skip to content

Darwin Correspondence Project

Search Results

Darwin Correspondence Project
Search:
"Darwin Horace" in search-correspondent disabled_by_default
Darwin, Horace in author disabled_by_default
9 Items
Sorted by:  
Page: 1

From Horace Darwin   19 June 1877

Summary

Notes on the position of one of the fallen stones [at Stonehenge].

Author:  Horace Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 June 1877
Classmark:  DAR 162: 71
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11009

From Horace Darwin to F. M. Balfour   14 March 1879

Summary

Frank [Darwin] has refused Cambridge Examinership. Frank, in agreement with his father, thinks he does not know enough systematic botany. HD believes this is not necessary. Can Frank still change his mind?

Author:  Horace Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Maitland Balfour
Date:  14 Mar 1879
Classmark:  National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103B/95–6)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11933

From Horace Darwin   4 September 1880

Summary

Observations on earthworms.

Author:  Horace Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 Sept 1880
Classmark:  DAR 64.1: 34–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12707

From Horace Darwin   9 and 12 September 1880

Summary

Reports evidence of earthworm activity.

Author:  Horace Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 and 12 Sept 1880
Classmark:  DAR 64.1: 36–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12709

From Horace Darwin to Emma Darwin   [18 September 1880]

Summary

Found worm-casts atop a 2555–foot hill.

Author:  Horace Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  [18 Sept 1880]
Classmark:  DAR 162: 73
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12717

From Horace Darwin   7 October 1880

Summary

Worm-castings. Encloses notes about worm activities at Gravetye Manor.

Author:  Horace Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Oct 1880
Classmark:  DAR 65: 99, 100; DAR 162: 72, 73
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12742

From Horace Darwin   17 August 1874

Summary

The occurrence and prevention of scale in boilers.

Anxious to hear Murray’s reply [to CD’s letter 9598].

Author:  Horace Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  17 Aug 1874
Classmark:  DAR 162: 70
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9603

To Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer   [before 25 June 1859]

Summary

Report on three rare beetles they have recently taken in Down parish.

Author:  Francis Darwin; Leonard Darwin; Horace Darwin
Addressee:  Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer
Date:  [before 25 June 1859]
Classmark:  Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer 6 (1859): 99
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2472

From the Darwin children   17 January 1880

thumbnail

Summary

Send CD a present of a fur coat.

Author:  Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Jan 1880
Classmark:  DAR 99: 208
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12428