Burckhardt, John Lewis. 1829. Travels in Arabia. 2 vols. London.
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Allan, Mea. 1972. Palgrave of Arabia. The life of William Gifford Palgrave 1826–88. London: Macmillan.
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Stephens, John Lloyd. 1837. Incidents of travel in Egypt, Arabia, Petaea, and the Holy Land. 2 vols. New York: Harper and brothers.
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- … Lloyd. 1837. Incidents of travel in Egypt, Arabia, Petaea, and the Holy Land. 2 vols. New …
From J. G. Malcolmson 31 August 1839
Summary
Observations on the geology of Arabia.
| Author: | John Grant Malcolmson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Aug 1839 |
| Classmark: | DAR 39: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-533 |
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- … Observations on the geology of Arabia. …
- … MacCulloch 1817 . Malcolmson visited Arabia and Sinai in 1836 on his homeward journey from …
- … Season is too far advanced. — Now for Arabia. — Sahar is a considerable town on the coast …
- … monuments are scattered over Southern Arabia. This is 4 miles from the town, and a mile …
Owen, William Fitzwilliam. 1833. Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in HM Ships Leven and Barracouta. Edited by H. B. Robinson. 2 vols. London.
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Palgrave, William Gifford. 1865. Narrative of a year’s journey through central and eastern Arabia (1862–63). 2 vols. London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co.
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- … year’s journey through central and eastern Arabia (1862–63). 2 vols. London and Cambridge: …
Beke, Charles Tilstone. 1878. The late Dr. Charles Beke’s discoveries of Sinai in Arabia and of Midian. Edited by Emily Alston Beke. London: Trübner & Co.
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- … Charles Beke’s discoveries of Sinai in Arabia and of Midian. Edited by Emily Alston Beke. …
Duncan, Peter Martin. 1865. A description of the echinodermata from the strata on the south-eastern coast of Arabia, and at Bagh on the Nerbudda, in the collection of the Geological Society. [Read 8 March 1865.] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 21: 349–63.
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- … from the strata on the south-eastern coast of Arabia, and at Bagh on the Nerbudda, in the …
Boteler, Thomas. 1835. Narrative of a voyage of discovery to Africa and Arabia: performed in His Majesty’s Ships, Leven and Barracouta, from 1821 to 1826, under the command of Capt. W. F. Owen. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley.
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- … of a voyage of discovery to Africa and Arabia: performed in His Majesty’s Ships, Leven and …
Wellsted, James Raymond. 1840. Travels to the city of the Caliphs, along the shores of the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean. Including a voyage to the coast of Arabia, and a tour on the island of Socotra. 2 vols. London.
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- … Including a voyage to the coast of Arabia, and a tour on the island of Socotra. 2 vols. …
From J. D. Hooker 24 January 1864
Summary
JDH’s opinion of Herbert Spencer.
Rejects CD’s view of inheritance of induced modifications.
Huxley grows fat.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Jan 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 176–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4396 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Bibliography Allan, Mea. 1972. Palgrave of Arabia. The life of William Gifford Palgrave …
- … year’s journey through central and eastern Arabia (1862–63). 2 vols. London and Cambridge: …
- … My Jesuit cousin Gifford has returned from Arabia, which he has traversed—travelling as a …
- … a prophet. — He says the Arabs of Arabia are not Mahomedans but sun & fire worshippers. — …
- … year’s journey through central and eastern Arabia ( 1862–1863 ) in 1865 ( Palgrave 1865 ); …
From Edward Blyth 23 February 1856
Summary
Opposition to EB within the Asiatic Society.
Possibility of establishment of a zoological garden at Calcutta.
Has seen Gallus varius alive for the first time.
Will procure domestic pigeons for CD; could CD pay for them by returning hardy creatures, such as macaws and marmosets, which EB can sell for a high price in India?
Does not recall his authority for genealogy of the asses of Oman. If a genuine wild ass exists EB believes it will be in south Arabia.
Infertility of Irish and Devon red deer.
Details of an unusual species of wild dog.
Fertility of canine hybrids. General tendency toward hybrid sterility.
Has skins of hybrid Coracias and the parent species.
Wide-ranging species; skua found in Europe and Australia, but not in the tropics.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Feb 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: A128–A132 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1832 |
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- … Burckhardt, John Lewis. 1829. Travels in Arabia. 2 vols. London. Chesney, Francis Rawdon. …
- … exists EB believes it will be in south Arabia. Infertility of Irish and Devon red deer. …
- … the fine Asses of the province of Omán in Arabia, I cannot recal to mind my authority for …
- … or in Burckhardt? But the authorities on Arabia are not numerous. You will, I suppose, …
- … still exists anywhere, it will be in S. Arabia, where Chesney speaks of a wild Ass, in …
Boteler, Thomas (1797–1829)
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- … of a voyage of discovery to Africa and Arabia: performed in His Majesty’s Ships, Leven and …
From Edward Blyth [c. 22 March 1856]
Summary
Gives references to works on fowls and pigeons.
Observations on Gallinaceae.
Musk ox skull from southern England is additional evidence for Agassiz’s glacial period. Owen is mistaken in calling it a buffalo.
EB describes the buffalo proper.
Will send domestic pigeon specimens.
Believes pigeons were not bred in India before the Mohammedan conquest. Describes Indian breeds.
Believes the ass is an African rather than an Asian production. Discusses various species of ass and their distribution.
Wild horned cattle on borders of Pilibhit and Shahjahanpur.
[Notes received by CD on 6 May 1856.]
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 22 Mar 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: 133–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1845 |
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- … Including a voyage to the coast of Arabia, and a tour on the island of Socotra. 2 vols. …
- … east of the Red Sea; & in the S. of Arabia, Chesney talks of “Jungle-fowl” & “Pheasants”. …
- … enquiries about these Gallinaceæ of S. Arabia. I have just rec d . a large batch of the …
- … now suspect that Chesneys “wild Horses” in N. Arabia refer to the hemippus , & his “wild …
- … Asses” in S. Arabia to asinus ferus (vel Onager ), also that Wellsteads Sacotran “wild …
From W. J. L. Wharton [15 September 1874]
Summary
Describes the coral formations of Zanzibar and east coast of Africa.
| Author: | William James Lloyd Wharton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 Sept 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 69: A63–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9641 |
From John Grant Malcolmson 24 July 1839
Summary
Detailed evidence for and against geological elevation along coast of the Indian subcontinent, South Asia, and Arabia. Extensive references to geological literature about these areas.
Describes coral sand-dune and salt-marsh formation.
| Author: | John Grant Malcolmson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 July 1839 |
| Classmark: | DAR 39: 7–10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-528 |
From Asa Gray 6 November 1865
Summary
Discusses "Climbing plants" and his own abstract of it.
CD should publish results of self-fertilising dimorphic plants.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Nov 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 149 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4930 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 July 1865
Summary
Studying moraines.
On Lubbock’s book [see 4860], and Lyell’s apology. Recapitulates whole affair.
W. E. H. Lecky [Rise of rationalism in Europe (1865)] and other reading.
Spencer’s observations are wrong on umbellifers, his reasoning partially right.
Natural History Review is all but defunct.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 July 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 30–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4873 |
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Hugh Falconer in Commentary
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
Summary
The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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