To Thomas Rivers 5 March [1863]
Summary
Thanks for information on weeping trees; asks for a few weeping elm seeds.
The double peach is in flower; the almond has not flowered; will beg a specimen of fruit later.
Has been unwell.
Tells of Hooker’s admiration for TR’s articles.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
| Date: | 5 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (23–4 July 1987) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4023 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 March [1863]
Summary
Ill health.
At work on Variation.
Reading JDH on Welwitschia.
Letter from Lyell defends his position on species.
Anger at Owen.
John Lubbock’s lectures.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 184 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4024 |
To Smith, Elder and Company 5 March [1863]
Summary
Accepts offer of £5 [for remaining stock of Geology of "Beagle"].
Orders postage stamps for son.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
| Date: | 5 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (MS.23181, ff.6-10 (S. E. & Co. work slip, ff.6-7, letter ff.8-9, address envelope f.10)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4025 |
From Julius von Haast 5 March 1863
Summary
Sends copy of his December letter [see 3851], which he fears is lost.
Has been in the Southern Alps and has discovered a wonderful pass.
| Author: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Mar 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 1–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4026 |
From H. B. Dobell 5 March 1863
Summary
At CD’s request HBD has traced the quotation; it is on regeneration from Charles White in W. B. Carpenter’s Comparative physiology (1854), p. 480.
Is gratified that CD thinks some of the arguments in his book [Lectures on the germs of disease (1861)] are satisfactory.
| Author: | Horace Benge Dobell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Mar 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 188 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4027 |
| letter | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Dobell, H. B. | (1) |
| Haast, Julius von | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Dobell, H. B. | (1) |
| Haast, Julius von | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Rivers, Thomas | (1) |
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … by the cavities formed by this animal.—’ (DAR 31.2: 305). He gave a detailed description and …
Saint Helena
Summary
Curious geological history
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- … Talks of his five days working on the geology of Saint Helena, of meeting the astronomer John …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … to J. H. Gilbert, 12 January 1882 ). In Earthworms , p. 305, Darwin had remarked on the …
