To Otto Zacharias 5 October [1876]
Summary
The sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation will be sent to OZ as they become ready.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Otto Zacharias |
| Date: | 5 Oct [1876] |
| Classmark: | Swiss National Library, Helvetic Archives (SLA-Rhyn-06-d/03) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10632 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … National Library, Helvetic Archives (SLA-Rhyn-06-d/03) Charles Robert Darwin Leith Hill …
To Williams and Norgate 1 April [1860]
Summary
Thanks for information about French dictionaries.
Asks that Westminster Review [of Apr 1860] be sent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
| Date: | 1 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | Swiss National Library, Helvetic Archives (SLA-Rhyn-06-d/02) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2739 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … National Library, Helvetic Archives (SLA-Rhyn-06-d/02) Charles Robert Darwin Down 1 Apr [ …
To Ernst Dieffenbach 8 April [1845]
Summary
Thanks ED for copy of German edition of Journal of researches. Asks him to write and ask German publisher to return plates and MS.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
| Date: | 8 Apr [1845] |
| Classmark: | Swiss National Library, Helvetic Archives (SLA-Rhyn-06-d/01) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-854 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … National Library, Helvetic Archives (SLA-Rhyn-06-d/01) Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 Apr [ …
From Emma Darwin to F. J. Hughes 13 February 1882
Summary
Thanks for sympathy on death of Erasmus [Alvey Darwin].
Suggests rewording statement concerning source of CD’s views on evolution.
Recalls happy days at Penally.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Jane Hughes |
| Date: | 13 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-3-06) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13683 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-3-06) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down 13 Feb …
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 23 April [1875]
Summary
Further discussion about the act regulating animal experimentation; believes the licensing of places to be impracticable.
| Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Apr [1875] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-2-06) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9945A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-2-06) John Scott Burdon Sanderson, baronet London, …
From Asa Gray 22 May 1877
Summary
Asked C. E. Bessey whether Lithospermum longiflorum was dimorphic like its relatives. Encloses CEB’s reply.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 May 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: B53–7, DAR 165: 196 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10969 |
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 4 . 6 1836 —1 . 97 1850 —2 . 01 1860 —2 . 06 1866 —2 . 10 The 4 . 6 seems the only one out …
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, Leonard | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Dieffenbach, Ernst | (1) |
| Hughes, F. J. | (1) |
| Williams & Norgate | (1) |
| Zacharias, Otto | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, Leonard | (1) |
| Dieffenbach, Ernst | (1) |
botany in Commentary
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
Summary
At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
Matches: 7 hits
- … animals made him ‘groan’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). Darwin reiterated in a later …
- … old honoured guide & master’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). Nevertheless, Darwin …
- … a fitting opportunity’ ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] ). …
- … in the fossil record ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] ). Only until March did …
- … Dana, 20 February [1863] , and letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). In March, after …
- … 29 May [1863] , and letter to Hugh Falconer, [25–6 August 1863] ). Sterility and …
- … [1863] that he had been ‘ordered to do nothing for 6 months’ by his doctors, mentioning that even …
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
Summary
1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
Matches: 4 hits
- … a paper for the Linnean Society ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 October [1862] ). However, it was not …
- … different translator ( see letter from Edouard Claparède, 6 September 1862 ). In Germany, …
- … of the human species ( see letter from John Lubbock, 6 January 1862 ). Ramsay’s was not the …
- … of the pot of life’? ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 6 May 1862 ). In his address, Huxley also …
