From George Maw 1 June 1865
Summary
Reports a monstrous pig that looks like an elephant. It was born of a pregnant sow which had been frightened by a circus elephant. He offers the monster, which died at birth, to any London museum.
| Author: | George Maw |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 June 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4847 |
From W. E. Darwin 13 January [1881]
Summary
He is buying a portable fire engine, and suggests one is purchased for Down. Wishes to join the Geological Society of London. Is eager to hear Leslie Stephen’s opinion.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Jan [1881] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 86) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13010F |
To J. D. Hooker 11 December [1860]
Summary
On JDH’s suggestions for new edition of Origin.
Gray’s Atlantic Monthly articles to be published [in England] as a pamphlet.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 Dec [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 80, 78E |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3019 |
To W. E. Darwin 14 January [1881]
Summary
Discusses earthworm activity
and animal grazing on slopes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Jan [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 171 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13013 |
To B. D. Walsh 4 December [1864]
Summary
Discusses Agassiz’s misrepresentations of his views and J. D. Dana’s "wild notions".
The reception is friendlier from younger scientists in France, and many of the best men in Germany.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Date: | 4 Dec [1864] |
| Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4695 |
From J. W. Salter 18 June 1867
Summary
Offers to send parts of J. Syme, English botany [1863–86] in appreciation of CD’s aid.
Comments on CD’s species theory.
Will exhibit Cambrian fossil at next meeting of Geological Society.
| Author: | John William Salter |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 June 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5571 |
To David Forbes 11 December [1860]
Summary
Encourages Forbes to publish his geological observations on Chile.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | David Forbes |
| Date: | 11 Dec [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 150 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3019F |
To Charles Lyell 20 May 1869
Summary
Cites article by David Forbes dealing with the geology of the S. American Cordillera ["Geology of Bolivia and South Peru", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 17 (1861): 7–62].
Discusses the flexures of the Cordillera, the age of the mountains, and basaltic dikes in granite areas.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 20 May 1869 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.370) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6751 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter of 5 May 1869 . CD refers to ‘On the geology of Bolivia and southern Peru’ by David Forbes ( Forbes 1860 ). For Forbes’s references to CD, see Forbes 1860 , pp. 10, 11, and 29. George Wareing Ormerod’s revised Classified index to the Transactions, Proceedings, and Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London …
To T. F. Jamieson 24 January [1863]
Summary
Impressed with TFJ’s Glen Roy paper.
TFJ has treated CD’s errors very gently.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Francis Jamieson |
| Date: | 24 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | McConnochie 1901, pp. 236–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3941F |
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To Gaston de Saporta 24 December 1877
Summary
Such honours as proposal for election to Institut affect CD very little.
GdeS’s idea that dicotyledonous plants were not developed until sucking insects evolved is a splendid one. The suggestion that fertilisation of the surviving members of the most ancient dicotyledons should be studied is a good one. CD hopes GdeS will keep it in mind.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
| Date: | 24 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11287 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 May [1856]
Summary
CD is unsure about JDH’s recommendation that he publish a separate "Preliminary Essay". It is unphilosophical to publish without full details.
