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DCP-LETT-3073

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
26–7 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (57a)
Summary:

Believes AG’s pamphlet will do natural selection "right good service".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3072

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
26 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 39 (EH 88206022)
Summary:

Praise for DO’s paper on Hamamelidaceae ["On Sycopis", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 83–9, read 15 Mar 1860]. Everything points to its being a "bankrupt" family.

Hydropathy at Malvern may take him from Drosera. Requests Dionaea and Cypripedium.

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DCP-LETT-3073F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Archibald Geikie
Date:
27 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 131
Summary:

CD expresses his gratification that a geologist of AG’s standing and influence subscribes to the idea of the mutability of species.

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DCP-LETT-3889A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist
Date:
27 [Feb or Mar] 1861
Source of text:
Morristown National Historical Park (Lloyd W. Smith MS 697)
Summary:

Requests a number of books to be sent by the carrier on Thursday morning.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2628

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Temple
Date:
[c. 28 Feb 1861]
Source of text:
H. G. Hutchinson 1914, 1: 57–8
Summary:

Regret that the Archbishop of Canterbury and other English Bishops have severely censured Essays and Reviews [1860]. Believe "such enquiries conducted in a spirit so earnest and reverential … must tend to elicit truth, and to foster a spirit of sound religion". [Signed by CD, numerous men of science, and others.]

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DCP-LETT-3075

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
1 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for skulls

and information about Ferguson.

Is working on rabbits’ skeletons.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3076

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Rolleston
Date:
2 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.6119/5)
Summary:

Agrees with GR’s remarks on Asa Gray’s pamphlet.

New edition of Origin to appear immediately.

Fact of clubbed fingernails in cyanosis quite new to CD. Asks for information.

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DCP-LETT-3077

From:
Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1861
Source of text:
DAR 47: 154–5
Summary:

Will be pleased to review Asa Gray’s pamphlet [see 3068].

Is not surprised that blind cave insects are sometimes found in other dark places.

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DCP-LETT-3079

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray
Date:
3 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
R. D. Pyrah (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks AM for his note. [Asa Gray’s] pamphlet was meant for AM if he thinks it worth accepting.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3078

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
3 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 101)
Summary:

Making slow progress with Variation.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3081

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Leidy
Date:
4 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia
Summary:

JL’s approval of CD’s work is gratifying. Most palaeontologists despise it. Delighted that JL has some interesting facts "in support of … selection". Is sure his views will be partially accepted. Has never doubted that "much in my Book will be proved erroneous".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3082

From:
Gideon Lincecum
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1861
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (MS S.P. 604A)
Summary:

Reports on the habits of the cutting ant of Texas, particularly its habit of planting shade trees to protect its mound from sun.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3080

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
4 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.239)
Summary:

Asks for a rabbit specimen;

inquires about a hybrid hare–rabbit.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3082F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
4 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Autogr.: Darwin, Charles Robert, Bl. 1-2 )
Summary:

CD is obliged for the securing of [Ferguson’s illustrated book of domestic poultry]. Since he has already been given a copy, may he return this one?

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DCP-LETT-3083

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Rolleston
Date:
7 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.6119/6)
Summary:

Thanks for explanation of cyanosis and clubbed nails.

Hopes GR will work out point about mucus tubes.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3084

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
8 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46)
Summary:

Obliged for offer to observe orchids.

Not surprised that AGM demurs to acceptance of his views. Discusses effects of natural selection.

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DCP-LETT-3085

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 89
Summary:

Invitation to Down for weekend with Huxley and W. B. Carpenter.

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DCP-LETT-3087

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
12 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (52)
Summary:

Has received Chauncey Wright’s article.

Reports on favourable response to AG’s pamphlet.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3086

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
12 [Mar 1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.240)
Summary:

Promises to send copy of Origin [3d ed.].

Is pleased that PLS has "become ""heretical"" on species".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3088

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Cuthbert Collingwood
Date:
14 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS. 37725, ff. 6–9b)
Summary:

CD is not surprised at CC’s entire rejection of his views. Agrees that there is no direct proof of unlimited variation. Says natural selection should be viewed as comparable to wave theory of light: it is probable because it groups and explains a host of facts in several fields of science.

Agrees Louis Agassiz’s review [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 30 (1860): 142–55] is not unfair, but Agassiz misunderstands CD. His "categories of thought" are to CD merely empty words.

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