From E. A. Darwin [1870–81]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1870–81] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12379 |
From Federico Delpino [1870]
Summary
Sends CD "L’applicazione della teoria Darwiniana ai fiori ed agli insetti visitatori dei fiori" [Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 2 (1870)]. Continues to support vitalism and teleology.
Author: | Federico Delpino |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 141 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7055 |
From Charles Ottley Groom Napier January 1870
Summary
COG-N sends, at the request of the late Lord Brougham, a copy of his work, The book of nature and the book of man [1870].
Author: | Charles Ottley Groom Napier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Jan 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 228 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7068 |
To? [1870–82]
Summary
Printed acknowledgment of the receipt of a letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1870–82] |
Classmark: | DAR 133: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13859 |
To ? [1870–82]
Summary
Query [possibly for publication] on ridges and furrows in pasture-land that had been ploughed long ago. Gives directions for measuring ridges on sloping land.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1870–82] |
Classmark: | DAR 63: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13885 |
To ? [1870s?]
Summary
Suggests the recipient catch the 4.12 train.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1870s?] |
Classmark: | The National Library of Wales (NLW Dolaucothi L 5984) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7088F |
From William Turner 3 January 1870
Summary
On the development of the mammae and the glands of the skin. R. A. v. Kölliker and Carl von Langer are the authorities [See Descent 1: 209].
Author: | William Turner |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 80: B158–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7088 |
From Francis Darwin [before 4 January 1870]
Summary
Humphrey does not think more bones in female os coccyx than in male. Because of maceration it is impossible to compare male and female skeletons. Has another coach while Stuart ill.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 4 Jan 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6520F |
To Anton Dohrn 4 January 1870
Summary
The Zoological Garden has only one old adult male of Limulus. When there were females, eggs were never observed.
Encloses a separate letter [formerly 7071] about AD’s scheme [for a zoological station].
Suggests AD be cautious [in his work]. "Caution is almost the soul of science."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Date: | 4 Jan 1870 |
Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 697); Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. fr. 2188, ff. 296-7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7070 |
To Abraham Dee Bartlett 5 January [1870]
Summary
Thanks ADB for Limulus.
Does Callithrix sciureus wrinkle the skin around its eyes when it screams? Do the eyes become suffused with moisture?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
Date: | 5 Jan [1870] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7072 |
To Charles Boner [before 8 January 1870]
Summary
Has received [read?] CB’s two works [Chamois hunting in the mountains of Bavaria (2d ed., 1860) and Forest creatures (1871)] and has made use of them in his present book [Descent].
CB’s descriptions of the Tyrol make CD long to be "strong and young again to ramble over the mountains".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Boner |
Date: | [before 8 Jan 1870] |
Classmark: | Kettle ed. 1871, p. 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7073 |
From Charles Boner 8 January 1870
Summary
Is glad CD liked Chamois hunting [in Bavaria (1853, 1860)].
Regrets CD’s poor health.
Sends his book, Transylvania [1865].
Author: | Charles Boner |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 239 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7074 |
To Richard Kippist 10 January [1870 or 1871]
Summary
Is sending some books for the Linnean Society Library.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Kippist; Linnean Society |
Date: | 10 Jan [1870-1] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7434 |
From Adolf Reuter 11 January 1870
Summary
Sends monstrous oranges,
red grape leaves,
and a bean with blue fruits (a hybrid of Phaseolus vulgaris and a Dolichos species).
Author: | Adolf Reuter |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Jan 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 127 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7075 |
From Anton Dohrn 13 January 1870
Summary
Thanks CD for his support and for his cautionary advice.
Will send his work on embryology of arthropods as soon as it is finished [Bau und Entwicklung der Arthropoden (1870)].
Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Jan 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 205 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7076 |
To Albert Günther 13 January [1870]
Summary
Delighted with proofs of illustrations [for Descent]. Hopes AG is pleased with them, as they illustrate facts given on his authority.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Date: | 13 Jan [1870] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7077 |
From Albert Günther [after 13 January 1870]
Author: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 13 Jan 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 244 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7078 |
To Adolf Reuter 15 January [1870]
Summary
Thanks AR for specimens of fruit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adolf Reuter |
Date: | 15 Jan [1870] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 220–221) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7079 |
To Albert Günther 16 January [1870]
Summary
Invites AG to Down for a weekend with A. Newton, R. Swinhoe, and Hooker.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Date: | 16 Jan [1870] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7080 |
To Richard Kippist 16 January [1870 or 1871]
Summary
Requests the return of some plates sent in error.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Linnean Society |
Date: | 16 Jan [1870-1] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7081 |
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