To Nature [before 24 July 1873]
Summary
Sends a letter from J. D. Hague confirming his earlier observation [see 8788] of frightened behaviour of ants when they come upon dead ants. CD had asked for confirmation because J. T. Moggridge had suggested that the ants’ behaviour was alarm at the scent of the observer’s fingers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | [before 24 July 1873] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 24 July 1873, p. 244 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8985 |
From J. T. Moggridge 24 July 1873
Summary
CD has clarified the way to conduct the formic acid experiment.
| Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 July 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 220 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8986 |
To Armand Sabatier 24 July 1873
Summary
Thanks for Études sur la coeur et la circulation centrale dans la série des vertébrés (Studies on the heart and the central circulation in the vertebrate series; Sabatier 1873).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Armand Sabatier |
| Date: | 24 July 1873 |
| Classmark: | Colby College Libraries |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8986F |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Moggridge, J. T. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Nature | (1) |
| Sabatier, Armand | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Moggridge, J. T. | (1) |
| Nature | (1) |
| Sabatier, Armand | (1) |
2.8 Alphonse Legros medallion
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< Back to Introduction The painter, printmaker and sculptor Alphonse Legros created this bronze medallion with a profile portrait of Darwin in 1881, shortly before the latter’s death. According to a friend of Legros, the writer Thomas Okey, it was…
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- … of Alphonse Legros’, The Medal , 5 (Sept. 1984), pp. 7–24. Timothy Wilcox, Alphonse Legros , …
