From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Holland
Date:
[Apr 1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Asks for information about birds eating berries of a mountain-ash.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
17 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Sir Anthony Musgrave Papers (RL.11684): Lady Jeanie Lucinda Musgrave (Field) Scrapbook)
Summary:
Sends cheque.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Denny
Date:
23 Mar [1865]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.120)
Summary:
Interested by HD’s information on aperea; CD had concluded that it was not the progenitor of domestic guinea-pigs.
Is unsure what HD means by "stock-dove"; properly this is Columba oenas and the domestic pigeon is C. livia.
Suggests that the Zoological Society might arrange for some specimens [unspecified] to be supplied from the Gardens.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Hallowes Miller
Date:
5 June [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 365
Summary:
Discusses measurements of bees’ cells.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Hallowes Miller
Date:
1 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 367
Summary:
Must prepare new edition of Origin.
Discusses structure of beehives. Mentions writings of Chauncey Wright on bees’ cells ["Remarks on the architecture of bees", Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 4 (1857–60): 432–3].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Hallowes Miller
Date:
27 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 369
Summary:
Discusses measurements of bees’ cells.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
30 [Jan 1860]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.92–93)
Summary:
Suggests it would be easier and cheaper if he were given one or two pages in preface [to Journal of researches] for two or three important errors. Would like to take out one sentence if present preface is not stereotyped. Table of contents is shabby.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Hallowes Miller
Date:
31 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.189)
Summary:
Thanks WHM for information about honeycombs. Discusses his own measurements of combs.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[12 Nov 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 318
Summary:
Thanks for information about the weight of water.
Describes experiments on Drosera.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Temple
Date:
[c. 28 Feb 1861]
Source of text:
H. G. Hutchinson 1914, 1: 57–8
Summary:
Regret that the Archbishop of Canterbury and other English Bishops have severely censured Essays and Reviews [1860]. Believe "such enquiries conducted in a spirit so earnest and reverential … must tend to elicit truth, and to foster a spirit of sound religion". [Signed by CD, numerous men of science, and others.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
9 [July 1860]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 2)
Summary:
Regrets he cannot answer SPW’s questions.
Discusses antiquity of subaerial volcanoes.
Disagrees "entirely & absolutely" with L. von Buch’s "elevation-crater-theory".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[25 Jan 1860]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.64–67)
Summary:
CD asks how soon JM will go to press with Journal [of researches]; thinks he had better look it over to see if progress of science has made any correction necessary.
P.S. Asa Gray has written that Origin has caused great excitement in U. S. Agassiz has denounced it.
Contributor:
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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:
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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:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 1
Summary:
High praise and detailed comments on JDH’s introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae, which CD has now finished reading.
Disagrees on power of transoceanic migration. Advocates glacial transport of plants.
CD’s response to reviews of Origin in Saturday Review [8 (1859): 775–6] and John Lindley’s in Gardeners’ Chronicle [but see 2651].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
4 [Jan 1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.190)
Summary:
Praises CL’s work on human species.
A critical review of Origin in Saturday Review [24 Dec 1859].
A letter from J. G. Jeffreys criticises CD’s geological statements.
A note from William Whewell concerning Origin.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joshua Toulmin Smith
Date:
4 Jan 1860
Source of text:
Indiana University, The Lilly Library (Sieveking MSS)
Summary:
Remembers reading Smith’s memoir in Geological Transactions on the anomalous nature of Ventriuculidae. Asks for a copy.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
Date:
[5–11 Jan 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 136a (verso); The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/5: 77–87)
Summary:
Discusses the possibility of "convergence" occurring; believes it could be only very limited.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Bridges
Date:
6 Jan 1860
Source of text:
DAR 185: 72
Summary:
Queries on expression among Fuegians and Patagonians.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
6 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.6: 4 (EH 88205921)
Summary:
WBC’s review [of Origin, Natl Rev. 10 (1860): 188–214] will do great good. It "turns the flanks of theological opposers" capitally.
Asks for information about cuckoo eggs and West Indian sheep.
Contributor:
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