From A. L. Adams 29 August [1878]
Summary
Thanks for letter on ALA’s qualifications for vacant chair of natural history.
Reports observations on deer which have larger left antlers than right, possibly for protection of heart.
| Author: | Andrew Leith Adams |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Aug [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11677 |
Krusenstern, Adam Johann von. 1824–7. Recueil de mémoires hydrographiques: pour servir d’analyse et d’explication à l’Atlas de l’Océan Pacifique. 2 vols. St Petersburg: Impr. du Département de l'instruction publique.
From J. V. Carus 16 April 1876
Summary
Queries about some references in Coral reefs and a list of misprints.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 69: A74–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10453 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Adam Johann von Krusenstern’s Supplémens au recueil de mémoires hydrographiques, pour servir d’analyse et d’explication à l’ …
- … Adam Johann von. 1824–7. Recueil de mémoires hydrographiques: pour servir d’analyse et d’explication à l’ …
- … Adam Johann von. 1835. Supplémens au recueil de mémoires hydrographiques: publiés en 1826 et 1827, pour servir d’analyse et d’explication à l’ …
Krusenstern, Adam Johann von. 1835. Supplémens au recueil de mémoires hydrographiques: publiés en 1826 et 1827, pour servir d’analyse et d’explication à l’Atlas de l’Océan Pacifique. St Petersburg: De l’Impr. de A. Pluchart.
From J. J. Weir 18 May 1868
Summary
Answers CD’s question on whether any female birds regularly sing.
| Author: | John Jenner Weir |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 May 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 81–2, DAR 86: A37–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6181 |
Turner, Gerard L’E. 1989. The great age of the microscope: the collection of the Royal Microscopical Society though 150 years. Bristol and New York: Adam Hilger.
To Asa Gray 3 April [1860]
Summary
Thinks AG’s review [of Origin] will aid much in making people think about subject.
Has been savagely and unfairly reviewed by Adam Sedgwick in the Spectator [24 Mar 1860],
but thinks F. J. Pictet’s review in opposition ["Sur l’origine de l’espèce", Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. n.s. 7 (1860): 231–55] a very fair one.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 3 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (47) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2743 |
To S. P. Woodward [after 4 June 1856]
Summary
Queries from CD on the distribution of molluscan genera referring to SPW’s Manual of the Mollusca [pt 3 (1856)], with SPW’s answers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
| Date: | [after 4 June 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 72: 59–61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1890 |
To W. H. Smyth 7 August [1839]
Summary
Asks for details of Smyth’s Island discovered by WHS – particularly whether the islets form a ring surrounding a lagoon. [See Coral reefs, p. 158].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Henry Smyth |
| Date: | 7 Aug [1839] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-530 |
To Basil Hall [7 January 1840]
Summary
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 March [1844]
Summary
Advice to JDH on problems of printing and publishing.
Remarks on differences of species between islets of Galapagos group.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 Mar [1844] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-740 |
From H. C. Watson 10 May 1860
Summary
Returns reviews of Origin.
F. J. Pictet [Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. n.s. 7 (1860): 231–55] goes further than he himself realises.
Naturalists will resist CD’s views until faith in certain "impassable" barriers between existent species is shaken.
Gives CD an instance of convergence.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 May 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 160–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2793 |
Clarke, W. B. (b) (1798–1878)
Matches: 1 hit
- … Adam Sedgwick’s lectures on geology while an undergraduate at Jesus College, Cambridge. Emigrated in 1839 to Australia, where he carried out extensive geological surveys. Discovered gold in New South Wales in 1841. Incumbent of St Thomas’s, North Sydney, New South Wales, 1846–71. FRS 1876. DSB ODNB Bibliography DSB : Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. …
Adams, J. C. (1819–92)
Matches: 1 hit
- … Adams 1819–92 Astronomer and mathematician. Co-discoverer, by mathematical calculation, of the planet Neptune. Fellow and tutor, St John’s College, Cambridge, 1843–52; Pembroke College from 1853. Lowndean Professor of astronomy and geometry, Cambridge University, 1859–92; director of the Cambridge Observatory, 1861–92. FRS 1849. DSB ODNB . Bibliography DSB : Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. …
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