From W. B. Tegetmeier [before 18 April 1869]
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 18 Apr 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 85: B29–33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6700 |
To George Charles Wallich 18 April [1869]
Summary
Regrets he cannot come to London to be photographed [for GCW’s Eminent men of the day (1870)]. Invites GCW to Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Charles Wallich |
Date: | 18 Apr [1869] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.374) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6701 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 18 April [1869]
Summary
Thanks for greyhound table; interested in transmission of colour in greyhounds and relationship to sex.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 18 Apr [1869] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6702 |
From A. R. Wallace 18 April [1869]
Summary
Expands upon their differences in regard to man and the question of the existence of forces not yet recognised by science.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Apr [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B79–80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6703 |
From George Maw 18 April 1869
Summary
He has found abundant Drosophyllum in Andalusia.
Author: | George Maw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Apr 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6704 |
To W. C. Tait 18 April [1869]
Summary
Not well owing to fall from horse.
[Drosophyllum] plants going on very well.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Chester Tait |
Date: | 18 Apr [1869] |
Classmark: | Alan R. Tait (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6705 |
letter | (6) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Maw, George | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Tait, W. C. | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
Wallich, G. C. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
Maw, George | (1) |
Tait, W. C. | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
4.18 'Figaro' chromolithograph 1
Summary
< Back to Introduction In a cartoon of 1874 by Figaro’s French-born artist Faustin Betbeder (known as Faustin), Darwin holds up a mirror reflecting himself and the startled ape sitting beside him. Their hairy bodies, seen against a background of palm…
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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…
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St George Jackson Mivart
Summary
In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…