To Leonard Jenyns 15 July [1839]
Summary
Discusses details of LJ’s part of Zoology [Fish].
CD is working hard on Coral reefs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | 15 July [1839] |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-527 |
From John Lubbock 12 February 1867
Summary
H. T. Stainton should be elected F.R.S.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Feb 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5400 |
From Edward Parfitt 31 October 1881
Summary
Corrects Werner Hoffmeister, cited in Earthworms, p. 63: earthworms do not block their holes to keep out Scolopendras but to prevent evaporation.
Author: | Edward Parfitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Oct 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13445 |
Cuvier, Georges. 1804–8. Sur les espèces d’animaux dont proviennent les os fossiles répandus dans la pierre à plâtre des environ de Paris. Annales du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle 3: 275–303, 364–87, 442–72; 4: 66–75; 6: 253–83; 9: 10–15, 16–44, 89–102, 205–15, 272–82; 12: 271–84.
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 26 June [1873]
Summary
Would welcome JSBS visit to discuss Drosera. Nitrogenous fluids can act as ferments only if they act merely by exciting molecular movement in adjoining molecules.
Glass and cotton excite movement and cause cell contents to change visibly. Huxley coming to see this phenomenon.
Studied effect of poisons 12 or 15 years ago to see whether the action was similar to that on nervous tissue.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 26 June [1873] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-08) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8952 |
From G. M. Asher 11 November 1877
Summary
Regarding CD’s inability to find a young botanist to investigate Russian wheat; comments on utter lack of organisation in scientific research in Britain as compared with Germany.
Gives arguments against CD’s suggestion that the saxonka seeds could have long dormancy period which would account for their gradual overtaking of kubanka.
Author: | Georg Michael Asher |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 118 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11230 |
To T. H. Huxley 11 April [1853]
Summary
Offers to send Ascidia specimens of Beagle voyage. Describes some of them.
Hopes THH will review his book [Living Cirripedia, vol. 1] which has been published for a year with no notice taken of it except briefly by Dana.
Discusses Limulus-like larva. "I have become a man of one idea.– cirripedes morning & night."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 11 Apr [1853] |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 150Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1514 |
To P. H. Gosse 27 April [1857]
Summary
Asks PHG to conduct an experiment to see if young littoral molluscs will cling to a duck’s foot – CD seeks to explain distribution of molluscs without adopting E. Forbes’s [continental extension] theory.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Henry Gosse |
Date: | 27 Apr [1857] |
Classmark: | Leeds University Library Special Collections (Brotherton Collection: Gosse Correspondence) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2082 |
From W. T. Van Dyck 27 February 1882
Summary
Encloses MS on sexual selection acting on street dogs of Beirut [MS of "On the modification of a race of Syrian street dogs", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 25 (1882): 367–70, published with a prefatory notice by CD.
Author: | William Thomson Van Dyck |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 180: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13710 |
From H. C. Watson [after 23 March 1858]
Summary
Extracts from MS of vol. 4 of HCW’s Cybele Britannica [1847–59] showing the diversity of views on species among botanists.
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 23 Mar 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 45: 16–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1808 |
To G. J. Romanes 20 August 1878
Summary
Comments on GJR’s lecture on animal intelligence [Rep. BAAS].
Comments on J. R. L. Delboeuf, La psychologie [1876].
Suggests that GJR keep a young monkey to observe.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 20 Aug 1878 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.546) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11671 |
From Charles Lyell 4 October 1859
Summary
Response to Origin. Praise for summary of chapter 10 and chapter 11.
The dissimilarity of African and American species is ‘necessary result of “Creation” adapting new species to the pre-existing ones. Granting this unknown & if you please miraculous power acting’.
C. T. Gaudin writes of Oswald Heer’s finding many species common between Miocene floras of Iceland and Switzerland. Interesting for CD’s migration theory.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Oct 1859 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 81; The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Notebook 241, pp. 75–90) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3132 |
To Basil Hall 15 March 1840
Summary
Discussion of the geology of Coquimbo, Chile.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Basil Hall |
Date: | 15 Mar 1840 |
Classmark: | Musée royal de Mariemont, Belgium (Aut. 1061/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-558F |
Sclater, Philip Lutley. 1867b. Barbets, and their distribution. Intellectual Observer 12: 241–6.
To Hugo de Vries [10 or 11 August 1878]
Summary
Arranges for HdeV to call.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugo de Vries |
Date: | [10 or 11 Aug 1878] |
Classmark: | Artis Library (De Vries 4a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11643 |
To M. A. T. Whitby 12 August [1849]
Summary
Thanks MATW for the results of her experiments on the inheritance of caterpillar peculiarities and would be grateful for any further observations on differences in structure or habits between silkworm breeds, or peculiarities in inheritance.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mary Anne Theresa Whitby |
Date: | 12 Aug [1849] |
Classmark: | New York Academy of Medicine (MS 15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1194 |
To J. F. Fisher 8 August [1878]
Summary
Agrees to read manuscript if short.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Francis Fisher |
Date: | 8 Aug [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 106 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11645 |
To T. H. Huxley 11 August [1878]
Summary
CD’s election to Botany Section of French Academy amuses him, because he "doesn’t know the characters of a single natural order!".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 11 Aug [1878] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 326) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11651 |
From Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet 15 December 1870
Summary
CD elected Associate Member of the Royal Belgian Academy.
Author: | Lambert Adolphe Jacques (Adolphe) Quetelet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Dec 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 175: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7390 |
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