From Karl von Estorff 15 March 1877
Summary
Sends belated birthday greetings
and an archaeological pamphlet.
Asks for CD’s autograph.
| Author: | Georg Otto Karl (Karl) von Estorff |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10892 |
From R. D. Fitzgerald 15 March 1877
Summary
Fertilisation of orchids. Believes some plants so constituted as to dispense with cross-fertilisation.
| Author: | Robert David Fitzgerald |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 131 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10893 |
| letter | (2) |
| Estorff, Karl von | (1) |
| Fitzgerald, R. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Estorff, Karl von | (1) |
| Fitzgerald, R. D. | (1) |
3.15 George Charles Wallich, photo
Summary
< Back to Introduction In the years around 1868–1871, when professional photographers competed for sittings with Darwin, a doctor called George Charles Wallich approached him with a similar request. Wallich was planning to publish a set of his own…
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- … < Back to Introduction In the years around 1868–1871, when professional photographers …
2.13 Edgar Boehm, statue in the NHM
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< Back to Introduction Edgar Boehm’s marble statue of Darwin in the Natural History Museum was commissioned by the committee of the Darwin Memorial Fund. This body had been set up by Darwin’s friends after his death in 1882, with the aim of providing…
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Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
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- … appears in Origin 4th ed., p. 301. 36. p. 315. This sentence also appears in Origin …
