To Henry Ambrose Oldfield 10 May [1856]
Summary
Asks HAO about breeds of Tibetan dogs and other domesticated animals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Ambrose Oldfield |
| Date: | 10 May [1856] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.128) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1872 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … DCP-LETT-1872 …
To W. E. Darwin 23 [February 1872 – October 1874]
Summary
Asks for investment advice.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 23 [Feb 1872 - Oct 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 132 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13800 |
Matches: 15 hits
- … To W. E. Darwin 23 [February 1872 – October 1874] …
- … DAR 210.6: 132 Charles Robert Darwin Down 23 Feb 1872 23 …
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- … Dec 1872 23 Jan 1873 23 Feb 1873 23 Mar 1873 23 Apr 1873 23 May 1873 23 June 1873 23 July …
- … in the centre; CD used this type of notepaper from January 1872 until 17 November 1874. …
- … unlikely to have been written in January 1872 because of the lack of relationship between …
- … letter to W. E. Darwin, 23 January [1872] . Charles Langton evidently advised William on …
To Ernst Haeckel 20 December 1872
Summary
Comments on EH’s forthcoming [Die Kalkschwämme (1872)].
Thinks EH is working much too hard.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 20 Dec 1872 |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/28) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8688 |
Matches: 16 hits
- … To Ernst Haeckel 20 December 1872 …
- … on EH’s forthcoming [ Die Kalkschwämme (1872)]. Thinks EH is working much too hard. …
- … 1:1-52/28) Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 Dec 1872 Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel …
- … 2000 copies of Expression (see letter from R. F. Cooke, 6 December 1872 ). See …
- … letter from Ernst Haeckel, 10 December 1872 and n. 16. CD …
- … Friedrich Strauss . CD’s copy of Strauss 1872 is in the Darwin Library–Down. An English …
- … of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. Strauss, …
- … David Friedrich. 1872. Der alte und der neue Glaube: ein Bekenntniss. Leipzig: S. Hirzel. …
- … Kent. [6 Queen Anne Street, London. ] Dec 20 1872 My dear Häckel It was very good of you …
- … See letter from Ernst Haeckel, 10 December 1872 . Haeckel had instructed his publisher to …
- … gastrula stage, in his letter of 10 December 1872 . Haeckel’s monograph consisted of three …
- … letter from Ernst Haeckel, 10 December 1872 and n. 13. The source of the advertisement …
- … See letter from Ernst Haeckel, 10 December 1872 . CD visited his brother Erasmus …
- … Darwin in London from 17 to 22 or 23 December 1872 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Haeckel …
- … of Lubbock 1865a (see letter from Ernst Haeckel, 10 December 1872 and n. 14). …
- … In his letter of 10 December 1872 , Haeckel had apologised for only having skimmed …
To T. H. Farrer 13 October [1872]
Summary
THF’s article in Nature ["The fertilisation of a few papilionaceous flowers", 6 (1872): 478–80, 498–501] is extremely good.
Suspects he now has answer to why common peas and sweetpeas hardly ever intercross, a point which half drove CD mad for years.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 13 Oct [1872] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/18) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8557 |
Matches: 17 hits
- … To T. H. Farrer 13 October [1872] …
- … Charles Robert Darwin Sevenoaks 13 Oct [1872] Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st …
- … of a few papilionaceous flowers", 6 (1872): 478–80, 498–501] is extremely good. Suspects …
- … of the Board of Trade ( ODNB ). See Farrer 1872 , p. 478. Farrer had referred to CD’s …
- … instinct’ by Douglas Alexander Spalding ( Spalding 1872 ). CD refers to the first part of …
- … Siebold’s new researches in parthenogenesis’, by Edwin Ray Lankester ( Lankester 1872 ). …
- … University Press. 1985–. Farrer, Thomas Henry. 1872. On the fertilisation of a few …
- … common papilionaceous flowers. Nature , 10 October 1872, pp. …
- … 478–80, and 17 October 1872, pp. 498–501. …
- … Lankester, Edwin Ray. 1872. Siebold’s new researches …
- … in parthenogenesis. Nature , 10 October 1872, pp. …
- … 483–5, and 24 October 1872, pp. 523–5. ODNB : Oxford dictionary of national biography: …
- … stayed in Sevenoaks from 5 to 26 October 1872 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). CD refers to …
- … a few common papilionaceous flowers’, which appeared in Nature , 10 and 17 October 1872 ( …
- … Farrer 1872 ). CD’s annotated copy of the second part of the article is in DAR 77: 175–7. …
- … and n. 3, and letter to T. H. Farrer, 10 October [1869] ). See Farrer 1872 , pp. 478– …
- … 80. See Farrer 1872 , p. 480. Farrer had not seen bees or other insects visiting common …
From A. R. Wallace 4 August 1872
Summary
Has sent CD’s letter to Nature [see 8448].
