To ? [2 June? 1840]
Summary
Can give no information on the separation of the sexes in the guanaco.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [2 June? 1840] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Charnwood Autographs Vol. IV Add MS 70951: 315) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-570F |
List of correspondents
Summary
Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
Matches: 19 hits
- … (2) Appleton, T. G. (6) Arnold, F. S. …
- … (15) Bartlett, Edward (6) Bartlett, R. S. …
- … (1) Boardman, A. F. (6) Boccardo, Gerolamo …
- … (2) Bonham-Carter, E. M. (6) Bonham-Carter, …
- … (1) Browne, Walter (6) Brownen, George …
- … (17) Buckland, William (6) Buckler, William …
- … (2) Child, G. W. (6) Children, J. G. …
- … (1) Clarke, W. B. (b) (6) Claus, C. F. …
- … P. (2) Coe, Henry (6) Coghlan, John …
- … (2) Crüger, Hermann (6) Cuming, Hugh …
- … (1) Darwin, Amy (6) Darwin, Anne Eliza …
- … (47) Darwin, Sara (6) Darwin, V. H. …
- … (2) Davidson, Thomas (6) Davis, J. E. …
- … (1) Dear Friend (6) Delage, Yves (1) …
- … (13) Denny, John (6) Desmarest, Eugène …
- … (3) Elliot, Walter (6) Elliott & Fry …
- … (39) Fabre, Jean-Henri (6) Fairfax, Mary …
- … (9) Galton, E. S. (6) Galton, Erasmus …
- … Linnean Society (1) Unidentified (204) …
3.15 George Charles Wallich, photo
Summary
< Back to Introduction In the years around 1868–1871, when professional photographers competed for sittings with Darwin, a doctor called George Charles Wallich approached him with a similar request. Wallich was planning to publish a set of his own…
Matches: 2 hits
- … Library, which carries the Downeys’ label. A previous unidentified owner wrote on it by hand ‘Bought …
- … computer-readable date 1871-05-01 to 1871-06-30 medium and material photograph, carte …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
Summary
The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
Matches: 8 hits
- … On 6 March 1868, Darwin wrote to the entomologist and accountant John Jenner Weir, …
- … Index-maker’, Darwin wrote to Joseph Dalton Hooker on 6 January . Darwin had sent the manuscript …
- … but never fulfilled. He was sent a news clipping on 6 July from the Maryport Weekly Advertiser …
- … that had been discovered in a thornbush in Cumberland. An unidentified correspondent offered facts …
- … House of Commons than any assembly in the world’ (from ?, 6 April 1868). On 21 May , Darwin …
- … The Swiss botanist Alphonse de Candolle described on 6 July the inheritance over eight …
- … is too short for so long a discussion’, he wrote on 6 April . Yet Wallace continued to press him, …
- … you as their leader’ ( letter from Gaston de Saporta, 6 September 1868 ). The support …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
Matches: 6 hits
- … in miniature, upwards of 400 volumes!’ This in a cabin 6 feet 6 inches square! Since most of …
- … 2e Partie, Zoologie . Paris, 1816–30. (DAR 30.1: 6, 12v.). Darwin Library–CUL. § …
- … Library–Down. Cook, James. Voyages (editions unidentified; see also Hawkesworth, John). …
- … 2 vols. London, 1829. (DAR 37.2: 798; Stoddart 1962, pp. 6, 8, 11). Encyclopædia …
- … Darwin Buenos Ayres Sept. 1833’). CUL Adv.d.79.22–6. § Rivero, Mariano de. Memoria sobre el …
- … of the Geological Society of London 1 (1834): 21–6. (DAR 35.2: 357). Carne, Joseph. On the …
Darwin’s observations on his children
Summary
Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…
Matches: 13 hits
- … temper you will only consider “What does that prove”.’[6] For in these notes, Darwin’s deep …
- … gently in my arms which made him scream violently, which 6 could only have been caused by the …
- … Jan 20 the baby 3 weeks & 3 days old. 6 lb – 13 oz lbs oz …
- … Feb. 17 7 wks & 3 days 8 – 5 6 wks 8 – 4 …
- … July 9 — 17 – 6 19 lb — Bernard[26] …
- … of Annie few days ago jealous of my weighing Baby May 6 th .— he said pretty & Papa for …
- … he give Willy? Sugar?” alluding to the sugar candy. It is 6 months since he saw him, remembered …
- … my face (which was done pretty handsomely) “Oh By Jo 5—6—ten kisses!! Lenny After a bit of …
- … & mother & don’t know where to find them. About 6 lying on the rug. I said, my boys …
- … stroked him.— That cow will bite. 45v. Aug 22 6 yrs old Lizzy coming out of the drawing …
- … as “laughing, talking & kissing ”.[76] June 6— 1854. Lenny after quarrelling with …
- … and 1985b. See also Autobiography , pp. 131–2. [6] Correspondence vol. 2, letter from …
- … in Emma Darwin’s hand. [81] This sentence is in an unidentified child’s hand. …
