To Williams & Norgate 12 April [1872]
Summary
Orders books: J. R. Leifchild, The higher ministry of nature (1872);
Hermann Müller, The application of the Darwinian theory to flowers [(1872?), reprint from Am. Nat. 5 (1871): 271–97];
and a review by J. B. Hunter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bookseller. |
| Date: | 12 Apr [1872] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.414) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8284 |
To G. G. Leveson-Gower, Earl Granville [before 19 April 1872]
Summary
Writes on behalf of British authors requesting improved copyright rights with respect to United States.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2d Duke of Sutherland |
| Date: | [before 19 Apr 1872] |
| Classmark: | Correspondence between the Foreign Office and Her Majesty’s representatives abroad, and foreign representatives in England, on the subject of copyright: 1872–75. House of Commons Parliamentary Papers session 1875 (1285) LXXVIII.233–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8294F |
From Asa Gray 2 February 1872
Summary
Notes the occurrence in U. S. of "vermiform piles" produced by earthworms.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Feb 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 178 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8194 |
To St G. J. Mivart 11 January [1872]
Summary
CD believes that StGJM has been unfair in his criticisms and has misrepresented him; he begs him not to write again. "Agassiz has uttered splendid sarcasms on me, but I still feel quite friendly towards him. M. Flourens cd. not find words to express his contempt of me: Pictet & Hopkins argued with great force against me: Fleeming Jenkin covered me with first-rate ridicule; & his crticisms were true & most useful: but none of their writings have mortified me as yours have done …" [See 8154.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
| Date: | 11 Jan [1872] |
| Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8156A |
From Asa Gray 31 May 1872
Summary
Sends, via C. L. Brace, his book [Botany for young people, pt 2 How plants behave (1872)], "your own science adapted to juvenile minds".
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 180 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8363 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Bookseller. | (1) |
| Mivart, S. G. J. | (1) |
| Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, G. G. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Bookseller. | (1) |
| Mivart, S. G. J. | (1) |
| Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, G. G. | (1) |
Darwin in Conversation exhibition
Summary
Meet Charles Darwin as you have never met him before. Come to our exhibition at Cambridge University Library, running from 9 July to 3 December 2022, and discover a fascinating series of interwoven conversations with Darwin's many hundreds of…
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