From John Wood 6 April 1871
Summary
Corrects CD on his assertion that the platysma myoides "cannot voluntarily be brought into action" [Descent 1: 19].
| Author: | John Wood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 145–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7661 |
From William Turner [1871?]
Summary
Extract from Robert Knox on hermaphroditism [Lond. Med. Gaz. 12 Jan 1844].
| Author: | William Turner |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1871?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 196 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7414 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … that certain organs found in the Mammalia, with whose functions we are not acquainted, and …
From William Preyer 8 May 1871
Summary
Delighted that CD does not hesitate to follow his theory to its last consequences. "This is far more difficult in England than in Germany."
Wilhelm Müller in his new book [Beiträge zur pathologischen Anatomie und Physiologie des menschlichen Rückenmarks (1871)], adduces many facts in favour of CD’s theory.
Various observations on the human ear. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 14 n.]
| Author: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 May 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 49–51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7745 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … as a connecting link, because all mammalia have the ears standing higher up than man. It …
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| Preyer, William | (1) |
| Turner, William | (1) |
| Wood, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Preyer, William | (1) |
| Turner, William | (1) |
| Wood, John | (1) |
George Robert Waterhouse
Summary
George Waterhouse was born on 6 March 1810 in Somers Town, North London. His father was a solicitor’s clerk and an amateur lepidopterist. George was educated from 1821-24 at Koekelberg near Brussels. On his return he worked for a time as an apprentice to…
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
Summary
The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
Matches: 7 hits
- … American Journal of Science and Arts ]. Rengger on Mammalia of Paraguay [Rengger 1830]— …
- … 1807] read it— Erasmus has it Owens Brit. Mammalia [R. Owen 1846a]— Horner has it. (read) …
- … [Moquin-Tandon 1841] —— Owens Fossil British Mammalia [R. Owen 1846a] 27 th Elie de …
- … Sketch Read Classification & Geograph. Distrib of Mammalia.— Owen 5 o : Parker [R. Owen …
- … Edward. 1843–52. Catalogue of the specimens of Mammalia in the British Museum . 3 pts. (Pt 3: …
- … the classification and geographical distribution of the Mammalia, being the lecture … delivered …
- … 13a Sykes, William Henry. 1832a. Catalogue of the Mammalia observed in the Dakhan. …
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
Summary
This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…
Matches: 1 hits
- … —A sketch of the deposits containing extinct Mammalia in the neighbourhood of the Plata. …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
Matches: 1 hits
- … to the coexistence of man and the ornithorhynchus amongst mammalia,—or amongst fish, of the shark …