Expresses admiration for H. C. Bastian’s The beginnings of life [1872] and comments on its bearing upon Origin.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B111–12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8450 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … From A. R. Wallace 4 August 1872 …
- … DAR 106: B111–12 Alfred Russel Wallace Grays 4 Aug 1872 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … H. C. Bastian’s The beginnings of life [1872] and comments on its bearing upon Origin . …
- … Bibliography Bastian, Henry Charlton. 1872. The beginnings of life: being some account of …
- … 2 vols. London: Macmillan. Bree, Charles Robert. 1872. An exposition of fallacies in the …
- … before the House of Commons (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 15 June 1872 and n. 2). …
- … The Dell, Grays, Sussex. August 4th. 1872 Dear Darwin I have sent your letter to “ …
- … Wallace refers to CD’s letter to Nature , 3 August [1872] (see letter to A. …
- … R. Wallace, 3 August [1872] ). Charles Robert …
- … Bree’s letter appeared in Nature , 1 August 1872, p. 260. …
- … Wallace’s review of Bree’s book ( Bree 1872 ) was published in …
- … Nature , 25 July 1872, pp. 237–9. Wallace’s review of Henry Charlton …
- … Bastian’s The beginnings of life ( H. C. Bastian 1872 ) appeared in Nature , …
- … 8 and 15 August 1872, pp. 284–7 and 299–303. Bastian advanced various evidence in support …
To Nature 3 August [1872]
Summary
Replies to C. R. Bree’s letter of 27 July [Nature 6 (1872): 260] contending that CD was wrong about early pedigree of man.
Defends the statement of CD’s view in Wallace’s review [Nature 6 (1872): 237–9] of Bree’s book [Exposition of fallacies … of Darwin (1872)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | 3 Aug [1872] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 8 August 1872, p. 279 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8448 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … To Nature 3 August [1872] …
- … Nature , 8 August 1872, p. …
- … 279 Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 Aug [1872] Nature …
- … Bibliography Bree, Charles Robert. 1872. An exposition of fallacies in the hypothesis of …
- … C. R. Bree’s letter of 27 July [ Nature 6 (1872): 260] contending that CD was wrong about …
- … Defends the statement of CD’s view in Wallace’s review [ Nature 6 (1872): 237–9] of Bree’s …
- … book [ Exposition of fallacies … of Darwin (1872)]. …
- … of Descent in a letter in Nature , 1 August 1872, p. 260. For CD’s views on Bree, see …
- … also the letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 14 May [1872] . …
- … s An exposition of fallacies in the hypothesis of Mr. Darwin ( Bree 1872 ) appeared in …
- … Nature , 25 July 1872, pp. 237–9. According to Bree, CD had placed the origin of humans …
To V. O. Kovalevsky 10 August [1872]
Summary
Sends proofs and details [concerning VOK’s Russian translation of Expression (1872)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Date: | 10 Aug [1872] |
| Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8462 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … To V. O. Kovalevsky 10 August [1872] …
- … Leffler Charles Robert Darwin Down 10 Aug [1872] Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир …
- … Sends proofs and details [concerning VOK’s Russian translation of Expression (1872)]. …
- … letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 8 August [1872] . …
- … Kovalevsky visited CD on 22 September 1872 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. Wundt, Max Wilhelm. 1863. Vorlesungen ueber …
- … of the work (see letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 8 August [1872] ). See letter to R. …
- … F. Cooke, 10 August [1872] and n. 2. CD was at Leith Hill …
- … III and Caroline Sarah Wedgwood , from 13 to 21 August 1872 (‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). CD …
- … proof-sheets of Expression on 22 August 1872 (‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Wundt 1863 . See …
From A. R. Wallace 31 August 1872
Summary
Further reflections upon Bastian’s book [The beginnings of life (1872)].
