From E. S. Galton 31 March 1879
Summary
Sends drawings of several of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s residences, together with suggestions of sources of other material.
Author: | Emma Sophia Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 181–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11962 |
From A. G. Butler 31 March 1879
Summary
Has succeeded in obtaining Assistant Keeper’s post.
Believes it would be interesting and valuable to study the variation in organs such as scent-fans and "strigillating" [stridulating?] organs among related species of Lepidoptera.
Author: | Arthur Gardiner Butler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 390 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11963 |
To E. A. Wheler 31 March [1879]
Summary
Requests information about a travel route used by their grandfather, Erasmus Darwin. Thanks FG for his help.
CD is "now trying to find out how far the Zoonomia influenced medical practice in England".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler |
Date: | 31 Mar [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 105 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11963A |
letter | (3) |
Butler, A. G. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Galton, E. S. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Galton, E. A. | (1) |
Wheler, E. A. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Butler, A. G. | (1) |
Galton, E. A. | (1) |
Galton, E. S. | (1) |
Wheler, E. A. | (1) |
John Lort Stokes
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John Lort Stokes, naval officer, was Charles Darwin’s cabinmate on the Beagle voyage – not always an enviable position. After Darwin’s death, Stokes penned a description of their evenings spent working at the large table at the centre, Stokes at his…
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- … on the coast fronting the barrier reef?’ (Stokes 1846 1: 331) Stokes spent his final …