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Arthur Mellersh
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Arthur Mellersh was a midshipman (promoted to mate during the voyage) serving on the Beagle at the time when Darwin was travelling around the world. One account suggests an inauspicious start to their friendship; apparently Mellersh introduced himself…
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- … Arthur Mellersh was a midshipman (promoted to mate during the voyage) serving …
- … an inauspicious start to their friendship; apparently Mellersh introduced himself saying ‘I’m Arthur …
- … the Burma Campaign in 1852, and in 1853 Darwin learned in a letter from Syms Covington that Mellersh …
- … success he was promoted to captain. A decade later Mellersh was fortunate enough to find …
- … till the early morning ’. This did not dissuade Mellersh from keeping up the acquaintance, …
- … also enquired about some birds they had seen in Patagonia (Mellersh remembered them only as ‘ those …
- … ’) with the intention of introducing them to England. Mellersh returned to England in 1864 and …
- … retirement pay . In an interesting twist of fate, Mellersh settled in Fernhurst, Sussex, on …
- … was a naturalist and regular correspondent with Darwin. Mellersh called Anthony Salvin’s buildings ‘ …
- … have had a cordial relationship with Osbert . In 1877 Mellersh acted as go-between …
- … saw each other in person after their youthful days at sea, Mellersh was part of a network of retired …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
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- … , Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and …
- … from a family that the Darwins had befriended. The year 1877 was more than usually full of honours. …
- … of respect and affection’. He hinted as much in his letter of 4 June : ‘you will see I have done …
- … of a very heavy shower’, William wrote on 24 August 1877 . ‘The leaves were not at all depressed; …
- … have shared Hooker’s suspicion of ambitious gardeners ( letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 25 August …
- … … tap one of the young leaves with a delicate twig’ ( letter to R. I. Lynch, 14 September 1877 ). …
- … , or to the vibratory flagella of some Infusoria’ ( letter from F. J. Cohn, 5 August 1877 ). …
- … wrote to the editor, George Croom Robertson, on 27 April 1877 , ‘I hope that you will be so good …
- … had written to the editor Ernst Ludwig Krause on 30 June 1877 , ‘I have been much interested by …
- … the German debate (letters to W. E. Gladstone, 2 October 1877 and 25 October [1877] ). …
- … his sense of form and of motion was exact and lively’ ( letter from W. E. Gladstone, 23 October …
- … Darwin and Ernst Haeckel). Writing to Darwin on 11 March 1877 , Krause declared the journal ‘an …
- … the Westphalian Provincial Society for Science and Art. In a letter to Darwin written before 16 …
- … the only one full-page in size. Haeckel sent a personal letter of congratulation on 9 February , …
- … (see Appendix V). The album arrived with a long letter from the director and secretary of the …
- … reported, ‘but found him as soft & smooth as butter’ ( letter to C. E. Norton, 16 March 1877 ) …
- … write to Owen & offer himself you & me to dejeuner!!!’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 June …
- … where I hope it may remain for centuries to come’ ( letter from C. C. Graham, 30 January 1877 ). …
- … you in the interests of truth, of man and of societies’ ( letter from Marcellin de Bonnal, [1877] …
- … forms were discovered around the world. The naval officer Arthur Mellersh, an old shipmate of Darwin …
- … who reportedly had hard inflexible tails ( letter from Arthur Mellersh, 1 January 1877 ). The …
Bartholomew James Sulivan
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On Christmas Day 1866, Bartholomew Sulivan sat down to write a typically long and chatty letter to his old friend, Charles Darwin, commiserating on shared ill-health, glorying in the achievements of their children, offering to collect plant specimens, and…
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- … Sulivan sat down to write a typically long and chatty letter to his old friend, Charles Darwin, …
- … clothes & dry blankets for the first time for weeks.’ ( Letter from B. J. Sulivan, 25 December …
- … encouraged. In 1862 he organised a reunion at Down with Arthur Mellersh and John Clements Wickham …
- … in 1864. He was knighted in 1869 and promoted admiral in 1877. …
