To ? 7 April [1871]
Summary
Asks correspondent to thank Thomas Laycock for his references. CD has been away from home and has not yet consulted his copy of Laycock’s Mind and brain [1860].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | R. M. Smythe (dealer) (November 1998) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6102A |
From Francis Galton to Francis Darwin 7 April 1871
Summary
CD will take care of the eight little rabbits. FG outlines their future.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A25–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7662 |
From J. E. Gray 7 April 1871
Summary
Sexual differences in coloration in Lemur macaco.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7663 |
From Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen 7 April 1871
Summary
On some errata in Descent.
Sends extracts from a statistical study giving proportion of sexes in [population of] Netherlands.
| Author: | Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 99 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7664 |
To Thomas Woolner 7 April [1871]
Summary
Asks TW to persuade painters to observe how far down body blush extends on models.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Woolner |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 381, Woolner 1917, p. 288 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7665 |
To James Crichton-Browne 7 April [1871]
Summary
Thanks for information about blushing of idiots.
Case of pregnant woman "truly wonderful".
Thanks for photographs.
Has found London photographer, O. G. Rejlander, with passion for photographing expression.
Received information about iris of eye from F. C. Donders; shows contraction and dilation of pupil is very complex.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 336 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7666 |
From Emma Darwin to F. P. Cobbe [7 April 1871]
Summary
CD is reading the Theological Review (Cobbe 1871) with the greatest interest and attention.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Power Cobbe |
| Date: | [7 Apr 1871] |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (CB 388) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7666F |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Gray, J. E. | (1) |
| Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen, Hermanus | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Cobbe, F. P. | (1) |
| Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Cobbe, F. P. | (1) |
| Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
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.
Matches: 1 hits
- … recorded in the distribution of plants. Page 407, par. 2, lines 14–15, insert after ‘now …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
Matches: 1 hits
- … ( Red notebook , pp. 8e, 10; ‘Beagle’ diary , p. 407). Daniell, John Frederic. …
Journal of researches
Summary
Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…
Matches: 1 hits
- … The Journal of researches , Darwin’s account of his travels round the world in H.M.S. Beagle …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
Summary
‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
Matches: 1 hits
- … despondent, yet benevolent man’ (‘Recollections’, p. 407). Even scientific colleagues could …
