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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:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
7 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (15)
Summary:

Comments on AG’s memoir on Japanese plants [see 2599]; relationship of Japanese flora to N. American.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
7 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Thanks LJ for his letter on Origin. Finds LJ agrees with him more than CD had expected.

Discusses problems of geological record, single primordial form, and man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
9 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 96)
Summary:

Sends ticket to pigeon show.

A quotation from Erasmus Darwin’s Zoonomia [1794, 1796] shows that he anticipated Lamarck.

G. Grote impressed by Times review [26 Dec 1859, p. 8].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10 Jan 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 26a
Summary:

Agassiz denounces Origin as "atheistical";

AG is currently reviewing it [in Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 29 (1860): 153–84].

Jeffries Wyman praises it, though not a convert.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
10 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.191)
Summary:

Comments on corrections [in Origin, 2d ed. (1860)], especially on use of Wallace’s name.

Discusses human evolution with respect to CL’s work. Cites expression as a source of evidence.

Andrew Murray’s criticisms of the Origin involving blind insects in caves [Edinburgh New Philos. J. n.s. 11 (1860): 141–51].

Humorously describes human ancestors.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
11 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 98)
Summary:

On the problem of want of sterility in crosses of domestic varieties. Refers to discussion in Origin, pp. 267–72 ["Fertility of varieties when crossed"]. We do not know precise cause of sterility in species.

Andrew Murray has attacked Origin [see 2647].

H. C. Watson objects to natural selection on grounds of limitless diversification of species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Date:
12 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Archives de l’Académie des sciences, Paris (63 J Fonds Gabriel Bertrand)
Summary:

Very pleased with IGStH’s approval [of Origin]. Will be proud to place IGStH’s Résumé des lecons sur la question de l’espèce (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1851) alongside his other works in his library.

Grateful for his offer to look over the difficult passages in Origin for a translator.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[14–19 Jan 1860]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 21 January 1860, p. 49
Summary:

Hopes readers will send information on the permanence of cross-bred plants and animals. No one doubts that cross-bred productions tend to revert in various degrees to either parent for many generations. But are there not cases of crossed breeds of sheep and pigs that breed true? CD believes occasional cross-breeding of varieties is advantageous in nature as well as under domestication. [See reply to this letter by J. O. Westwood, Gard. Chron. (1860): 122.]

Contributor:
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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.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
14 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.192)
Summary:

Review of Origin in Gardeners’ Chronicle [31 Dec 1859].

Criticises views of J. G. Jeffreys on non-migration of shells. Cites case of Galapagos shells.

Mentions Edward Forbes’s theory of submerged continental extensions. Cites Hooker’s [introductory] essay [in Flora Tasmaniae (1860)] for evidence against any recent connection between Australia and New Zealand.

Discusses Huxley’s views of hybrid sterility.

Questions whether Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire believed in species change. Mentions views of Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.

The distribution of cave insects.

CD’s study of man.

The problems of locating French and German translators.

Huxley’s criticism of Owen’s views on human classification.

The sale of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
15 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

P. T. A. Talandier wants to translate Origin into French. Talandier gave Louis Blanc as a referee. Could Mrs Cresy, who knows Blanc, find out what he thinks of Talandier?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
15 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Archives de l’Académie des sciences, Paris (75 J 837 Fonds Alfred Lacroix)
Summary:

Asks if Quatrefages has found anyone to translate Origin into French, because P. T. A. Talandier, although not a naturalist, wishes to do so.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
16 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Orders J. E. Tennent’s work on Ceylon [Sir James Emerson, afterwards Tennent, Ceylon, an account of the island, physical, historical, and topographical (1859)], and Richard Owen’s Classification and distribution of Mammalia [1859].

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Baden Powell
Date:
18 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection)
Summary:

CD is pleased by BP’s appreciative opinion of Origin. He never intended to claim that he originated the doctrine that species have not been independently created. The only novelty in his work is the attempt to explain how species became modified and how the theory of descent explains large classes of facts. If he has taken anything from BP, he has done so unconsciously. Gives names of those he would have mentioned in any account of authors who maintained that species have not been separately created.

CD greatly admires BP’s Philosophy of creation.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Baden Powell
Date:
18 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection)
Summary:

To avoid possible misundertanding of his letter [2654] of that morning, CD wishes to make clear that he did not wish to imply that BP’s essay and the Vestiges of creation were in the same class. The more he thinks of it the more difficult he feels it would be to give a fair account of the authors who have maintained the modification of species. CD finds that he referred to BP’s views in the preface to his larger work [Natural selection], which was replaced by the Origin.

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:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
20 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Gives the results of crossing experiments; some interesting and curious facts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
21 [Jan 1860]
Source of text:
Janet Huxley (private collection); Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 102)
Summary:

Sends copy of 2d ed. of Origin, with list of corrections.

Is at work on "fuller work" [Variation].

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