From W. E. Darwin [c. 17 February 1870]
Summary
Ask whether CD would like to subscribe again to National Education League. Describes the League’s goals.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 17 Feb 1870] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 36) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7039F |
From William Thierry Preyer [before 17 February 1870]
Summary
Notes the differences in haemoglobin between species; this proves, to WP, that natural selection does not act only on morphological development.
Remarks on the differences and similarities in the effects of prussic acid on different groups of animals.
Questions CD on his early education and influences.
| Author: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 17 Feb 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 21 (EH 88206073) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7110 |
To Gustav Jäger 17 February 1870
Summary
Encloses his letter to GJ [6885], which was returned.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gustav Jäger |
| Date: | 17 Feb 1870 |
| Classmark: | Frau Dr Hildegard Jaeger (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7111 |
To W. T. Preyer 17 February [1870]
Summary
Comments on effects of prussic acid on different individuals of the same species and other physiological research by WP.
Provides information about his studies in Edinburgh and Cambridge and qualifications he had for Beagle voyage. Describes influence of R. E. Grant and J. S. Henslow.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
| Date: | 17 Feb [1870] |
| Classmark: | Ralph Colp Jr (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7112 |
| letter | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Preyer, William | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Jäger, Gustav | (1) |
| Preyer, William | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Preyer, William | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Jäger, Gustav | (1) |
2.17 Montford, statuette
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< Back to Introduction Horace Montford reproduced the design of his seated statue of Darwin at Shrewsbury (1897) as a small bronze statuette. He lent the ‘original cast’ of the statuette to the Darwin Centenary exhibition at Christ’s College,…
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- … < Back to Introduction Horace Montford reproduced the design of his seated statue of …
The Mount, Shrewsbury
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Letters from home
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- … Darwin writes in preparation for the voyage, and his father and sisters write with news from home …
The whale-bear
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Darwin came to regard ‘bear’ as a ‘word of ill-omen’. In the first edition of Origin he told the story of a black bear seen swimming for hours with its mouth wide open scooping insects from the water ‘like a whale’. He went on to imagine that natural…
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- … the speculation on the bear & the whale, of which I dare say you have heard enough, simply …
Photograph album of Dutch admirers
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Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me on my…
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- … Accompanying the album was a handwritten list of the 217 people included, with their professional …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
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- … 217 Zaaijer Dr. T. (Teunis) …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
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- … 217 Zaaijer Dr. T. (Teunis) …
