To J. F. Royle [16 April – 21 May 1847]
Summary
CD understands that JFR cannot lend him the volumes [of Trans. Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India] at present. Thanks for offer to inform him of other works on the breeds of animals in India.
CD fears his belonging to the new club [Philosophical Club of the Royal Society] would be useless, since he is seldom able to dine out.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Forbes Royle |
| Date: | [16 Apr – 21 May 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 400 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1047 |
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4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy
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< Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year lecture tour of Britain, sent Darwin a copy of his book, Nature’s Revelations of Character; Or, Physiognomy Illustrated. He was seeking a public…
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- … < Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a …
Boat Memory
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Boat Memory was one of the indigenous people from Tierra del Fuego brought back to England by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830, but he remains as ghostly a figure as his name. What he was called by his own people is unknown, but the name Boat…
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- … very favourable specimen of the race’ ( Narrative 1: 416). After FitzRoy realised that his …
