To Adam Sedgwick 13 October 1868
Summary
Thanks AS for congratulations on George Darwin’s Trinity fellowship.
Reminiscence of his geological tour of North Wales with AS and the encouraging messages received during the Beagle voyage.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Adam Sedgwick |
| Date: | 13 Oct 1868 |
| Classmark: | Mrs Romney Sedgwick (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6418 |
From Adam Sedgwick 11 October 1868
Summary
Congratulates CD on election of his son [George] as a Fellow of Trinity College.
Describes his ill health.
Invites CD to visit Cambridge.
[Letter dated November in error.]
| Author: | Adam Sedgwick |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Oct 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 129 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6416 |
To T. M. Hughes 24 May 1875
Summary
Reports some details of the geological tour he took with Sedgwick in North Wales in 1831. Recalls how neither he nor Sedgwick saw the obvious signs of past glaciation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas McKenny Hughes |
| Date: | 24 May 1875 |
| Classmark: | Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences (Archive DDF Box 720) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9993 |
Sedgwick, Adam. 1870. Supplement to the memorial of the trustees of Cowgill Chapel, with an appendix &c. printed in 1868. Cambridge: printed at the University Press (privately published).
Sedgwick, Adam. 1870. Supplement to the memorial of the trustees of Cowgill Chapel, with an appendix &c. printed in 1868. Cambridge: Printed at the University Press (privately published).
To W. D. Fox 21 October [1868]
Summary
Reminds WDF to write about the "great magpie marriage". Sexual selection an "everlasting subject".
News of his children.
Asks for information on instances of sexual preference in animals and data on numbers of males and females born in various domesticated species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 21 Oct [1868] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 149); DAR 266 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6426 |
To T. H. Farrer 26 November 1868
Summary
Advises THF that best plan is to investigate the part certain structures play with all plants or orders, instead of describing means of fertilisation in particular plants. Naturalists value observations far more than reasoning.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 26 Nov 1868 |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6475 |
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- … 1868 , Farrer had enumerated several points concerning flower structure that he associated with adaptation to insect agency in fertilisation. See enclosure to letter from T. H. Farrer, 21 November 1868 and n. 4. Farrer evidently asked whether he could borrow Traité générale de botanique descriptive et analytique (Le Maout and Decaisne 1868). George Howard Darwin had recently been elected a fellow of Trinity College, which had a copy of the book (see letter from Adam Sedgwick, …
To G. H. Darwin [24 March 1868]
Summary
CD relays the advice of Sir W. R. Grove on the dismal prospects of a law career.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [24 Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6044 |
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- … 1868] . CD had visited William Robert Grove (see letter to W. R. Grove, 23 March [1868] ). The reference is to Grove’s eldest son, Florence Craufurd Grove, and to his son-in-law, William Edward Hall . Grove’s other son-in-law has not been identified. George was elected a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, in October 1868 (see letter from Adam Sedgwick, …
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