From William Balfour Baikie 11 February 1858
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Describes some species of fauna peculiar to Fernando Po. The ocean currents make it unlikely that animals have been floated to the little islands [off the west coast of Africa].
| Author: | William Balfour Baikie |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Feb 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 260 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2214 |
To William Erasmus Darwin 11 [February 1858]
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Writes of domestic matters
and asks WED to observe cart-horses for traces of dark stripes on spine and cross-stripes on shoulder.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 11 [Feb 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2215 |
| letter | (2) |
| Baikie, W. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Baikie, W. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
2.11 Christian Lehr, plaster bust
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< Back to Introduction A plaster bust of Darwin by the German artist Christian Wilhelm Jacob Lehr the younger, dating from 1883, has found its way to a historic zoological library in the Netherlands. This is the Artis Bibliotheek, Natura Artis…
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- … < Back to Introduction A plaster bust of Darwin by the German artist Christian …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
Osmaston
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Fox family news
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- … News from Darwin's cousin William Darwin Fox's family home. …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
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- … Middelburg 1921 211 Winkler Dr. T.C. (Tiberius …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
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- … 211 Winkler Dr. T.C. (Tiberius Cornelis) Math. …
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…
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- … The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of …
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…
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- … vols. Leiden. [Abstract in DAR 71: 155–9; 205.3: 208–9, 211.] 128: 20 Tennent, James …
