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DCP-LETT-2637

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2637A

From:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1860
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/5: 95–103)
Summary:

Has read Origin and considers it one of the most valuable contributions to present-day natural history. Believes, however, that there are difficulties in the extensive generalisation that all taxonomic groups are related by descent. Does not understand how Genesis is to be read unless at least the human species was created independently of other animals. Cannot bring himself to the idea that man’s reasoning and moral sense could have been obtained from "irrational progenitors": the "Divine Image" is the unsurmountable distinction between man and brutes. [See 2644.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2637F

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3706

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
4 January 1860
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3707

From:
James Copcutt
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
4 January 1860
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/3/122.1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel10588

From:
Alexander J. B. Hope
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.466
Summary:

Thanks for the additional subscription to the Rifle Corps. Regrets that he could not attend due to indisposition.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6258

From:
John Barlow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.19
Summary:

Has just received his note and written to the Royal Institution so that he may get an answer without delay. Sends his best wishes to the family.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8101

From:
Robert Walker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.367
Summary:

Asks about other portraits of William Herschel like one RW owns, which National Portrait Gallery wants to buy. Will send miniature of WH's portrait to JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-60-01-04

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Macadam
Date:
4 January 1860
Source of text:
MS 11663 Royal Society of Victoria records, box 2/2, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-60-01-04a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Moore
Date:
4 January 1860
Source of text:
O60/161, unit 748, VPRS 1189/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-60-01-04b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Nicholson
Date:
4 January 1860
Source of text:
No. 106, vol. 1860 N, VPRS 1168/P inward correspondence registers, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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