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DCP-LETT-2608

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
27 [Dec 1859]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.187)
Summary:

Mentions William Clift ["Report in regard to the fossil bones found in New Holland", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 10 (1830–1): 394–6].

Discusses relations between fossil and living types.

Discusses Hooker’s introductory essay [in Flora Tasmaniae]. Criticises Hooker’s views on flora of rising and sinking islands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2610

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 [Dec 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 30
Summary:

CD has written to Asa Gray criticising J. D. Dana’s arguments for a warm period subsequent to glacial period.

Remembers it is Alphonse de Candolle who states that many species are not true species.

Did Huxley write the excellent review in the Times?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2611

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
28 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 92)
Summary:

Delighted with Times review [26 Dec 1859]. Puzzled by author, suspects THH, but publication in Times makes it unlikely. Sorry for Owen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2612

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
29 [Dec 1859]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.188)
Summary:

Encloses letter concerning Edward Blyth’s application for a position with the China expedition.

Mentions reviews of the Origin. Guesses that Huxley wrote the Times review.

Alludes to discussion of relations between fossil and modern types [in Principles of geology 3: 144].

Discusses destruction of tropical forms in the glacial period.

Mentions letter from Dana concerning Dana’s illness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2613

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 [Dec 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 34
Summary:

Queries possible misprint in JDH’s introduction to Flora Tasmaniae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2614

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Gwyn Jeffreys
Date:
29 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 323
Summary:

Thanks for correction concerning the scarcity of fossil littoral shells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2615

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
30 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 366
Summary:

Grieved at JDD’s illness. Recommends water-cure. Describes his own illness.

The reception of Origin has been more successful than he dreamed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP5339

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 December 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 28
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5343

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 December 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 32
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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