From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
22 May [1860-81]
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (1987)
Summary:
CD has signed the enclosed with great pleasure.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
22 May [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.213)
Summary:
Mentions American edition of Origin.
A "savage" review [by John Duns] in North British Review [32 (1860): 455–68].
Comments on views of G. H. K. Thwaites on the survival of simple forms as a problem in his theory.
Mentions imperfection of geological record.
Marine origin of coal.
Illness of Etty.
Encloses article by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire on hare–rabbit crosses [Histoire naturelle générale (1854–62) 3: 222].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 [May 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 57
Summary:
Floral anatomy.
Wallace’s capital response on reading Origin.
E. W. Binney has published on coal-plants living in marine waters ["On the origin of coal", Mem. Lit. & Philos. Soc. Manchester 2d ser. 8 (1848): 148–94], an old CD idea.
Waste of pollen in horse chestnut will make a good case against perfection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
22 May [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (26 and 37a)
Summary:
Opinions and reviews of Origin.
CD’s view on design in nature; although he does not believe in the necessity of design, he finds it hard to conclude that everything is the result of "brute force".
Comments on Owen’s review of Origin [Edinburgh Rev. 111 (1860): 487–532].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 May 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 57
Summary:
Darwin references a "capital" letter he has received from ARW following ARW's reading of On the Origin of Species.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project