From R. O. Jones 20 November 1871
Summary
The horns of castrated male lambs compared with horns of ewes. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 506.]
| Author: | Robert Owen Jones |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Nov 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 119–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8078 |
To W. E. Darwin 27 [February 1858]
Summary
CD intends to enter WED at Christ’s College.
Thanks him for inquiries made about horses.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 27 [Feb 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2227 |
To W. E. Darwin [after 11 November 1871]
Summary
Sends enclosure for Captain Jones.
Comments on essay by E. D. Cope ["On the origin of genera", Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 20 (1868): 242–300].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [after 11 Nov 1871] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.502) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8039 |
From C. G. Semper 5 October 1878
Summary
Thanks CD for writing machine.
Recalls visit by CD’s son [Francis].
| Author: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Oct 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 140 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11716 |
To W. E. Darwin 11 February [1871]
Summary
Would like precise details about pouting of English children to add to his information about children of savages.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Feb [1871] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 31) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8208 |
To W. E. Darwin 15 March [1871]
Summary
Wants WED to thank F. de Chaumont for some valuable observations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (RAMC/473/1). Trustees of the Army Medical Services Museum. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11936 |
To E. S. Morse 3 December 1871
Summary
Obliged for ESM’s article ["On adaptive coloration of the Mollusca", Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 14 (1870–1): 141–5]. Glad to have error corrected about protective colouring of shells.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Sylvester Morse |
| Date: | 3 Dec 1871 |
| Classmark: | Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8092 |
To E. S. Morse 9 [April] 1880
Summary
[Copy erroneously dated March.]
Has forwarded ESM’s letter to Nature ["Omori shell mounds", Collected papers 2: 222–3].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Sylvester Morse |
| Date: | 9 [Apr] 1880 |
| Classmark: | Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12570 |
To E. S. Morse 21 October 1879
Summary
Thanks for ESM’s paper [see 12201].
Remarks on progress of Japan.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Sylvester Morse |
| Date: | 21 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12265 |
To E. S. Morse 23 April 1877
Summary
Thanks for ESM’s address ["What American zoologists have done for evolution", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 25 (1876)].
J. A. Allen’s work is important as apparently showing change through direct action of [external] conditions.
CD has given up trying to understand E. D. Cope and Alpheus Hyatt on acceleration and retardation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Sylvester Morse |
| Date: | 23 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10938 |
From W. E. Darwin 11 November 1871
Summary
Forwards a letter from R. O. Jones on the effects of castration on horns of male lambs.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Nov 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 121–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8061 |
From E. A. Darwin [11 October 1868]
Summary
J. J. Sylvester reports George’s fellowship "the most enviable position on earth".
Charles [Parker?] "appears to be ruined".
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [11 Oct 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B62–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6219 |
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- … 11 October. George’s fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, was announced in The Times , 10 October 1868, p. 5. James Joseph Sylvester . Erasmus referred to one of three brothers: Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac, Edmond Jean Marie Melchior, Prince de Polignac, or Charles Ludovic Marie, Prince de Polignac. Sylvester was a professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, where Leonard Darwin was a student; Erasmus had earlier written that Sylvester suggested Leonard call on him (see letter from E. …
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From F. S. B. F. de Chaumont to W. E. Darwin 11 March 1871
Summary
In response to queries on expression, which WED had asked on CD’s behalf, reports on shrugging and pouting observed in his children.
| Author: | Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 135 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7573 |
To G. W. Norman 15 September [1876]
Summary
Thanks GWN for condolences on death of Amy, his daughter-in-law.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Warde Norman |
| Date: | 15 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.497) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10599 |
From F. S. B. F. de Chaumont to W. E. Darwin 16 April 1871
Summary
Answers to questions about expression.
| Author: | Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 136 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7688 |
To W. E. Darwin 19 [June 1866]
Summary
Different forms of flowers of Rhamnus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 19 [June 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5125 |
To H. E. Litchfield 11 [December 1879]
Summary
Sends M. Guthrie’s book [On Mr Spencer’s formula of evolution (1879)], although HEL may not care to read it having seen Moulton’s letter [12350].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 11 [Dec 1879] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12353 |
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