To [John Colby?] 2 March [1877?]
Summary
Does not think the pistil behaved as JC described, except by mere accident.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Colby |
| Date: | 2 Mar [1877] |
| Classmark: | Abraham Schwadron Collection at the National Library of Israel (Schwad 03 04 07) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10873F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … at the National Library of Israel (Schwad 03 04 07) Charles Robert Darwin Down 2 Mar [ …
To ? 13 December [1869]
Summary
Has given the right of translation [of Descent] to Julius Victor Carus of Leipzig, so the recipient should inform Alexander Duncker to communicate with JVC.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 13 Dec [1869] |
| Classmark: | Abraham Schwad Collection at the National Library of Israel (Schwad 03 04 07) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7028F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … at the National Library of Israel (Schwad 03 04 07) Charles Robert Darwin Down 13 Dec [ …
To John Allen 25 May 1847
Summary
Thanks for JS’s note concerning a proposal [concerning some aspect of education of poor children?] which CD has to decline because of his poor health and his work in Natural History.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Allen |
| Date: | 25 May 1847 |
| Classmark: | Abraham Schwad Collection at the National Library of Israel (Schwad 03 04 07) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1090F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … at the National Library of Israel (Schwad 03 04 07) Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 May 1847 …
From Joseph Fayrer 30 June 1874
Summary
Reports on results of experiments on effect of cobra poison on animal cilia and muscle.
| Author: | Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 June 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 69–72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9521 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … other with a solution of cobra poison of . 03 gramme Poison to 4 . 6. cubic centimetres …
Kennard, C. A. (1827–1907)
Matches: 1 hit
- … as The New Haven Evening Register; Date: 03-17-1894; Volume: LII; Issue: 65; Page: [1]; …
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Fayrer, Joseph | (1) |
| Allen, John | (1) |
| Colby, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Allen, John | (1) |
| Colby, John | (1) |
| Fayrer, Joseph | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
Darwin's scientific network in Commentary
Thomas Rivers
Summary
Rivers and Darwin exchanged around 30 letters, most in 1863 when Darwin was hard at work on the manuscript of Variation of plants and animals under domestication, the lengthy and detailed sequel to Origin of species. Rivers, an experienced plant breeder…
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- … your mind would find abundance of food”, Rivers wrote ( [3 February 1863] ). Darwin thought the …
William Yarrell
Summary
William Yarrell was a London businessman, a stationer and bookseller, who became an expert on British birds and fish, writing standard reference works on both. He was a member of several science and natural history societies, including the Linnean Society…
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- … William Yarrell was a London businessman, a stationer and bookseller, who became an expert on …
John Beddoe
Summary
In 1869, when gathering data on sexual selection in humans, Darwin exchanged a short series of letters with John Beddoe, a doctor in Bristol. He was looking for evidence that racial differences that appear to have no benefit in terms of survival - and…
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- … In 1869 Darwin exchanged a short series of letters with a John Beddoe, a doctor in Bristol who had …
Fritz Müller
Summary
Fritz Müller, a German who spent most of his life in political exile in Brazil, described Darwin as his second father, and Darwin's son, Francis, wrote that, although they never met 'the correspondence with Müller, which continued to the close of…
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- … Francis Darwin, in Life and letters of Charles Darwin , wrote of Fritz Müller They …
