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List of correspondents
Summary
Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
Matches: 29 hits
- … Ball, John (5) Ball, Robert (3) Ball …
- … Bateman, James (1) Bateman, Robert (1) …
- … Bell, Marion (1) Bell, Robert (b) (2) …
- … Buckman, James (2) Buist, Robert (2) …
- … Burgess, Thomas (3) Burn, Robert (1) …
- … Giuseppe (2) Carden, Robert (1) …
- … Caspari, Otto (1) Caspary, Robert (11) …
- … J. H. (1) Chambers, Robert (7) …
- … W. H. M. (2) Christison, Robert (1) …
- … Cole, William (3) Colgate, Robert (1) …
- … Dalziel, Hugh (1) Damon, Robert (2) …
- … Elliot, H. F. H. (1) Elliot, Robert (3) …
- … Evans, Marian (2) Everest, Robert (1) …
- … Fitch, Adam (3) Fitch, Robert (16) …
- … Fitton, W. H. (2) FitzRoy, Robert (28) …
- … Gardner, E. T. (1) Garner, Robert (1) …
- … Hunt, James (b) (1) Hunt, Robert (5) …
- … Hutton, F. W. (3) Hutton, Robert (2) …
- … Magniac, Charles (1) Main, Robert (2) …
- … Malden, B. S. (1) Mallet, Robert (1) …
- … Daniel (1) McAndrew, Robert (1) …
- … W. C. (5) McLachlan, Robert (8) …
- … F. G. (1) Patterson, Robert (8) …
- … Russell, Mr (2) Russell, Robert (1) …
- … Moritz (1) Schlagintweit, Robert (1) …
- … Scott, W. R. (1) Scrimgeour, Robert Shedden & John Shedden & …
- … Shaw, James (11) Shaw, Robert (3) …
- … Smith, John (c) (2) Smith, Robert (2) …
- … George (1) Swinhoe, Robert (19) …
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
Summary
The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
Matches: 7 hits
- … of a number of scientific admirers at Down, among them Robert Caspary, John Traherne Moggridge, and …
- … theory featured in the presidential address by William Robert Grove at the annual meeting of the …
- … Gray, the nurseryman Thomas Rivers, and the German botanist Robert Caspary. Darwin was particularly …
- … act as intermediary between Darwin and the German botanist Robert Caspary, who wished to visit Down …
- … an invitation from the president of the association, William Robert Grove, to speak ‘on the …
- … in another speech at the Nottingham meeting. William Robert Grove had approached Hooker in May for …
- … of his religious views, replying to the educator Mary Everest Boole, who asked whether he thought …
Was Darwin an ecologist?
Summary
One of the most fascinating aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the extent to which the experiments he performed at his home in Down, in the English county of Kent, seem to prefigure modern scientific work in ecology.
Matches: 5 hits
- … behind ideas from, for example, Thomas Hobbes and Thomas Robert Malthus about the inevitability of …
- … reformer of scientific nomenclature. Malthus, Thomas Robert. Clergyman and political economist …
- … additional genera. London: Bradbury & Evans. McIntosh, Robert P. 1985. The background of …
- … in Ecology & Evolution 13 : 259–60. Richards, Robert J. 2008. The tragic sense of …
- … by H. M. Ward. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Stauffer, Robert C. 1957. Haeckel, Darwin, and ecology …
