To Edward Frankland [before 6 June 1876]
Summary
Requests chemical analysis of sample of both natural and burnt soil.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | [before 6 June 1876] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10533A |
From Edward Frankland [before 6 June 1876]
Summary
Sends analysis of burnt and unburnt samples.
Author: | Edward Frankland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 6 June 1876] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10533F |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 6 June 1876
Summary
References to figures of Coryanthes.
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 June 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10534 |
To Edward Frankland 6 June [1876]
Summary
Gratitude for the invaluable assistance. Is disappointed that natural soil is richer than burnt. Problem of securing sufficient chemically pure soil to test growth of plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 6 June [1876] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10534A |
letter | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Frankland, Edward | (1) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Frankland, Edward | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Frankland, Edward | (3) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
Charles Thomas Whitley
Summary
Born in Liverpool in 1808, Charles Thomas Whitley, like Darwin, attended Shrewsbury School and then Cambridge University where they were clearly very close, exchanging letters during the summer holidays. Whitley was a mathematician, a subject that held…
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- … of a martinet and every inch a ‘don’” ([Anon.] 1895 p. 606) – and indeed as he wrote to Darwin …