To the secretary, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin 16 March 1863
Summary
Thanks Academy on his election as a Corresponding Member.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences |
Date: | 16 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (II–III–120: 67) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4043 |
To W. D. Fox 16 [March 1863]
Summary
If WDF should hear what ram was put to the ewes, CD would like to add it [see Variation 2: 30].
Will add "cautiously" that WDF believes white and slate muscovy ducks breed true [Variation 2: 40].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 16 [Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 137) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4044 |
From James Paget 16 March 1863
Summary
Sends two [unidentified] papers on inheritance of medical malformations. Suggests that besides the inheritance of specific variations, the tendency to show variations in the same organ system (stomach, nervous, etc.) may also be inherited.
Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4045 |
From Roland Trimen 16 March 1863
Summary
RT has sent his observations on orchids to CD. Has found only one case of an insect with a pollinium adhering to it.
Author: | Roland Trimen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 70: 180, DAR 178: 184 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4046 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Paget, James | (1) |
Trimen, Roland | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Paget, James | (1) |
Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences | (1) |
Trimen, Roland | (1) |
3.16 Oscar Rejlander, photos
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) led him to the Swedish-born painter and photographer, Oscar Gustaf Rejlander. Rejlander gave Darwin the notes that he had…
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- … < Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The …
Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
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- … inventive genius…” Descent (1871), vol. 2, pp. 316 – 317. 4) “Difference in the …