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DCP-LETT-13817

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[1860–70?]
Source of text:
Janet Huxley (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks THH for the delightful evening he gave Frank [Darwin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13848

From:
Aleksander Jelski
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1860–82]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 86
Summary:

AJ, a collector, would like a few lines from CD and an autographed photograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13875

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1860–82?]
Source of text:
Glenbow Museum
Summary:

Is "almost certain" plant is Menispermum canadense.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13876

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1860–82?]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/34)
Summary:

CD’s health remains bad and as he grows older he becomes weaker.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2196

From:
Robert Scot Skirving
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1860?]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 250a
Summary:

Tells of shooting wood-pigeons that had in their crops acorns that did not grow locally.

[Fragment of letter glued to 2197.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2197

From:
Robert Scot Skirving
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1860?]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 250b
Summary:

Pigeons in Egypt alight on trees rather than on the mud hovels of the natives [see Variation 1: 181].

[Two fragments glued to 2196.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2389

From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Jan? 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 48: 83–5
Summary:

Prepared to think world infinitely old, but not that life originated with a single cell. Questions whether geological evidence supports gradual progress in organisation. HW thought scientific opinion during Vestiges debate was against this hypothesis. Argues that presence of same senses in lower animals and vertebrates does not imply descent; assumes resemblance is due to living in same world and thus having organs for the same purposes. Wants CD to know how others may see these questions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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-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-3052F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1860–82?]
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 681, 28 and 29 June 2005)
Summary:

Sends photograph in case recipient collects them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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