To P. L. Sclater 11 November [1870]
Summary
Accepts PLS’s offer to read proofs of [Descent].
W. H. Hudson’s paper is interesting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 11 Nov [1870] |
Classmark: | Kotte Autographs (dealers) (April 2019) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7366 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … between this letter and the letter to P. L. Sclater, 9 November 1870 . Sclater’s letter …
- … P. L. Sclater, 9 November 1870 ). William Clowes & Sons were printing Descent. Sclater had sent CD proofs of William Henry Hudson’s letters …
- … to P. L. Sclater, 9 November 1870 ). CD may refer to a passage at the end of a letter …
To P. L. Sclater 26 December [1870]
Summary
Sending two sheets [of Descent]. About one-and-a-half more will complete PLS’s task.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 26 Dec [1870] |
Classmark: | Zoological Society of London (GB 0814 BADD (Darwin)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7402 |
To P. L. Sclater 14 May [1862]
Summary
Asks for information about peacocks, especially Pavo nigripennis. Suggests a crossing experiment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 14 May [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.277) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3545 |
Matches: 3 hits
To P. L. Sclater 21 November [1870]
Summary
Sends two sheets [of Descent] for correction of names of birds. PLS will save him many disgraceful misspellings. Descent now being prepared in five foreign editions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 21 Nov [1870] |
Classmark: | Zoological Society of London (GB 0814 BADD (Darwin)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7379 |
To T. H. Huxley [29 December 1880]
Summary
Has asked Hooker to sign the Wallace memorial and send it on to THH.
Read splendid lecture by THH on evolution in the Times ["On the application of the laws of evolution to the arrangement of the Vertebrata and more particularly of the Mammalia", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1880): 649–62].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [29 Dec 1880] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 363) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12935 |
To P. L. Sclater 9 November 1870
Summary
Thanks PLS for his generous offer to go over the part on birds [in Descent]. Does not think PLS realises that there are more than 200 pages – most of which will have nothing new for him.
W. H. Hudson’s proofs have arrived ["Letters on the ornithology of Buenos Ayres", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1870): 87–9, 158–60, 332–4, 545–50, 671–3, 748–50, 798–82; (1871): 4–7, 258–62, 326–9].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 9 Nov 1870 |
Classmark: | Zoological Society of London (GB 0814 BADD (Darwin)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7362 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Sclater’s letter has not been found, but see the letter to P. L. …
- … Sclater, 4 November [1870] . Sclater had evidently offered to check the page proofs of the sections on birds in Descent , rather than just lists of names, as CD had suggested. CD presumably refers to the later parts of William Henry Hudson’s letters to the Zoological Society of London on the ornithology of Buenos Aires ( Hudson 1870 ). See letter to P. L. …
To Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther 6 March [1860]
Summary
Reports on the snakes he collected in the Galapagos.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Date: | 6 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2725 |
To John Murray 4 February [1860]
Summary
Final arrangements for new edition of Journal of researches [1860]. Wants one copy to give to P. L. Sclater, who has aided him.
Asks that copy of Origin be sent immediately to Schweizerbart for German translation.
Asa Gray is going to bring out an edition of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 4 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.84–85) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2686 |
To H. W. Bates [29 December 1880]
Summary
Asks HWB to sign the memorial, possibly with official title, and then to pass it quickly to Hooker.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | [29 Dec 1880] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12952 |
To J. D. Hooker [29 December 1880]
Summary
Asks JDH to read the enclosed Memorial, sign it, and send it to T. H. Huxley.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [29 Dec 1880] |
Classmark: | Jeffrey Winograd (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11300F |
To P. L. Sclater 14 February [1860]
Summary
Thanks PLS for information about variation in birds. Asks for more information.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 14 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.197) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2695 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … See letter from P. L. Sclater, 11 February 1860 . George Robert Gray , an assistant in …
- … Sclater, 11 February 1860 ). In Birds , pp. 34–5 and 45–6, Strix punctatissima and Pyrocephalus nanus were stated to be species that were confined to the Galápagos Islands. Sclater had recently advised CD that they also occurred in Ecuador (see letter from P. L. …
To P. L. Sclater 4 November [1870]
Summary
Asks PLS whether he will look over list of names of birds [for Descent] to make sure they are spelled correctly. "I have a most unfortunate weakness … to copy proper names incorrectly".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 4 Nov [1870] |
Classmark: | Zoological Society of London (GB 0814 BADD (Darwin)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7356 |
To John Murray 29 January [1860]
Summary
Had forgotten that Journal [of researches] was stereotyped. Not worth while now to improve style. Wants to make a few corrections, if possible, on p. 378.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 29 Jan [1860] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.96–97) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2668 |
To H. W. Bates 3 January 1881
Summary
Alarm over Wallace’s memorial; asks HWB if he has received it and forwarded it to Hooker. Wanted to get it to Gladstone before Parliament met.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 3 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12970 |
To P. L. Sclater 12 [March 1861]
Summary
Promises to send copy of Origin [3d ed.].
Is pleased that PLS has "become ""heretical"" on species".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 12 [Mar 1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.240) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3086 |
To B. D. Walsh 24 December [1866]
Summary
Balbiani’s puzzling observations on Aphis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 24 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5320 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 [January 1866]
Summary
Has found Verlot.
His sister [Emily Catherine Langton] is dying [d. 2 Feb 1866].
His stomach still very bad. Writes one or two hours and reads a little.
JDH is a wretch to remind CD of his coal-plant prophecy.
Glad JDH will give Nottingham lecture.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 [Jan 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 281 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4981 |
To P. L. Sclater 4 February [1860]
Summary
Thanks PLS for list of Galapagos birds.
Mentions note he will add to Journal [of researches (1860)]
and correction he will make in Origin [3d ed. (1861)].
Asks PLS about variability in "abnormal parts of birds".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 4 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.195) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2684 |
To P. L. Sclater 4 May [1861]
Summary
CD is unable to locate his specimens of two Falkland Island birds [Opetiorhynchus].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 4 May [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.246) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3138 |
To W. T. Van Dyck 3 April 1882
Summary
Very anxious that WTVD’s essay [on Syrian street dogs, see 13710] should be published. Has sent it to Zoological Society with a few introductory remarks [see 13753].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Thomson Van Dyck |
Date: | 3 Apr 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 15 (EH 88206067) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13757 |
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Sclater, P. L. | (13) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Bartlett, A. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Sclater, P. L. | (13) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |