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To Walter Elliot   23 January 1856

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Requests WE’s measurements of tigers.

Asks about a work on domestic pigeons in an Eastern language. Will consult [Ayeen Akbery or, the institutes of the Emperor Akber, trans. from Persian by Francis Gladwin, 2 vols. (1777, 1800)].

Asks for specimen skins of domestic pigeons and poultry. [See Variation 1: 205.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Walter Elliot
Date:  23 Jan 1856
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.123)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1824

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Adams, T. E. (1824–68)

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  • … Thomas E. Adams 1824–68 American soldier. …

To Basil Hall   [7 January 1840]

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CD regrets inconvenience caused by his having Royal Geographical Society’s copy of Krusenstern’s Atlas [de l’océan Pacifique (1824–7)]. Locates Sulphur Island from it.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Basil Hall
Date:  [7 Jan 1840]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-550

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  • … Dated from a notation by Hall. Krusenstern 1824–7a . …
  • … Krusenstern 1824–7b , vol.  2. …
  • … of Krusenstern’s Atlas [ de l’océan Pacifique (1824–7)]. Locates Sulphur Island from it. …
  • … Bibliography Krusenstern, Adam Johann von. 1824–7. Recueil de mémoires hydrographiques: …

Knight, Thomas Andrew. 1824. An account of some mule plants. [Read 6 May 1823.] Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London 5 (1824): 292–6.

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  • … Knight, Thomas Andrew. 1824. An account of some mule plants. [ …
  • … Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London 5 (1824): 292–6. SC T439.b.36 10 …

Blackadder, Alexander. 1824. On the superficial strata of the Forth district. [Read 15 May 1824.] Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society 5 (1823–4): 424–39.

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  • … Blackadder, Alexander. 1824. On the superficial strata of …
  • … the Forth district. [Read 15 May 1824. ] Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society …

Wahlenberg, Göran. 1824–6. Flora Suecica. 2 pts. Upsala.

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  • … Wahlenberg, Göran. 1824–6. Flora Suecica. 2 pts. Upsala. 6 …

Harcourt, W. V. V. (1789–1871)

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  • … Clergyman. Rector of Wheldrake, Yorkshire, 1824–34. General Secretary to the first meeting …
  • … the Advancement of Science in York, 1831. Married Matilda Mary Gooch (1804–76) in 1824. …
  • … FRS 1824. ODNB . Bibliography ODNB : Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the …

From John Wood Warter   23 December 1824

Summary

Warns CD against idleness.

Suggests readings in Xenophon and Horace.

Quotes Oliver Goldsmith to correct CD’s pronunciation of "sloth".

Author:  John Wood Warter
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Dec 1824
Classmark:  DAR 204: 188
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8

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  • … From John Wood Warter    23 December 1824
  • … DAR 204: 188 John Wood Warter Cruck-Meole 23 Dec 1824 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Your very Sincere Friend | John Warter Cruck-Meole Dec: 23 rd . 1824 | Thursday Morning— …

Horsfield, Thomas. 1824. Zoological researches in Java, and the neighbouring islands. London.

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  • … Horsfield, Thomas. 1824. Zoological researches in Java, and the neighbouring islands. …

Murray, Lindley. 1824. English grammar. 5th ed. 2 vols. York.

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  • … Murray, Lindley. 1824. English grammar. 5th ed. 2 vols. York. 1 …

Moore, John (b) (1824–73)

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  • … John Moore 1824–73 Clergyman. Wesleyan minister in Sale near Manchester. …
  • … Wellesley index to Victorian periodicals 1824–1900. Edited by Walter E. Houghton et al. 5 …

Riedel, Wilhelm (nd)

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  • … and cleric. Minister and school inspector in Pfuhl, Bavaria. Riedel 1824 . Bibliography …
  • … Riedel, Wilhelm. 1824. Die Taubenzucht in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder, vollständige …

Arrowsmith, J. H. (1824–1907)

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  • … Jane Haliday Arrowsmith Morel 1824–1907 Servant and putative clairvoyant. …

Deshayes, Gérard Paul. 1824–37. Description des coquilles fossiles des environs de Paris. 2 vols. and atlas. Paris.

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  • … Deshayes, Gérard Paul. 1824–37. Description des coquilles fossiles des environs de Paris. …

Hancock, Thomas. 1824. Essay on instinct, and its physical and moral relations. London.

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  • … Hancock, Thomas. 1824. Essay on instinct, and its physical and moral relations. London. 5 …

Peck, Robert McCracken. 1994. William Holbrook Beard (1824–1900). Magazine Antiques 146: 692–700.

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  • … McCracken. 1994. William Holbrook Beard (1824–1900). Magazine Antiques 146: 692–700. WBG …

Schmidt, August and Voigt, Bernhard Friedrich. 1824–56. Neue Nekrolog der Deutschen. 30 vols.

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  • … August and Voigt, Bernhard Friedrich. 1824–56. Neue Nekrolog der Deutschen. 30 vols. RR …

Scott, Walter. 1832. Redgauntlet. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Robert Cadell. London: Whittaker & Co.

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  • … Edinburgh: Robert Cadell. London: Whittaker & Co. Literature Online. Lib has 1824 ed. 18 …

Ward, Thomas Humphry. 1926. History of the Athenæum, 1824-1925. London: printed for the Athenæum Club.

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  • … Humphry. 1926. History of the Athenæum, 1824-1925. London: printed for the Athenæum Club. …

Wheeler, Stephen, ed. 1925. Annals of the Oriental Club: 1824–1858. [N.p.]: Oriental Club

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  • … ed. 1925. Annals of the Oriental Club: 1824–1858. [N.p. ]: Oriental Club WBB2 11c99 16 …
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William Darwin Fox

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Charles Darwin’s cousin, William Darwin Fox, was admitted to Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1824, three years before Darwin; the two men became close friends. They corresponded throughout their lives, exchanging accounts of their growing families…

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  • … Fox, was admitted to Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1824, three years before Darwin; the two men …
  • … John Stevens Henslow. Fox’s diary and accounts for 1824 to 1826, now in Christ’s College Old Library …

John Stevens Henslow

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The letters Darwin exchanged with John Stevens Henslow, professor of Botany and Mineralogy at Cambridge University, were among the most significant of his life. It was a letter from Henslow that brought Darwin the invitation to sail round the world as…

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  • … was curate of Little St Mary’s Church, Cambridge, from 1824 to 1832, then vicar of Cholsey-cum- …