From George Bentham [c. 14 April 1863]
Summary
Asks CD whether he knows of "anything worth looking at" that has appeared abroad on his theory of the origin of species.
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 14 Apr 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 155 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4096 |
To George Bentham 15 April [1863]
Summary
Sends GB a selection of reviews of the Origin from his collection of about 90, with his opinion of some of them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 15 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 700) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4100 |
From George Bentham 21 April 1863
Summary
Has not yet read the pamphlets [selection of reviews of Origin, sent by CD at GB’s request]. Though GB does not go so far as Hooker in accepting all of CD’s hypotheses and does not feel up to a thorough discussion of his views, he hopes in his Linnean Anniversary Address [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1863): xi–xxix] to speak on the present state of the [species] question.
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 156 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4118 |
To George Bentham 22 April [1863]
Summary
Disagrees with GB when he says he is not up to treating the whole subject [the present state of the species question]. He is especially equipped to handle the "great subject of affinities in relation to descent and independent creation".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 22 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 701) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4120 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
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