CD will work for Huxley’s admission to Athenaeum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 May [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 162 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1874 |
From W. E. Darwin [16 January 1881]
Summary
Thanks CD for writing for papers to enter Geological Society. Will return Leslie Stephen’s letter. Has had a severe frost. Emma’s puppy died.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [16 Jan 1881] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 100) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13023F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Geological Society of London . See letter to W. E. Darwin, 14 January [1881] and n. 5. CD was trying to determine whether worms had played a role in the formation of horizontal ledges on steep grassy slopes. Sara Darwin . CD had asked Stephen for advice about how to reply to Samuel Butler (see letter to Leslie Stephen, 11 …
From W. E. Darwin [13 March 1881]
Summary
Cannot write so is using Lily as secretary. Proud to be member of Geological Society. Sends observations of rhododendron leaves. Could not find piece of ploughed land. Has proved Josiah Wedgwood III’s death in North Eastern Railway Company. Taking care because head hurts.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Mar 1881] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 101) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13141F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter dated March 13 1881 says he has looked at 29 more Rhododendron leaves & 18 were drawn in by base & 11 by top or apex. —’ (DAR 65: 44). Elizabeth Gaskell Norton was known as Lily; she was Sara Darwin ’s niece. CD had organised the signing of the certificate for William’s membership of the Geological Society of London ( …
To Hugh Falconer [7 March 1857]
Summary
Thinking about HF’s paper on Plagiaulax [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 13 (1857): 261–82]. Owen might answer that all Purbeck mammals are marsupials.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | [7 Mar 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3791 |
To Richard Owen [15 December 1837 – 9 June 1838]
Summary
Sends RO a box of fossils from William Darwin Fox, from the Isle of Wight.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [15 Dec 1837 – 9 June 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 115 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-418F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11 December was 15 December; in 1838, the Friday before 12 June was 9 June. The letter from Fox has not been found. Owen described the fossils, found by Fox in freshwater beds at Binstead and Seafield quarries on the Isle of Wight, in a paper delivered on 7 November 1838 to the Geological Society of London , …
From Hugh Falconer 10 September 1863
Summary
Is having E. Suess’s essay [see 4284] translated; will forward it as soon as it is done.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Sept 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4298 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Geological Society of London 19 (1863): xviii). CD was undergoing treatment at James Smith Ayerst’s hydropathic establishment at Malvern Wells, Worcestershire (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix II)). Falconer refers to his ongoing research on the palaeontological evidence relating to prehistoric humans, and on Pleistocene mammals ( DSB ). Falconer had arranged to visit the Auvergne with Édouard Lartet , who organised visits to palaeontological collections and meetings with palaeontologists (see the letter …
To J. D. Hooker [13 March 1846]
Summary
Agrees with JDH about Forbes’s views.
Discusses A. Saint-Hilaire’s lectures and asks on what grounds botanists judge the relative "highness" of plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [13 Mar 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-961 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … London on 11 March, see n. 2, below. Charles James Fox Bunbury recorded that he met both CD and Edward Forbes at the Geological Society council meeting of 11 March 1846, where Bunbury and Forbes discussed E. Forbes 1846 (F. J. Bunbury ed. 1891–3, Middle life 1: 124–5). The expenses of CD’s trip to London are recorded in his Account Book (Down House MS). The letter …
From Hugh Falconer to William Sharpey 25 October 1864
Summary
Describes CD’s qualifications for Copley Medal.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | William Sharpey |
| Date: | 25 Oct 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 475 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4644 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11, Appendix IV, and this volume, Appendix III. Falconer refers to CD’s argument that orchid flowers had developed structures to ensure cross-pollination by insects ( see Orchids , pp. 357–60). For a list of reviews of Orchids , see Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix VII. CD was awarded the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London in 1859 (see Correspondence vol. 7, letter …
From J. D. Hooker 2 December 1864
Summary
Recounts row at the Royal Society over exclusion of mention of Origin from Sabine’s address awarding Copley Medal to CD.
Encloses two letters to JDH from James Hector in New Zealand.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 260–1; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ correspondence 174: 429–31 & 433–4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4692 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 December 1881
Summary
Benjamin D. Jackson will edit new Steudel’s Nomenclator.
JDH’s impressions of Lyell’s Life and letters, edited by Mrs K. M. Lyell [1881].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Dec 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 173–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13557 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letters in two volumes in November 1881 ( K. M. Lyell ed. 1881 ). Lyell had become a member of the Geological Society of London in 1819, and had served as secretary, foreign secretary, and president by 1837. He observed Georges Cuvier ’s manner of working during a visit to Paris in 1829 (K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 1: 249–50). Katharine Lyell had included six letters to John Frederick William Herschel ( ibid. 1: 200, 449, 464, 470; 2: 11, …
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| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (3) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Variation in Commentary
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
Summary
The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … In 1865, the chief work on Charles Darwin’s mind was the writing of The variation of animals and …
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
Summary
On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
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- … On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species , …
