From G. J. Romanes [before 26 December 1875]
Summary
Asks to borrow Ernst Haeckel’s Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Hydromedusen (1865) [and Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Siphonophoren (1869)].
Has not been neglecting Pangenesis for Medusae.
| Author: | George John Romanes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 26 Dec 1875] |
| Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10307 |
To G. J. Romanes 26 December 1875
Summary
Sends books.
Discusses GJR’s Pangenesis experiments; views of Galton on the theory.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 26 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.482) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10325 |
To C.-F. Reinwald 26 December 1875
Summary
Encloses list of errata in Insectivorous plants [1875] for the French translator.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
| Date: | 26 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.483) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10326 |
From Nevil Story-Maskelyne 26 December 1875
Summary
He is proposing [John Wesley] Judd for FRS and asks for CD’s support.
| Author: | Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 262 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10327 |
From Henry Edwards 26 December 1875
Summary
Sends his paper on an American pitcher-plant [Darlingtonia californica].
| Author: | Henry Edwards |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10328 |
To K. M. Lyell 26 December [1875]
Summary
Sends Charles Lyell’s letters. Those from 1862–9 are so heavy that they have to be put in two parcels.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Katharine Murray Horner; Katharine Murray Lyell |
| Date: | 26 Dec [1875] |
| Classmark: | Kinnordy MS (private collection) (Sold at Bonhams, New York (dealers), 4 December 2019, lot 18) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13826 |
From D. F. Nevill 26 [December 1875?]
Summary
Regrets having missed seeing CD when he was in London.
| Author: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 [Dec 1875?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8133 |
To Henry Edwards [after 26 December 1875]
Summary
Thanks for sending "wonderful speciment of Darlingtonia".
"I will not forget your obliging offer of giving me information with respect to California about which I may be curious."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Edwards |
| Date: | [after 26 Dec 1875] |
| Classmark: | Parke-Bernet (dealers) (24 September 1963) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9216 |
| letter | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Edwards, Henry | (1) |
| Nevill, D. F. | (1) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
| Story, Nevil | (1) |
| Story-Maskelyne, Nevil | (1) |
| Walpole, D. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Edwards, Henry | (1) |
| Horner, K. M. | (1) |
| Lyell, K. M. | (1) |
| Reinwald, C.-F. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Edwards, Henry | (2) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
| Horner, K. M. | (1) |
| Lyell, K. M. | (1) |
Living and fossil cirripedia
Summary
Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…
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- … Darwin published four volumes on the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia between 1851 and 1854, two on …
