To John Phillips 31 March [1874]
Summary
Regrets he cannot visit Oxford.
Comments on sketches in letter from JP [9360].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Phillips |
Date: | 31 Mar [1874] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.439) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9379 |
From T. H. Huxley 31 March 1874
Summary
His note on brain [in man and apes for 2d ed. of Descent] nearly finished.
Has heard nothing about Dohrn.
THH has been invited to lecture in America.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 332 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9380 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 31 March [1874]
Summary
Thanks for the careful experiments, particularly on organic acids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 31 Mar [1874] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9381 |
To Albert Wigand 31 March 1874
Summary
Confirms receipt of a book that had been lost by the Post Office (Vol. 1 Der Darwinismus und die Naturforschung Newtons und Cuviers (Darwinism and the natural researches of Newton and Cuvier; Wigand 1874–7).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Wilhelm Albert (Albert) Wigand |
Date: | 31 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (12 July 2017) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9381F |
letter | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Phillips, John | (1) |
Wigand, Albert | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Phillips, John | (1) |
Wigand, Albert | (1) |
John Lort Stokes
Summary
John Lort Stokes, naval officer, was Charles Darwin’s cabinmate on the Beagle voyage – not always an enviable position. After Darwin’s death, Stokes penned a description of their evenings spent working at the large table at the centre, Stokes at his…
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- … on the coast fronting the barrier reef?’ (Stokes 1846 1: 331) Stokes spent his final …