From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
10th May 1860
Source of text:
RR/4/181, RS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1860
Source of text:
DAR 47: 160–1
Summary:
Returns reviews of Origin.
F. J. Pictet [Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. n.s. 7 (1860): 231–55] goes further than he himself realises.
Naturalists will resist CD’s views until faith in certain "impassable" barriers between existent species is shaken.
Gives CD an instance of convergence.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 May – 3 Dec 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 205.5: 217 (Letters), DAR 47: 214
Summary:
CD’s divergent series explains those anomalous plants that hover between what would otherwise be two species in a genus.
Inclined to see conifers as a sub-series of dicotyledons that developed in parallel to monocotyledons, but retained cryptogamic characters.
Mentions H. C. Watson’s view of variations.
Man has destroyed more species than he has created varieties.
Variations are centrifugal because the chances are a million to one that identity of form once lost will return.
In the human race, we find no reversion "that would lead us to confound a man with his ancestors".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
A. P. White & Company
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
11 May 1860
Source of text:
MS 13071 Royal Society of Victoria Exploration Committee records, box 2077/5, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 May [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 53
Summary:
Dissection of Leschenaultia convinces CD insect agency necessary for self-fertilisation in this case.
Primroses and cowslips seem universally to occur in two forms. Very curious to see which plants set seed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
11 May 1860
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/5/4
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Richard Griffin
Date:
11 May 1860
Source of text:
BL add MS 28510, f.41
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John Cattell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1860
Source of text:
DAR 77: 171–2a
Summary:
Cannot provide plants CD requested.
Has sowed several kinds of lettuce seed near each other and has never observed them to cross naturally [see Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 173 n.].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Nicholson
Date:
12 May 1860
Source of text:
O60/4175, unit 748, VPRS 1189/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 May 1860]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0650; Reel 1084
Summary:
[Form Letter] GA's address, as Astronomer Royal, to Board of Visitors. Progress report on F. G. W. Struve's proposal for joint French-English-Belgian triangulation survey.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Alfred Austin
Date:
12 May 1860
Source of text:
Parliamentary Papers, 1860 (309) XL, p.5
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Richmond
Date:
12 May 1860
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Robert Bunsen
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/B/147, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
13 May [1860]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/6)
Summary:
Does FG know Mansfield Parkyns well enough to submit query to him? [Probably about domestication of Columba guinea in Abyssinia. See Variation 1: 183.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 [May 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 54
Summary:
J. S. Henslow’s defence of CD;
[Thomas?] Thomson’s opposition to Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
13 [May 1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Orders latest issues of North British Review and Dublin Magazine of Natural History. Also would like an order placed for him for a French translation of F. Unger, Versuch einer Geschichte der Pflanzen-Welt [1852], if such a translation has appeared.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Baden Powell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
14 May [1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.50
Summary:
Glad to hear JH feeling better. Enclosing a 'shorter and simpler' explanation of some experiment by Léon Foucault, asking for comments.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
W. B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
14 May 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 73
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
14 May [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A70–1
Summary:
Thanks JSH for his defence [see 2794].
He is not hurt for long by what his attackers say. His conclusions were arrived at after long study. He has certainly erred, but not so much as "Sedgwick and Co." think.
Asks JSH to send names of plants that vary greatly in length of pistil.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 May [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 55
Summary:
Instructs JDH on how to pollinate Leschenaultia.
Evidence of Leschenaultia and the dioecious condition of cowslips and Auricula is making necessity of insect pollination "clear and clearer".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
