From J. W. Abernethy [after 18 February 1871]
Summary
A poem, "Burns to Darwin".
| Author: | Julian Willis Abernethy |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 18 Feb 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 140.4: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13771 |
From John Murray 18 February [1871]
Summary
Bound copies [of Descent] have been dispatched to CD.
Robert Cooke, JM’s cousin and partner, has been nominated for Athenaeum; asks CD’s support.
Begs CD not to permit any notice by F. P. Cobbe to appear until after next week.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Feb [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 387 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7486 |
From David Forbes 18 February 1871
Summary
Thanks for copy of Descent.
| Author: | David Forbes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Feb 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 146 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7487 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 18 February 1871
Summary
VOK and his wife walked 25 miles through the Prussian lines to Paris.
Natural history collections undamaged by bombardment, but Edmond Hébert and A. J. Gaudry fear Prussians will rob them.
Several sheets of Descent lost as they passed through the lines.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Feb 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 87 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7488 |
| letter | (4) |
| Abernethy, J. W. | (1) |
| Forbes, David | (1) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Abernethy, J. W. | (1) |
| Forbes, David | (1) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
2.18 Montford, Carnegie bust
Summary
< Back to Introduction In 1901 the immensely rich steel manufacturer and business magnate Andrew Carnegie commissioned Horace Montford for two bronze busts of Darwin. The exact circumstances of the commission are unknown, but Carnegie must have been…
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- … < Back to Introduction In 1901 the immensely rich steel manufacturer and business …
Montevideo, Uruguay
Summary
Revolution and fossils
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- … Describes political turmoil and his fossil finds, including those of giant, extinct animals. …
The Voyage of the Beagle
Summary
It was a letter from his friend and former teacher, John Stevens Henslow, that brought the 22-year-old Charles Darwin news of the offer of a place on board the Admiralty surveying vessel HMS Beagle on a voyage to chart the coast of South America. During…
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- … Capt. F. wants a man (I understand) more as a companion than a mere collector & would not take …
Conrad Martens
Summary
Conrad Martens was born in London, the son of an Austrian diplomat. He studied landscape painting under the watercolourist Copley Fielding (1789–1855), who also briefly taught Ruskin. In 1833 he was on board the Hyacinth, headed for India, but en route in…
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- … Conrad Martens was born in London, the son of an Austrian diplomat. He studied landscape painting …
2.6 Adolf von Hildebrand bust
Summary
< Back to Introduction In 1873, the German biologist Anton Dohrn commissioned a plaster bust of Darwin for the ‘fresco room’ of his new research centre, the Stazione Zoologica in Naples. It was a fitting memorial of a long association between the two…
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- … Baer’ in the library, of which there is a photograph (pp. 218, 220). Christiane Groeben and Irmgard …
Robert FitzRoy
Summary
Robert FitzRoy was captain of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men lived in the closest proximity, their relationship revealed by the letters they exchanged while Darwin left the ship to explore the countries visited during the…
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- … Robert FitzRoy was captain of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men …
