From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander J. B. Hope
Date:
[31 June 1860]
Source of text:
WT 63313.1
Summary:
Comments on the publication of several volumes.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1860
Source of text:
DAR 100: 141–2
Summary:
JDH reports on the debate on the Origin at Oxford [BAAS] meeting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[2 July 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 64
Summary:
CD, ill and despondent about hostile reviews, is cheered by JDH’s account of Oxford battle, particularly by willingness of JDH and Huxley to fight for CD’s theory in public.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
2?-7?-1860?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.6-7, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Victoria, queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and empress of India
Date:
[2 July 1860]
Source of text:
National Sunday League [1860]
Summary:
With 942 others petitions Queen Victoria for museums, art galleries and libraries to open on Sunday afternoons for the benefit of those who work during the week.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
3 July [1860]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (41)
Summary:
Origin has "stirred up the mud with a vengeance"; AG and three or four others have saved CD from annihilation and are responsible for the attention now given to the subject. Reports events at Oxford BAAS meeting.
New evidence supports AG’s view of a warm post-glacial period.
Discusses his recent orchid observations.
Poses AG a question on design in nature.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[3 July 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 66
Summary:
Reread JDH’s letter "with infinite pleasure".
Plans to visit Kew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
3 July [1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 121)
Summary:
Has had a report on Oxford BAAS meeting from Hooker. Asks THH to write about it. Has heard he fought nobly with Owen and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce. Regrets trouble he has caused his friends.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
3 July [1860]
Source of text:
Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46)
Summary:
Thanks for orchid specimens.
On 10th and 11th will be at Tunbridge Wells.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[4 July 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 65
Summary:
CD will visit Kew on way home from E. W. Lane’s hydropathy establishment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[4 July 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 38 (EH 88206482)
Summary:
Birth of JL’s child.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[5 July 1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 123)
Summary:
THH’s long account of Oxford meeting. Has he no reverence for a bishop?
W. Hopkins’ review in Fraser’s Magazine is nothing new.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Hawkins
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 July 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.170
Summary:
Thanks for his letter about Thomas Maclear's boy. Thought he was in the care of his uncle. Will do whatever JH thinks is best.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
5 [July 1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.221)
Summary:
Glad CL plans trip to Amiens to investigate flints and post-glacial period.
Mentions support by Huxley, Hooker, and Lubbock at Oxford BAAS meeting. Asa Gray also goes on fighting.
Likes article by William Hopkins ["Physical theories and the phenomena of life", Fraser’s Mag. 61 (1860): 739–52; 62 (1860): 74–90].
Comments on hybrids of hare and rabbit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 July 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.336
Summary:
His strength is improving. The Airys are off to Bilboa.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Agnes Greig
Date:
6 Jul 1860
Source of text:
MS3F-1
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Henry Brougham
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
7 Jul 1860
Source of text:
MSB 13 / 413, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 July [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 164.1: 5
Summary:
Hyaena remains show how recently Sicily was joined to Africa.
Reports on the Oxford meeting of BAAS.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Obadiah Westwood
Date:
9 July [1860]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological collections)
Summary:
Thanks JOW for the bees. The pollen-masses that were attached to one of them have unaccountably been lost.
Does not know of a paper by Charles Morren on orchids and insects, and would be glad to have the reference [see 3267, and Orchids, p. 270 n.].
Has spent so much money recently he is unwilling to subscribe for the purchase of T. V. Wollaston’s collection for the [Oxford] Museum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
9 [July 1860]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 2)
Summary:
Regrets he cannot answer SPW’s questions.
Discusses antiquity of subaerial volcanoes.
Disagrees "entirely & absolutely" with L. von Buch’s "elevation-crater-theory".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project