From John Michels 3 May 1870
Summary
Sends drawings of atypical Geranium and honeysuckle pollen-grains. Would they produce variation in seedlings?
Author: | John Michels |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 May 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 175 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10495 |
From E. A. Darwin [1870–81]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1870–81] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12379 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 22 February [1870]
Summary
"I have received a very large box full of beautiful tea from Russia yesterday … my life is as regular & monotonous as a clock.
I make sure, but wofully slow progress, with my new book."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | 22 Feb [1870] |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (17 March 1995); Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (1 October 1953) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13060 |
From Charles Wicksted to Georgina Tollet 13 March [1870?]
Summary
Jury of fox-hunters report on hounds’ behaviour when catching fox. Fox never behaves like frightened dog.
Author: | Charles Wicksted |
Addressee: | Georgina Tollet |
Date: | 13 Mar [1870?] |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13857 |
To? [1870–82]
Summary
Printed acknowledgment of the receipt of a letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1870–82] |
Classmark: | DAR 133: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13859 |
To ? 23 August [1870–80]
Summary
Discusses evolution of species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 23 Aug [1870-80] |
Classmark: | Charles Hamilton (dealer) (3 November 1966) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13884 |
To ? [1870–82]
Summary
Query [possibly for publication] on ridges and furrows in pasture-land that had been ploughed long ago. Gives directions for measuring ridges on sloping land.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1870–82] |
Classmark: | DAR 63: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13885 |
From Benjamin Clarke 1 November [1870]
Summary
Sends CD some Indian corn seeds to demonstrate the extreme effect sometimes producible on progeny by the mutilation of a parent.
Writes of a recent book.
Author: | Benjamin Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Nov [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 26 (EH 88206077) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5662 |
From St G. J. Mivart [25 June 1870?]
Summary
Sets a time for CD to call.
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 June 1870?] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5927 |
From Francis Darwin [before 4 January 1870]
Summary
Humphrey does not think more bones in female os coccyx than in male. Because of maceration it is impossible to compare male and female skeletons. Has another coach while Stuart ill.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 4 Jan 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6520F |
From Alice Bonham-Carter to Emma Darwin 25 January [1870]
Author: | Alice Bonham-Carter |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 25 Jan [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 240 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6576 |
From Gilbert William Child 26 January [1870]
Summary
Sends 2d ed. of his Essays on physiological subjects (1869).
Author: | Gilbert William Child |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Jan [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 141 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6579 |
From William Boyd Dawkins 29 January [1870]
Summary
Discovery of skull of "River-bed" race of man near Corwen.
Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Jan [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6582 |
To Alexander Agassiz [23 October 1870?]
Summary
Suggests time for AA to visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Agassiz |
Date: | [23 Oct 1870?] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6595 |
To ? 12 February [1870–82]
Summary
Send information about the bust of himself by Thomas Woolner and suggests applying to the sculptor himself about a cast.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 12 Feb [1870-82] |
Classmark: | Erbengemeinschaft Alberts (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6611F |
From G. W. Child 16 February [1870]
Summary
Criticises chapter on good effect of crossing in Variation: (1) does not accept that inbreeding alone results in degeneracy; (2) good effects of crossing exaggerated; (3) denies deleterious effects of close marriage in humans.
Author: | Gilbert William Child |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 142 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6617 |
From J. D. Hooker [7 March 1870]
Summary
Does not give much for botanical results of Round Island, but the zoology is wonderful.
Lyell’s new book [The student’s elements of geology (1870)]. Urges Lyell to make it Elementary principles.
Grove is disgusted with CD for being disquieted by William Thomson: "Take another dose of Huxley’s penultimate address to Geol. Soc." [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): 28–53].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [7 Mar 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 42–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6646 |
To Thomas Woolner 10 March [1870]
Summary
Thanks for drawing. ‘The "Woolnerian tip" is worth anything to me.’
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Woolner |
Date: | 10 Mar [1870] |
Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. lett. d. 292, fol. 77) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6650 |
To T. H. Huxley 20 June [1870]
Summary
Asks for figures of embryos by A. Ecker and T. L. W. Bischoff to copy [for Descent, ch. 1].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 20 June [1870] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 269) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6788 |
From J. D. Hooker [31 May 1870]
Summary
Sends enclosure [a letter from Lady Lyell?]. He is choking with vanity.
Is going to send Willy to Mr La Touche in Salop; he brought up young Colenso and Frank Lyell. Some of his friends will think he is sending his son into a nest of young adders!
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [31 May 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 46; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105: 236) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6964 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (20) |
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Kovalevsky, V. O. | (12) |
Galton, Francis | (11) |