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From:
William Charles Linnaeus Martin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1859–61]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 56/1–15
Summary:

MS of a paper called "Comments on Mr Darwin’s grand theory", which generally supports CD but proposes that present flightless birds are primitive. Paper supplemented by a diagram showing the phylogeny of birds.

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From:
William Charles Linnaeus Martin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1859–61]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 211–13
Summary:

Examples of animals that dwell in dark places, some of which are blind, some not. Asks: where causes are the same, why is not the effect? Does not think disuse is the answer, but arrested development.

Comments also on the absence of a ligament in four mammals and asks how natural selection accounts for this.

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From:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1859
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 399
Summary:

Responds to CD’s queries concerning faults; is sending sections of the kind he wants. The Merionethshire fault with a downthrow of 12000ft. [See Origin, p. 285.]

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
10 Jan [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A120–A121
Summary:

Thanks JSH for specimens. Comments on the structure of a hornet comb and asks JSH to obtain some fresh combs for him and to make observations for him. He is greatly interested in "these wondrous architectural instincts".

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From:
Richard Hill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1859
Source of text:
DAR 166: 218
Summary:

Will secure information on indigenous and naturalised bees as CD requests.

Believes Mexican and Jamaican Melipona are different.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Syms Covington
Date:
16 Jan 1859
Source of text:
Brian Sirl (private collection)
Summary:

Regrets SC’s increasing deafness, but advises that aurists are humbugs.

Tells of illnesses in family and his own poor health. "I never know 24 hours comfort."

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 Jan [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 2
Summary:

At work on abstract.

Continues argument on effectiveness of dispersal. Has doubts about relationship of isolation to highness of Australian flora. Questions about survival of European plants introduced in Australia.

CD receives the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
21 Jan [1859]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Geological collections)
Summary:

Acknowledges the honour that the Council [of the Geological Society] have conferred upon him [award of Wollaston Medal]. Will attend the anniversary meeting if his health permits, but cannot attend the dinner.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 January 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 3
Summary:

Darwin encloses letters from ARW, and expresses admiration for the spirit in which they were written. Darwin thanks Hooker and Lyell for their intervention in the joint reading of ARW and Darwin’s papers at the Linnean Society in 1858. Darwin makes enquiries about the geology of the Himalayas.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 Jan [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 3
Summary:

Wallace has written and is well satisfied with the joint presentation.

CD requests some facts to make case in his abstract for former glacial action in Himalayas.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
25 January [1859]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 9-12
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 134-135]
  • Darwin, F. (1909). Some letters from Charles Darwin to Alfred Russel Wallace. Christ's College Magazine: 23(70): 214-231 [pp. 220-222]
Summary:

No summary available.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1859
Source of text:
DAR 100: 131–2
Summary:

Relieved by Wallace’s letter.

At work on introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae.

European plants naturalised in Australia are almost all adapted to invading disturbed ground.

JDH supports Asa Gray against Alphonse de Candolle as foreign member of Royal Society.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 January 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 100: 131-2
Summary:

Hooker is “relieved and pleased” by the letters from ARW that Darwin had forwarded regarding ARW’s reaction to the joint reading of their papers at the Linnean Society in 1858. He discusses his progress on his Australian article. [Hooker, J. D. 1859. On The Flora of Australia: Its Origin, Affinities, and Distribution. In: Botany of the Antarctic Expedition. Part 3: Flora of Tasmania, vol. 1. London: Lovell Reeve.] He discusses potential candidates for the Royal Society’s new Foreign Fellow.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
25 Jan [1859]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Expresses pleasure and relief at ARW’s response to joint publication of their pieces about natural selection.

Plans for the "abstract" [Origin].

Birds’ nests as evidence of variation of instincts.

Their collection of bees’ combs.

Praises ARW’s article.

Lyell’s and Hooker’s views [of species issue].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Jan [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 4
Summary:

CD not convinced that naturalisation of European plants abroad is strictly dependent on creation by agriculture of disturbed ground.

More than half through his chapter on geographical distribution.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
4 Feb [1859]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Wants white breeds of poultry.

Poor health necessitates a trip to Moor Park, Farnham.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[6 Feb 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 26 (EH 88206475)
Summary:

JL’s brother’s accident.

Thinks JL should tackle systematics of anomalous insects from studies of internal organs.

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From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1859
Source of text:
DAR 48: A67
Summary:

Is sorry to hear of bad health of CD and his daughter.

Discusses, with an example, the difficulty of explaining structural differences between closely allied species.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
8 Feb [1859]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections (John Phillips collection))
Summary:

His doctor urges CD most strongly not to expose himself to the excitement and fatigue of receiving the [Wollaston] Medal. He will ask Lyell to receive it on his behalf.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
9 Feb [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 27 (EH 88206476)
Summary:

CD sees JL’s cases of same organs varying greatly in allied forms as a serious difficulty in regard to his own ideas.

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