To Ernest Edwards 4 September 1872
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernest Edwards |
Date: | 4 Sept 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 148–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8511 |
From Robert Swinhoe 4 August 1868
Summary
Discusses a domestic oriental fowl.
Is having problems getting answers to CD’s queries on expression as Chinese facial expressions are limited and controlled. Answers as well as he can. [See Expression index.]
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 331 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6303 |
To John Murray 4 September [1870]
Summary
Variation is a much better looking volume than Origin due to quality of paper and binding. Hopes JM will attend to this point in Descent. Printers have sent "splendid lot" of proofs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 4 Sept [1870] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 211) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7316 |
From A. R. Wallace 2 July 1866
Summary
Lengthy analysis of sources of misunderstanding of natural selection. Advocacy of Spencer’s term "survival of the fittest" instead of "Natural Selection". ARW urges CD to stress frequency of variations.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 July 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B33–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5140 |
From William Bowman 1 April [1868]
Summary
Asks for precise reference in Charles Bell to subject of CD’s question. Agrees to assist CD’s investigation. Asks about Bell’s observations on eyes engorged with blood. Has noticed that eyes of children with excessive photophobia tend to be pale when forced open.
Author: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Apr [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 268 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6079 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 March [1874]
Summary
Thanks for information about Hedychium. Hopes wings of Sphinx will be found covered with pollen for that will be a fine bit of prophecy from the structure of a flower to special and new means of fertilisation.
Has been at Descent so hard he has done nothing, not even H. Spencer’s answer.
Has not yet read Croll ["Ocean currents", London Edinburgh & Dublin Philos. Mag. 47 (1874): 94–122, 168–90].
Has heard nothing about Carter and Eozoon. Eozoon, he infers, is done for.
Has read Belt [The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)]: best of all natural history travel books.
Has written to Fritz Müller about leaf-carrying ants.
Hopes to resume work on Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Mar [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 317–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9372 |
To John Murray 3 June [1871]
Summary
Is disappointed at high price, 7s 6d, being considered for the cheap edition of the Origin [6th ed.]. Has been told that, in Lancashire, workmen club together to buy the Origin.
Little chance that Expression will be done this autumn.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 3 June [1871] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 246–7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7798 |
To Williams & Norgate 12 April [1872]
Summary
Orders books: J. R. Leifchild, The higher ministry of nature (1872);
Hermann Müller, The application of the Darwinian theory to flowers [(1872?), reprint from Am. Nat. 5 (1871): 271–97];
and a review by J. B. Hunter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bookseller. |
Date: | 12 Apr [1872] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.414) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8284 |
From Julius von Haast 4 December 1867
Summary
JvH forwards J. Stack’s replies to CD’s queries about expression [see Expression, p. 20].
Sends photos of skeletons of six species of Dinornis he is assembling for the Museum.
Author: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Dec 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 12; DAR 177: 243 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5705 |
letter | (9) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Bowman, William | (1) |
Haast, Julius von | (1) |
Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Bookseller. | (1) |
Edwards, Ernest | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Bookseller. | (1) |
Bowman, William | (1) |
Edwards, Ernest | (1) |