To Fritz Müller [18 February 1876]
Summary
Has received seeds of Cecropia peltata from Kew.
Has asked Hermann Müller to send copy of FM’s paper as soon as published.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | [18 Feb 1876] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 39) (EH 88205869) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10400 |
From D. Appleton & Co. 18 February 1876
Summary
Encloses statement of sales of Origin, Expression, Descent, and Insectivorous plants to 1 Feb 1876.
Has charged against CD’s account half the cost of old plates from Judd for Variation. When will plates for new edition be sent?
Insectivorous plants not selling well because of general depression in business.
| Author: | D. Appleton & Co |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10401 |
From Charles and Francis Darwin to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 18 February 1876
Summary
Thanks for plants supplied from Kew.
On structure and function of leaf glands of certain plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 18 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 39–40) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10402 |
To J. N. Lockyer 18 February [1876]
Summary
Asks that the copy of Nature containing letter from Fritz Müller be forwarded to FM [see 10324].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Norman (Norman) Lockyer |
| Date: | 18 Feb [1876] |
| Classmark: | Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (catalogue 112, no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10403 |
| letter | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| D. Appleton & Co | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Lockyer, Norman | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| D. Appleton & Co | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Lockyer, Norman | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
2.18 Montford, Carnegie bust
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< Back to Introduction In 1901 the immensely rich steel manufacturer and business magnate Andrew Carnegie commissioned Horace Montford for two bronze busts of Darwin. The exact circumstances of the commission are unknown, but Carnegie must have been…
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Montevideo, Uruguay
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Revolution and fossils
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- … Describes political turmoil and his fossil finds, including those of giant, extinct animals. …
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 …
Conrad Martens
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Conrad Martens was born in London, the son of an Austrian diplomat. He studied landscape painting under the watercolourist Copley Fielding (1789–1855), who also briefly taught Ruskin. In 1833 he was on board the Hyacinth, headed for India, but en route in…
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- … Conrad Martens was born in London, the son of an Austrian diplomat. He studied landscape painting …
2.6 Adolf von Hildebrand bust
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< Back to Introduction In 1873, the German biologist Anton Dohrn commissioned a plaster bust of Darwin for the ‘fresco room’ of his new research centre, the Stazione Zoologica in Naples. It was a fitting memorial of a long association between the two…
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- … Baer’ in the library, of which there is a photograph (pp. 218, 220). Christiane Groeben and Irmgard …
Robert FitzRoy
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Robert FitzRoy was captain of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men lived in the closest proximity, their relationship revealed by the letters they exchanged while Darwin left the ship to explore the countries visited during the…
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