From William Masters [after 7 April 1860]
Summary
Facts and inferences relating to different varieties of sweetpeas.
| Author: | William Masters |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 7 Apr 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 77: 39–40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2622 |
To Albert Way 7 April [1860]
Summary
Asks AW about archaeological evidence concerning the first appearance of dray horses.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albert Way |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.205) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2748 |
To Maxwell Tylden Masters 7 April [1860]
Summary
Much interested in MTM’s lecture at Royal Institution ["On the relation between the abnormal and normal formations in plants", Notes Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1860): 223–7].
Asks for information about crossing of varieties of peas. Describes his own experimental results: "the offspring out of the same pod, instead of being intermediate, was very nearly like the two pure parents; yet in one, there was a trace of the cross & the next generation showed still more plainly their mongrel origins".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2749 |
From J. S. Henslow 7 April 1860
Summary
Sketch and description of a [wasp’s] nest from Cuba. [Notes by CD on wasps’ nests and comb-building habits of hive-bees.]
| Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166.1:180 [diagram here] |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2750 |
| letter | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Masters, William | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Masters, M. T. | (1) |
| Way, Albert | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Masters, M. T. | (1) |
| Masters, William | (1) |
| Way, Albert | (1) |
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
Matches: 1 hits
- … recorded in the distribution of plants. Page 407, par. 2, lines 14–15, insert after ‘now …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
Matches: 1 hits
- … ( Red notebook , pp. 8e, 10; ‘Beagle’ diary , p. 407). Daniell, John Frederic. …
Journal of researches
Summary
Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…
Matches: 1 hits
- … The Journal of researches , Darwin’s account of his travels round the world in H.M.S. Beagle …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
Summary
‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
Matches: 1 hits
- … despondent, yet benevolent man’ (‘Recollections’, p. 407). Even scientific colleagues could …
