To Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce 13 May [1840–2]
Summary
Informs correspondent that he wrote to William Walton all that he knew about the guanaco.
Present state of his health prevents his acceptance of invitation to attend the meeting of the Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Royal Society of Arts |
| Date: | 13 May [1840-2] |
| Classmark: | Royal Society of Arts (RSA/PR/MC/104/10/28) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-567 |
Matches: 4 hits
Ayres, P. B. 1860. On the geology of Flat and Gabriel Islands.Transactions of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Mauritius n. s. 1: 220–32.
To A. C. H. Gordon April 1874
Summary
Petition to protect gigantic tortoises on the Mascarene.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arthur Charles Hamilton Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore |
| Date: | Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | Transactions of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Mauritius n.s. 8 (1875): 106–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9382F |
To Louis Bouton 26 October 1871
Summary
Thanks for information about male Seychelles islanders.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Louis Sulpice (Louis) Bouton |
| Date: | 26 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | Transactions of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Mauritius n.s. 6 (1871–2): 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8031F |
From Louis Bouton 22 September 1871
Summary
Is enjoying Descent. Sends corroborating facts on heredity, concerning race of people from the Seychelles known for their tall stature, courage, and vigour.
| Author: | Louis Sulpice (Louis) Bouton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 259 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7961 |
From Victor de Robillard 20 September 1856
Summary
C. T. Beke has communicated to the Mauritius Natural History Society a letter he received from CD. VdeR attempts to answer questions on transport of seeds by the ocean.
| Author: | Jean Aimé Victor (Victor) de Robillard |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 286 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1956 |
From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin 29 March 1869
Summary
Pleased to come on 17th.
Is arranging the Aucuba experiment.
Sends some letters for CD’s perusal.
Asks what CD thinks of Huxley’s address [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): xxviii–liii].
Would be glad to have Drosophyllum plants.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Mar 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 12–13; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 188: 141–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6685 |
From R. S. Bartleet 15 November 1881
Summary
Has read Earthworms.
Wonders if CD has studied gnats; inquires about their apparently useless hovering over one spot for hours.
| Author: | Robert Smith Bartleet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 52 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13486 |
To C. H. Morris 16 January [1872]
Summary
Is sending the requested photograph.
Mr Murray will send a copy of CD’s Journal of researches to L. S. Bouton [see 8107a].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Honoria Campbell; Caroline Honoria Morris |
| Date: | 16 Jan [1872] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (Tipped into Journal of researches (1860) R920 DAR) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8161A |
To J. D. Hooker 21 February [1870]
Summary
Has read the notes on Rond [Round] Island which he owes to JDH. What an enigma its flora and fauna present, especially the problem of monocotyledons! Asks JDH’s opinion.
A new book on St Helena confirms CD’s observations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 Feb [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 164–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7115 |
From G. C. Robertson to G. J. Romanes 21 January 1882
Summary
Returns CD’s letter concerning testimonial fund for Grant Allen.
| Author: | George Croom Robertson |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 21 Jan 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 187 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13633 |
Milne-Edwards, Henri (1800–85)
Matches: 2 hits
- … member, Royal Society crustaceans myriapods arachnids insects École centrale des arts et …
- … arts et manufactures, 1832. Professor of entomology, Muséum d’histoire naturelle, 1841, with responsibility for the collections of crustaceans, myriapods, and arachnids as well as insects; professor of mammalogy, 1861. Foreign member, Royal Society of …
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hothouse in Commentary
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
Summary
At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
