From H. F. H. Elliot to G. H. Darwin [before 11 March 1873?]
Summary
Instinctive responses in animals.
| Author: | Hugh Frederic Hislop Elliot |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [before 11 Mar 1873?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7422 |
To Asa Gray 11 March [1873]
Summary
Astonished by Agassiz’s argument; has sent AG’s memorandum to Nature [see 8786].
Is working on cross- and self-fertilising plants and has temporarily stopped work on Drosera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 11 Mar [1873] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (106) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8806 |
To A. W. Bennett 11 March [1873]
Summary
Asks about woodblocks of illustrations for Climbing plants [1875].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred William Bennett |
| Date: | 11 Mar [1873] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.438) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9350 |
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Elliot, H. F. H. | (1) |
| Bennett, A. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Bennett, A. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Elliot, H. F. H. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
3.11 Edwards, in Illustrated London News
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< Back to Introduction A photograph of Darwin by Ernest Edwards, showing him in three-quarter view to the left, must have been taken at the same session as the profile published in Men of Eminence in 1866. The baggy sleeve of Darwin’s coat looks…
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- … < Back to Introduction A photograph of Darwin by Ernest Edwards, showing him in three …
Books on the Beagle
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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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 …
1.1 Ellen Sharples pastel
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< Back to Introduction The earliest surviving portrayal of Darwin, who was born on 12 February 1809, is this pastel or chalk drawing by Ellen Wallace Sharples. He is shown kneeling chivalrously before his sister Catherine (born in 1810), in the kind…
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- … Woman’s Art Journal , 16:1 (Spring–Summer 1995), pp. 3–11. Julius Bryant (ed.), English Heritage …
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
