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
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
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
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
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
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
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