From G. H. Darwin 30 December 1871
Summary
Varying depth of top-soil in a ridge-and-furrow field with a depression.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Dec 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8124 |
From Erasmus Galton 30 December 1871
Summary
After reading Descent sends two instances of men and animals using the same muscles to express similar emotional states.
| Author: | Erasmus Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Dec 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8125 |
To Archibald Geikie 30 December 1871
Summary
Is obliged for valuable letter [see 8123] and encloses queries about the manner of gradual obliteration of ridges or furrows in old pasture lands in various parts of England.
Gives details of his experiment to test his observations of the downward flow of worm-casts.
Refers to [Lyon] Playfair, [A. C.] Ramsay, and AG’s edition of [J. B.] Jukes, [A student’s manual of geology, 3d ed., 1872].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Archibald Geikie |
| Date: | 30 Dec 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 133 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8125F |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Galton, Erasmus | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Geikie, Archibald | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Galton, Erasmus | (1) |
| Geikie, Archibald | (1) |
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
Matches: 15 hits
- … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
- … 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34 —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
- … M rs Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
- … Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
- … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
- … of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to …
- … ( Notebooks , pp. 319–28). 55 The letter was addressed to Nicholas Aylward Vigors …
- … to William Jackson Hooker. See Correspondence vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 or 12 November …
- … 119: 21b Broughton, William Grant. 1832. A letter in vindication of the principles of …
- … by Bekhur to Garoo and the Lake Manasarowara: with a letter from … J. G. Gerard, Esq. …
- … 1830. On the dying struggle of the dichotomous sytem. In a letter to N. A. Vigors. Philosophical …
- … *119: 8v., 22v.; *128: 165 ——. 1850a. Letter to the Rev. John Bachman, on the question of …
- … for the Advancement of Science held at Manchester , pp. 12–30. *128: 159 ——. 1851. …
- … art of improving the breeds of domestic animals. In a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Sir …
- … 1820. Remarks on the improvement of cattle, &c. in a letter to Sir John Saunders Sebright, …
