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: | The National Library of Israel (Abraham Schwadron collection, Schwad 03 04 07) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10873F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Israel (Abraham Schwadron collection, 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: | The National Library of Israel (Abraham Schwadron collection, Schwad 03 04 07) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7028F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Israel (Abraham Schwadron collection, 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: | The National Library of Israel (Abraham Schwadron collection, Schwad 03 04 07) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1090F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Israel (Abraham Schwadron collection, Schwad 03 04 07) Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 May …
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 …
Smith, C. A. (1827–1907)
Matches: 1 hit
- … as The New Haven Evening Register; Date: 03-17-1894; Volume: LII; Issue: 65; Page: [1]; …
From Joseph Fayrer 6 January 1875
Summary
Encloses results of experiments on influence of snake poison on ciliary action and vegetable protoplasm.
| Author: | Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.2: 71, 73–82, DAR 164: 112 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9806 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1. A standard solution of cobra poison: ·03 gramme to 4·6 cubic centimetres of water was …
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Fayrer, Joseph | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Allen, John | (1) |
| Colby, John | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Fayrer, Joseph | (2) |
| Allen, John | (1) |
| Colby, John | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
glacier in Commentary
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
Summary
The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
Matches: 5 hits
- … Bence Jones: ‘I am able now to walk daily on an average 3½ miles & often one mile at a stretch…. …
- … for about 1½ hours every day’ ( letter to H. B. Jones, 3 January [1866] ). Darwin had first …
- … London, like what I was 7 or 8 years ago— one day I paid 3 calls! & then went for ¾ to Zoolog. …
- … little is known on the subject’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 and 4 August [1866] ). And on the next …
- … did in fact divide Darwin and Hooker, who remarked on 3 November that the application of high …
