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DCP-LETT-2611

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
28 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 92)
Summary:

Delighted with Times review [26 Dec 1859]. Puzzled by author, suspects THH, but publication in Times makes it unlikely. Sorry for Owen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1674

From:
Rudolf Clausius
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
28/12/59
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/7/2236-2237, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2613

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 [Dec 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 34
Summary:

Queries possible misprint in JDH’s introduction to Flora Tasmaniae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2614

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Gwyn Jeffreys
Date:
29 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 323
Summary:

Thanks for correction concerning the scarcity of fossil littoral shells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2612

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
29 [Dec 1859]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.188)
Summary:

Encloses letter concerning Edward Blyth’s application for a position with the China expedition.

Mentions reviews of the Origin. Guesses that Huxley wrote the Times review.

Alludes to discussion of relations between fossil and modern types [in Principles of geology 3: 144].

Discusses destruction of tropical forms in the glacial period.

Mentions letter from Dana concerning Dana’s illness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2615

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
30 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 366
Summary:

Grieved at JDD’s illness. Recommends water-cure. Describes his own illness.

The reception of Origin has been more successful than he dreamed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8506

From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 December 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.486
Summary:

[Responding to JH's 1859-1-16,] HS defends the nebular hypothesis, HS's theory of comets, and sets out HS's theory of sunspot formation, noting that John Tyndall supports it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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