From A. A. van Bemmelen and H. J. Veth 6 February 1877
Summary
A letter from CD’s admirers in the Netherlands, sent with an album of their photographs, in celebration of his sixty-eighth birthday.
Presents an account of early efforts in the Netherlands in the direction of developmental theories, and evidence of the support and enthusiastic reception given CD’s theory.
| Author: | Adriaan Anthoni van Bemmelen; Huibert Johannes Veth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | English Heritage, Down House (EH 88202653) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10831 |
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- … edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Lyell, Charles. 1867–8. Principles of geology or …
- … Louis-Constant Prévost , see Corsi 1988 ; Charles Lyell’s opposition to transmutation is …
- … vol. 7, letter from J. D. Hooker and Charles Lyell to the Linnean Society, 30 June 1858 ). …
- … see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). Harting 1862–74 . …
- … your illustrious countryman, Sir Charles Lyell, was staying for a few days in Utrecht. In …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Rudwick, Martin John Spencer. 1998. Lyell …
To Gaston de Saporta 11 October 1877
Summary
Thanks GdeS for communicating his discovery. It is especially important at a time when several naturalists have declared that development occurs quite suddenly at intervals. Joseph Le Conte in N. America urges that even new families and orders are developed within an extremely short period.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
| Date: | 11 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 422 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11179 |
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- … of Science. American Naturalist 9: 481–98. Lyell, Charles. 1830–3. Principles of geology, …
- … l’Académie des sciences ( Saporta 1877 ). Charles Lyell had died in 1875. In the 1830s, he …
- … Lyell had been alive how he would have rejoiced over these two great steps in the history of the vegetable kingdom— With cordial good wishes, & a firm belief that you will make many more important discoveries— | I remain Dear Sir. | Yours faithfully— | Charles …
From M. C. Stanley 19 September 1877
Summary
Count Schouvaloff asserts that CD’s works are prohibited in Russia. Is he not mistaken?
| Author: | Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 169 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11146 |
From A. R. Wallace 17 January 1877
Summary
Thanks for new edition of Orchids.
The remarkable papers of Mott on Ernst Haeckel ["On Haeckel’s history of creation", Proc. Lit. & Philos. Soc. Liverpool 31 (1876–7): 41–89].
The part played by carbon in geological changes.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B132–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10801 |
To Thomas Belt 18 January 1877
Summary
Thinks it would be a serious mistake for TB to give up his profession. How the Royal Society will distribute funds is as yet very uncertain, and CD feels that TB may well receive no support as his proposal is too theoretical.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Belt |
| Date: | 18 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 83 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10804 |
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| Bemmelen, A. A. van | (1) |
| Gascoyne-Cecil, M. C. | (1) |
| Sackville-West, M. C. | (1) |
| Stanley, M. C. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Belt, Thomas | (1) |
| Saporta, Gaston de | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Belt, Thomas | (1) |
| Bemmelen, A. A. van | (1) |
| Gascoyne-Cecil, M. C. | (1) |
| Sackville-West, M. C. | (1) |
Darwin in Conversation exhibition
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Meet Charles Darwin as you have never met him before. Come to our exhibition at Cambridge University Library, running from 9 July to 3 December 2022, and discover a fascinating series of interwoven conversations with Darwin's many hundreds of…
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- … 9 July – 3 December 2022 Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University …
