From Lawson Tait 31 December [1877]
Summary
Speculation on the process by which tails have been lost; believes he has evidence from man that it is related to spina bifida.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Dec [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11297 |
From F. J. Cohn 31 December 1877
Summary
Sends details of H. H. R. Koch’s work on bacteria, including first photographs.
J. S. Burdon Sanderson’s and Koch’s collaboration on systemic fever.
Thinks movement of Francis Darwin’s Dipsacus filaments is an artifact.
Author: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 205 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11298 |
From E. A. Greaves to Francis Darwin 31 December 1877
Author: | Elizabeth Anne Hadley; Elizabeth Anne Greaves |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 31 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 219 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11299 |
To the Down Friendly Society 31 December [1877?]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Down Friendly Society |
Date: | 31 Dec [1877?] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11300 |
letter | (4) |
Cohn, F. J. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Greaves, E. A. | (1) |
Hadley, E. A. | (1) |
Tait, Lawson | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Down Friendly Society | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Cohn, F. J. | (1) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Down Friendly Society | (1) |
Greaves, E. A. | (1) |
1.17 Alphonse Legros drawing
Summary
< Back to Introduction Alphonse Legros’s drawing of Darwin in the Fitzwilliam Museum is one of three likenesses of him by this artist in different media, the others being a drypoint engraving and a medallion. Only the medallion is dateable, to 1881:…