From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Martin Wilckens
Date:
[after 25 Mar 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 67r
Summary:
Thanks MW for two publications [see 6682].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:
Hopes ARW has not "murdered too completely your own and my child" [natural selection] in his Quarterly Review article ["Sir Charles Lyell on geological climates and the Origin", 126 (1869): 359–94] on Lyell’s Principles [10th ed.].
CD is attributing more significance to useless variability in new [5th] edition of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
29 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 147: 254–6
Summary:
Congratulates WP on the success of his lectures.
Discusses the phrase "struggle for existence".
Sends a list of his papers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 121–2
Summary:
Interested in Barkly’s letter about Mauritius. Doubts non-volcanic origin. Urges collection of all forms of terrestrial life to determine whether they are of a former continent or "waifs and strays". He leans to latter view, as snakes and reptiles are different.
Huxley’s address wonderfully "brilliant", but it is a mistake to separate evolutionists from uniformitarians.
Bentham has come out "splendidly" on descent of species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Friedrich Claus
Date:
31 Mar 1869
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 208–209)
Summary:
Williams and Norgate inform CD that they dispatched the small parcel to Leipzig on 23 February. CD fears it may not be worth the trouble to CC.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
5 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.364)
Summary:
Discusses wear and tear due to glaciation and significance of this evidence for dating the glacial period. Mentions views of James Croll and Archibald Geikie on the issue.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project