From C. S. Vesselofski 3 January 1868
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CD has been elected a Corresponding Member of the Biology Section of the Académie Impériale des Sciences, St Petersburg.
Author: | Constantin Stepanovich Vesselofski |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5775 |
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Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
Canary Islands
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'Canary scheme'
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- … Letters about preparing for an unrealised, research trip to the Canary Islands before Darwin was …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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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- … his consumption of alcohol, see LL 1: 118, and Colp 1977, p. 103. Darwin tried a variety of …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
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- … 103 Hülsmann Dr. J.H.H. (Johann …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
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- … 103 Hülsmann Dr. J.H.H. (Johann …
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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- … Rusden, [before 27 March 1875] ). In Descent of man , p. 103, Darwin had noted that humans were …