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DCP-LETT-2860

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
5 [July 1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.221)
Summary:

Glad CL plans trip to Amiens to investigate flints and post-glacial period.

Mentions support by Huxley, Hooker, and Lubbock at Oxford BAAS meeting. Asa Gray also goes on fighting.

Likes article by William Hopkins ["Physical theories and the phenomena of life", Fraser’s Mag. 61 (1860): 739–52; 62 (1860): 74–90].

Comments on hybrids of hare and rabbit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2861

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[5 July 1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 123)
Summary:

THH’s long account of Oxford meeting. Has he no reverence for a bishop?

W. Hopkins’ review in Fraser’s Magazine is nothing new.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10818

From:
John Hawkins
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 July 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.170
Summary:

Thanks for his letter about Thomas Maclear's boy. Thought he was in the care of his uncle. Will do whatever JH thinks is best.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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