To J. S. Henslow 22 January [1856]
Summary
Alphonse de Candolle’s Géographie botanique [raisonnée (1855)] strikes him as a wonderful, admirable work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 22 Jan [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A108–A109 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1823 |
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Phillips, William. 1823. 3d ed. London.
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- … Phillips, William. 1823. 3d ed. London. 1 …
From Emily Catherine Darwin [c. June 1823]
Summary
Writes, while visiting the Wedgwoods at Maer and Parkfields, to thank CD for his "entertaining letter".
She misses him and the laboratory.
Asks "how Mineralogy, Botany, Chemistry and Entomology go on".
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. June 1823] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7 |
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- … From Emily Catherine Darwin [ c. June 1823] …
- … 204: 1 Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton [Maer] [ c . June 1823] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … to the Cambridge tour, which was planned for early July 1823 (see letter from E. …
- … A. Darwin, 18 May 1823 ), and to Kitty …
- … Wedgwood, who died in 1823. Maer Hall, near Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, home of …
- … her death in 1815; Kitty died there in 1823; Sarah Elizabeth moved in 1827 to Camp Hill, a …
From E. A. Darwin 5 [March 1823]
Summary
More suggestions for the laboratory, including some experiments.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 [Mar 1823] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5 |
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- … From E. A. Darwin 5 [March 1823] …
- … DAR 204: 5 Erasmus Alvey Darwin [Cambridge] 5 [Mar 1823] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 1822. He began his lectures after the division of Lent Term, 15 February 1823 ( Cambridge …
- … University calendar , 1823, p. 38). See Winstanley 1940, pp. 32–41, for a discussion of …
- … copy of the second edition of this work (1823) is preserved in the Manuscripts Department, …
- … Library–Botany School). The copy of Ure 1823 is unannotated except for a note, dated …
Henry, William. 1823. 9th ed. 2 vols. London.
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- … Henry, William. 1823. 9th ed. 2 vols. London. 1 …
Schouw, Joakim Frederik. 1823. Grundzüge einer Allgemeinen pflanzengeographie. Berlin.
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- … Schouw, Joakim Frederik. 1823. Grundzüge einer Allgemeinen pflanzengeographie. Berlin. 3 …
Sherer, Moyle. 1823. Recollections of the Peninsula. London.
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- … Sherer, Moyle. 1823. Recollections of the Peninsula. London. 1 …
Silliman, H. F. (1823–1907)
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- … Henrietta Frances Silliman 1823–1907 Daughter of Benjamin Silliman. …
Vivian, W. G. (1823–1912)
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- … William Graham Vivian 1823–1912 Industrialist and poultry fancier. …
From E. A. Darwin 18 May 1823
Summary
Discusses plans for CD to visit Cambridge.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 May 1823 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6 |
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- … From E. A. Darwin 18 May 1823 …
- … DAR 204: 6 Erasmus Alvey Darwin [Cambridge] 18 May 1823 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Cambridge] May 18 th . A.D. 1823 Dear Bobby. If you come at y e time you propose To Wit y …
- … of the foxglove into the pharmacopoeia. Donn 1823. A copy of this edition is preserved in …
Knight, Thomas Andrew. 1823. Some remarks on the supposed influence of the pollen in cross breeding, upon the colour of the seed-coats of plants, and the qualities of their fruits. [Read 3 June 1823.] Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London 5 (1824): 377–80.
Southey, Robert. 1823. History of the Peninsular War. Vol. 1. London.
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- … Southey, Robert. 1823. History of the Peninsular War. Vol. 1. London. 1 …
Ure, Andrew. 1823. A dictionary of chemistry 2d ed., with additions. London.
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- … Ure, Andrew. 1823. A dictionary of chemistry 2d ed. , with additions. London. 1 …
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Alfred Russel Wallace
Summary
Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and evolutionary theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, and attended a grammar school in Hertford. At the…
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