From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Bridges
Date:
6 Jan 1860
Source of text:
DAR 185: 72
Summary:
Queries on expression among Fuegians and Patagonians.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 1
Summary:
High praise and detailed comments on JDH’s introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae, which CD has now finished reading.
Disagrees on power of transoceanic migration. Advocates glacial transport of plants.
CD’s response to reviews of Origin in Saturday Review [8 (1859): 775–6] and John Lindley’s in Gardeners’ Chronicle [but see 2651].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
6 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.6: 4 (EH 88205921)
Summary:
WBC’s review [of Origin, Natl Rev. 10 (1860): 188–214] will do great good. It "turns the flanks of theological opposers" capitally.
Asks for information about cuckoo eggs and West Indian sheep.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 [Jan 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 36
Summary:
CD has learned from Lyell that JDH reviewed Origin in Gardeners’ Chronicle writing in Lindley’s style.
Lyell is working on man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
20 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 312
Summary:
Thanks EC for help in finding French translator [for Origin].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 [Jan 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 38
Summary:
CD preparing historical sketch, which will go into second American edition of Origin.
Asks JDH to copy out Naudin’s line on finality.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[22 Jan 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 37
Summary:
Very pleased with Asa Gray’s letter to JDH [see 2638], which is "rich on Agassiz".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
Date:
[5–11 Jan 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 136a (verso); The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/5: 77–87)
Summary:
Discusses the possibility of "convergence" occurring; believes it could be only very limited.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project