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Tyndall1590

From:
Richard Owen
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
February 18th, 1859
Source of text:
pp. 193-4, Glaciers of the Alps
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2515

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
11 Nov [1859]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Has asked his publisher to send a copy of Origin. Fears it will be "an abomination" in RO’s eyes. Urges him to read it straight through, as it is a condensed abstract and will otherwise be unintelligible.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2526

From:
Richard Owen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1859
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Will welcome CD’s work [Origin] with a "close & continuous perusal".

Believes in the "operation of existing influences or causes in the ordained becoming and incoming of living species" and so could not regard CD’s attempt to demonstrate the nature of such influences as "heterodox".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1647

From:
Richard Owen
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Nov. 12. /59
Source of text:
Add MS 63092, ff. 16-227v, BL
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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HENSLOW-539

From:
Richard Owen
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
30 November 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 238
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow 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

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
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