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From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 148–9
Summary:

Comments on the Origin. Outlines difficulties he finds in CD’s theory. Believes CD must define natural selection more accurately and mentions instances in which that principle is an insufficient cause to account for the form of certain structures.

Contributor:
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From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3–14] Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 238
Summary:

Condolences on death of Charlotte Langton [née Wedgwood].

Is waiting to hear from Lord Tankerville [see 3339].

Contributor:
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From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 239
Summary:

Has read CD’s Primula paper.

Regrets to hear that CD and family are victims to the influenza epidemic.

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From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 Jan 1862?]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 236
Summary:

Has received a satisfactory answer from Lord Tankerville.

Contributor:
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From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 240
Summary:

Is preparing a volume of his articles [Essays on scientific and other subjects (1862)], to one of which he would like to add a postscript referring to CD’s Origin [pp. 100–1]. Sends proposed postscript for CD’s approval.

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From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 or 8] Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 235
Summary:

Suggests a change in the postscript [referred to in 3423].

Contributor:
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From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 241
Summary:

Gives CD advice on the illness of one of his sons [presumably Horace].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. Apr 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 237
Summary:

Louis Pasteur’s memoir "is a very able and convincing one" ["Mémoire sur les corpuscles organisés qui existent dans l’atmosphère", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) 3d ser. 16 (1861): 5–98].

Contributor:
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From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 242
Summary:

Thanks for Orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 243
Summary:

Cites [C. F.?] Burdach as the source of a note on atavism in alternate generations.

Wants to talk to CD about inheritance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 244
Summary:

Congratulations on the Copley Medal.

Contributor:
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From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 166: 245
Summary:

Thanks for Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].

T. S. Cobbold’s book on the Entozoa [1864].

Remarks on development of the tapeworm.

Contributor:
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From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 246
Summary:

Thanks for "Climbing plants" [see 4861].

Contributor:
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From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Dec [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 247
Summary:

Has received a copy of an attack on CD ["Darwinian theory examined"] from the author, but does not know who it is.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 248
Summary:

Congratulations on George Darwin’s success at Cambridge.

Has still not discovered the author of "Darwinian theory examined".

Contributor:
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From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 249
Summary:

Thanks for copy of Variation. Comments on it, especially on Pangenesis.

Contributor:
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From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 250
Summary:

Sends CD a copy of a book he has had printed mainly for the interest of his children and grandchildren [later published as Recollections of past life (1872)].

Contributor:
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From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
24 Feb [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 86: A79–80
Summary:

References to works on probability;

statistics on proportion of sexes in births in England and Wales.

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From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 251
Summary:

A month in the West Indies, where he saw the luxuriant struggle of tropical vegetation, has brought HH "still more closely within the circle" of CD’s doctrine.

Contributor:
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From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 252
Summary:

Sends CD a ptarmigan.

Contributor:
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