From Fritz Müller 31 May 1881
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 May 1881 |
| Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 410–11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11385A |
To Robert Chambers 11 September 1847
Summary
Comments on David Milne’s paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. CD still believes in marine origin. Rejects barrier of detritus at mouth of Glen Roy. If roads were formed by lake, it must have been ice-lake.
Comments on evidence of glaciers and icebergs in North Wales. Thinks pass caused by tidal channel, not river. Suggests that RC make altitude measurements at various points.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Chambers |
| Date: | 11 Sept 1847 |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1119 |
To John Higgins 27 May [1850]
Summary
Discusses his account.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 27 May [1850] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/35) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1334 |
From John Richardson 17 July 1856
Summary
Responds to CD’s questions about the geographical distribution of freshwater fishes.
| Author: | John Richardson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 July 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 285 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1929 |
To W. E. Darwin [13 February 1859]
Summary
Discusses events at Moor Park and domestic matters.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Feb 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2414 |
From Henry Walter Bates 11 March 1867
Summary
Sexual ornamentation of insects: coloration of Epicalia genus [of tropical S. American butterflies];
horned genera of lamellicorn beetles [see Descent 1: 370, 388].
Wallace brought CD’s question about gay-coloured caterpillars before the Entomological Society. Members now seeking explanations.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A36–9, A46–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5438 |
Brooks, William (1800/2–82)
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- … 11) F. Darwin 1920, pp. 56–8 letter from Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin, [3 February 1863] (DAR 219.1: 70) Bibliography BMD : General Register Office, England and Wales civil registration indexes. England & Wales birth index, 1837–1983. England and Wales marriage index, 1837–1983. England and Wales death index, 1837–1983. Online database. Provo, Utah: The Generations Network. 2006. www.ancestry.com. 12,13 Darwin, C. R. …
From Alice Bonham-Carter to Emma Darwin 21 December [1864]
Summary
Sends a translation by Mr Noel [not found] of C. B. von Cotta’s views on CD’s and Lyell’s work.
| Author: | Alice Bonham-Carter |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Dec [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 241 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4722 |
To Albert Günther 11 May [1872]
Summary
Encloses a testimonial for AG [in support of his application for a promotion at British Museum].
Does he agree with Carl Gegenbaur’s paper on the limbs of fish [Jenaische Z. Naturwiss. 5 (1870): 397–447]?
Asks what caused G. R. Gray’s sudden death.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Date: | 11 May [1872] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library Günther 44) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8316 |
To Ernst Krause 15 September 1879
Summary
Agrees to EK’s proposals [for publishing Erasmus Darwin]. Will send sheets to Paris, but is not sure there will be a French translation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 15 Sept 1879 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36194) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12231 |
From Robert Patterson 18 October 1860
Summary
Sends an account of the destruction of wild rabbits by rats introduced from a wrecked ship.
| Author: | Robert Patterson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Oct 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 46.1: 89–90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2954 |
To Asa Gray 11 August [1858]
Summary
Species migration since the Pliocene. Effect of the glacial epoch. Present geographical distribution, especially similarities of mountain floras, explained by such migration; mountain summits as remnants of a once continuous flora and fauna.
Cross-fertilisation in Fumariaceae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 11 Aug [1858] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (42 and 9a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2321 |
From William Henry Benson 5 December 1855
Summary
Observations on shells in India, listing some specimens with particular regard to their locality, elevation, and relationship to other known types.
| Author: | William Henry Benson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1855 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 150 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1790 |
From E. B. Tylor 11 November 1876
Summary
Is attempting to write a book on elementary lessons in anthropology [Anthropology (1881)] and wonders whether CD’s son [Francis] would care to collaborate and aid him with the biological parts.
| Author: | Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Nov 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 205 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10667 |
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- … 11. 76 Dear M r Darwin I think I mentioned to you some while since that I was trying to write for Macmillan an “Elementary Lessons in Anthropology. ” This attempt has been a cause of great trouble and waste of labour to me, inasmuch as though I can write with something like satisfaction on questions of Culture, Language &c. …
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| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Krause, Ernst | (2) |
| Chambers, Robert | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Krause, Ernst | (2) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
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