To J. J. Moulinié 7 March [1871]
Summary
Pleased that JJM has finished translation of Descent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
| Date: | 7 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66 f. 19) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7550 |
To William Ogle 7 March [1871]
Summary
Will write again to Tyndall about odours.
Asks for the circumstances under which WO saw a man arrested for murder; quotes from notes he made from WO’s conversation [Expression, p. 294].
Also would like to quote WO on the expression of resignation by persons about to undergo serious operations [Expression, p. 271].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Ogle |
| Date: | 7 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 6 (EH 88205904) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7551 |
To John Tyndall 7 March [1871]
Summary
Ogle wants very much to meet JT.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 7 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 10 (EH 88205948) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7552 |
From Arthur Nicols 7 March 1871
Summary
Referring to CD’s passage on monkeys’ acquiring taste for tea, coffee, and tobacco, AN tells of three monkeys he kept in Australia that developed strong taste for rum and smoking tobacco without being taught in any way [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 7 n.].
| Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 19–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7553 |
| letter | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Nicols, Arthur | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Moulinié, J. J. | (1) |
| Ogle, William | (1) |
| Tyndall, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Moulinié, J. J. | (1) |
| Nicols, Arthur | (1) |
| Ogle, William | (1) |
| Tyndall, John | (1) |
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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- … that observed in the metamorphosis of Crustacea (DAR 31.2: 307). This observation was notable, for …
The Mount, Shrewsbury
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Letters from home
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- … Darwin writes in preparation for the voyage, and his father and sisters write with news from home …
The Voyage of the Beagle
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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 …
