Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1862a. On the cedars of Lebanon, Taurus, Algeria, and India. Natural History Review n.s. 2: 11–18.
From David Forbes 18 February 1871
Summary
Thanks for copy of Descent.
| Author: | David Forbes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Feb 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 146 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7487 |
Sachs, Julius. 1877a. Ueber die Porosität des Holzes. Verhandlungen der physikalisch-medizinischen Gesellschaft in Würzburg n.s. 11: 202–18.
To T. H. Huxley [11 or 18 May 1871]
Summary
Asks for a ticket for THH’s lecture at the Royal Institution for WED. With ED’s and HED’s forgeries of CD’s signature.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | [11 or 18] May 1871 |
| Classmark: | Janet Huxley (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6541F |
From W. W. Reade 18 February 1872
Summary
Compares Origin to Newton’s Principia and Adam Smith’s Wealth of nations.
His view of CD’s response to Mivart.
On mammae;
gradualism of evolution;
suicide among savages.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Feb 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 74–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8218 |
To William Benjamin Carpenter [11 or 18 December 1844]
Summary
Thanks WBC for offer to examine specimen and for offer of slices of shells, but has no achromatic microscope.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
| Date: | [11 or 18] Dec 1844 |
| Classmark: | University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-753 |
From T. V. Wollaston [11 or 18 December 1856]
Summary
Informs CD that the "dishonest mollusks" were collected in May 1855 in Porto Santo. Describes some Madeira species. Though believing in "species" more and more, these may be "mere insular modifications".
| Author: | Thomas Vernon Wollaston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [11 or 18] Dec 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 301 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2013 |
From W. M. Hacon to Leonard Darwin 11 October 1881
Summary
More on proposed sale of property to CD by Sydney Sales.
| Author: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Addressee: | Leonard Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13393 |
Agassiz, Louis. 1867. The geological formation of the valley of the Amazon. The river, its basin and tributories. The ancient glaciers in the tropics. The aquatic animals of the Amazon. The land animals of South America. The monkeys and native inhabitants. [Six lectures read at the Cooper Institute, New York, 5, 11, 12, 18, 20, and 26 February 1867.] New York Herald Tribune, 6 February 1867, p. 8, 12 February 1867, p. 5, 13 February 1867, p. 5, 19 February 1867, p. 8, 21 February 1867, p. 5, 27 February 1867, p. 8.
To William Benjamin Carpenter 25 December [1844]
Summary
Is obliged for the account of the structure of the Pampas specimen and its difference from specimens of the modern calcareous bed of Coquimbo in Chile. If he thinks that J. S. Bowerbank can make out the nature of the specimens, they should be shown to him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
| Date: | 25 Dec [1844] |
| Classmark: | Jeffrey D. Stillwell (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-803A |
To John Lubbock 17 December [1859]
Summary
Local affairs and finances.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 31 (EH 88206480) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2586 |
Duncan, Peter Martin. 1863–7. On the fossil corals of the West Indian Islands. [Read 6 May and 18 November 1863, 11 May 1864, and 4 December 1867.] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 19 (1863): 406–58; 20 (1864): 20–44, 358–74; 24 (1868): 9–33.
From James Torbitt 11 December 1880
Summary
Thinks his private notes failed to convey his ideas. JT wanted CD "to look at the product and express an opinion as to its value".
| Author: | James Torbitt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 169 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12905 |
To A. R. Wallace 24 March [1871]
Summary
On the flourishing sales of their respective books. Mentions reviews of Descent in Pall Mall Gazette [21 Mar 1871] and in the Spectator [11 Mar 1871, pp. 288–9; 18 Mar 1871, pp. 319–20].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 24 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7616 |
From Thomas Blunt 11 August 1842
Summary
Gives the height of Shrewsbury above sea-level.
| Author: | Thomas Blunt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Aug 1842 |
| Classmark: | DAR 5: B17–18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-639 |
From J. D. Hooker [19 November 1845]
Summary
Answers CD’s queries arising from Flora Antarctica.
Would like CD to come to town and go over Galapagos plants with him.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [19 Nov 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 57–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-928 |
From C. H. Tindal 1 January 1880
Summary
Encloses extracts from the correspondence of [the Ven. Robert] Clive concerning Erasmus Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Harrison Tindal |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 227.7: 11–13, 16, 18, 25, 128 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12392F |
To J. de C. Sowerby [8] June [1850]
Summary
CD is pleased with the drawings for Fossil Cirripedia but wants a few corrections which he would like very soon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
| Date: | [8] June [1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1338 |
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