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DCP-LETT-2574

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[9 Dec 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 189
Summary:

Sends enclosure [unspecified].

Reminds THH to mention [German] translation [of Origin] when he writes to R. A. von Kölliker.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1665

From:
Charles Dufour
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
le 10 Decembre 1859.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/D/186, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel5019

From:
David T. Ansted
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 December 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.400
Summary:

Further regarding the portrait of William Herschel, and his advice to the present owner.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2578

From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 148–9
Summary:

Comments on the Origin. Outlines difficulties he finds in CD’s theory. Believes CD must define natural selection more accurately and mentions instances in which that principle is an insufficient cause to account for the form of certain structures.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2575

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[10 Dec 1859]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.184)
Summary:

Discuss CL’s suggestions for revisions to the chapter on the geological record [Origin, ch. 9].

Henry Holland’s reaction to the book.

Comments on CL’s work on flint tools of early men.

Describes at length a conversation with Owen concerning Origin. Notes "that at bottom he goes immense way with us", but emphasises Owen’s unfriendly manner. Remarks that Owen accepted a relationship between bears and whales. "By Jove I believe he thinks a sort of Bear was the grandpapa of Whales!"

Has heard Herschel considered his book "the law of higgledy-piggledy".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2577

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
10 Dec 1859
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.22–23)
Summary:

Sends receipt for bill for £180 due 27 May 1860 [for Origin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2576

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
10 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/211, 213)
Summary:

Sends source of description of swimming bear catching insects [Samuel Hearne, A journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort in Hudson’s Bay to the northern ocean … (1795); see Origin, p. 184].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11983

From:
William Allen Miller
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 December 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.345
Summary:

Thanks for the photographic notes and for the remarks on color blindness. The remarks on the composition of colors interested him as he has difficulty in distinguishing shades of brown and green.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1666

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Alfred Wills
Date:
11th Dec. 1859
Source of text:
MS 7777/02, Wellcome Library
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2579

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Dec 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 137–8
Summary:

JDH half through Origin. High praise for facts and reasoning.

Lyell told JDH his criticisms: small matters JDH did not appreciate.

Reactions of G. Bentham, J. S. Henslow, and C. C. Babington.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel8615

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Norton Shaw
Date:
[12 December 1859]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Any materials to be sent to JH should be sent to JH's Hawkhurst address.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-59-12-13

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Moore
Date:
13 December 1859
Source of text:
N59/12603, unit 747, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-2581

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
13 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/5)
Summary:

Thanks FG for comments [on Origin].

Acknowledges error involving rhinoceros.

Thinks female fowls select victorious or most beautiful cock.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2582

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
13 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 82–6)
Summary:

Sends anecdotes and drawings of pigeons for Royal Institution lecture. Offers parts on hybridisation and pigeons from his MS (if THH has patience to read them).

Has heard George Busk is converted.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1667

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Unidentified
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1133; MS JT/1/T/6/1964, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2580

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
13 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/195)
Summary:

Responds to Owen’s remarks that his book [Origin] is not likely to be true because it attempts to explain so much. CD describes how, for fear this might be so, he resolved to give up the work if he could not convince two or three competent judges. He is sensitive because of unjust things said by a distinguished friend [A. Sedgwick]. Value of his views now depends on men eminent in science.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6442

From:
Richard Christopher Carrington
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 December 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.210
Summary:

The Council of the R.A.S. will be pleased to receive any further drawings of S. B. Howlett, but will not undertake to publish them owing to the expense.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2583

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 29
Summary:

CD’s great satisfaction with JDH’s approval of Origin. The book has been extremely successful. Reactions of Asa Gray, Lyell, Bentham, and J. E. Gray.

Not one friend has noticed his pet bit in Origin: embryology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13822

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lovegrove
Date:
14 Dec [1859-71]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Acknowledges contribution to Down Coal and Clothing Club.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2584

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
14 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 15 (EH 88206464)
Summary:

Is preparing a reprint of Origin. Asks JL’s opinion on the book’s merits; values his judgment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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