To Frances Mosley Wedgwood 5 March [1860 or later]
Summary
Thanks for a shell of an edible mollusc and also specimens of blind cave animals, which he will present in FW’s name to the British Museum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Mosley (Fanny Frank) Mosley; Frances Mosley (Fanny Frank) Wedgwood |
| Date: | |
| Classmark: | Alan Wedgwood (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11310F |
To James Lamont 5 March [1860]
Summary
Responds to JL’s comments on effect of natural selection on grouse or reindeer.
Asks if dirt adheres to feet of water-birds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Lamont, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 5 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2722 |
To F. M. Wedgwood 5 March [1860–9]
Summary
Thanks for a shell of an edible mollusc and also specimens of blind cave animals, which he will present in FW’s name to the British Museum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Mosley (Fanny Frank) Mosley; Frances Mosley (Fanny Frank) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 5 Mar [1860–9] |
| Classmark: | Alan Wedgwood (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5984F |
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Mosley, F. M. | (2) |
| Wedgwood, F. M. | (2) |
| Lamont, James | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Mosley, F. M. | (2) |
| Wedgwood, F. M. | (2) |
| Lamont, James | (1) |
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … by the cavities formed by this animal.—’ (DAR 31.2: 305). He gave a detailed description and …
Saint Helena
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Curious geological history
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- … Talks of his five days working on the geology of Saint Helena, of meeting the astronomer John …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … to J. H. Gilbert, 12 January 1882 ). In Earthworms , p. 305, Darwin had remarked on the …
