To [W. W. Baxter?] [after June 1857]
Summary
Requests a quart of distilled water for photography to be sent in a clean bottle via the postman on the following day.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | [after June 1857] |
| Classmark: | Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation (Archives, Autograph Letters and Manuscripts Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13889F |
CD memorandum July 1857
Summary
Memorandum about £250 investment in Patent Siliceous Stone Company, owned by David Thomas Ansted and Frederick Ransome.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | unknown |
| Date: | July 1857 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2115F |
To J. D. Hooker 1 July [1857]
Summary
George Henslow’s curtness to JDH: "an attack of religion".
Embryonic leaves. Adaptive functions and taxonomic significance of cotyledons.
Asa Gray. Separation of sexes in U. S. trees.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 July [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 198 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2116 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Addressee
| Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| unknown | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| unknown | (1) |
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Moral Nature
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In Descent of Man, Darwin argued that human morality had evolved from the social instincts of animals, especially the bonds of sympathy and love. Darwin gathered observations over many decades on animal behavior: the heroic sacrifices of social insects,…
