To J. D. Hooker 28 February [1858]
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JDH has confirmed CD’s opinion on the affinities of species in great genera. Is looking at large genera in several local Floras to find the "range & commonness of varying species".
Has been "beyond measure interested" in the construction instincts of the hive-bee.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 Feb [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 225 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2228 |
To W. D. Fox 28 February [1858]
Summary
WDF’s nephew has forgotten to mention the most important element, whether the lizards’ eggs floated and stayed alive on sea-water.
Thanks for facts about turkeys and terrier [see Natural selection, p. 481 n.].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 28 Feb [1858] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 112) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2229 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
2.28 Couper bust in Cambridge
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< Back to Introduction In June 1909 the University of Cambridge, Darwin’s alma mater, staged an international event to mark the centenary of his birth and the fifty years’ anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species. Over four hundred…
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- … < Back to Introduction In June 1909 the University of Cambridge, Darwin’s alma mater, …
3.18 Elliott and Fry photos, c.1869-1871
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< Back to Introduction The leading photographic firm of Elliott and Fry seems to have portrayed Darwin at Down House on several occasions. In November 1869 Darwin told A. B. Meyer, who wanted photographs of both him and Wallace for a German…
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- … Wood engraving in The Pictorial World (6 June 1874), p. 228 (DAR 140.1.3). Another wood …
The Mount, Shrewsbury
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Letters from home
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- … Darwin writes in preparation for the voyage, and his father and sisters write with news from home …
Orundellico (Jemmy Button)
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Orundellico was one of the Yahgan, or canoe people of the southern part of Tierra del Fuego. He was the fourth hostage taken by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830 following the theft of the small surveying boat. This fourteen-year old boy was…
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- … ‘so complete and grievous a change ’ (Darwin 1845, p. 228). The clean, stout lad was now ‘ a naked …
Yokcushlu (Fuegia Basket)
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Yokcushlu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. She was one of the hostages seized by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, after the small boat used for surveying the narrow inlets of the coast of Tierra del…
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- … interpretation) some days on board’ (Darwin 1845, p. 228 n.). Joseph Dalton Hooker told Darwin that …
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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- … in little frequented countries.’ ( Collected papers 1: 228). Not surprisingly, the leading …
1.6 Ouless oil portrait
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< Back to Introduction The first commissioned oil portrait of Darwin was painted by Walter William Ouless, who was given sittings at Down House in March 1875. The idea for such a portrait came from Darwin’s son William, who as far back as 1872 had…
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- … College (London: F.E. Robinson, 1900), plate 6, facing p. 228. Henrietta Litchfield, Emma Darwin …
