From J. D. Hooker 20 February 1873
Summary
Delighted with John Traherne Moggridge’s book [Harvesting ants (1873)].
Has suggested he plant seeds in various receptacles. Only two explanations for failure of seeds to germinate [in ants’ nests]: lack of circulating air or formic acid.
Has undertaken a botany primer for Macmillan.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Feb 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 149–50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8777 |
From L. M. Forster to H. E. Litchfield 20 February 1873
Summary
Recommends a language teacher.
Remarks on expression.
| Author: | Laura Mary Forster |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 20 Feb 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 159 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8778 |
| letter | (2) |
| Forster, L. M. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Forster, L. M. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
2.20 Montford, terracotta bust, NPG
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< Back to Introduction Horace Montford presented this terracotta bust of Darwin to the National Portrait Gallery in January 1905. He explained that it was the model for the bronze busts commissioned by Andrew Carnegie in 1901, one of which is now in…
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Eaton
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'the Owen Constitution'
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- … A close Shrewsbury friend gives news from back home of other friends and acquaintances. …
2.6 Adolf von Hildebrand bust
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< Back to Introduction In 1873, the German biologist Anton Dohrn commissioned a plaster bust of Darwin for the ‘fresco room’ of his new research centre, the Stazione Zoologica in Naples. It was a fitting memorial of a long association between the two…
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- … in the library, of which there is a photograph (pp. 218, 220). Christiane Groeben and Irmgard Müller …
