To Robert Caspary 21 February [1866]
Summary
Requests copy of paper read at Amsterdam Horticultural Congress, on graft-hybrids like that of Cytisus adami [see 5018].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary |
Date: | 21 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (GEN MSS MISC Group 1559 F-2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5012 |
From J. D. Hooker 21 February 1866
Summary
Had Busks and Lyells to dinner.
Examines and criticises evidence for CD’s hypothesis that the glacial period was not one of universal cold. Physicists deny its possibility.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 59, 62–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5013 |
From John Murray 21 February [1866]
Summary
Informs CD third edition of Origin is exhausted. Proposes a new edition. Has CD any changes? Since demand is slowing up, proposes printing only 1250 copies and deferring payment of CD’s share until sales have repaid manufacturing costs.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 333 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5014 |
From Kent Church Penitentiary Society [before 21 February 1866]
Summary
Appeal for funds for paying of the Society’s debt, and for an annual subscription.
Author: | Kent Church Penitentiary Society |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 21 Feb 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 142: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5481F |
letter | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Kent Church Penitentiary Society | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Caspary, Robert | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Caspary, Robert | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Kent Church Penitentiary Society | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
2.21 Montford, relief at Christ's College
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< Back to Introduction An oval bronze plaque with a relief portrait of Darwin by Horace Montford is at Christ’s College, Cambridge, the college where Darwin had been an undergraduate. It is likely to have been based on one of the many photographs of…
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Chirk Castle, Wales
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A 'steady stupid old matron'
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Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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