To John Murray 12 April 1874
Summary
Discusses 2d edition of Descent. CD is inclined to a cheap edition and asks JM to consider a one-volume edition in double-column format.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 348–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9404 |
From Leonard Rudd 12 April 1874
Summary
On supernumerary mammae in a male patient.
| Author: | Leonard Rudd |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 168–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9405 |
To Edward Frankland 12 April 1874
Summary
Finding that the leaves of Drosera digest all the phosphate of lime out of bones and then remain clasped over the bones for a long time, CD wants to determine whether it is the phosphate of lime or the animal matter in the bones that keeps them clasped. He asks EF to send 2 or 3 grams of pure phosphate of lime for his testing. [See 9411.] Will experiment in the summer using EF’s suggestion that leaves might serve to test weak sewage. Results of Sanderson’s experiments with acids of great use.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9405A |
To ? 12 April 1874
Summary
Thanks an unknown correspondent for the 4th edition of his 'remarkable work'.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | Enns Entomology Museum, University of Missouri |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9405F |
| letter | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Rudd, Leonard | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Frankland, Edward | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Frankland, Edward | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Rudd, Leonard | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
4.12 'Fun', Wedding procession
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< Back to Introduction ‘The wedding procession’ appeared in Fun magazine on March 25, 1871, and contained an amusing echo of the cartoon representing Darwin as ‘A venerable orang-outang’ that had appeared in the Hornet a few days earlier. The…
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- … < Back to Introduction ‘The wedding procession’ appeared in Fun magazine on March …
2.8 Alphonse Legros medallion
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< Back to Introduction The painter, printmaker and sculptor Alphonse Legros created this bronze medallion with a profile portrait of Darwin in 1881, shortly before the latter’s death. According to a friend of Legros, the writer Thomas Okey, it was…
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- … 1880–1918 (London: British Museum Press, 1992), pp. 4–12. Article on Legros by Timothy Wilcox in …
St George Jackson Mivart
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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,…
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- … or ‘groundless.’ Mr. Darwin’s own words are (p. 412): ‘The object of this article is to point out …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
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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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- … in Origin 4th ed., pp. 450–1. 48. p. 412. This sentence also appears in Origin 4th …
