From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lovegrove
Date:
14 Dec [1859-71]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Acknowledges contribution to Down Coal and Clothing Club.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Charles Linnaeus Martin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1859–61]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 56/1–15
Summary:
MS of a paper called "Comments on Mr Darwin’s grand theory", which generally supports CD but proposes that present flightless birds are primitive. Paper supplemented by a diagram showing the phylogeny of birds.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mathias Mull
Date:
[after 24 Nov 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 424a
Summary:
Thanks MM for reference to Shakespeare’s eleventh sonnet.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13–19 Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 262
Summary:
HW has confirmed the report in the Times of a shower of fish (minnows and sticklebacks) that fell on the Wedgwood colliery.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John William Lubbock, 3d baronet
Date:
2 Apr [1859]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (LUB: D25)
Summary:
Comments on water rising in their wells.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
4 Mar [1859]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Much concerned by death of JBI’s mother.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
24 June [1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Ramsay 306: 4)
Summary:
Comments on ACR’s "The old glaciers [of Switzerland and N. Wales", in Peaks, passes, and glaciers: a series of excursions by members of the Alpine Club, ed. J. Ball (1859)]. Discusses erratic blocks in the Jura. Notes views of Lyell.
Contributor:
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From:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1859
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 399
Summary:
Responds to CD’s queries concerning faults; is sending sections of the kind he wants. The Merionethshire fault with a downthrow of 12000ft. [See Origin, p. 285.]
Contributor:
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From:
Richard Hill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1859
Source of text:
DAR 166: 218
Summary:
Will secure information on indigenous and naturalised bees as CD requests.
Believes Mexican and Jamaican Melipona are different.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Syms Covington
Date:
16 Jan 1859
Source of text:
Brian Sirl (private collection)
Summary:
Regrets SC’s increasing deafness, but advises that aurists are humbugs.
Tells of illnesses in family and his own poor health. "I never know 24 hours comfort."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 Jan [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 2
Summary:
At work on abstract.
Continues argument on effectiveness of dispersal. Has doubts about relationship of isolation to highness of Australian flora. Questions about survival of European plants introduced in Australia.
CD receives the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
21 Jan [1859]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Geological collections)
Summary:
Acknowledges the honour that the Council [of the Geological Society] have conferred upon him [award of Wollaston Medal]. Will attend the anniversary meeting if his health permits, but cannot attend the dinner.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 Jan [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 3
Summary:
Wallace has written and is well satisfied with the joint presentation.
CD requests some facts to make case in his abstract for former glacial action in Himalayas.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1859
Source of text:
DAR 100: 131–2
Summary:
Relieved by Wallace’s letter.
At work on introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae.
European plants naturalised in Australia are almost all adapted to invading disturbed ground.
JDH supports Asa Gray against Alphonse de Candolle as foreign member of Royal Society.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
25 Jan [1859]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:
Expresses pleasure and relief at ARW’s response to joint publication of their pieces about natural selection.
Plans for the "abstract" [Origin].
Birds’ nests as evidence of variation of instincts.
Their collection of bees’ combs.
Praises ARW’s article.
Lyell’s and Hooker’s views [of species issue].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Jan [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 4
Summary:
CD not convinced that naturalisation of European plants abroad is strictly dependent on creation by agriculture of disturbed ground.
More than half through his chapter on geographical distribution.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
4 Feb [1859]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Wants white breeds of poultry.
Poor health necessitates a trip to Moor Park, Farnham.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[6 Feb 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 26 (EH 88206475)
Summary:
JL’s brother’s accident.
Thinks JL should tackle systematics of anomalous insects from studies of internal organs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1859
Source of text:
DAR 48: A67
Summary:
Is sorry to hear of bad health of CD and his daughter.
Discusses, with an example, the difficulty of explaining structural differences between closely allied species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
8 Feb [1859]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections (John Phillips collection))
Summary:
His doctor urges CD most strongly not to expose himself to the excitement and fatigue of receiving the [Wollaston] Medal. He will ask Lyell to receive it on his behalf.
Contributor:
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Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Hooker, J. D.48
- Lyell, Charles29
- Murray, John (b)27
- Huxley, T. H.17
- Lubbock, John11
- Darwin, W. E.8
- Fox, W. D.7
- Higgins, John6
- Tegetmeier, W. B.6
- Phillips, John5
- Ramsay, A. C.5
- Owen, Richard4
- Sedgwick, Adam4
- Wallace, A. R.4
- Wallace, Alfred Russel4
- Carpenter, W. B.3
- Falconer, Hugh3
- Gray, Asa3
- Hill, Richard3
- Kingsley, Charles3
- Butler, Mary2
- Dana, J. D.2
- Darwin, E. A.2
- Galton, Francis2
- Henslow, J. S.2
- Herschel, John2
- Martin, W. C. L.2
- Pictet de la Rive, F. J.2
- Reed, G. V.2
- Smith, Frederick (a)2
- Unidentified2
- Watson, H. C.2
- Agassiz, Louis1
- Blomefield, Leonard1
- Bowerbank, J. S.1
- Brodie, B. C., Sr1
- Bunbury, C. J. F.1
- Candolle, Alphonse de1
- Copland, Elizabeth1
- Covington, Syms1
- Darwin, Caroline1
- Darwin, G. H.1
- Drysdale, Elizabeth1
- Eyton, T. C.1
- Holland, Henry1
- Hooker, Maria (a)1
- Horner, Leonard1
- Innes, J. B.1
- Jardine, William1
- Jeffreys, J. G.1
- Jenyns, Leonard1
- Lovegrove, Charles1
- Lubbock, J. W. (b)1
- Main, Robert1
- Mull, Mathias1
- Paget, James1
- Pew, Elizabeth1
- Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages1
- Scrimgeour, Robert Shedden & John Shedden & Co.1
- Sykes, W. H.1
- Turner, Maria (a)1
- Wedgwood, Caroline1
- Wedgwood, Hensleigh1