To Henry Reeks 5 March [1873]
Summary
Thanks for HR’s valuable remarks about Expression, and returns HRs copy, signed.
Discusses some of HR’s anecdotes about children sucking their tongues.
Admits that the youth who trembled so that he could not reload his gun after killing his first snipe was himself, when a school-boy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks |
Date: | 5 Mar [1873] |
Classmark: | Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (James Needham Papers: Collection 21-23-479, Box 3: 28) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8796F |
To G. H. Darwin 5 March [1873]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 5 Mar [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8799 |
From W. H. Hall 5 March 1873
Author: | William Honnywill Hall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 53.2: 123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8800 |
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Reeks, Henry | (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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- … by the cavities formed by this animal.—’ (DAR 31.2: 305). He gave a detailed description and …
Saint Helena
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Curious geological history
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- … Talks of his five days working on the geology of Saint Helena, of meeting the astronomer John …
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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- … to J. H. Gilbert, 12 January 1882 ). In Earthworms , p. 305, Darwin had remarked on the …