From Edward Cresy 9 June 1865
Summary
Sends Fritz Müller citation as CD requested.
Huxley is boldly proclaiming his Darwinism at Royal Institution ["Methods and results of ethnology", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4: 460–3; also Collected essays 7 (1894)].
| Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 June 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 244 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4856 |
From James Buckman 10 October 1864
Summary
Sends a poem about sowing kidney beans.
| Author: | James Buckman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Oct 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.6: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4631F |
From W. E. Darwin [April–May 1865]
Summary
Sends camera outlines of pollen. Thinks the red longstyled ones are more sterile than the yellow.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Apr–May 1865] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 20) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4506F |
To H. E. Litchfield 2 December [1871]
Summary
Sends MS chapter on voice from Expression to HL for examination.
Agrees with R. B. Litchfield about Herbert Spencer’s views on speech and music.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 2 Dec [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8089 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1863 now in DAR 89: 131–2 ( Helmholtz 1868 ; see Correspondence vol. 20, letter from G. H. Darwin, 2 May 1872 ). CD discussed Helmholtz’s research, which linked the emotional impression of certain musical notes to the shape of the ear cavity, in Expression , p. 91. Henrietta Litchfield was regarded as a stern critic by CD and his scientific colleagues ( see letter to H. E. …
From H. E. Strickland 8 February 1849
Summary
The priority rule has only diverted vanity to a rush to be first. Has no objection to CD’s suggestion that good books be quoted in preference to first descriptions if there is a chance by this means of developing this silly vanity into ambition to advance knowledge. Still, this must not affect the rule of priority. Responds to CD’s four cases.
| Author: | Hugh Edwin Strickland |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Feb 1849 |
| Classmark: | Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1223 |
| Buckman, James | (1) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Strickland, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Buckman, James | (1) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
