From:
Asa Gray
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Jan 1860
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 20–1
Summary:
Opinions on the Origin: AG thinks it masterly; Agassiz considers it very poor.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
6 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.6: 4 (EH 88205921)
Summary:
WBC’s review [of Origin, Natl Rev. 10 (1860): 188–214] will do great good. It "turns the flanks of theological opposers" capitally.
Asks for information about cuckoo eggs and West Indian sheep.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joshua Toulmin Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1860
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 32.ii (EH 88206084)
Summary:
Sends a copy of his Ventriculidae [of the Chalk (1848)]. This group, he feels, is well represented by CD’s plate of graduating species [Origin, ch. 4].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Bridges
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Oct 1860 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 85: 39
Summary:
Answers to queries on expression with respect to Fuegians.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 [Jan 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 36
Summary:
CD has learned from Lyell that JDH reviewed Origin in Gardeners’ Chronicle writing in Lindley’s style.
Lyell is working on man.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
20 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 312
Summary:
Thanks EC for help in finding French translator [for Origin].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
22 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 5 (EH 88205989)
Summary:
Thanks for mentioning J. G. Kurr on nectaries [Untersuchungen über die Bedeutung der Nektarien in den Blumen (1833)]. Requests observations on flowers with curved pistils. Finds they curve toward nectary, thus lying in path of insect.
Contributor:
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1860
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 22–5
Summary:
American edition of Origin. AG’s assessment of the book’s weak and strong points. Suggests Jeffries Wyman would be a useful source of facts and hints for CD.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1860
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 26
Summary:
On the Origin. Before expressing his disagreements, CJFB praises CD’s labour, patience, fairness, and other qualities which make the work "one of the most important that has ever appeared in Natural History". [See 2690.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 [Jan 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 38
Summary:
CD preparing historical sketch, which will go into second American edition of Origin.
Asks JDH to copy out Naudin’s line on finality.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[22 Jan 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 37
Summary:
Very pleased with Asa Gray’s letter to JDH [see 2638], which is "rich on Agassiz".
Contributor:
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From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Feb 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 152
Summary:
It is not true that all the fossil cave bears are of the same species.
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:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Neil Arnott
Date:
16 Feb [1860?]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 22
Summary:
Discusses NA’s pamphlet on human progress. Suggests making it a book [A survey of human progress (1861)].
Comments on study of dead languages.
Denies that animals are "governed only by selfish motives".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
3 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A62
Summary:
Thanks for L. Jenyns’ very sensible letter [missing].
Will be delighted to see JSH whenever he can come.
Contributor:
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From:
Philip Lutley Sclater
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3? Feb 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 289
Summary:
Lists land birds of Galapagos and discusses their distribution on mainland of S. America.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
4 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 229
Summary:
Suggests references in Journal of researches 2d ed. in response to a query about the antiquity of man. Perplexed about S. S. Haldeman and Haldeman 1843–4. Glad to hear about A. C. Ramsay. Has received letter from H. G. Bronn.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 39
Summary:
Urges JDH to work his essays into a book.
CD’s historical sketch ends with JDH’s introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
9 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A63–4
Summary:
Sends directions for JSH’s journey to Bromley and Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Philip Lutley Sclater
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1860
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 290, DAR 205.7: 143
Summary:
Informs CD that Sylvicola aureola may be a distinct species but is a close ally of S. aestiva of N. and S. America and perhaps only a "climatic variety".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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