From V. H. Darwin 28 May [1879]
Summary
Will attempt to copy the drawing of Elston Hall [Erasmus Darwin, p. 3]. Does not remember the highway robber story [ibid., pp. 64–5].
Author: | Violetta Harriot Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 May [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 169–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12065 |
To G. G. Stokes 28 May 1879
Summary
Reports on Joseph Prestwich’s paper, "On the origin of the parallel roads of Lochaber" [read 1 May 1879]. Strongly recommends that the paper be published in Philosophical Transactions [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 170 (1880): 663–726].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
Date: | 28 May 1879 |
Classmark: | The Royal Society (RR8: 183) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12066 |
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Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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- … forms (Living Cirripedia (1851): 214; (1854): 29, 528 n.) and, at another level, to explain the …