From W. E. Darwin 31 December [1880]
Summary
Sends diagrams [missing] showing worm action at two sites.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Dec [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 88 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12957 |
From A. L. Kielland 31 December 1880
Summary
Discusses Chinese lions at Fontainebleau; considers their appearance may indicate an ancient knowledge of some sort of evolutionary connection between lions and toads.
| Author: | Alexander Lange Kielland |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 201: 18, 18a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12958 |
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 31 December 1880
Summary
Signs a certificate sent to him by CD [see 12954].
Sends CD a ticket to his lecture on 25 February, in which he will propose that the mode by which the excitable parts of plants influence other parts at a distance is essentially the same as in the excitable structure of animals, contrary to the views of Hermann Munk and Julius Sachs.
Interested in chapters 6 and 7 of Movement in plants.
| Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-42) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12958A |
To Walter White 31 December 1880
Summary
Sending a Royal Society certificate of candidacy for his son Francis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Walter White |
| Date: | 231 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (5 April 2022, lot 147) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12958F |
| letter | (4) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Kielland, A. L. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| White, Walter | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Kielland, A. L. | (1) |
| White, Walter | (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:…
