To E. R. Lankester 15 April [1873]
Summary
Discusses error in CD’s calculation of natural increase of elephants.
Includes extract from Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edwin Ray Lankester |
| Date: | 15 Apr [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8287 |
To Francis Darwin [before 15 April 1873]
Summary
Sends to Pantlludw [North Wales] bottle of formic acid. FD and Amy [Darwin] can search for spawn. If found, keep in two basins and add 6 drops of acid to one and look for differences.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [before 15 Apr 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8848A |
From Samuel Butler 15 April 1873
Summary
Thanks CD for his kind letter about The fair haven [1873]. Encouraged by its reception. All he wants is to compel "an attitude of fixed attention in the place of cowardly shrinking from examination". Says he will try "a novel pure and simple with little ""purpose"" next".
| Author: | Samuel Butler |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Apr 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: A11–12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8859 |
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Butler, Samuel (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Lankester, E. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Butler, Samuel (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Lankester, E. R. | (1) |
4.15 George Cruikshank, comic drawing
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< Back to Introduction A sheet of comic drawings titled ‘Comparative anatomy à la Darwin’, is signed by George Cruikshank junior, who has been variously identified as the great-nephew or the illegitimate son of his more famous namesake. Unfortunately…
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- … < Back to Introduction A sheet of comic drawings titled ‘Comparative anatomy à la …
Experimenting with emotions
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Darwin’s interest in emotions can be traced as far back as the Beagle voyage. He was fascinated by the sounds and gestures of the peoples of Tierra del Fuego. On his return, he started recording observations in a set of notebooks, later labelled '…
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- … of children’, Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix III, p. 415 ). Darwin’s study of emotional …
Darwin’s observations on his children
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Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…
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- … Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children,[1] began the research that …
