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DCP-LETT-2806

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
18 May [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.212)
Summary:

Comments on enclosed letters from Asa Gray and Wallace [missing].

Discusses hybrid fertility in rabbits and hares, and pheasants and fowls.

Asks about paper by Hermann Schaaffhausen ["Über Beständigkeit u. Umwandlung der Arten", Verh. Naturhist. Ver. Preuss. Rheinlande 10 (1853): 420–51].

Mentions criticism by Sedgwick and William Clark at Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Notes importance of CL and Hooker in defending Origin.

Comments on papers by D. A. Godron ["Considérations sur les migrations des végétaux", Acad. Stanislas Mem. Soc. Sci. Nancy (1853): 329–67].

Mentions receiving anonymous verses.

A Manchester newspaper lampoon shows CD has proved "might makes right" to be a universal law.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2807

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
18 May 1860
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 21–23v)
Summary:

Pleasure in ARW’s approbation of the Origin. Other supporters among scientists. ARW’s generosity.

Attacks by Owen, Sedgwick, and others.

Anticipation of natural selection by Matthew in 1830.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2808

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
18 May [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (14)
Summary:

Bitter and incessant attacks on the Origin.

Any truth in it has been saved only by a small body of men like Lyell, AG, Hooker, and Huxley.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2809

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
18 May [1860]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 128)
Summary:

Attacks [on Origin] are "hot and heavy". Adam Sedgwick and William Clark at Cambridge Philosophical Society opened a battery. J. S. Henslow defended in grand style.

Slow progress on bigger book.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2810

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
18 May [1860]
Source of text:
Dunedin Public Library (Reed collection)
Summary:

Thanks for six copies of Journal of researches [1860 ed.].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2810F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
18 May [1860]
Source of text:
Lanier family (private collection)
Summary:

Requests a copy of Unger 1852 (Versuch einer Geschichte der Pflanzenwelt; an attempt at a history of the vegetable kingdom).

Requests a copy of the issue of British and Foreign Medical Review which contains a review of Origin, if it is a different publication from British and Foreign Medical and Chirurgical Review

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1846

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
18 May 1860
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 21-22
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 141-143]
  • Darwin, F. (1909). Some letters from Charles Darwin to Alfred Russel Wallace. Christ's College Magazine: 23(70): 214-231 [pp. 227-230]
Summary:

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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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