To the National Debt Office [after 29 July 1877]
Summary
Writes as a trustee of Down Friendly Society about withdrawing some funds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | National Debt Office |
| Date: | [after 29 July 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11065 |
From Oswald Heer 29 July 1877
Summary
Comments on Forms of flowers.
Describes his work on fossil plants collected in the Arctic.
Notes work on Ginkgo.
| Author: | Oswald Heer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 133 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11078 |
To Thomas Druitt 29 July [1877]
Summary
Writes as a trustee of the Down Friendly Society to ask whether the Bank will act as their agent in withdrawing funds from the National Debt Office.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Druitt |
| Date: | 29 July [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 95 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11079 |
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Heer, Oswald | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Druitt, Thomas | (1) |
| National Debt Office | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Druitt, Thomas | (1) |
| Heer, Oswald | (1) |
| National Debt Office | (1) |
Scientific Networks
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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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- … he is curious about Hooker’s thoughts. Letter 729 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., [11 …
'Like confessing a murder' audio play
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This speciallycommissioned BBC Radio drama is based entirely on Charles and Emma Darwin’s own words and correspondence. Behind the controversial public persona, Darwin was an affectionate family man, fully engaged – sometimes heartbreakingly so – in the…
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- … This specially commissioned BBC Radio drama is based entirely on Charles and Emma Darwin’s own …
Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
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On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were very pleased to welcome Terry Molloy back to the Darwin Correspondence Project for a special recording session. Terry, known for his portrayal of Davros in Dr…
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- … On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were …
Joseph Dalton Hooker
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The 1400 letters exchanged between Darwin and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) account for around 10% of Darwin’s surviving correspondence and provide a structure within which all the other letters can be explored. They are a connecting thread that spans…
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- … No single set of letters was more important to Darwin than those exchanged with his closest friend …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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- … Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his …
