Watson, Hewett Cottrell. 1832. Outlines of the geographical distribution of British plants. Edinburgh.
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- … Cottrell. 1832. Outlines of the geographical distribution of British plants. Edinburgh. 6 …
To Andrew Murray 2 November [1864]
Summary
Wishes AM success in undertaking his work on geographical distribution [The geographical distribution of mammals (1866)]. CD has no suggestions to make as he has not recently attended to the subject.
He is still weak after his long illness and supposes he will ever remain so.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray |
| Date: | 2 Nov [1864] |
| Classmark: | R. D. Pyrah (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4649 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Wishes AM success in undertaking his work on geographical distribution [ …
- … The geographical distribution of mammals (1866)]. CD has no suggestions to make as he has …
- … 1990. Murray, Andrew. 1866. The geographical distribution of mammals. London: Day and Son. …
- … and n. 2. Murray’s book, The geographical distribution of mammals , was published in …
- … CD last worked on the subject of geographical distribution in the years preceding the …
Murray, Andrew. 1866. The geographical distribution of mammals. London: Day and Son.
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- … Murray, Andrew. 1866. The geographical distribution of mammals. London: Day and Son. NC …
Richardson, John. 1852. Eskimos, their geographical distribution. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 52 (1851–2): 322–3.
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- … John. 1852. Eskimos, their geographical distribution. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal …
From Andrew Murray 31 October 1864
Summary
Proposes to work on geographical distribution before leaving the Society.
| Author: | Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Oct 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 327 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4648 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Proposes to work on geographical distribution before leaving the Society. …
- … details of a general work on geographical distribution that Murray was planning to write ( …
- … and Murray had first corresponded on geographical distribution in 1860, in connection with …
- … 1860 ). For CD’s interest in geographical distribution, see letter to Andrew Murray, 2 …
To A. R. Wallace 5 June 1876
Summary
Response to ARW’s "grand and memorable work" [Geographical distribution (1876)]. Most interesting part to CD is ARW’s "protest against sinking imaginary continents".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 5 June 1876 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10531 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … s "grand and memorable work" [ Geographical distribution (1876)]. Most interesting part to …
- … for all future treatises on Geographical Distribution. My dear Wallace | Yours very …
- … title of chapters 11 and 12, up until the fifth edition, was ‘Geographical distribution’. …
- … an annotated copy of Wallace’s Geographical distribution of animals ( Wallace 1876a ) in …
- … Lutley. 1857. On the general geographical distribution of the members of the class Aves. [ …
From H. C. Watson 5 June 1856
Summary
Answers CD’s questions about plants common to U. S. and Britain and their distribution in Europe.
Variability of agrarian weeds.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 June 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1891 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Cottrell. 1835. Remarks on the geographical distribution of British plants; chiefly in …
- … Hewett Cottrell. 1843. The geographical distribution of British plants. 3d edition. Pt 1 ( …
- … different titles: Outlines of the geographical distribution of British plants ( Watson …
- … 1832 ); Remarks on the geographical distribution of British plants ( …
- … Watson 1835 ); and The geographical distribution of British plants ( Watson 1843 ). The …
- … Cottrell. 1832. Outlines of the geographical distribution of British plants. Edinburgh. …
- … 18). CD was writing a chapter on geographical distribution for his species book, the first …
Bentham, George. 1873a. Notes on the classification, history, and geographical distribution of Compositæ. Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 13: 335–577.
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- … on the classification, history, and geographical distribution of Compositæ. Journal of the …
Owen, Richard. 1846d. On the geographical distribution of extinct Mammalia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 17: 197–200.
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- … Owen, Richard. 1846d. On the geographical distribution of extinct Mammalia. Annals and …
Watson, Hewett Cottrell. 1835. Remarks on the geographical distribution of British plants; chiefly in connection with latitude, elevation, and climate. London.
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- … Cottrell. 1835. Remarks on the geographical distribution of British plants; chiefly in …
Watson, Hewett Cottrell. 1843. The geographical distribution of British plants. 3d edition. Pt 1 (no more published). London: Printed for the author.
