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DCP-LETT-2573

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1859
Source of text:
DAR 98: B16 and DAR 106: D22
Summary:

Congratulates CD on Origin; has been "initiated into an entirely new province of knowledge".

Notes error involving rhinoceros.

Encloses other notes.

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DCP-LETT-2503

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
11 Oct [1859]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.172)
Summary:

CL’s comments on Origin. Mentions corrections to last chapter suggested by CL.

Comments on lack of peculiar bird species on Madeira and Bermuda. Emphasises importance of American types in Galapagos.

Denies necessity of continued creation of primitive "Monads".

Denies need for new powers and any principle of improvement.

Discusses gradations of intellectual powers.

Adaptive inferiority and extinction of groups of species and genera.

Asserts that climate is less important than the struggle with other organisms.

Suggests an experiment involving primroses and cowslips.

The chapter on hybridisation.

Rudimentary organs.

Gives opinion of Lamarck’s work.

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FL-0287

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[23 February 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 36
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0288

From:
Darwin, G. H.; Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[1 March 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 38
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0289

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[12 March 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 39
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0290

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[after 14 March 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 41
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0291

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[24 March 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 42
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0292

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[6 May 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 44
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0293

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[24 or 31 October 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 50
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0294

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[7 or 14 November 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 51
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0295

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[30 November – 4 December 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 52
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0394

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[January 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 23
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0395

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[27 May 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 24
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0396

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[c. 29 May 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 25
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0397

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[18 July 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 26
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0403

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[1859?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 33
Summary:

No summary available.

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DCP-LETT-13827

From:
William Charles Linnaeus Martin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1859–61]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 56/1–15
Summary:

MS of a paper called "Comments on Mr Darwin’s grand theory", which generally supports CD but proposes that present flightless birds are primitive. Paper supplemented by a diagram showing the phylogeny of birds.

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DCP-LETT-13829

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mathias Mull
Date:
[after 24 Nov 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 424a
Summary:

Thanks MM for reference to Shakespeare’s eleventh sonnet.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13854

From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13–19 Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 262
Summary:

HW has confirmed the report in the Times of a shower of fish (minnows and sticklebacks) that fell on the Wedgwood colliery.

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DCP-LETT-2398

From:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1859
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 399
Summary:

Responds to CD’s queries concerning faults; is sending sections of the kind he wants. The Merionethshire fault with a downthrow of 12000ft. [See Origin, p. 285.]

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