From J. D. Hooker [26 December 1874]
Summary
Has gone over Huxley’s letter, thinks it a model. All must now await developments. If Mivart does not apologise, JDH will write to him.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Dec 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 241–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9780 |
To Ernst Haeckel 26 December 1874
Summary
Comments on review of EH’s Anthropogenie [1874].
Mentions recent work of Huxley and other scientists.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 26 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/32) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9781 |
From D. F. Nevill 26 [December 1874]
Summary
Would like to know the results of CD’s Utricularia experiments.
A Brazilian love-bird, escaped from captivity, has been found in a robin’s nest, apparently starved to death along with three young robins.
Author: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 [Dec 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9782 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Nevill, D. F. | (1) |
Walpole, D. F. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Nevill, D. F. | (1) |
Walpole, D. F. | (1) |
Living and fossil cirripedia
Summary
Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…
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- … Darwin published four volumes on the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia between 1851 and 1854, two on …