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- … Hewett Cottrell. 1843. The geographical distribution of British plants. 3d edition. Pt 1 ( …
To A. R. Wallace 25 June 1876
Summary
Has finished Geographical distribution; sends his comments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 25 June 1876 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10550 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Has finished Geographical distribution ; sends his comments. …
- … CD had read Wallace’s Geographical distribution of animals ( Wallace 1876a ). See also …
- … geographical relations of his collection; he would I think feel very blank at not finding in your work, precise references to all that had been written on S t Helena. I hope you will not think me a confoundedly disagreeable fellow. I may mention a capital essay which I received a few months ago from Axel Blytt on the distribution …
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [20 January 1879]
Summary
H. N. Moseley says [in "Notes on plants collected and observed at the Admiralty Islands", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 15 (1877): 77] pigeons eject seeds in fit state for germination. He regards pigeons as providing most efficient means of transport in Malayan Archipelago.
CD’s collected notes on geographical distribution would make a good book.
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [20 Jan 1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 260 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10341 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … CD’s unpublished notes on geographical distribution are in DAR 205.4; for his published …
- … Archipelago. CD’s collected notes on geographical distribution would make a good book. …
- … of our conversation on means of geographical distribution I think you would be interested …
- … done, but your collected notes on geographical distribution w d . form a most delightful …
From A. R. Wallace 7 November 1875
Summary
Thanks for Climbing plants [2d ed.].
Is reading proofs [of Geographical distribution (1876)].
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Nov 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B123 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10247 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … for Climbing plants [2d ed. ]. Is reading proofs [of Geographical distribution (1876)]. …
- … was proofreading his book The geographical distribution of animals ( Wallace 1876 ). …
From A. R. Wallace 7 June 1876
Summary
Comments on CD’s criticism of Geographical distribution.
Plans to sell his house.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 June 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10535 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Comments on CD’s criticism of Geographical distribution . Plans to sell his house. …
- … had sent Wallace comments on his Geographical distribution of animals ( Wallace 1876a ). …
- … with, and explanatory of, geographical distribution, that it is prima facie correct in …
- … Distribution of Land-Mollusca are at Vol. II. pp.522–529. When you have read these passages & looked at the general facts which lead to them, I shall be glad to hear if you still differ from me. Though of course present results as to origin & migrations of genera of mammals, will have to be modified owing to new discoveries, I cannot help thinking that much will remain unaffected, because in all geographical …
From John Richardson 17 July 1856
Summary
Responds to CD’s questions about the geographical distribution of freshwater fishes.
| Author: | John Richardson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 July 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 285 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1929 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Responds to CD’s questions about the geographical distribution of freshwater fishes. …
- … 555. The number of CD’s portfolio of notes on the geographical distribution of animals. …
To J. D. Hooker 20 June [1881]
Summary
Cheered by JDH’s friendly words.
Wishes he could help JDH with geographical distribution, but the subject has gone out of his mind.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 20 June [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 516–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13211 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Wishes he could help JDH with geographical distribution, but the subject has gone out of …
- … Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1881. On geographical distribution. Presidential address, section …
- … horrid bore. — The whole subject of Geographical Distribution has become a frightfully big …
Gray, Asa. 1863e. Species, considered as to variation, geographical distribution, and succession. American Journal of Science and Arts 2d ser. 35: 431–44.
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- … considered as to variation, geographical distribution, and succession. American Journal of …
Gulick, John Thomas. 1872a. On the variation of species as related to their geographical distribution, illustrated by the Achatinellinæ. Nature, 18 July 1872, pp. 222–4.
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- … species as related to their geographical distribution, illustrated by the Achatinellinæ. …
Boddy, Evan Marlett. 1881. The history of salt; with observations on its geographical distribution, geological formation, and medicinal and dietetic properties. London: Baillière, Tindall, and Cox.
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- … of salt; with observations on its geographical distribution, geological formation, and …
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Alfred Russel Wallace
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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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