From Franz von Rekowsky 20 February 1877
Summary
Requests CD’s autograph. [Translation of letter made by O. Dill, see 10871.]
| Author: | Franz Friedrich Hugo Wilhelm Michael (Franz) von Wotoch-Rekowsky (Franz von Rekowsky) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 119a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10855 |
To Arnold Dodel-Port 20 February 1877
Summary
Thanks AD-P for his articles [Wesen und Begründung der Abstammungs- und Zuchtwahltheorie (1877)] and the eulogistic manner in which he mentions CD’s name.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arnold Dodel-Port |
| Date: | 20 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms Z VIII 417.2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10856 |
From John Gibbs 20 February 1877
Summary
Thanks CD for Orchids. Has written a notice for Chelmsford Chronicle.
Finds some botanical observations on inflorescences.
| Author: | John Gibbs |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10857 |
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Gibbs, John | (1) |
| Rekowsky, Franz von | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Dodel-Port, Arnold | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Dodel-Port, Arnold | (1) |
| Gibbs, John | (1) |
| Rekowsky, Franz von | (1) |
2.20 Montford, terracotta bust, NPG
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< Back to Introduction Horace Montford presented this terracotta bust of Darwin to the National Portrait Gallery in January 1905. He explained that it was the model for the bronze busts commissioned by Andrew Carnegie in 1901, one of which is now in…
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Eaton
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'the Owen Constitution'
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- … A close Shrewsbury friend gives news from back home of other friends and acquaintances. …
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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- … in the library, of which there is a photograph (pp. 218, 220). Christiane Groeben and Irmgard Müller …
