From George Henslow [after 22 February 1869]
Summary
Sends information from a Kent sheep-breeder.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 22 Feb 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6522 |
To J. J. Moulinié 22 February [1869]
Summary
Thanks JJM for translating long paper [by Carrière, J. Agric. Pratique 48 (1869): 159–67]. Paper interesting especially for showing variation has been different under different conditions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
Date: | 22 Feb [1869] |
Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66, ff. 9–10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6625 |
From George Henslow 22 February 1869
Summary
Asks CD for references to animal breeders in order to test the hypothesis that mimicry arises through direct action of mental impressions received through the sense of sight.
Supports natural selection and Pangenesis.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Feb 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 168 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6626 |
From R. F. Cooke 22 February 1869
Summary
There will be no objection to the French translation or difficulty about woodcuts of Orchids.
Has not yet received the information about Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Feb 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 364 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6627 |
To Robert Francis Cooke [22 February 1869]
Summary
Assumes Murray will give permission for French translation of Orchids; asks that stereotypes of woodcuts be supplied at cost, since if expensive the work will not appear.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Date: | [22 Feb 1869] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 f. 200) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6966 |
letter | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Henslow, George | (2) |
Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
John Murray | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
John Murray | (1) |
Moulinié, J. J. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
Henslow, George | (2) |
John Murray | (2) |
Moulinié, J. J. | (1) |
2.22 L.-J. Chavalliaud statue in Liverpool
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< Back to Introduction At about the time when a statue of Darwin was being commissioned by the Shropshire Horticultural Society for his native town of Shrewsbury, his transformative contributions to the sciences of botany and horticulture were also…
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- … < Back to Introduction At about the time when a statue of Darwin was being …
Santa Fé, Argentina
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Inland trips
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- … Writes of his journey from Rio Negro to Bahia Blanca, and his illness on an expedition to Santa Fé …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
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- … I could have given no answer’. 21 Page 222, par. 1, line 3, substitute for ‘on high …
1.14 William Richmond, oil
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< Back to Introduction William Blake Richmond’s portrait of Darwin, dating from 1879, celebrated his honorary degree of LL.D (Doctor in Laws), awarded by Cambridge University in 1877. Darwin’s return to his alma mater for the presentation ceremony…
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- … , 3 vols (London: John Murray, 1887, 1888), vol. 3, p. 222, and catalogue of portraits, p. 371. …