To T. C. Eyton 6 March [1869]
Summary
Thanks TCE for fawn’s head.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
| Date: | 6 Mar [1869] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.366) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6645 |
To Armand de Quatrefages 6 March 1869
Summary
Wishes to introduce his son, George Howard Darwin.
Has glanced at the second of AdeQ’s articles on natural history in Revue de deux mondes; ordered first article but second is already out of print.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
| Date: | 6 Mar 1869 |
| Classmark: | Bibliothèque nationale de France, département des Manuscrits (Manuscripts NAF 11824 ff. 72–3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6645F |
Salvador da Bahia
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Seasickness and wonderfully increasing collections
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- … Reports on his trip across the Atlantic Ocean and arrival in the tropics of Brazil. …
Ascension Island
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Wild sea
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- … Describes the desert volcanic rocks and wild sea of Ascension. …
The Voyage of the Beagle
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It was a letter from his friend and former teacher, John Stevens Henslow, that brought the 22-year-old Charles Darwin news of the offer of a place on board the Admiralty surveying vessel HMS Beagle on a voyage to chart the coast of South America. During…
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- … Capt. F. wants a man (I understand) more as a companion than a mere collector & would not take …
Essay: Evolutionary teleology
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—by Asa Gray EVOLUTIONARY TELEOLOGY When Cuvier spoke of the ‘combination of organs in such order that they may be in consistence with the part which the animal has to play in Nature,’ his opponent, Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, rejoined, ‘I know nothing of…
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- … side of the head. The writer makes much of this case (see p. 306), and we are not disposed to pass …
