To Henry Doubleday [before 5 February 1857]
Summary
Have all varieties been bred from the same set of eggs so that there can be no doubt they are all the same species?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Doubleday |
| Date: | [before 5 Feb 1857] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2032 |
From Henry Doubleday 5 February 1857
Summary
The variations of Peronea caused A. H. Haworth and J. F. Stephens to create 30 or 40 species based on colour and markings. HD was first to be convinced these would be reduced to two.
Discusses species that closely resemble one another;
cites species that differ in variation in different localities;
in some double-brooded species the broods differ markedly in size and colour.
Encloses his list of varieties of Peronea.
| Author: | Henry Doubleday |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Feb 1857 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 236 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2047 |
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4.39 'Moonshine' magazine cartoon
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< Back to Introduction Moonshine, the self-styled ‘Best Topical Comic Paper’ published in London, featured Darwin in its series of ‘Days with Celebrities’ in 1881. The idea of the series was to picture the private lives of famous contemporaries.…
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- … (19) Mr. Darwin’, Moonshine , vol.4 (29 Oct. 1881), p. 205; there is no accompanying article. …
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
The Mount, Shrewsbury
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Letters from home
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- … Darwin writes in preparation for the voyage, and his father and sisters write with news from home …
The Voyage of the Beagle
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It was a letter from his friend and former teacher, John Stevens Henslow, that brought the 22-year-old Charles Darwin news of the offer of a place on board the Admiralty surveying vessel HMS Beagle on a voyage to chart the coast of South America. During…
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- … Capt. F. wants a man (I understand) more as a companion than a mere collector & would not take …
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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- … 205 Walsem J.A. van …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
Summary
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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- … 205 Walsem J.A. van …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … While much of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward …
- … islands by Arthur Adams . 2 vols. London. [Abstract in DAR 205.3: 180.] 119: 21a Bell, …
- … Australis . 2 vols. and atlas. London. [Abstract in DAR 205.4: 50–2.] *119: 1v.; 119: 20a …
- … the river Zaire . London. [Abstract in DAR 205.4: 46–9.] *119: 1v.; 119: 2a, 20a …
- … history of creation” . London. [Abstract in DAR 205.9(2): 215.] 119: 16a [——]. 1847. …
- … of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. Philadelphia. [Abstract in DAR 205.3: 143–51.] 128: 6 Dana, …
- … et La Zélée, 1837–40 . 23 vols. Paris. [Abstract in DAR 205.3: 47–9.] 119: 16a Dun, …
- … 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825 . 7 vols. Paris. [Abstract in DAR 205.3: 55–7.] 119: 1a …
- … allemand, par M. de Keralio. 2 vols. Paris. [Abstract in DAR 205.2: 122.] *128: 175 …
- … vols. London. [Darwin Library. Abstract in DAR 71: 215–16; 205.3: 78.] *119: 19v.; 119: 21a; 128: …
- … by Lord Derby’s notes. Knowsley. [Abstract in DAR 205.3: 165.] *119: 21v. Gray, Thomas. …
- … eastern part of Java. 2 vols. London. [Abstract in DAR 205.3: 138.] 119: 20a ——. 1857. …
