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From:
Philip Lutley Sclater
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1861
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 292
Summary:

Corrects CD’s statement [Origin, 3d ed.] that Madeira does not possess one peculiar bird. There is one, out of the 99.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Wollaston Hutton
Date:
20 Apr 1861
Source of text:
DAR 145: 147
Summary:

Comments on FWH’s article ["Some remarks on Mr Darwin’s theory", Geologist (1861): 132–6, 183–8]. Does not adduce direct evidence of species change but believes it because so many phenomena thus explained.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
21 and 22 Apr 1861
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 62
Summary:

Returns [an unspecified] enclosure referring to "a most wonderful cure".

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 [Apr 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 98
Summary:

Offers to go to Henslow despite his own poor health.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
25 Apr [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 285
Summary:

Comments on QdeB’s Unité de l’espèce humaine [1861].

Discusses acceptance of his theory among scientists, especially geologists.

C. V. Naudin did not show how selection applied in nature, but Patrick Matthew clearly anticipated CD’s views.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Davidson
Date:
26 Apr 1861
Source of text:
DAR 143: 372
Summary:

Asks TD to carry out research on brachiopods to see whether the forms in one formation are intermediate between those above and below.

Describes unpublished study of spirifers by J. W. Salter.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Chambers
Date:
30 Apr [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 258
Summary:

Thanks RC for "Ice and water" [in RC’s Edinburgh papers (1861)].

Comments on problem of scientific accuracy.

Discusses views of Thomas Davidson on the genealogy of brachiopods.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Davidson
Date:
30 Apr 1861
Source of text:
DAR 143: 373
Summary:

Thanks TD for his letter. Difficulties with CD’s theory are many and great, but CD thinks the reason is that we underestimate our ignorance. The imperfection of the geological record counts heavily for CD. His greatest trouble is weighing "the direct effects … of changed conditions of life without any selection, with the action of selection on mere accidental (so to speak) variability. I oscillate much on this head, but generally return to my belief that the direct [effects] … have not been great."

Is surprised that any one, like W. B. Carpenter, can go as far as to believe all birds may have descended from one parent, but will not go further and include all the members of the same great division. Such beliefs make "Divine mockeries" of morphology and embryology, the most important of all subjects.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
1 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 7 (EH 88205991)
Summary:

Thanks W. H. Fitch for drawing for the Primula paper. Death of experimental plants delays publication.

Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Davidson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1861
Source of text:
DAR 99: 1–2
Summary:

Sends three tables on the known geological distribution of genera and subgenera of Brachiopoda. Has been continually puzzled by intermediate forms, and is convinced that the greater number of species can be linked together. "Natura non facit saltum."

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Luke Hindmarsh
Date:
3 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 127
Summary:

Asks how many wild Chillingham cattle are killed each year. Interested in rate of increase.

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From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 256
Summary:

Sends some replies to CD’s queries and data on pigeon flights between Bordeaux and Verviers.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
7 May [1861-8]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 122
Summary:

CD is obliged for the offer, but he is "too much occupied to contribute to any periodicals".

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
9 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 63
Summary:

Discusses family and domestic matters.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 99
Summary:

Henslow’s long suffering.

Donald Beaton’s articles in Cottage Gardener clever but not to be trusted.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 [May 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 100
Summary:

Henslow’s death.

What a contrast C. C. Babington will be as Professor of Botany at Cambridge.

Beaton not to be trusted.

CD may switch from Athenæum to London Review & Wkly J. Polit.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24–5 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 101
Summary:

CD’s doubts on biography of Henslow. Writing recollections of Cambridge days at JDH’s request.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[25 May 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 64
Summary:

Has heard, through Lubbock, of a gentleman who is offering a partnership in a bank.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[25 May 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 41 (EH 88206485)
Summary:

Discusses the possibility of a banking job for William [Darwin]; wishes to meet JL to discuss the prospects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[26 May 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 65
Summary:

Discusses the opportunity for WED to become a partner in a bank.

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