeners’ Chronicle has reprinted THH’s Times review.
W. H. Harvey made weak attack on Origin [Gard. Chron. (1860): 145–6], to which Hooker made admirable rejoinder [Gard. Chron. (1860): 170–1].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 4 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 109) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2720 |
To a Bookseller 4 March [1860]
Summary
Orders J. B. Jukes’s Student’s manual of geology [1857] and Macmillan’s Magazine (Dec 1859).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bookseller. |
Date: | 4 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (MA 1492) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2721 |
To James Lamont 5 March [1860]
Summary
Responds to JL’s comments on effect of natural selection on grouse or reindeer.
Asks if dirt adheres to feet of water-birds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Lamont, 1st baronet |
Date: | 5 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2722 |
To Williams and Norgate? 6 March [1860]
Summary
Orders first part of vol. 3 of Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Histoire naturelle générale des règnes organiques [3 vols. (1854–62)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 6 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2723 |
To S. P. Woodward 6 March [1860]
Summary
Will be glad to have SPW’s criticisms of Origin.
Discusses his use of terms, "typical" and "specialisation".
Emphasises large body of facts explained by his theory of species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 6 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 379 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2724 |
To Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther 6 March [1860]
Summary
Reports on the snakes he collected in the Galapagos.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Date: | 6 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2725 |
To Asa Gray 8 March [1860]
Summary
Further additions and corrections for American Origin.
Views of Owen, G. H. K. Thwaites, and W. H. Harvey on CD’s theories.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 8 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (31) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2726 |
From Frederick Wollaston Hutton 8 March 1860
Author: | Frederick Wollaston Hutton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Mar 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 241 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2727 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 March [1860]
Summary
Lyell and CD would urge JDH to make his essays into a book, but see he has embarked on a huge project with G. Bentham [Genera plantarum, 3 vols. (1862–83)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2728 |
To Joseph Prestwich 12 March [1860]
Summary
Asks if JP can send criticism of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Prestwich |
Date: | 12 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 147 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2729 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 [March 1860]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 [Mar 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2730 |
To G. H. K. Thwaites 21 March [1860]
Summary
Is pleased GHKT goes a little way with him.
Has rectified in foreign editions of Origin his omission of an explanation of the failure of many forms to progress;
also has discussion of beauty in MS. Does GHKT really believe Diatomaceae, for instance, were created beautiful so that man, millions of generations later, should admire them through a microscope? CD attributes most of these structures to unknown laws of growth; useful structures are accounted for by natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Date: | 21 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2731 |
To H. G. Bronn 21 March [1860]
Summary
Thanks HGB [for his Morphologische Studien (1858)].
Pleased at quickness of translation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Date: | 21 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2732 |
To W. R. Greg 21 March [1860?]
Summary
Is glad to read Greg’s remarks on Origin. Discusses MS Greg has sent for review on proportion of sexes at birth.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Rathbone Greg |
Date: | 21 Mar [1860?] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (December 1996) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2732F |
To W. D. Fox 22 [March 1860]
Summary
Only proof that internal organs and bones were intermediate would convince CD of the possibility of the astounding [deer] hybrid WDF has reported.
Has WDF positive knowledge that common ganders do not always turn white?
Has begun his larger books. New editions of Origin will appear.
What is right and wrong in it will soon be sifted.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 22 [Mar 1860] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 127) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2733 |
To Octavian Blewitt 27 March [1860]
Summary
Declines the honour of acting as Steward at the Annual Dinner of the Royal Literary Fund.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Octavian Blewitt |
Date: | 27 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan 96: RLF 4/15 1860 file 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2733F |
letter | (27) |
Darwin, C. R. | (25) |
Hutton, F. W. | (1) |
Williams & Norgate | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |