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DCP-LETT-2837

From:
Frederick Bond
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16? June 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 76 (ser. 2): 168
Summary:

Observations on moths visiting flowers.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2847

From:
Frederick Bond
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June 1860
Source of text:
DAR 76 (ser. 2): 169
Summary:

Hopes to make observations on moths pollinating clovers.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2717

From:
Francis Boott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Feb 1860
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 27–8
Summary:

Returns paper by Asa Gray [? "Review of Darwin’s theory", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 29 (1860): 153–84].

Greatly admires Origin.

Can follow effects of natural selection in Carex, but when CD brings millions of years into play, he is like Church which demands faith. FB cannot believe in divinity of Christ, resurrection, or miracles.

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DCP-LETT-2624

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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DCP-LETT-2778

From:
Bernard Peirce Brent
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[May–June 1860?]
Source of text:
DAR 160.3: 297
Summary:

Cannot supply a case of atavism in canaries.

Will lend CD back issues of Cottage Gardener.

Cites case of bird (tumbler hen) laying egg in another’s nest.

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DCP-LETT-2643

From:
Thomas Bridges
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Oct 1860 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 85: 39
Summary:

Answers to queries on expression with respect to Fuegians.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2934

From:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 or 15] Oct 1860
Source of text:
DAR 160.3: 317
Summary:

Does not remember his criticisms of CD’s theory. Can CD locate them in book?

Criticises analogy between knowledge of electricity and knowledge of origin of life.

Explains A. E. Brehm’s concept of subspecies. Discusses subspecies of Certhia.

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DCP-LETT-2669

From:
Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1860
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 26
Summary:

On the Origin. Before expressing his disagreements, CJFB praises CD’s labour, patience, fairness, and other qualities which make the work "one of the most important that has ever appeared in Natural History". [See 2690.]

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DCP-LETT-9213

From:
John Cattell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 5 May 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 53.2: 167r
Summary:

Future orders will be highly esteemed.

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DCP-LETT-2796

From:
John Cattell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1860
Source of text:
DAR 77: 171–2a
Summary:

Cannot provide plants CD requested.

Has sowed several kinds of lettuce seed near each other and has never observed them to cross naturally [see Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 173 n.].

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DCP-LETT-2968

From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1860
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 6, 58.2: 49–52
Summary:

Sends CD passages from A. S. Taylor’s book [On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine, 2d ed. (1859)], citing smallest portions of poisons that are chemically detectable. "Drosera beats the chemists hollow."

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2980

From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1860
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 7, 9
Summary:

Explains discrepancies in weights and measures caused by changes since 1836 in apothecaries’ measures.

EC has found that a discrepancy in A. W. von Hofmann’s experiments with iodine solutions resulted from an error in Hofmann’s use of decimals.

Reports S. P. Woodward’s opinion of the Origin: "a very sad book, it unsettles all one’s religious principles and the worst of it is so much of it is true".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13817

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[1860–70?]
Source of text:
Janet Huxley (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks THH for the delightful evening he gave Frank [Darwin].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13875

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1860–82?]
Source of text:
Glenbow Museum
Summary:

Is "almost certain" plant is Menispermum canadense.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13876

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1860–82?]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/34)
Summary:

CD’s health remains bad and as he grows older he becomes weaker.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3052F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1860–82?]
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 681, 28 and 29 June 2005)
Summary:

Sends photograph in case recipient collects them.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2633F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Hawkshaw
Date:
1 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 139), Geological Society of London (Membership certificates, 1860, p. 116)
Summary:

Returning Thomas George Bonney’s certificate, which it was a pleasure to sign.

Delighted that JH is interested in his book [Origin?]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2633

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
1 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 94)
Summary:

Will keep THH’s secret [of authorship of Times review of Origin]. It has made deep impression.

J. D. Dana’s illness.

Daily News accuses him of plagiarising Vestiges.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2635

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].

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DCP-LETT-2637

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
4 [Jan 1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.190)
Summary:

Praises CL’s work on human species.

A critical review of Origin in Saturday Review [24 Dec 1859].

A letter from J. G. Jeffreys criticises CD’s geological statements.

A note from William Whewell concerning Origin.

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