From E. F. Lubbock [after 7 April 1873?]
Summary
Observations on her pet pug.
Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 7 Apr 1873?] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8699 |
From E. F. Lubbock [before 7 April 1873]
Summary
Is trying to persuade "our friend" [T. H. Huxley?] to accept a gift.
Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 7 Apr 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8833 |
To Thomas Davidson 7 April 1873
Summary
Thanks TD for catalogue of his Cretacean fossils.
Regrets he cannot visit Brighton.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Davidson |
Date: | 7 Apr 1873 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.426) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8845 |
From G. H. Darwin to John Tyndall [7 April 1873]
Summary
CD particularly wishes to see JT "On business not connected with himself" [the fund for Huxley’s holiday]. Asks whether CD may call that afternoon. GHD adds postscript saying CD very fatigued. He hopes JT can come to see CD instead, but he should not mention that GHD suggested it.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | [7 Apr 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 12 (EH 88205950) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8846 |
From J. D. Hooker [7 April 1873]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [7 Apr 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 153–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8847 |
From Charles Voysey 7 April 1873
Summary
Sends his 6th volume.
Author: | Charles Voysey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Apr 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 180: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8848 |
letter | (6) |
Hordern, E. F. | (2) |
Lubbock, E. F. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Hordern, E. F. | (2) |
Lubbock, E. F. | (2) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Davidson, Thomas | (1) |
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
Matches: 1 hits
- … recorded in the distribution of plants. Page 407, par. 2, lines 14–15, insert after ‘now …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
Matches: 1 hits
- … ( Red notebook , pp. 8e, 10; ‘Beagle’ diary , p. 407). Daniell, John Frederic. …
Journal of researches
Summary
Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…
Matches: 1 hits
- … The Journal of researches , Darwin’s account of his travels round the world in H.M.S. Beagle …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
Summary
‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
Matches: 1 hits
- … despondent, yet benevolent man’ (‘Recollections’, p. 407). Even scientific colleagues could …