To John Fiske 10 June 1879
Summary
Invitation to Down for the 18th. W. B. Richmond, who is painting CD’s portrait, will also be there.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Fiske |
| Date: | 10 June 1879 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 8265) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12098 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 10 June 1879
Summary
Sleep in Crotalaria.
Report of John Ball’s lecture to Geographical Society: Alpine flora is direct descendant of Palaeozoic flora ["On the origin of the flora of the European Alps", Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography 1: 564–88].
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 June 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.10: 85 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12099 |
To Francis Galton 10 June [1879]
Summary
CD’s father thought he had not been treated fairly about his share of his mother’s [Mary Howard Darwin’s] fortune. Will not allude to this [in Erasmus Darwin]. Surprising that grandfather did not make more money. Has found memorandum of his having lost £1500 in ironworks.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 10 June [1879] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/27) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12100 |
To B. J. Sulivan 10 June 1879
Summary
The progress of the Fuegians is wonderful.
Sympathises with the "lamentable state" BJS and his family have been in.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Date: | 10 June 1879 |
| Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12101 |
| letter | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Fiske, John | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Fiske, John | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
Religion
Summary
Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
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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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- … of Australia. Page 424, par. 2, lines 6–10, substitute for ‘I have . . . agency.’: 52 …
