From George Cupples 26 May 1868
Summary
Refers to letter from John Wright offering to help CD on his queries about deerhounds and sexual preferences.
More details about a terrier bitch previously referred to [letter missing].
Author: | George Cupples |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 127–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6211 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Mayhew . See letter from George Cupples, 11–13 May 1868 and 3d enclosure. See nn. 3 and …
- … had offered CD a deerhound puppy (see letter from George Cupples, 11–13 May 1868 ). …
- … See letter from George Cupples, 11–13 May 1868 and n. 9. The uncle has not been …
- … taken from a letter of Wright’s dated 11 May 1868, in his letter to CD of 13 July 1868 . …
To Ernst Dieffenbach 11 June [1844]
Summary
About the researches of Ehrenberg. "I have … sent him several packets of objects from my voyage & that of Dr. Hooker".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
Date: | 11 June [1844] |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-757 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 25 January 1844
Summary
Delighted to be able to contribute Infusoria to ED’s "great countryman Ehrenberg". Includes a list of eight substances from his collection described in detail, which Ehrenberg might find useful in his researches.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
Date: | 25 Jan 1844 |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-732 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 14 March 1844
Summary
[With the notation "If not there to be forwarded by favour of Prof. Liebig" on the address.] "I am very glad to hear that you are going to edit a German Geological Journal".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
Date: | 14 Mar 1844 |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-741 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 6 April 1845
Summary
With thanks for ED’s publication. "I consider your having made my work known in Germany a full & ample recompense to such exertions as I made during our Voyage".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
Date: | 6 Apr 1845 |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-852 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 6 April [1846]
Summary
On geological works of Tschudi and Buch.
"My health keeps indifferent & I do not suppose I shall ever be a strong man again: everything fatigues me, & I can work but little at my writing: this summer, however, I shall get out my geology of S. America".
"I found Bronn’s Geschichte, which you recommended me, very useful, for references to facts on variation".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
Date: | 6 Apr [1846] |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-972 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 16 December 1843
Summary
"You will have been sorry to have seen in the newspapers, the disturbances & fightings with the New Zealanders. – I have lately been much interested in reading your chapters on the slow decrease in numbers … of these poor people. The case appears to me very curious, especially as the decrease has commenced or continued since the introduction of the potato – the relation between the amount of population & of food is hence inverted. It would have been a case for the great Malthus to have reflected on".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
Date: | 16 Dec 1843 |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-725 |
From David Forbes 13 June 1870
Summary
Has completed a memoir on the Aymara Indians of Bolivia [J. Ethnol. Soc. n.s. 2 (1870): 193–305] and is going to lecture on them.
Believes he has data relevant to CD’s work on man.
Author: | David Forbes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 June 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7228 |
From George Peacock [c. 26 August 1831]
Summary
Details about FitzRoy and proposed voyage of Beagle. CD invited to go on the voyage as naturalist.
Author: | George Peacock |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 26 Aug 1831] |
Classmark: | DAR 97 (ser.2): 11–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-106 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 15 August [1843]
Summary
CD sends off his notes [corrections and additions to his Journal of researches] which he hopes ED will introduce [in German translation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
Date: | 15 Aug [1843] |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-689 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach [before 9 July 1845]
Summary
"It is evident that you have not time now to pay me a visit, & indeed as Mrs Darwin is in daily expectation of her confinement I could hardly have asked you … When I saw your name & that of many other naturalists at Cambridge, I wished much to have been there; but my strength so often fails me, that I expected more mortification than pleasure …
I should have liked to have heard the Crater-of-Elevation discussion; after having read both sides, I cannot subscribe to that view; but I think there remains something unexplained about those many vast circular volcanic ruins …
I presume it is very unprobable [sic] that there will ever be a second German Edition of my Journal … I have largely condensed, corrected & added to the Second English Edition, & I am sure have considerably improved & popularised it".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
Date: | [before 9 July 1845] |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-888 |
From John Lubbock 13 February 1862
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Feb 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 170.1: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3444 |
From J. D. Hooker [7 February 1875]
Summary
Has met Capt. George Strong Nares of the Challenger expedition at Huxley’s.
Huxley much at a loss to explain red clay at deep sea-bottom.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [7 Feb 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 11–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9843 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 2 October 1843
Summary
On ED’s planned edition [German] of CD’s Journal of researches.
Informs him of his forthcoming volume, Volcanic islands.
"I am well acquainted with your paper on Chatham Island ["An account of the Chatham Islands", J. R. Geogr. Soc. 11: 195–215], & … those passages on the very curious fact of the apparent specific differences of the birds there & at New Zealand".
Thanks ED for recognition of his "small labours in Natural History… . praise from men, like yourself, is the only, though quite sufficient, reward I ever expect or wish to obtain for my works. – I have lately had the extreme satisfaction of hearing that Hooker speaks highly of the accuracy … of my statements". Refers to Humboldt and Owen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
Date: | 2 Oct 1843 |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-698 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 9 February [1847]
Summary
On the results of Robert Bunsen’s journey to Iceland, which he compares in detail with his own research.
"I have for the present given up Geology, & am hard at work at pure Zoology & am dissecting various genera of cirripedes, & am extremely interested in the subject." "I always, however, keep on reading & observing on my favourite work on Variation or on Species, & shall in a year’s time or so, commence & get my notes in order."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
Date: | 9 Feb [1847] |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1059 |
From George Cupples 11–13 May 1868
Summary
Answers CD’s queries on difference in size of male and female Scottish deerhounds; female preference for larger males; details about ratio of sexes born. Quotes from letter of Archibald McNeill on difference in size of male and female Scotch deerhounds.
Author: | George Cupples |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11–13 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 119–20, DAR 83: 121–6, DAR 85: B28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6169 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … From George Cupples 11–13 May 1868 …
- … 83: 121–6, DAR 85: B28 George Cupples Guard Bridge 11–13 May 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 13 July 1868 ). His other correspondents were probably John Wright (see letter from George Cupples, 26 May 1868 ) and J. G. R. Barr (see letter from J. G. R. Barr to George Cupples [after 11 …
To Michael Foster 16 April 1871
Summary
Encloses two questions he hopes MF can answer: the mechanism of transmission by nerves; and the mechanism by which contemplating part of our body, we become conscious of its existence
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Michael Foster |
Date: | 16 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/16); DAR 195.1: 11–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7689G |
From J. R. G. Barr to George Cupples [after 11 May 1868?]
Author: | John Robert Goodwin Barr |
Addressee: | George Cupples |
Date: | [after 11 May 1868?] |
Classmark: | DAR 85: B27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6527 |
From C. H. Tindal 1 January 1880
Summary
Encloses extracts from the correspondence of [the Ven. Robert] Clive concerning Erasmus Darwin.
Author: | Charles Harrison Tindal |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 227.7: 11–13, 16, 18, 25, 128 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12392F |
From George Cupples 13 July 1868
Summary
Offers deerhound puppy.
Asks for photograph.
Encloses letter from George Cupples of notes, with excerpts from letters from Peter Robertson and John Wright, relating to difference in size between male and female deerhounds. Reports on weight statistics of ten [deerhound] puppies being observed.
Author: | George Cupples |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 July 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 129–32; DAR 161: 285 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6274 |
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