ARW’s prospects for Directorship at Bethnal Green Museum.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B113–14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8498 |
Matches: 15 hits
- … From A. R. Wallace 31 August 1872 …
- … DAR 106: B113–14 Alfred Russel Wallace Grays 31 Aug 1872 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … upon Bastian’s book [ The beginnings of life (1872)]. ARW’s prospects for Directorship at …
- … Letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 August [1872] . Wallace refers to H. …
- … C. Bastian 1872 . See letter to A. …
- … R. Wallace, 28 August [1872] and n. 9. For a discussion of Thomas Henry Huxley’s …
- … see letter from H. H. Howorth, 30 July 1872 and n. 1). His views on sterility and …
- … both CD and Wallace (see letter from H. H. Howorth, 30 July 1872 and n. 2). See letter …
- … from H. H. Howorth, 30 July 1872 and n. 4. …
- … Bibliography Bastian, Henry Charlton. 1872. The beginnings of life: being some account of …
- … The Dell, Grays, Essex August 31st. 1872 Dear Darwin Many thanks for your long & …
- … letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 August [1872] . CD had objected to Bastian’s claim to that …
- … Galton 1872a . See letter from Francis Galton, 28 May 1872 and n. 5. See letter …
- … to A. R. Wallace, 28 August [1872] and n. 12. Henry Cole , as secretary of the …
- … The Bethnal Green Museum opened in June 1872 with an exhibition of paintings and pottery …
To Herbert Spencer 10 June [1872]
Summary
Expresses his "unbounded admiration" for HS’s article on Martineau ["Mr Martineau on evolution", Contemp. Rev. 20 (1872): 141–54]
and his article on sociology [Contemp. Rev. 19 (1872): 701–18]. CD never believed in the reigning influence of great men on the world’s progress but could not have given his reasons. "Now every one with eyes to see and ears to hear . . . ought to bow their knee to you, as I for one do."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Herbert Spencer |
| Date: | 10 June [1872] |
| Classmark: | University of London, Senate House Library (MS791/80) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8380 |
Matches: 15 hits
- … To Herbert Spencer 10 June [1872] …
- … Erasmus Darwin from 8 to 20 June 1872 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … House Library (MS791/80) Charles Robert Darwin Bassett 10 June [1872] Herbert Spencer …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. Martineau, James. 1871. The place of mind in …
- … Review 19: 606–23. Spencer, Herbert. 1872–3. The study of sociology. Contemporary Review …
- … Martineau on evolution", Contemp. Rev. 20 (1872): 141–54] and his article on sociology [ …
- … Contemp. Rev. 19 (1872): 701–18]. CD never believed in the reigning influence of great men …
- … 325–46, 509–32, 663–77. Spencer, Herbert. 1872. Mr. Martineau on evolution. Contemporary …
- … and the letter from Herbert Spencer, 12 June 1872 . In his response to James Martineau’s …
- … s doctrine of ‘survival of the fittest’ as ‘survival of the better’ ( Spencer 1872 ). …
- … Between April 1872 and October 1873 Spencer published a sixteen-part paper in the …
- … as a discrete and valuable discipline ( Spencer 1872–3 ). In the second part, ‘Is there …
- … a social science? ’, which appeared in the May 1872 issue, Spencer characterised those who …
- … societies in which they lived ( Spencer 1872–3 , part 2, pp. 705–10). CD sent Expression …
- … June (see letter from John Murray, 7 June [1872] ); CD and Emma Darwin stayed with William …
To Francis Galton 8 November [1872]
Summary
Rabbits’ coats true in character. If the next ones are true, it is superfluous to keep trying.
Does not know why crying children rub eyes with knuckles.
Mentions FG’s article on prayer ["Statistical inquiries into the efficacy of prayer", Fortn. Rev. n.s. 12 (1872): 125–35].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 8 Nov [1872] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8608 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … To Francis Galton 8 November [1872] …
- … Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/12) Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 Nov [1872] Francis Galton …
- … discussed in the Independent (a periodical published in New York), 29 August 1872, p. …
- … 4, and 26 September 1872, p. 1, …
- … and in Harper’s Bazaar , 14 September 1872, p. 610. …
- … Statistical inquiries into the efficacy of prayer", Fortn. Rev. n.s. 12 (1872): 125–35]. …
- … the letter from Francis Galton, 7 November 1872 . CD was looking after rabbits on which …
- … see letter to Francis Galton, 23 January [1872] and n. 2). That is, the baby rabbits had …
- … been transfused with. See letter from Francis Galton, 7 November 1872 and n. 5. Galton …
- … his sister Emma Sophia Galton in his letter of 7 November 1872 , but see the letter …
- … from Francis Galton, 15 November 1872 . In June, John Tyndall had published in the …
- … the Spectator between 3 August and 7 September 1872. Tyndall’s and Galton’s articles were …
From Herbert Spencer 12 June 1872
Summary
HS hopes in the future to show more fully "absolute emptiness" of James Martineau’s propositions; is glad CD approved of his article dealing with JM’s arguments. [J. Martineau, "The place of mind in nature", Contemp. Rev. 19 (1872): 606–23; H. Spencer, "Mr Martineau on evolution", Contemp. Rev. 20 (1872): 141–54.]
