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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 40
Summary:

Huxley’s Royal Institution lecture on Origin [10 Feb 1860, Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1858–62): 195–200] an "entire failure" as an exposition of CD’s doctrine.

R. I. Murchison very civil.

CD counts Lyell among the converted.

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From:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 Feb 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 205.4: 100
Summary:

Questions how natural selection can explain why some cells remain simple and others are modified into highly complex structures.

Reports on the spread in Ceylon of a recently introduced plant.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[20 Feb 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 41
Summary:

Comments on W. H. Harvey’s article on a monstrous Begonia [Gard. Chron. 18 Feb 1860].

Is astonished at being attacked for not allowing great and abrupt variations under nature. More evidence needed to make CD admit that forms have often changed "by saltum".

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[23 Feb 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 42
Summary:

Too ill to go to club.

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From:
James Lamont, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Feb 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 150–1
Summary:

Believes the British and Norwegian species of red grouse are merely strongly marked varieties of the same species.

Writes of the effect of importing a few brace of a wilder breed of grouse into Argyleshire and of their change in territory since 1846.

His explanation of game becoming "wilder": he thinks it is due to a difference in their enemies – man replacing hawks leads to flight replacing cowering.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
23 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.9: 2 (EH 88205975)
Summary:

Pleased ACR likes Origin. Every geological believer is most important. A long, stiff battle is ahead for the new doctrine.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 [Feb 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 43
Summary:

Applauds JDH’s reply [25 Feb 1860] to W. H. Harvey in Gardeners’ Chronicle.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[26 Feb or 4 Mar] 1860
Source of text:
DAR 115: 44
Summary:

Asks JDH for some Goodenia.

Suggests Daniel Oliver try to cross Mimosa, noted for sterility.

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From:
Francis Boott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Feb 1860
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 27–8
Summary:

Returns paper by Asa Gray [? "Review of Darwin’s theory", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 29 (1860): 153–84].

Greatly admires Origin.

Can follow effects of natural selection in Carex, but when CD brings millions of years into play, he is like Church which demands faith. FB cannot believe in divinity of Christ, resurrection, or miracles.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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)].

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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.

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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.

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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.

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From:
Williams & Norgate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1860
Source of text:
DAR 91: 82
Summary:

W&N have not yet received the German edition of the Origin.

Recommend French–English and French dictionaries.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
30 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 284
Summary:

Comments on QdeB’s [Études sur les maladies actuelles du ver à soie (1860)].

Has failed to find French publisher for Origin.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
2 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A65–6
Summary:

Reminds JSH to send "sketch & account of the wasp’s comb in transitional state from horizontal to vertical, & the country whence procured".

Asks for information on spread of Anacharis [Elodea].

Sedgwick [in criticism of Origin] was not very fair, but Murray says it is splendid for selling copies to "the unfortunate students".

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From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1860
Source of text:
DAR 177 (fragile)
Summary:

Has studied CD’s Jamaican hive-bees and finds them identical to Apis mellifica.

Discusses the structure of wasps’ and bees’ nests

and the occurrence of winged and apterous individuals within some insect genera and species.

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