From Tendler & Co. to John Murray 29 May 1867
Summary
Seek permission to produce a translation of Variation.
| Author: | Tendler & Co. |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 29 May 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 87 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5555 |
From J. T. Moggridge 29 May [1867]
Summary
Wrote to J. B. E. Bornet on CD’s behalf, declining the offer of seeds of Draba. But now Bornet writes that he is sending seeds to CD anyway [see 5592].
Corrects his previous description of the fertilisation of Indigofera.
| Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 May [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 157a: 101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5555A |
| letter | (2) |
| Moggridge, J. T. | (1) |
| Tendler & Co. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Moggridge, J. T. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Tendler & Co. | (1) |
4.9 'Graphic', cartoon
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< Back to Introduction A cartoon which appeared in the Graphic in 1871 was unusual, in that it pictured a serious scientific challenge to Darwin’s theories. Sir William Thomson, later Lord Kelvin, a leading physicist based at the University of…
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Darwin's health
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On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…
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- … 113, 118-19, 121-5, and A. Desmond and Moore 1991, pp. 359, 529). Darwin believed that his …
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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- … direct and curious manner’ ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 529). Modern systematists place Alcippe …
Journal of researches
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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…
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- … The Journal of researches , Darwin’s account of his travels round the world in H.M.S. Beagle …