| Author: | Herbert Spencer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 June 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 230 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8384 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … From Herbert Spencer 12 June 1872 …
- … DAR 177: 230 Herbert Spencer Bayswater 12 June 1872 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Williams and Norgate. Spencer, Herbert. 1872. Mr. Martineau on evolution. Contemporary …
- … place of mind in nature", Contemp. Rev. 19 (1872): 606–23; H. Spencer, "Mr Martineau on …
- … evolution", Contemp. Rev. 20 (1872): 141–54. ] …
- … was published in parts between 1870 and 1872, with the penultimate part, including a …
- … Language of the emotions’, issued in June 1872 ( Spencer 1870–2 , 1: v–vi, and 2: 539–57); …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. Marginalia : Charles Darwin’s marginalia. …
- … 37 Queen’s Gardens, | Bayswater, W. 12 June 1872. Dear Darwin, Though you interdict a …
- … letter to Herbert Spencer, 10 June [1872] . CD had written praising Spencer’s rejoinder to …
- … creator ( J. Martineau 1871 ; Spencer 1872 ). The manuscript of Expression was sent to …
- … at the beginning of June (see letter to Herbert Spencer, 10 June 1872 and n. 4). …
- … Edward Burnett Tylor became a member of the Athenaeum Club in 1872 ( Waugh [1888] , p. …
- … 139); he visited Down on 6 June 1872 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). The second …
To V. O. Kovalevsky 24 September [1872]
Summary
Sends proof-sheets [of Expression].
Is unwell and must stop work and leave home for a time.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Date: | 24 Sept [1872] |
| Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8533 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … To V. O. Kovalevsky 24 September [1872] …
- … Charles Robert Darwin Down 24 Sept [1872] Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир …
- … from V. O. Kovalevsky, [12–17 August 1872] and n. 2. …
- … Kovalevsky had visited Down on 22 September 1872 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD …
- … 26 October (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II) and letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 October [1872] ). …
- … in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. [Kovalevsky, Vladimir …
- … Onufrievich], trans. 1872. O vyrazhenii oshchushchenii u cheloveka i zhivotnykh. By …
- … his Russian translation ( [Kovalevsky] trans. 1872 ). He was staying at 218 Euston Road, …
- … from V. O. Kovalevsky, 10 September 1872 ). CD had evidently given Kovalevsky an earlier …
- … proof-sheets. See letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, [ c. 7 August 1872], and letter to V. …
- … O. Kovalevsky, 10 August [1872] . CD refers to Wundt 1863 . See letter …
To J. D. Hooker 27 October [1872]
Summary
Asks for address of a Mrs Barber somewhere in South Africa.
JDH’s letter in Nature [6 (1872): 516–17] is excellent, and wonderfully quiet.
Severely criticises Owen’s conduct.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 27 Oct [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 235–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8579 |
Matches: 15 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 27 October [1872] …
- … DAR 94: 235–6 Charles Robert Darwin Down 27 Oct [1872] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … in South Africa. JDH’s letter in Nature [6 (1872): 516–17] is excellent, and wonderfully …
- … this letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 26 October 1872 . See letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, 26 October 1872 . Mary Elizabeth Barber had responded to CD’s queries on …
- … Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. ODNB : Oxford dictionary of national biography: …
- … with minor changes in punctuation, in full in his letter of 6 August 1872 , published in …
- … Nature , 24 October 1872, pp. 516–17. See also letter …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 4 August [1872] and n. 4. Owen was Hunterian Professor of comparative …
- … Hooker’s letter was his reply of 6 August 1872 to a report by Richard Owen addressed to …
- … of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (for the text of the report, dated 16 May 1872, see …
- … Parliamentary Papers 1872 (335) XLVII.527, pp. 169–75). …
- … order of the House of Commons ( Parliamentary Papers 1872 (427) XLVII.707) and reprinted …
- … in Nature , 24 October 1872, pp. 516–17. In his report, Owen had argued that the …
- … Owen concluded ( Parliamentary Papers 1872 (335) XLVII.527, p. 175): To the extent or …
Dohrn, Anton. 1872a. The foundation of zoological stations. Nature, 8 February 1872, pp. 277–80, and 4 April 1872, pp. 437–40.
Lankester, Edwin Ray. 1872. Siebold’s new researches in parthenogenesis. Nature, 10 October 1872, pp. 483–5, and 24 October 1872, pp. 523–5.
Agassiz, Louis. 1872b. Professor Agassiz’s South American expedition. [Reprinted from the New York Tribune, 26 June 1872.] Nature, 11 July 1872, p. 216; 18 July 1872, pp. 229–31; 1 August 1872, pp. 270–3.
