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DCP-LETT-2622

From:
William Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 7 Apr 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 77: 39–40
Summary:

Facts and inferences relating to different varieties of sweetpeas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2623

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15–16 Oct 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 58.2: 53
Summary:

Extracts from botanical literature dealing with Dionaea, intercrossing, and sensitivity. [Bot. Ztg. (1833): 96; Thomas Nuttall, Genera of N. American plants (1818)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2624

From:
Bernard Peirce Brent
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1860?]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 217
Summary:

Habits of ducks when sleeping on water.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2627

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Dec? 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 45: 1
Summary:

Gives an extract from L. von Buch on the flora of the Canaries [Physikalische Beschreibung der Canarische Inseln (1825)].

Natural selection does not explain why animals of different groups in the same place often resemble each other.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2630

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
9 [July 1860]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 2)
Summary:

Regrets he cannot answer SPW’s questions.

Discusses antiquity of subaerial volcanoes.

Disagrees "entirely & absolutely" with L. von Buch’s "elevation-crater-theory".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2631

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10 Jan 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 26a
Summary:

Agassiz denounces Origin as "atheistical";

AG is currently reviewing it [in Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 29 (1860): 153–84].

Jeffries Wyman praises it, though not a convert.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2632

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[25 Jan 1860]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.64–67)
Summary:

CD asks how soon JM will go to press with Journal [of researches]; thinks he had better look it over to see if progress of science has made any correction necessary.

P.S. Asa Gray has written that Origin has caused great excitement in U. S. Agassiz has denounced it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2633

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
1 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 94)
Summary:

Will keep THH’s secret [of authorship of Times review of Origin]. It has made deep impression.

J. D. Dana’s illness.

Daily News accuses him of plagiarising Vestiges.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2633F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Hawkshaw
Date:
1 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 139), Geological Society of London (Membership certificates, 1860, p. 116)
Summary:

Returning Thomas George Bonney’s certificate, which it was a pleasure to sign.

Delighted that JH is interested in his book [Origin?]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2634

From:
William Whewell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1860
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 19
Summary:

Thanks CD for the Origin. WW is not yet a convert but there is so much "of thought and of fact" in what CD has written that "it is not to be contradicted without careful selection of the ground and manner of the dissent".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2635

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:
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DCP-LETT-2636

From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3? Jan 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 135–8
Summary:

Notes by HCW on the Origin dealing especially with divergence and convergence. Believes there is some natural tendency to converge into groups in opposition to divergence generated by natural selection.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2637

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
4 [Jan 1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.190)
Summary:

Praises CL’s work on human species.

A critical review of Origin in Saturday Review [24 Dec 1859].

A letter from J. G. Jeffreys criticises CD’s geological statements.

A note from William Whewell concerning Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2637F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joshua Toulmin Smith
Date:
4 Jan 1860
Source of text:
Indiana University, The Lilly Library (Sieveking MSS)
Summary:

Remembers reading Smith’s memoir in Geological Transactions on the anomalous nature of Ventriuculidae. Asks for a copy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2639

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

DCP-LETT-2640

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

DCP-LETT-2641

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

DCP-LETT-2642

From:
Joshua Toulmin Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1860
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 32.ii (EH 88206084)
Summary:

Sends a copy of his Ventriculidae [of the Chalk (1848)]. This group, he feels, is well represented by CD’s plate of graduating species [Origin, ch. 4].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2643

From:
Thomas Bridges
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Oct 1860 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 85: 39
Summary:

Answers to queries on expression with respect to Fuegians.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2645

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
7 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (15)
Summary:

Comments on AG’s memoir on Japanese plants [see 2599]; relationship of Japanese flora to N. American.

Contributor:
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