From George Busk 10 September 1871
Summary
Replies to CD’s queries about the homologies of the avicularian and vibracular organs of Polyzoa and gives examples of gradations between the two.
| Author: | George Busk |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 383 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7930 |
From E. A. Darwin 10 September [1871]
Summary
Writes to check on stock certificates received.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Sept [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B76–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7931 |
To Alexander Agassiz 10 September [1871 or 1873]
Summary
Discusses exchange of books.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Agassiz |
| Date: | 10 Sept [1871 or 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7932 |
To Osbert Salvin 10 September [1871]
Summary
CD is interested in the gradation of character in the lamellae of the beaks of ducks. He finds that they are less developed or prominent in the common duck and goose than in true ducks. Is OS able to provide him with any information on this subject?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Osbert Salvin |
| Date: | 10 Sept [1871] |
| Classmark: | Sybil Rampen (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7932A |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Busk, George | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Agassiz, Alexander | (1) |
| Salvin, Osbert | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Agassiz, Alexander | (1) |
| Busk, George | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Salvin, Osbert | (1) |
Darwin's Fantastical Voyage
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Learn about Darwin's adventures on his epic journey.
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- … These activities explore Darwin’s life changing voyage aboard HMS Beagle. Using letters home, …
Darwin The Collector
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Look at nature more closely and create and record your own natural collections.
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- … Activities provide an introduction to Charles Darwin, how and why he collected so many specimens …
1.18 John Collier, oil in Linnean
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< Back to Introduction By 1881 it was clear to Darwin’s intimates that he was increasingly frail, and that, as he approached death, he had finally escaped from religious controversy to become a heroic figure, loved and venerated for his achievements…
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- … newly published Primer on Art , and received a pleasant letter of thanks. Darwin assured Collier …
- … . Linnean Society archive, manuscript letter LL/8, Darwin to Romanes, 27 May 1881. Correspondence …
- … of Portrait Painting (London etc.: Cassell, 1905), pp. 7, 9–10, 14–18, 35. Walter Herries Pollock, …
