To W. B. Tegetmeier 8 September [1858]
Summary
Has finished with and is disposing of his pigeons.
Invites WBT to Down; would like to see his bees’ cells.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 8 Sept [1858] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2325 |
From D. Appleton & Co. 1 February 1879
Summary
Statement of U.S. sales of CD’s works.
| Author: | D. Appleton & Co |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11855 |
From Francis Galton 5 July 1880
Summary
Thanks for mentioning CarlVogt, to whom he will write.
Comments on Dr Erasmus Darwin’s interest in mental imagery.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 July 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A104–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12647 |
To H. E. Strickland [19 February 1849]
Summary
Thanks HES for solving his problem. Has some difficulty with HES’s type-species. In arranging genera in a natural order it is often impossible to say which species should be considered the type.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Edwin Strickland |
| Date: | [19 Feb 1849] |
| Classmark: | Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1227 |
From Joseph Fayrer 6 January 1875
Summary
Encloses results of experiments on influence of snake poison on ciliary action and vegetable protoplasm.
| Author: | Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.2: 71, 73–82, DAR 164: 112 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9806 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … solution of cobra poison was added at 10·50— 1·30. cilia still moving. E XXXVII A third …
- … 10 ciliary motion vigorous in both perhaps more so in that subjected to the poisoned solution 2–18. Non-poisoned ciliae active Poisoned ciliae very feeble 2–20. non-poisoned ciliae still active Poisoned ciliae very feeble 2–24 Non poisoned ciliae active Poisoned— ″ very languid 2–30 …
- … 10·55 still active. 11·5 Several ciliated amœboid masses are now quiet instead of rolling over & over but the cilia on their surface are still moving 11·15. The cilia on these animals have now nearly all stopped. A few are going slowly. Those on the gills are but little affected 11·55. Those on the gills are still quite active. Those on the ciliated bodies are still moving rather more actively than before. 1·30 …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 2 April [1861]
Summary
Details of peculiarities in poultry.
Is examining wild varieties of rabbit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 2 Apr [1861] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3108 |
To Albert Günther 21 September 1869
Summary
Sends a list of queries for AG.
Asks whether AG can supply specimens for illustrations [for Descent]. Hopes Mr Ford will do the drawings.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Date: | 21 Sept 1869 |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library; DAR 82: B14–15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6903 |
From Francis Walker 24 June [1862]
Summary
Identified two flies as species of Empis that suck flowers, but the females also feed on small Diptera.
| Author: | Francis Walker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 June [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 70: 182 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10547 |
Müller, Hermann. 1873–7. On the fertilisation of flowers by insects and on the reciprocal adaptations of both. Nature, 3 July 1873, pp. 187–9; 10 July 1873, pp. 205–6; 25 September 1873, pp. 433–5; 20 November 1873, pp. 44–6; 1 January 1874, pp. 164–6; 18 June 1874, pp. 129–30; 12 November 1874, pp. 32–3; 10 December 1874, pp. 110–12; 31 December 1874, pp. 169–71; 20 May 1875, pp. 50–1; 8 July 1875, pp. 190–1; 13 January 1876, pp. 210–12; 10 February 1876, pp. 289–92; 22 June 1876, pp. 173–5; 8 February 1877, pp. 317–19; 29 March 1877, pp. 473–5; 11 October 1877, pp. 507–9.
Thomson, Charles Wyville. 1873d. Notes from the ‘Challenger’. Nature, 8 May 1873, pp. 28–30; 15 May 1873, pp. 51–3; 5 June 1873, pp. 109–10; 10 July 1873, pp. 246–9; 31 July 1873, pp. 266–7; 28 August 1873, pp. 347–9; 18 September 1873, pp. 400–3.
Matches: 2 hits
- … Nature , 8 May 1873, pp. 28–30; 15 May 1873, pp. 51–3; 5 June 1873, pp. 109–10; …
- … 10 July 1873, pp. 246–9; 31 July 1873, pp. 266–7; 28 August 1873, pp. 347–9; 18 September 1873, pp. 400–3. https://www-nature-com.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/articles/008028a0.pdf https://www-nature-com.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/articles/008051a0.pdf https://www-nature-com.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/articles/008109a0.pdf https://www-nature-com.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/articles/008246a0.pdf https://www-nature-com.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/articles/008266a0.pdf https://www-nature-com.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/articles/008347a0.pdf https://www-nature-com.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/articles/008400a0.pdf 30 …
To Armand de Quatrefages 11 July [1862]
Summary
Thanks for answers to CD’s questions; would appreciate any new information on similarity of moths of distinct races.
CD has been "atrociously abused by religious countrymen, but it does not hurt except when it comes from an old friend like Prof. Owen".
Wishes French translator of Origin had known more natural history.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
| Date: | 11 July [1862] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3653 |
To Alphonse de Candolle 17 June [1862]
Summary
Is pleased that AdeC is interested in the Primula case ["Dimorphic condition of Primula", Collected papers 2: 45–63]. Is pursuing analogous experiments on other plants and on seedlings raised from the unions.
CD’s "large work" progresses slowly owing to ill health and his work on Orchids.
CD is not surprised that AdeC is unwilling to admit natural selection – "the subject hardly admits of direct proof or evidence. It will be believed in only by those who think that it connects & partly explains several large classes of facts".
Hopes AdeC will publish on Quercus
and rejoices that he intends to return to the study of geographical distribution. No one can claim to have read AdeC’s truly great work on that subject [Géographie botanique (1855)] with more care than CD.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Date: | 17 June [1862] |
| Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3608 |
To J. S. Henslow 25 July 1845
Summary
CD has bought a farm in Lincolnshire. Criticises primogeniture and stamp laws on land purchase.
Announces birth of G. H. Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 25 July 1845 |
| Classmark: | DAR 145: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-895 |
From S. V. Wood Jr to Charles Lyell 19 September 1873
Summary
Thanks for proofs of the Supplement to Crag Mollusca. Sends crab apples.
| Author: | Searles Valentine Wood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Sept 1873 |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.117/6327-9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9059G |
To A. S. Horner [4 October 1842]
Summary
Emma recovering well from birth of third child, Mary Eleanor.
Sorry to hear Leonard Horner has been ill.
Has received high praise of Coral reefs from Lyell.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Anne Susanna Lloyd; Anne Susanna Horner |
| Date: | [4 Oct 1842] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 1 (EH 88206053) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-648 |
‘Power of icebergs’: On the power of icebergs to make rectilinear, uniformly-directed grooves across a submarine undulatory surface. By Charles Darwin. London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine 4th ser. 10 (1855): 96–8. [Shorter publications, pp. 244–6.]
To C. G. Ehrenberg 25[–31?] March [1846]
Summary
Sends copy [of "Fine dust in the Atlantic Ocean", Collected papers 1: 199–202]. Attempting to obtain further samples for CGE.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg |
| Date: | 25[–31?] Mar [1846] |
| Classmark: | Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN/HBSB, N005 NL Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Nr. 43 Bl. 15–17) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-965 |
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