To Walter Elliot 23 January 1856
Summary
Requests WE’s measurements of tigers.
Asks about a work on domestic pigeons in an Eastern language. Will consult [Ayeen Akbery or, the institutes of the Emperor Akber, trans. from Persian by Francis Gladwin, 2 vols. (1777, 1800)].
Asks for specimen skins of domestic pigeons and poultry. [See Variation 1: 205.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Walter Elliot |
Date: | 23 Jan 1856 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.123) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1824 |
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To Basil Hall [7 January 1840]
Summary
CD regrets inconvenience caused by his having Royal Geographical Society’s copy of Krusenstern’s Atlas [de l’océan Pacifique (1824–7)]. Locates Sulphur Island from it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Basil Hall |
Date: | [7 Jan 1840] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-550 |
Knight, Thomas Andrew. 1824. An account of some mule plants. [Read 6 May 1823.] Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London 5 (1824): 292–6.
Blackadder, Alexander. 1824. On the superficial strata of the Forth district. [Read 15 May 1824.] Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society 5 (1823–4): 424–39.
Wahlenberg, Göran. 1824–6. Flora Suecica. 2 pts. Upsala.
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From John Wood Warter 23 December 1824
Summary
Warns CD against idleness.
Suggests readings in Xenophon and Horace.
Quotes Oliver Goldsmith to correct CD’s pronunciation of "sloth".
Author: | John Wood Warter |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Dec 1824 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 188 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8 |
Horsfield, Thomas. 1824. Zoological researches in Java, and the neighbouring islands. London.
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Murray, Lindley. 1824. English grammar. 5th ed. 2 vols. York.
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Arrowsmith, J. H. (1824–1907)
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Deshayes, Gérard Paul. 1824–37. Description des coquilles fossiles des environs de Paris. 2 vols. and atlas. Paris.
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Hancock, Thomas. 1824. Essay on instinct, and its physical and moral relations. London.
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Peck, Robert McCracken. 1994. William Holbrook Beard (1824–1900). Magazine Antiques 146: 692–700.
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Schmidt, August and Voigt, Bernhard Friedrich. 1824–56. Neue Nekrolog der Deutschen. 30 vols.
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Scott, Walter. 1832. Redgauntlet. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Robert Cadell. London: Whittaker & Co.
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Ward, Thomas Humphry. 1926. History of the Athenæum, 1824-1925. London: printed for the Athenæum Club.
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Wheeler, Stephen, ed. 1925. Annals of the Oriental Club: 1824–1858. [N.p.]: Oriental Club
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Family and friends in Commentary
William Darwin Fox
Summary
Charles Darwin’s cousin, William Darwin Fox, was admitted to Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1824, three years before Darwin; the two men became close friends. They corresponded throughout their lives, exchanging accounts of their growing families…