From W. E. Darwin [7–15 April 1868]
Summary
Langstaff has never seen the platysma act, and he believes it to be rudimentary in humans.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [7–15 Apr 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 80/4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6076 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 April 1868
Summary
Goes to N. Wales with Huxley.
Wishes to borrow Duke of Argyll’s Reign of law.
The BAAS Presidential Address [Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): lviii–lxxv] – his unhappiness about it; history of botany requires too much reading.
Smith will supply notes on Euryale.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 208–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6099 |
From W. E. Darwin [7 April 1868]
Summary
Describes the action of facial muscles at the onset of crying as observed by Langstaff.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [7 Apr 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 99 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6100 |
From C. S. Bate 7 April 1868
Summary
On dentition of moles. On double teeth [see Variation 2: 391].
Difference in size of male and female Crustacea.
| Author: | Charles Spence Bate |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A67–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6101 |
From Ernest Faivre 7 April 1868
Summary
Thanks for sending Variation.
| Author: | Jean-Joseph-August-Ernest (Ernest) Faivre |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6102 |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Bate, C. S. | (1) |
| Faivre, Ernest | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Bate, C. S. | (1) |
| Faivre, Ernest | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
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.
Matches: 1 hits
- … recorded in the distribution of plants. Page 407, par. 2, lines 14–15, insert after ‘now …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
Matches: 1 hits
- … ( Red notebook , pp. 8e, 10; ‘Beagle’ diary , p. 407). Daniell, John Frederic. …
Journal of researches
Summary
Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…
Matches: 1 hits
- … The Journal of researches , Darwin’s account of his travels round the world in H.M.S. Beagle …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
Summary
‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
Matches: 1 hits
- … despondent, yet benevolent man’ (‘Recollections’, p. 407). Even scientific colleagues could …
