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DCP-LETT-2709

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
François Jules Pictet de la Rive
Date:
23 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de Genève (MS. fr. 1651, ff. 8–9)
Summary:

Is extremely pleased by what FJP says of his book [Origin]. Recalls how slowly he changed his own opinion; does not think anyone "could at once undergo so great a revolution in opinion". Thanks FJP for his intended notice of the work [Bibl. Univers. Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. 7 (1860)].

Recommends an "excellent Review by that admirable Botanist Asa Gray" [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 29 (1860): 153–84].

L. Agassiz is very bitter against CD’s book but H. G. Bronn, although very much opposed, "with noble liberality of sentiment" is going to superintend a German translation.

As FJP’s studies lead him to reflect on "Geological Succession, Geographical Distribution, Classification, Homology & Embryology", CD expects that he will go a little further with him because "these facts … are inexplicable on the theory of creation".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2710

From:
James Lamont, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Feb 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 150–1
Summary:

Believes the British and Norwegian species of red grouse are merely strongly marked varieties of the same species.

Writes of the effect of importing a few brace of a wilder breed of grouse into Argyleshire and of their change in territory since 1846.

His explanation of game becoming "wilder": he thinks it is due to a difference in their enemies – man replacing hawks leads to flight replacing cowering.

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DCP-LETT-2711

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
23 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.9: 2 (EH 88205975)
Summary:

Pleased ACR likes Origin. Every geological believer is most important. A long, stiff battle is ahead for the new doctrine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2712

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
24 [Feb? 1860]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses poultry crosses, "what a hopelessly difficult subject is that of inheritance!" Gives details of some pigeon crosses he made; cannot positively recall which produced the blue bird.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2713

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
24 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (23)
Summary:

Last sheets of AG’s review of Origin have arrived. CD’s comments and criticisms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2714

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
25 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.201)
Summary:

Comments on CL’s reaction to the Origin. Mentions reactions of other scientists.

Discusses fertility of Aspicarpa.

Criticises Herbert Spencer’s views on population.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2715

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 [Feb 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 43
Summary:

Applauds JDH’s reply [25 Feb 1860] to W. H. Harvey in Gardeners’ Chronicle.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2716

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[26 Feb or 4 Mar] 1860
Source of text:
DAR 115: 44
Summary:

Asks JDH for some Goodenia.

Suggests Daniel Oliver try to cross Mimosa, noted for sterility.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2716A

From:
Joseph Beete Jukes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1860
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/5: 125–7)
Summary:

Believes in the "perfect indefiniteness & frequently the vast length of the interval" between consecutive geological formations. Thus has little respect for arguments against CD based on the absence of transitional forms in the geological record. States that species found through series of beds do vary: some Silurian species have many synonyms which are really varieties of greatly differing ages. CD’s theory accounts for the progressive inprovement, multiplication and increase in complexity that can be seen, but which may often be only relative.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2717

From:
Francis Boott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Feb 1860
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 27–8
Summary:

Returns paper by Asa Gray [? "Review of Darwin’s theory", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 29 (1860): 153–84].

Greatly admires Origin.

Can follow effects of natural selection in Carex, but when CD brings millions of years into play, he is like Church which demands faith. FB cannot believe in divinity of Christ, resurrection, or miracles.

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DCP-LETT-3126

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Herbert Spencer
Date:
23 [Feb 1860]
Source of text:
University of London, Senate House Library (MS. 791/51)
Summary:

HS put the case of selection strikingly and clearly in his article [Anonymous, "A theory of population, deduced from the general law of animal fertility", Westminster Rev. 57 (1852): 468–501]. Of CD’s numerous private critics only HS has rendered the philosophy fairly: his argument is an hypothesis that explains groups of facts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3721

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
1 February 1860
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/3/103
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3722

From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 February 1860
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/3/106.2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3722a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Walter White
Date:
3 February 1860
Source of text:
ULB MS L Adds 6085
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3723

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
7 February 1860
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/3/104
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3724

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
7 February 1860
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/3/105
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3725

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
8 February 1860
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/5/2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3726

From:
Joseph Toynbee
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 February 1860
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.21
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3727

From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
14 February 1860
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/3/108
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3728

From:
Faraday report
To:
Trinity House
Date:
20 February 1860
Source of text:
Parliamentary Papers, 1862 (489) LIV, p.9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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