To Thomas Rivers [14 February 1863]
Summary
Delighted by curious case of inheritance in the weeping ash [cited in missing letter from TR] "which produced weeping seedlings and itself lost the weeping peculiarity!" Wishes he could get authentic information on the weeping elm.
What TR says of seedlings conquering each other well illustrates struggle for existence and natural selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
| Date: | [14 Feb 1863] |
| Classmark: | 19th Century Shop (dealers) (catalogue 5, 1988) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3982 |
From Edwin Brown 14 February 1863
Summary
Sends copy of his second paper on mutability of race forms ["On the mutability of species", Proceedings of the Northern Entomological Society, 22 December 1862, pp.4–26].
On tactics of his opponents.
He and Bates have divided up Carabidae and Vanessa for studying relationship of forms.
| Author: | Edwin Brown |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 325 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3983 |
From S. P. Woodward 14 February 1863
Summary
Points out some errata in the Origin.
Discusses the factors producing the shape of the cells of the honeycomb.
Reports case of two varieties of musk-rat that behave very differently but are, according to Waterhouse, the same.
| Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 154 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3984 |
From Isaac Anderson-Henry 14 February 1863
Summary
On holiday; cannot answer CD’s questions.
| Author: | Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3985 |
CD memorandum 14 February 1863
Summary
Agreement to cancel the bond of D. T. Ansted, dated 19 April 1855. Prof. Ansted is arranging to pay CD what he can.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | David Thomas Ansted |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3985A |
| letter | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Anderson Henry, Isaac | (1) |
| Anderson, Isaac | (1) |
| Brown, Edwin | (1) |
| Woodward, S. P. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Ansted, D. T. | (1) |
| Rivers, Thomas | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Anderson Henry, Isaac | (1) |
| Anderson, Isaac | (1) |
| Ansted, D. T. | (1) |
| Brown, Edwin | (1) |
2.14 Boehm, Westminster Abbey roundel
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< Back to Introduction A bronze plaque or medallion with a portrayal of Darwin was installed in Westminster Abbey in 1888, six years after his grand funeral and burial there. Like the seated statue of Darwin in the Natural History Museum of 1884–1885…
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- … < Back to Introduction A bronze plaque or medallion with a portrayal of Darwin was …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … small Bible from Gray’s desk. JANE GRAY: 214 Every tree is known by his own …
The Mount, Shrewsbury
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Letters from home
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- … Darwin writes in preparation for the voyage, and his father and sisters write with news from home …
Dates of composition of Darwin's manuscript on species
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Many of the dates of letters in 1856 and 1857 were based on or confirmed by reference to Darwin’s manuscript on species (DAR 8--15.1, inclusive; transcribed and published as Natural selection). This manuscript, begun in May 1856, was nearly completed by…
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- … On natural selection (DAR 10.2; Natural selection , pp. 214--74) …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … his omission was ‘unintentional’ ([Lubbock] 1863b, p. 214). 12. Letter from Hugh Falconer …
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … to the analogy with plants in Living Cirripedia (1851): 214: ‘Although the existence of …
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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- … plants from monoecious forms (Living Cirripedia (1851): 214; (1854): 29, 528 n.) and, at another …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
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- … 214 Witte H. …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
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- … 214 Witte H. …
Movement in Plants
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The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…
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- … The power of movement in plants , published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical …
