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DCP-LETT-3064

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
17 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (54)
Summary:

Distribution of AG’s pamphlet.

Insectivorous plants.

Informs AG of his [CD’s] notice on Pumilio in Gardeners’ Chronicle [5 Jan 1861; Collected papers 2: 36–8].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3065

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 [Feb 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 88
Summary:

Asa Gray’s pamphlet.

Ill health.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3066

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
22 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 157); DAR 145
Summary:

Invites Mrs Huxley and the children to spend a fortnight at Down.

MS of Chauncey Wright’s review has not yet arrived.

[P.S. missing from original.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3067

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
23 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 3 (EH 88205941)
Summary:

Sends correspondence between Dr Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood I [of Etruria] on glaciers.

Also a pamphlet [Asa Gray, Natural selection not inconsistent with natural theology (1861)] containing "the best account" of the Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3068

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray
Date:
23 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
R. D. Pyrah (private collection)
Summary:

Sends pamphlet by Asa Gray [Natural selection not inconsistent with natural theology (1861)]. Hopes AM may get it noticed in any natural history periodical in Edinburgh.

Will send AM a corrected [3d] edition of Origin. AM will find little alteration in the parts he attacked, which, to the best of CD’s judgment, did not seem to require correction. Assures AM that he does not send his new edition out of bravado.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3069

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
24 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 100)
Summary:

If JM disapproves of inserting CD’s geological works on back of title-page [of Origin, 3d ed.], he should strike them out. CD cares little. Reminds him to insert "additions and corrections" in advertisements. Sends list for presentation copies.

Asks whether his Journal of researches has sold at all satisfactorily.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3070

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
25 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Would like to borrow WBT’s collection of fowls’ skulls.

Asks for WBT’s opinion of G. Ferguson, the author of a poultry book [Ferguson’s illustrated book of domestic poultry].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3071

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Lamont, 1st baronet
Date:
25 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 29
Summary:

Comments on JL’s Seasons with sea-horses [1861]. Thinks JL bold to defend his bear–whale illustration.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3072

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
26 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 39 (EH 88206022)
Summary:

Praise for DO’s paper on Hamamelidaceae ["On Sycopis", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 83–9, read 15 Mar 1860]. Everything points to its being a "bankrupt" family.

Hydropathy at Malvern may take him from Drosera. Requests Dionaea and Cypripedium.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3073

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
26–7 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (57a)
Summary:

Believes AG’s pamphlet will do natural selection "right good service".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3073F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Archibald Geikie
Date:
27 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 131
Summary:

CD expresses his gratification that a geologist of AG’s standing and influence subscribes to the idea of the mutability of species.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3889A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist
Date:
27 [Feb or Mar] 1861
Source of text:
Morristown National Historical Park (Lloyd W. Smith MS 697)
Summary:

Requests a number of books to be sent by the carrier on Thursday morning.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3947

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Leighton
Date:
2 February 1861
Source of text:
RI MS F1 E25
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3948

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edwin Atherstone
Date:
2 February 1861
Source of text:
SoRO MS DD/SAS G/3016
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3949

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Louisa Barnard
Date:
7 February 1861
Source of text:
Dennis Embleton
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3950

From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
8 February 1861
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/3/108
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3951

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
12 February 1861
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/3/108
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3952

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Ossler
Date:
15 February 1861
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3953

From:
John Duncan
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 February 1861
Source of text:
RS MS 241, f.159
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3954

From:
Richard Bentley
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
23 February 1861
Source of text:
BL add MS 46642, pp.389-90
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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