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DCP-LETT-9864

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
20 Feb 1875
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks FBG for his essay. Thinks FBG’s planned collection would be very useful but is ‘not sanguine of success’. Most naturalists do not care about domesticated productions. ‘A strong remnant of the feeling yet survives that there is a marked distinction between varieties & species, & naturalists regard only the latter.’

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000963

From:
James Joseph Sylvester
To:
Arthur Cayley
Date:
20 February 1875
Source of text:
MM/15/20, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-9865

From:
Giovanni Giuseppe Bianconi
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 182
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s reception of his book. The evidence GGB has assembled has convinced him of independent creation. The future will say whether he or CD is correct.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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RS-MM-000964

From:
James Joseph Sylvester
To:
Arthur Cayley
Date:
22 February 1875
Source of text:
MM/15/21, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-9868

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
23 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 143: 178
Summary:

Expresses his feelings following the death of Charles Lyell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9867

From:
James Gibb
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 165: 35
Summary:

Thinks he has observed the origin of the shake of the head as signifying "no" in his seven-month-old son.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9866

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 95: 377–8
Summary:

Mourns death of Lyell. Wonders whether enough men of science were attached to him to raise a fitting testimonial.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9870

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Belt
Date:
24 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 143: 81
Summary:

Will not come to London for some weeks. Hopes to make TB’s acquaintance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9869

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 Feb 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 16–19
Summary:

On Lyell’s death; JDH has arranged for burial in Westminster Abbey. His thoughts on a testimonial.

More trouble with Lord Henry Lennox.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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RS-MM-000965

From:
James Joseph Sylvester
To:
Arthur Cayley
Date:
24 February 1875
Source of text:
MM/15/22, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-9872

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Woolner
Date:
24 Feb 1875
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations. Manuscripts and Archives Division. (Montague Collection of historical autographs: Series 1, box 2, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Is much obliged to TW and his friend for having told him about the azalea, but CD had already seen the account.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9871

From:
Chauncey Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 181: 173 fos. 1–5
Summary:

Speculates on the function of eyebrows and of hair and the furrows of the forehead. Considers many features and faculties to serve, or to have served, more than one function, either simultaneously or successively. Determining the one function through which natural selection has acted in developing it is unrealistic and not worth while.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9874

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
25 Feb 1875
Source of text:
Max Rambod (dealer) (December 2001)
Summary:

"Last night it suddenly occurred to me that I had not sent you the last Edition of the Descent of Man published in November."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9873

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Feb [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 379–81
Summary:

CD on his memory of Lyell. Deeply rejoices that he is to be buried in Westminster Abbey.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC164

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
26 February 1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.51, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH has received Asa Gray's letter of 12 Feb [1875]. He reports that his great friend [Sir Charles] Lyell is dead. JDH got up a petition for Lyell's burial in Westminster Abbey, signed by fellows of the Royal, Linnean & Geological Societies, & Stanley has as good as offered this honour. Lyell's brother died 3 weeks earlier. Mentions Gray's rheumatism. Dismisses Mrs Sullivant & advises Gray to do the same. Gray's request for catalogues of scientific papers has not yet come before the Royal Society Library Committee. JDH is sending Gray's herbarium [Harvard University Herbarium] a copy as a gift from himself, the cost will be more than covered by the sale of Gay's duplicate specimens so he will also send the SYNOPSIS FILICUM & Plate III of FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA. Accepts Gray's offer of Jamaican plants, though he cannot be certain they are new. [George] Bentham seems well but is plagued by sudden attacks of diarrhoea. In an additional annotation JDH mentions the [William] Carruthers affair & that: 'Nathaniel Lindley is Counsel for the King'.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

RS-MM-000966

From:
James Joseph Sylvester
To:
Arthur Cayley
Date:
26 February 1875
Source of text:
MM/15/23, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

JHC198

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
27 February 1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.10-11, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-9790A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[Feb 1875 or earlier?]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) catalogue p. 192 (20 July 1989)
Summary:

Reports that Variation is out of print. Suggests means of obtaining a copy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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