From W. B. Dawkins 15 January 1875
Summary
Wants references to facts quoted in Variation for an essay he is writing on origin of British cattle.
| Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Jan 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 129 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9819 |
From Oswald Heer 1 March 1875
Summary
Comments on his Flora fossilis Arctica [vol. 3 (1875)]. Discusses successive appearance of plant families in geological periods. Relates plant development to rise of herbivorous mammals.
Comments on death of Charles Lyell.
| Author: | Oswald Heer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Mar 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 130 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9876 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … haben, treten die omnivoren u. herbivoren Mammalia erst im Eocen auf. Wir dürfen wohl …
| letter | (2) |
| Dawkins, W. B. | (1) |
| Heer, Oswald | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Dawkins, W. B. | (1) |
| Heer, Oswald | (1) |
George Robert Waterhouse
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George Waterhouse was born on 6 March 1810 in Somers Town, North London. His father was a solicitor’s clerk and an amateur lepidopterist. George was educated from 1821-24 at Koekelberg near Brussels. On his return he worked for a time as an apprentice to…
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
Matches: 7 hits
- … American Journal of Science and Arts ]. Rengger on Mammalia of Paraguay [Rengger 1830]— …
- … 1807] read it— Erasmus has it Owens Brit. Mammalia [R. Owen 1846a]— Horner has it. (read) …
- … [Moquin-Tandon 1841] —— Owens Fossil British Mammalia [R. Owen 1846a] 27 th Elie de …
- … Sketch Read Classification & Geograph. Distrib of Mammalia.— Owen 5 o : Parker [R. Owen …
- … Edward. 1843–52. Catalogue of the specimens of Mammalia in the British Museum . 3 pts. (Pt 3: …
- … the classification and geographical distribution of the Mammalia, being the lecture … delivered …
- … 13a Sykes, William Henry. 1832a. Catalogue of the Mammalia observed in the Dakhan. …
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
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This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…
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- … —A sketch of the deposits containing extinct Mammalia in the neighbourhood of the Plata. …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
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- … to the coexistence of man and the ornithorhynchus amongst mammalia,—or amongst fish, of the shark …
