From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
19 Mar [1860–1]
Source of text:
King’s College London Archives (TH/PP MISC)
Summary:
Recommends papers on Styrian Cave insects and American cave animals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[4 Mar 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 55
Summary:
Discusses the direction of WED’s studies.
Tells of the response to the Origin and the impact that it has made in England and abroad.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
2 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (24)
Summary:
Has been ill with pleurisy.
Sends more corrections and additions for American edition of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 45
Summary:
CD’s list of fifteen converts. His opinions on opponents and supporters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
4 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 109)
Summary:
Gardeners’ Chronicle has reprinted THH’s Times review.
W. H. Harvey made weak attack on Origin [Gard. Chron. (1860): 145–6], to which Hooker made admirable rejoinder [Gard. Chron. (1860): 170–1].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bookseller.
Date:
4 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (MA 1492)
Summary:
Orders J. B. Jukes’s Student’s manual of geology [1857] and Macmillan’s Magazine (Dec 1859).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Lamont, 1st baronet
Date:
5 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 28
Summary:
Responds to JL’s comments on effect of natural selection on grouse or reindeer.
Asks if dirt adheres to feet of water-birds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
6 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection)
Summary:
Orders first part of vol. 3 of Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Histoire naturelle générale des règnes organiques [3 vols. (1854–62)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
6 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 379
Summary:
Will be glad to have SPW’s criticisms of Origin.
Discusses his use of terms, "typical" and "specialisation".
Emphasises large body of facts explained by his theory of species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
6 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:
Reports on the snakes he collected in the Galapagos.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (31)
Summary:
Further additions and corrections for American Origin.
Views of Owen, G. H. K. Thwaites, and W. H. Harvey on CD’s theories.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Wollaston Hutton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1860
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 241
Summary:
Reports catching a landrail on board ship.
Encloses drawings of insects caught at sea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 46
Summary:
Lyell and CD would urge JDH to make his essays into a book, but see he has embarked on a huge project with G. Bentham [Genera plantarum, 3 vols. (1862–83)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Prestwich
Date:
12 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 252
Summary:
Asks if JP can send criticism of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 [Mar 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 47
Summary:
JDH coming to Down. Huxley will be invited.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
21 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:
Is pleased GHKT goes a little way with him.
Has rectified in foreign editions of Origin his omission of an explanation of the failure of many forms to progress;
also has discussion of beauty in MS. Does GHKT really believe Diatomaceae, for instance, were created beautiful so that man, millions of generations later, should admire them through a microscope? CD attributes most of these structures to unknown laws of growth; useful structures are accounted for by natural selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
21 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 149
Summary:
Thanks HGB [for his Morphologische Studien (1858)].
Pleased at quickness of translation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Rathbone Greg
Date:
21 Mar [1860?]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (December 1996)
Summary:
Is glad to read Greg’s remarks on Origin. Discusses MS Greg has sent for review on proportion of sexes at birth.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
22 [Mar 1860]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 127)
Summary:
Only proof that internal organs and bones were intermediate would convince CD of the possibility of the astounding [deer] hybrid WDF has reported.
Has WDF positive knowledge that common ganders do not always turn white?
Has begun his larger books. New editions of Origin will appear.
What is right and wrong in it will soon be sifted.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Octavian Blewitt
Date:
27 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan 96: RLF 4/15 1860 file 3)
Summary:
Declines the honour of acting as Steward at the Annual Dinner of the Royal Literary Fund.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project