From William Turner [after 28 April 1866?]
Summary
Observations on a bird that used a stone to break open a snail.
| Author: | William Turner |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 28 Apr 1866?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 197 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13850 |
To J. D. Hooker [28 April 1866]
Summary
Needs Annales de la Société d’horticulture de Paris 7 (1830).
Asks that Oliver provide a reference for microscopical appearance and structure of a bud.
Was very well on first part of London visit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [28 Apr 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 287 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5071 |
From J. D. Hooker [after 28 April 1866]
Summary
Orchids.
Lyell has written to JDH about coal-plants of Melville Island.
Has glanced at first edition of Principles and has no doubt that Lyell meant the whole globe was cooler when land was massed at poles. JDH doubts this.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 28 Apr 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5076 |
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Turner, William | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Turner, William | (1) |
4.28 'English celebrities' montage
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< Back to Introduction One of the stranger appropriations of Elliott and Fry’s portrayal of Darwin was to make him one of a group of ‘Authors’, in an album titled English Celebrities, 19th Century (1876). Fiction writers and scientists were grouped…
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- … < Back to Introduction One of the stranger appropriations of Elliott and Fry’s …
3.16 Oscar Rejlander, photos
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) led him to the Swedish-born painter and photographer, Oscar Gustaf Rejlander. Rejlander gave Darwin the notes that he had…
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- … p. 301, reprinted in the same journal (29 April 1882), p. 428. Wood engraving in a supplement to …
Darwin’s species notebooks: ‘I think . . .’
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I have lately been sadly tempted to be idle, that is as far as pure geology is concerned, by the delightful number of new views, which have been coming in, thickly & steadily, on the classification & affinities & instincts of animals—bearing…
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- … I have lately been sadly tempted to be idle, that is as far as pure geology is concerned, by …
Charles Lyell
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As an author, friend and correspondent, Charles Lyell played a crucial role in shaping Darwin's scientific life. Born to a wealthy gentry family in Scotland in 1797, Lyell had a classical and legal education but by the 1820s had become entranced by…
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- … As an author, friend and correspondent, Charles Lyell played a crucial role in shaping Darwin's …
Darwin & Glen Roy
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Although Darwin was best known for his geological work in South America and other remote Beagle destinations, he made one noteworthy attempt to explain a puzzling feature of British geology. In 1838, two years after returning from the voyage, he travelled…
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- … Walk in Darwin’s footsteps: Click this link to download a field guide to Glen Roy written …
Journal of researches
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Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…
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- … The Journal of researches , Darwin’s account of his travels round the world in H.M.S. Beagle …
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
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- … The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of …