To J. V. Carus 10 October [1872]
Summary
Will consider JVC’s comments on Expression when he prepares a new edition.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 10 Oct [1872] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 92–93) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8553 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … To J. V. Carus 10 October [1872] …
- … 92–93) Charles Robert Darwin Sevenoaks Down letterhead 10 Oct [1872] Julius Victor Carus …
- … of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. …
- … this letter and the letter from J. V. Carus, 7 October 1872 . See letter from J. …
- … V. Carus, 7 October 1872 and n. 1. CD refers to Expression . …
- … See letter from J. V. Carus, 7 October 1872 and n. 4. See letter …
- … quotations, see the letter from J. V. Carus, 7 October 1872 and n. 7. See letter …
- … from J. V. Carus, 7 October 1872 and n. 10. See letter …
- … from J. V. Carus, 7 October 1872 . Carus’s projected work on geographical distribution …
- … from J. V. Carus, 7 October 1872 and n. 3. The heart is the only involuntary muscle …
- … of skeletal muscles. See letter from J. V. Carus, 7 October 1872 and n. 6. See letter …
- … from J. V. Carus, 7 October 1872 and n. 9. …
- … CD stayed in Sevenoaks from 5 to 26 October 1872 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). For the …
To Ernst Haeckel 2 September 1872
Summary
Comments on EH’s criticism of authors in third edition of Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte [1872].
Discusses book by H. C. Bastian [The beginnings of life (1872)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 2 Sept 1872 |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/27) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8506 |
Matches: 15 hits
- … To Ernst Haeckel 2 September 1872 …
- … 1:1-52/27) Charles Robert Darwin Down 2 Sept 1872 Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel …
- … authors in third edition of Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte [1872]. Discusses book by H. …
- … C. Bastian [ The beginnings of life (1872)]. …
- … Bibliography Bastian, Henry Charlton. 1872. The beginnings of life: being some account of …
- … Down, | Beckenham, Kent. Sept 2. 1872 My dear Haeckel, Very many thanks for the 3 rd . …
- … also letter from Ernst Haeckel, 1 March 1872 and n. 8. The translation was probably by …
- … Charlton Bastian and H. C. Bastian 1872 . For CD’s views on Bastian, see the letters to …
- … A. R. Wallace, 28 August [1872] and [ …
- … 2 September 1872] . …
- … Expression was published on 27 November 1872 ( Freeman 1977 ). Haeckel’s name appears on …
- … he began work on Drosera on 23 August 1872. He had also worked on Drosera between 1860 and …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of …
- … letter from Georg von Seidlitz, 22 April 1872 and n. 7. For Carneri’s relationship with …
- … also letter from Ernst Haeckel, 12 October 1872 and n. 3. On CD’s respect for, and use …
To Chauncey Wright 6 September [1872]
Summary
Recommends J. C. Houzeau’s Études sur les facultés mentales des animaux [1872].
Was glad to make CW’s acquaintance.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
| Date: | 6 Sept [1872] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8512 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … 1878 , p. 248). He referred to his tour in his letter of 29 August 1872 . …
- … To Chauncey Wright 6 September [1872] …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25. ) Charles Robert Darwin Down 6 Sept [1872] Chauncey Wright …
- … s Études sur les facultés mentales des animaux [1872]. Was glad to make CW’s acquaintance. …
- … John Murray. 1874. Houzeau, Jean-Charles. 1872. Études sur les facultés mentales des …
- … naturalist— “Paris Hachette & Co. 1872. ”— This would be probably worth your notice. — I …
- … animals compared with those of man; Houzeau 1872 ). CD cited it extensively in Descent 2d …
- … Wright visited CD on 4 and 5 September 1872 (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) and Thayer …
From R. F. Cooke 20 November 1872
Summary
Quandary caused by Heliotype Company’s failure to deliver enough plates for Expression because of a strike. Murray’s now has 7000 books and only 3000 sets of plates.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 431 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8637 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From R. F. Cooke 20 November 1872 …
- … 3000 sets of heliotypes in October (see letters from R. F. Cooke, 9 October 1872 , 11 …
- … October 1872 , and …
- … 22 October 1872 ). …
- … Francis Cooke John Murray London, Albemarle St, 50a 20 Nov 1872 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. …
- … heliotype plates for Expression , see the letters from R. F. Cooke, 2 October 1872 and …
- … 4 October 1872 . ‘Tuesday next’ was 26 November. The manager was a …
- … see letter from R. F. Cooke, 4 October 1872 ); the enclosed letter has not been found. …
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Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
Summary
Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
