To Leonard Blomefield 17 April [1873]
Summary
Thanks LB for his essay on local biology.
CD with much care and discomfort is now able to work a few hours almost every day.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | 17 Apr [1873] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution (LET3016) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8863 |
To Adolph Reuter 17 April 1873
Summary
Thanks for letter and curious photographs. Urges AR not to send anything valuable unless he publishes it elsewhere because CD is growing old and may not have strength and time to continue his former researches.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Adolf Reuter |
| Date: | 17 Apr 1873 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 226–227) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8864 |
To James Crichton-Browne 17 April [1873]
Summary
Photographs sent by JC-B show great power of acting.
David Ferrier’s researches sound wonderful. Does he believe that he excites an idea and this leads to the movement, or that he acts directly on the motor nerves?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Date: | 17 Apr [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 344 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8865 |
To Francis Darwin [17 April 1873]
Summary
Fears all the seeds are dead. Will try with less vapour of formic acid.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Apr 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8866 |
| letter | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
| Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Jenyns, Leonard | (1) |
| Reuter, Adolf | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
| Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Jenyns, Leonard | (1) |
4.17 'Figaro', unidentifiable 1871
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< Back to Introduction Yet another portrayal of Darwin as a tree-dwelling ape was published in The Figaro in October 1871, and titled ‘A Darwinian hypothesis’. The image survives in a torn page in the Darwin archive, but it has so far proved…
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- … < Back to Introduction Yet another portrayal of Darwin as a tree-dwelling ape was …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
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- … have recently spread over New Zealand, &c., &c. Page 417, 8 25th line, after ‘ …
