To Otto Zacharias 17 April [1878]
Summary
Doesn’t know anything about the insects in question, but has sent the photographs on to an expert in London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Otto Zacharias |
| Date: | 17 Apr [1878] |
| Classmark: | University of Southern California Libraries, Special Collections, Feuchtwanger Memorial Library (Collection no. 0204, Lion Feuchtwanger papers, Box 01) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11478F |
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- … no. 0204, Lion Feuchtwanger papers, Box 01) Charles Robert Darwin Down 17 Apr [1878] Otto …
To Karl von Scherzer 1 April 1878
Summary
Glad to hear of Ernst Haeckel’s reception in Vienna.
R. Virchow’s address ["Liberty of science", Nature 17 (1877–8): 72–4, 92–4, 111–13] very arrogant.
Sorry to hear of death of Arthur Lane.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Karl von Scherzer |
| Date: | 1 Apr 1878 |
| Classmark: | University of Southern California Libraries, Special Collections, Feuchtwanger Memorial Library (Collection no. 0204, Lion Feuchtwanger papers, Box 01) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11460 |
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- … no. 0204, Lion Feuchtwanger papers, Box 01) Charles Robert Darwin Down 1 Apr 1878 Karl von …
From Edward Cresy 10 November 1860
Summary
Explains discrepancies in weights and measures caused by changes since 1836 in apothecaries’ measures.
EC has found that a discrepancy in A. W. von Hofmann’s experiments with iodine solutions resulted from an error in Hofmann’s use of decimals.
Reports S. P. Woodward’s opinion of the Origin: "a very sad book, it unsettles all one’s religious principles and the worst of it is so much of it is true".
| Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Nov 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 7, 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2980 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … of iodine in 1 kilogramme of water. i.e. .01 milligramme per gramme. [diag] The original …
- … of the solution containing therefore .01 milligramme that is 1 100 of a milligramme, & he …
- … 1000 grammes = 1 kilogramme = 1 litre—gives .01 per gramme and in this the Sec says I am …
- … to write a milligramme .001 then the D rs .01 becomes .00001 a very clumsy figure to work …
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 30 April [1876]
Summary
Suggests JSBS’s new machine for observing arterial action be used to test CD’s hypothesis that blushing is caused by thinking intensely about a part of the body and thus releasing the arteries.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, baronet |
| Date: | 30 Apr [1876] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-01) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10485 |
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- … Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-01) Charles Robert Darwin London, Queen Anne St, …
From Leonard Darwin [after 14 February 1874]
Summary
Statistics showing rate of decline of population in Sandwich Islands, 1832–72.
| Author: | Leonard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 14 Feb 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 90: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8709 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Darwin, Leonard | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
| Scherzer, Karl von | (1) |
| Zacharias, Otto | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Darwin, Leonard | (1) |
| Scherzer, Karl von | (1) |
Voyage of HMS Beagle in Commentary
Books on the Beagle
Summary
‘Considering the limited disposable space in so very small a ship, we contrived to carry more instruments and books than one would readily suppose could be stowed away in dry and secure places’. So wrote Captain FitzRoy in the Narrative (2: 18). CD, in his…
Matches: 3 hits
- … example, at least one of the references to Lamouroux (DAR 30.1: 48 v.) contains material that is not …
- … of a reference to the book on folio 61 (recto) in part 1 of volume 32 of CD’s geological diary (DAR …
- … Beering’s Strait . . . 1825, 26, 27, 28 . London, 1831. (DAR 31.1: 276v.; 33: 253v.). Darwin …
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
Summary
The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
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- … on the parallel roads of Glen Roy’, Collected papers 1: 88–137). Darwin later abandoned this …
