To William Erasmus Darwin [26 February 1856]
Summary
Writes of WED’s progress at school and events at home.
Discusses pigeons, with which he is "getting on splendidly".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Feb 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1804 |
From Edward Blyth 26 February 1856
Summary
There is a possibility of establishment of a Government Museum at Calcutta, with which the Asiatic Society Museum would be merged. EB would like the curatorship but fears other possible applicants. Asks CD to represent him to W. H. Sykes.
Discusses the ancients’ awareness of various cats as deduced from the etymology of their names.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Feb 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: A126–A127 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1833 |
| letter | (2) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
2.26 Linnean Society medal
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< Back to Introduction In 1908 the Linnean Society celebrated the jubilee of ‘the greatest event’ in its whole history, which had occurred on 1 July 1858: the presentation by Charles Lyell and Joseph Hooker of papers by Darwin and Alfred Russel…
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- … < Back to Introduction In 1908 the Linnean Society celebrated the jubilee of ‘the …
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Glories of a Brazilian forest
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- … Describes his first encouter with a tropical forest and recieves geological information and …
Richard Matthews
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Richard Matthews was 21 years old when he stepped aboard the Beagle, destined for a lonely career as a missionary in Tierra del Fuego. The Church Missionary Society had arranged for him to accompany the three Fuegians (Fuegia Basket, Jemmy Button, and York…
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- … time to save his life’, Darwin recorded (Darwin 1845, p. 226). Matthews was back on board the …
The evolution of honeycomb
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Honeycombs are natural engineering marvels, using the least possible amount of wax to provide the greatest amount of storage space, with the greatest possible structural stability. Darwin recognised that explaining the evolution of the honey-bee’s comb…
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- … a structure like that of the honey-bee ( Origin , p. 226). Further, there were advantages to a …
