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) |
instinct in Commentary
Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
Summary
The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…
Matches: 5 hits
- … were incipient species ( Natural selection, p. 145–6): From looking at species as only …
- … Elwin to Murray, 3 May 1859 , and letter to John Murray, 6 May [1859] ). The extant …
- … but in this he was disappointed. ‘We have been here above 6 week,’ he wrote to Fox, ‘& I feel …
- … points of Darwin’s theory ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 May 1859 ). Among the older scientists, …
- … larky since we run two horses’ ( letter to W. E. Darwin, 6 October [1858] ). Visitors to Down and …
