To Ludwig Rütimeyer 17 July 1875
Summary
Thanks for KLR’s latest work (Rütimeyer 1875).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer |
Date: | 17 July 1875 |
Classmark: | EAC Gallery (dealers) (autumn 2014) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10075F |
To Ludwig Rütimeyer 5 December [1861]
Summary
Admires LR’s book [Die Fauna der Pfahlbauten (1861)].
Will attempt to arrange for skull of wild white Chillingham cattle to be sent by Earl of Tankerville.
CD has come to same conclusion as LR on zebus.
CD’s MS of Variation is half-prepared.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer |
Date: | 5 Dec [1861] |
Classmark: | Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3339 |
To Ludwig Rütimeyer 15 [and 16] January [1862]
Summary
Lord Tankerville has not responded to the request for the skulls which LR requires for his research. CD addressed Lord T through his friend Sir Henry Holland, who is prepared to try again, despite Lord T’s rudeness.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer |
Date: | 15 and 16 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3389 |
To Ludwig Rütimeyer 11 February [1862]
Summary
Chillingham cattle leg bones will be sent to LR.
J. E. Gray has read a paper on unusual Japanese domesticated pig at the Zoological Garden ["On the skull of the Japanese pig", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1862): 13–17].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer |
Date: | 11 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3443 |
To Ludwig Rütimeyer 4 May [1867]
Summary
Thanks LR for sending his works.
Correcting proofs of Variation.
Chapter on pigs and cattle derived mostly from LR’s work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer |
Date: | 4 May [1867] |
Classmark: | Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5527 |
To Ludwig Rütimeyer 25 February [1868]
Summary
Will forward LR’s memoir to Earl of Tankerville. Has sent LR’s pamphlet on "Darwin Lehre" [Die Grenzen der Thierwelt (1868)] to a German lady he employs as a translator. Cannot agree that there is an innate principle of perfection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer |
Date: | 25 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5930 |
To Ludwig Rütimeyer 20 February 1874
Summary
Thanks for LR’s essay on living and fossil turtles [Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Neuchâtel 9 (1873): 439–41].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer |
Date: | 20 Feb 1874 |
Classmark: | Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9306 |