To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 1 April [1879]
Summary
Thanks for the plants for heliotropic experiments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 1 Apr [1879] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 169) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11964 |
From Alfred Newton 1 April 1879
Summary
Asks CD to join W. H. Flower and Huxley in signing a memorial in support of Dr Coues. He is a U.S. Army surgeon who has been working on an ornithological bibliography and needs support to complete his work in England.
| Author: | Alfred Newton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 52 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11965 |
To Reginald Darwin 1 April 1879
Summary
The "great book" [presumably Dr Erasmus Darwin’s commonplace book, see Erasmus Darwin, p. iii] arrived safely.
Can RD supply a photograph of [Breadsall] Priory?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Reginald Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 96 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11966 |
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Newton, Alfred | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, Reginald | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, Reginald | (1) |
| Newton, Alfred | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
Summary
Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … feet (DAR 210.7). ^14^ See Foundations , pp. 40–1, 238. ^15^ This phenomenon …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … climatologie asiatiques. 2 vols. Paris, 1831. (DAR 35.2: 401; Stoddart 1962, p. 22a). Darwin …
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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- … rewritten in Origin 4th ed., p. 402. 40. p. 401. 41. p. 403. This substitution …
