To Charles Lyell 3 September [1874]
Summary
Discusses belief in immortality and a personal God.
Describes his holiday in Southampton.
Comments on papers of John Wesley Judd.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 3 Sept [1874] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.448) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9621 |
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 3 September [1874]
Summary
Will prepare experiments with the fatty acids on digestion of gluten. Has found it is digested slowly, but entirely, with pepsin and hydrochloric acid.
Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Sept [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9623 |
From Chauncey Wright 3 September 1874
Summary
Writes at length on the origins and meanings of particular head movements as used to express assent or disagreement, especially the sideways movements of the head as an expression of consideration or contemplation.
Also discusses space and colour perception.
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Sept 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 172, 173 f. 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9624 |
To D. F. Nevill 3 September 1874
Summary
Thanks DFN for her letter [see 9620].
Has nearly finished work on Dionaea.
Asks her to send a specimen of Drosera dichotoma.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
Date: | 3 Sept 1874 |
Classmark: | Nevill 1910, pp. 107–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9624F |
letter | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
Wright, Chauncey | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Nevill, D. F. | (1) |
Walpole, D. F. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Nevill, D. F. | (1) |
Walpole, D. F. | (1) |