To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 30 April [1876]
Summary
Suggests JSBS’s new machine for observing arterial action be used to test CD’s hypothesis that blushing is caused by thinking intensely about a part of the body and thus releasing the arteries.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 30 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-01) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10485 |
From Edward Cresy 10 November 1860
Summary
Explains discrepancies in weights and measures caused by changes since 1836 in apothecaries’ measures.
EC has found that a discrepancy in A. W. von Hofmann’s experiments with iodine solutions resulted from an error in Hofmann’s use of decimals.
Reports S. P. Woodward’s opinion of the Origin: "a very sad book, it unsettles all one’s religious principles and the worst of it is so much of it is true".
Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Nov 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 7, 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2980 |
From Leonard Darwin [after 14 February 1874]
Author: | Leonard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 14 Feb 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8709 |
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Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Darwin, Leonard | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
Darwin, Leonard | (1) |
hothouse in Commentary
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
Summary
At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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