To J. H. Gilbert [before 9 March 1876]
Summary
Thanks for advice concerning preparation of soil for experiments. Will order the salts. Asks about burning soil or washing it with acid.
Thanks for invitation. His son [Francis] would like to inspect JHG’s plots.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Henry Gilbert |
| Date: | [before 9 Mar 1876] |
| Classmark: | Rothamsted Research (GIL13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10376 |
To E. A. Strasburger 9 March 1876
Summary
Thanks for EAS’s paper, translated from its original German, Sur la formation et la division des cellules (Strasburger 1876a).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Eduard Adolf (Eduard) Strasburger |
| Date: | 9 Mar 1876 |
| Classmark: | Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, Handschriftenabteilung (NL Strasburger I) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10416F |
From J. H. Gilbert 9 March 1876
Summary
Sends advice on preparing and washing soil in preparation for CD’s experiments.
| Author: | Joseph Henry Gilbert |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Mar 1876 |
| Classmark: | Rothamsted Research (GIL13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10416G |
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Gilbert, J. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Gilbert, J. H. | (1) |
| Strasburger, Eduard | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Gilbert, J. H. | (2) |
| Strasburger, Eduard | (1) |
3.18 Elliott and Fry photos, c.1869-1871
Summary
< Back to Introduction The leading photographic firm of Elliott and Fry seems to have portrayed Darwin at Down House on several occasions. In November 1869 Darwin told A. B. Meyer, who wanted photographs of both him and Wallace for a German…
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- … frame) in The Gardeners’ Chronicle (6 March 1875), p. 309, illustrating an article on Darwin’s …
Woodhouse Hall, Rednal, Shropshire
Summary
A purse and hair in rememberence of us
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- … Letters from Darwin's girlfriend and her sister and father before and during the voyage. …
2.10 Moritz Klinkicht, print from Legros
Summary
< Back to Introduction This bold wood engraving is a copy of Legros’s bronze portrait medallion of Darwin (see separate entry), interpreting sculptural relief in terms of line and tone. It was executed by the German draughtsman and engraver Moritz…
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- … for the Gardener’s Chronicle (6 March 1875), p. 309. physical location British …
3.15 George Charles Wallich, photo
Summary
< Back to Introduction In the years around 1868–1871, when professional photographers competed for sittings with Darwin, a doctor called George Charles Wallich approached him with a similar request. Wallich was planning to publish a set of his own…
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- … The Gardener’s Chronicle , n.s. 3:62 (6 March 1875), p. 309. J. van Wyhe, ‘Iconography’, pp. 142, …
Richard Henry Corfield
Summary
Richard Henry Corfield was in his final year at Shrewsbury School when Darwin started there. It’s hard to say how well they knew each other, but fifteen years later Corfield appeared again in Darwin’s life as a surprisingly familiar face on the other side…
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- … and in London on 31 October 1839 ( London Gazette 1: 309). Thereafter he continued to work as a …
