To Armand de Quatrefages 28 May [1870]
Summary
Comments on QdeB’s volume [Charles Darwin et ses précurseurs Français (1870)]. Mentions error concerning his views on Parus and nuthatch.
Discusses Canis magellanicus.
Discusses reception of his views in France and Germany.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
| Date: | 28 May [1870] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.379) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7204 |
To T. H. Farrer 28 May [1870]
Summary
Fertilisation of barberries.
Passiflora.
Is continuing his experiments on the comparative growth of crossed and self-fertilised plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 28 May [1870] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/14) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7205 |
To Charles Renard 28 May 1870
Summary
Thanks Society for honour of his election as Honorary Member.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles (Carl Ivanovich) Renard |
| Date: | 28 May 1870 |
| Classmark: | Stecher and Klavins 1965 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7206 |
From F. C. Donders 28 May 1870
Summary
A detailed description of the physiological and anatomical processes related to the prolonged involuntary contraction of the orbicular muscles and the secretion of tears (as in retching, violent coughing, or laughing). [See Expression, p. 160.].
| Author: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 226 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7207 |
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
Summary
Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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- … forms (Living Cirripedia (1851): 214; (1854): 29, 528 n.) and, at another level, to explain the …
