To Williams and Norgate? 6 March [1860]
Summary
Orders first part of vol. 3 of Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Histoire naturelle générale des règnes organiques [3 vols. (1854–62)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
| Date: | 6 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2723 |
To S. P. Woodward 6 March [1860]
Summary
Will be glad to have SPW’s criticisms of Origin.
Discusses his use of terms, "typical" and "specialisation".
Emphasises large body of facts explained by his theory of species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
| Date: | 6 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 379 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2724 |
To Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther 6 March [1860]
Summary
Reports on the snakes he collected in the Galapagos.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Date: | 6 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2725 |
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Günther, Albert | (1) |
| Williams & Norgate | (1) |
| Woodward, S. P. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Günther, Albert | (1) |
| Williams & Norgate | (1) |
| Woodward, S. P. | (1) |
Salvador da Bahia
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Seasickness and wonderfully increasing collections
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- … Reports on his trip across the Atlantic Ocean and arrival in the tropics of Brazil. …
Ascension Island
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Wild sea
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- … Describes the desert volcanic rocks and wild sea of Ascension. …
The Voyage of the Beagle
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It was a letter from his friend and former teacher, John Stevens Henslow, that brought the 22-year-old Charles Darwin news of the offer of a place on board the Admiralty surveying vessel HMS Beagle on a voyage to chart the coast of South America. During…
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- … Capt. F. wants a man (I understand) more as a companion than a mere collector & would not take …
Essay: Evolutionary teleology
Summary
—by Asa Gray EVOLUTIONARY TELEOLOGY When Cuvier spoke of the ‘combination of organs in such order that they may be in consistence with the part which the animal has to play in Nature,’ his opponent, Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, rejoined, ‘I know nothing of…
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- … side of the head. The writer makes much of this case (see p. 306), and we are not disposed to pass …
