From:
Bernard Peirce Brent
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1860?]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 217
Summary:
Habits of ducks when sleeping on water.
Contributor:
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
1860–5
Source of text:
DAR 258: 886
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Aleksander Jelski
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1860–82]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 86
Summary:
AJ, a collector, would like a few lines from CD and an autographed photograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Scot Skirving
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1860?]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 250a
Summary:
Tells of shooting wood-pigeons that had in their crops acorns that did not grow locally.
[Fragment of letter glued to 2197.]
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Scot Skirving
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1860?]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 250b
Summary:
Pigeons in Egypt alight on trees rather than on the mud hovels of the natives [see Variation 1: 181].
[Two fragments glued to 2196.]
Contributor:
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From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Jan? 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 48: 83–5
Summary:
Prepared to think world infinitely old, but not that life originated with a single cell. Questions whether geological evidence supports gradual progress in organisation. HW thought scientific opinion during Vestiges debate was against this hypothesis. Argues that presence of same senses in lower animals and vertebrates does not imply descent; assumes resemblance is due to living in same world and thus having organs for the same purposes. Wants CD to know how others may see these questions.
Contributor:
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[late 1860s]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 622
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
[1860s]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.6
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[1860–62]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2223
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Elizabeth
Date:
[late 1860s]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 4
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
William Whewell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1860
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 19
Summary:
Thanks CD for the Origin. WW is not yet a convert but there is so much "of thought and of fact" in what CD has written that "it is not to be contradicted without careful selection of the ground and manner of the dissent".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 1
Summary:
High praise and detailed comments on JDH’s introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae, which CD has now finished reading.
Disagrees on power of transoceanic migration. Advocates glacial transport of plants.
CD’s response to reviews of Origin in Saturday Review [8 (1859): 775–6] and John Lindley’s in Gardeners’ Chronicle [but see 2651].
Contributor:
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From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3? Jan 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 135–8
Summary:
Notes by HCW on the Origin dealing especially with divergence and convergence. Believes there is some natural tendency to converge into groups in opposition to divergence generated by natural selection.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
Date:
[5–11 Jan 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 136a (verso); The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/5: 77–87)
Summary:
Discusses the possibility of "convergence" occurring; believes it could be only very limited.
Contributor:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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From:
John Evans
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
11 January 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 145
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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