To Yorkshire Philosophical Society 8 February [1868]
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CD appreciates the honour of being elected an Honorary Member of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | T. S Noble |
| Date: | 8 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Yorkshire Philosophical Society, Council Minute Book, vol. 3, p. 619 (2 March 1868) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5839F |
From Herbert Spencer 8 February 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for copy of Variation.
Discusses Pangenesis and considers CD’s "gemmules" comparable to his own hypothetical "physiological units" ["On alleged ""spontaneous generation"", and on the hypothesis of physiological units", appendix in The principles of biology, vol. 1 (1864)].
| Author: | Herbert Spencer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 227 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5851 |
From Albany Hancock 8 February 1868
Summary
On the colours of the nudibranch Mollusca. [See Descent 1: 326.]
| Author: | Albany Hancock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A51–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5852 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hancock, Albany | (1) |
| Spencer, Herbert | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Noble, T. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hancock, Albany | (1) |
| Noble, T. S. | (1) |
| Spencer, Herbert | (1) |
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
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- … , (London: John Murray, 1st ed., 1871), vol. 1., pp. 207 – 208. 3) “Man is more courageous, …
24 Regent Street, London
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Brotherly contact
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- … News from Darwin's brother Erasmus Alvey Darwin and his sisters when they were staying in London. …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
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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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- … 21. A similar deletion occurs in Origin 4th ed., p. 208. 22. p. 229. A similar …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
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- … 29 march 1896 Den Haag 208 Wertheim A. A …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
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- … 208 Wertheim A. A Director of the Amsterdam Royal …
