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DCP-LETT-2599

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
24 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (46)
Summary:

Thanks for AG’s Japan memoir [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 6 (1857–9): 377–452]. Does not think AG’s arguments for a warm post-glacial period are sufficient, but will not be sorry to be proved wrong.

Believes natural selection explains many classes of facts which repeated creation does not.

Writes of some responses to the Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2600

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
24 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

Sends MS on pigeons for THH’s lecture at Royal Institution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3699

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sarah Faraday
Date:
24 December 1859
Source of text:
RI MS JT TS Volume 12, pp.4093-5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1671

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sarah Faraday
Date:
Christmas eve, 1859
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/12/4093; 5:3699, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2597

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
24 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.24–25)
Summary:

Thanks JM for present of McClintock’s work [Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, The voyage of the "Fox" in the Arctic seas (1859)], which he and his wife look forward to reading.

Asks to be told when reprint [of Origin] is ready.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2598

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
François Jules Pictet de la Rive
Date:
24 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de Genève (MS. fr. 1651, ff. 6–7)
Summary:

Sends Origin to FJP. "I rest my conviction solely on the fact, as it seems to me, that the theory explains large classes of facts otherwise inexplicable." Has made important converts: Lyell, Hooker, Huxley, and W. B. Carpenter.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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