From Thomas Henry Huxley [before 30 January 1868]
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Congratulations on George’s attaining Second Wrangler.
Variation has just arrived. Wishes he had two heads or a body that needed no rest.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 30 Jan 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 313 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5814 |
To J. M. Herbert 30 January [1868]
Summary
Thanks JMH for his congratulations.
Recalls gift of microscope [from JMH in 1831]. [See 99].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Maurice Herbert |
Date: | 30 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.344) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5815 |
To Fritz Müller 30 January [1868]
Summary
Sends Variation and would like to hear what FM thinks of Pangenesis.
Thanks for information on expression.
Dimorphic plants;
differences in seed production in cross- and self-fertilised plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 30 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 20) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5816 |
To T. H. Huxley 30 January [1868]
Summary
Thanks for congratulations.
Doubts THH’s response to Pangenesis will give him pleasure. "Oh Lord what a blowing up I may receive."
Still thinks THH has been too "sharp sighted" on hybridism.
Sends Mrs Huxley Queries about expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 30 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 237) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5817 |
From John Lubbock 30 January 1868
Summary
Many thanks for the book [Variation].
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5818 |
From J. B. Innes 30 January 1868
Summary
Congratulates CD on son’s [George’s] distinction [Second Wrangler] at Cambridge.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5819 |
letter | (6) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Innes, J. B. | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Herbert, J. M. | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Herbert, J. M. | (1) |
Innes, J. B. | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
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
Barnburgh
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- … A Cambridge friend rejoices in Darwin's appointment on the voyage and sends news of fellow …
Darwin and Down
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Charles and Emma Darwin, with their first two children, settled at Down House in the village of Down (later ‘Downe’) in Kent, as a young family in 1842. The house came with eighteen acres of land, and a fifteen acre meadow. The village combined the…
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- … fieldwork. Altogether, Darwin wrote fifteen books and 130 scientific papers while he was …
3.7 Leonard Darwin, photo on verandah
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< Back to Introduction Like the anonymous photograph of Darwin on horseback in front of Down House, Leonard Darwin’s photograph of him sitting in a wicker chair on the verandah was originally just a family memento. However, as Darwin’s high…
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- … pp. 542-570 (pp. 560-1). J. van Whye, ‘Iconography’, pp. 130, 177. …
Syms Covington
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When Charles Darwin embarked on the Beagle voyage in 1831, Syms Covington was ‘fiddler & boy to Poop-cabin’. Covington kept an illustrated journal of his observations and experiences on the voyage, noting wildlife, landscapes, buildings and people and,…
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- … Twyford (originally from London) at Stroud, New South Wales, 130 miles north of Sydney. By 1843 …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
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- … list is headed ‘Stove Plants’, and itemises more than 130 species and their associated orders or …
John Murray
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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…
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- … more slowly than Insectivorous plants , but even so only 130 were left by the end of 1875 ( …
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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- … 5 December 1927 Den Haag 130 Luijten J. (Jan) …
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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- … 130 Luijten J. (Jan) Teacher …