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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Jan 1860
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 20–1
Summary:

Opinions on the Origin: AG thinks it masterly; Agassiz considers it very poor.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Samuel Newington
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.123
Summary:

Is grateful for JH's opinion. Can hardly imagine that such a simple contrivance should answer the purpose. Saw the patent agent who has offered to send a list of all the writings on the subject. Also brought the matter before B. C. Brodie (the elder), who now seems totally blind.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Bridges
Date:
6 Jan 1860
Source of text:
DAR 185: 72
Summary:

Queries on expression among Fuegians and Patagonians.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
John Tyndall
To:
John Murray
Date:
Friday 2 1/2 P.M.
Source of text:
John Murray Archive, Ms. 41214, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie [the elder]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.282
Summary:

Regarding increasing the payment to the Secretaries of the R.S.L. Would like JH's comments.

Contributor:
John Herschel 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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander Stewart Herschel
Date:
[7 January 1860]
Source of text:
JHS 1.113
Summary:

A letter of great sadness: someone is at death's door; not much hope is held out. [This letter may refer to the imminent death of daughter Margaret Louisa, because of its reference to poor Reginald, which was the name of MLH's husband].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Mr.] Bell
Date:
[8 January 1860]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0089; Reel 1054
Summary:

Gratitude for sending [John] Taylor's book. Believes dimensions of Great Pyramid exhibit knowledge of geometry but not of calculus among ancient Egyptians. Suggests way to modify British standard of length to produce 'perfect metrical system' superior to that of French.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie [the elder]
Date:
[8 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.283 & 23.293
Summary:

Agrees with BB that the honorarium paid to the secretaries should be increased. Further comments on this point.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Rowan Hamilton
Date:
[8 January 1860]
Source of text:
TCD 1493:1138
Summary:

Sends back manuscript of WH's [Elements of Quaternions] with comments. Says it's excellent but somewhat distracting to a beginner.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Ann Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
9 January [1860?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.221
Summary:

Sends W. H. Smyth's history of R.S.L. Club [Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Royal Society Club, 1860]. Mentions W. H. Smyth's retiring from visiting R.S.L. Club.

Contributor:
John Herschel 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:
Robert Brown
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.314
Summary:

Would like to dedicate his 'Elements of musical science' to JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel 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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Isaac Fletcher
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.272
Summary:

Regrets the delay in answering JH's letter but he has been abroad. Will supply any details if not too late for his purpose. The mounting of his large telescope is peculiar and is similar to that used by Smyth.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project