From J. D. Hooker [26 February 1863]
Summary
Criticism of Antiquity of man; its public reception.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Feb 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 108–10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4011 |
To T. H. Huxley 26 [February 1863]
Summary
Praise of Man’s place.
Owen’s muddling letter in Athenæum [21 Feb 1863, pp. 262–3].
Is disappointed in Lyell’s excessive caution on species and origin of man [in Antiquity of man].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 26 [Feb 1863] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 191) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4013 |
From Francis Walker 26 February 1863
Summary
Identifies flies sent to him by CD. [CD note states that these were found with orchid pollinia adhering to them.]
| Author: | Francis Walker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4014 |
From the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin 26 February 1863
Summary
A diploma. CD is elected a corresponding member.
| Author: | Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 229: 50a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4014F |
| letter | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences | (1) |
| Walker, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences | (1) |
| Walker, Francis | (1) |
2.26 Linnean Society medal
Summary
< Back to Introduction In 1908 the Linnean Society celebrated the jubilee of ‘the greatest event’ in its whole history, which had occurred on 1 July 1858: the presentation by Charles Lyell and Joseph Hooker of papers by Darwin and Alfred Russel…
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- … < Back to Introduction In 1908 the Linnean Society celebrated the jubilee of ‘the …
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Summary
Glories of a Brazilian forest
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- … Describes his first encouter with a tropical forest and recieves geological information and …
Richard Matthews
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Richard Matthews was 21 years old when he stepped aboard the Beagle, destined for a lonely career as a missionary in Tierra del Fuego. The Church Missionary Society had arranged for him to accompany the three Fuegians (Fuegia Basket, Jemmy Button, and York…
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- … time to save his life’, Darwin recorded (Darwin 1845, p. 226). Matthews was back on board the …
The evolution of honeycomb
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Honeycombs are natural engineering marvels, using the least possible amount of wax to provide the greatest amount of storage space, with the greatest possible structural stability. Darwin recognised that explaining the evolution of the honey-bee’s comb…
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- … a structure like that of the honey-bee ( Origin , p. 226). Further, there were advantages to a …
