From Francis Darwin to P. P. C. Hoek [c. 24 June 1877]
Summary
CD has written to [Charles] Wyville Thomson in favour of PPCH’s request [for duplicates of Pycnogonida collected by the Challenger expedition], and hopes it will be successful.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Paulus Peronius Cato Hoek |
| Date: | [c. 24 June 1877] |
| Classmark: | Artis Library (P. P. C. Hoek Archive: Darwin correspondence) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11014F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … this letter and the letter from P. P. C. Hoek to C. W. Thomson, 25 June 1877 . …
- … letter to Charles Wyville Thomson has not been found. Hoek had written to Thomson requesting duplicates of the Pycnogonida (sea-spider) specimens collected on the Challenger expedition (see letter from P. P. C. Hoek to C. W. Thomson, 25 June 1877 ). …
From P. P. C. Hoek to C. W. Thomson 25 June 1877
Summary
Requests duplicates of [H. M. S.] Challenger Pycnogonidae.
| Author: | Paulus Peronius Cato Hoek |
| Addressee: | Charles Wyville Thomson |
| Date: | 25 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 228 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11016 |
To P. P. C. Hoek 23 November 1881
Summary
Thanks him for magnificent work on Pycnogonida [The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Challenger, vol. 3, part 10 (1881)].
Is delighted that he is undertaking the Cirripedia [1883–4].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Paulus Peronius Cato Hoek |
| Date: | 23 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | Artis Library (P. P. C. Hoek Archive: Darwin correspondence) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13507A |
From C. W. Thomson 30 June 1877
Summary
Wants CD’s advice on who would undertake describing the Crustacea from the Challenger expedition [1872–6].
| Author: | Charles Wyville Thomson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 115 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11026 |
From Raphael Meldola 24 November 1880
Summary
Wants information on Fritz Müller’s papers bearing on Weismann’s work.
| Author: | Raphael Meldola |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 140 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12850 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … C. W. Thomson had failed to grasp the idea of Natural Selection & am glad that an opportunity has occurred of putting him to rights on this subject. Yours very truly, | R. Meldola. 3.1 Some time ago … Fritz Müller 3.2] scored red crayon 3.6 “Beobachtungen … Schmetterlingen 3.7] underl red crayon End of letter : ‘I August. | II October 1877’ …
Document type
| letter | (5) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Hoek, P. P. C. | (1) |
| Meldola, Raphael | (1) |
| Thomson, C. W. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hoek, P. P. C. | (2) |
| Thomson, C. W. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hoek, P. P. C. | (3) |
| Thomson, C. W. | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Meldola, Raphael | (1) |
