From T. H. Huxley 16 April 1874
Summary
His note on the brain should be in small type.
Glad CD agrees with him on hand, foot, and skull question.
Has heard from Dohrn.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 333 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9413 |
To Anton Dohrn 16 April and 9 August 1874
Summary
Has written to J. Murray to have account of the Zoological Station inserted in the Murray guidebook.
The circular about the Station has been printed; some have already signed.
Received R. Kossman’s paper on Anelasma ["Untersuchungen über die durch Parasitismus hervorgerufenen Umbildungen in der Familie der Pedunculata", Verh. Phys.-med. Ges. Würz. N. F. 5 (1874): 129–57]. The case is the most interesting ever recorded of gradation, i.e., from an animal with a stomach to one with roots like a plant.
Delighted he will examine the complemental males of Scalpellum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Date: | 16 Apr and 9 Aug 1874 |
| Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 702) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9414 |
To W. M. Hacon 16 April [1874]
Summary
CD’s son Francis is to be married, so CD is seeking advice as to how much he should arrange as a marriage-settlement.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Date: | 16 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C50–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9415 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Dohrn, Anton | (1) |
| Hacon, W. M. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Dohrn, Anton | (1) |
| Hacon, W. M. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy
Summary
< Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year lecture tour of Britain, sent Darwin a copy of his book, Nature’s Revelations of Character; Or, Physiognomy Illustrated. He was seeking a public…
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- … < Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a …
Boat Memory
Summary
Boat Memory was one of the indigenous people from Tierra del Fuego brought back to England by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830, but he remains as ghostly a figure as his name. What he was called by his own people is unknown, but the name Boat…
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- … very favourable specimen of the race’ ( Narrative 1: 416). After FitzRoy realised that his …
