To George Robert Waterhouse 5 March [1867?]
Summary
Wishes to know the correct name for the British Museum’s specimen of an Abyssinian wolf described by Wilhelm Rueppell, Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien [1835–40] .
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
| Date: | 5 Mar [1867?] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/9/22) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1394 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 5 March [1867]
Summary
Asks whether WBT can carry out poultry mating experiments for him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 5 Mar [1867] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5431 |
To Frederic William Farrar 5 March 1867
Summary
Much obliged for lecture [On some defects in public school education (1867)]. Would leave classics to those with zeal and taste for appreciation. Learned nothing at school except by reading and experimenting in chemistry.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frederic William Farrar |
| Date: | 5 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5432 |
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Farrar, F. W. | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
| Waterhouse, G. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Farrar, F. W. | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
| Waterhouse, G. R. | (1) |
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … by the cavities formed by this animal.—’ (DAR 31.2: 305). He gave a detailed description and …
Saint Helena
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Curious geological history
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- … Talks of his five days working on the geology of Saint Helena, of meeting the astronomer John …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … to J. H. Gilbert, 12 January 1882 ). In Earthworms , p. 305, Darwin had remarked on the …
