To John Tyndall 11 April 1873
Summary
Sends JT the list and amounts subscribed for Huxley. It will probably amount to £1800. He will write to Huxley and use every argument he can to make him accept.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 11 Apr 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 14 (EH 88205952) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8856 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Bibliography Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1904): Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Edited by …
- … Lyell, who had raised the idea of a subscription in conversation with Emma Darwin on 4 …
- … April 1873 ( Emma Darwin’s diary ( …
- … DAR 242); Emma Darwin (1904) 2: 262). CD refers to Joseph Dalton Hooker . See also letter …
To John Tyndall 14 February 1879
Summary
Has been asked to contribute to W. K. Clifford memorial fund. Asks JT’s advice on how much the committee hopes to raise. Would like to give handsomely but feels bound "with such a lot of children, not to be extravagant".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 30 (EH 88205968) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11882 |
To John Tyndall 25 October [1875]
Summary
Asks JT to send the tubes [of boiled infusions]. Frank Darwin will do his best. Asks for full instructions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 25 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 23 (EH 88205961) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10222 |
To John Tyndall 4 December [1878]
Summary
Has observed, perhaps erroneously, that certain plants were excited to movement by a prolonged high note on the bassoon. Would now like to try a siren and asks JT to bring one from the Royal Institution.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 4 Dec [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 27 (EH 88205965) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11771 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … is figured on p. 77). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242),Tyndall visited Down on …
- … Darwin played the bassoon ( DNB ). CD was evidently studying the sensitivity of plants to sound but no notes on his experiments have been found. CD had stayed at the London home of Richard Buckley and Henrietta Emma …
To John Tyndall 27 December 1874
Summary
Asks JT to persuade Lady Lubbock to change physicians and put herself in the care of Andrew Clark. Thinks this alone will save her.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 27 Dec 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 22 (EH 88205960) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9784 |
To John Tyndall 20 October 1868
Summary
Invites JT to come to Down with the Asa Grays and Hookers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 6 (EH: 88205944) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6424 |
To John Tyndall 8 April [1873]
Summary
CD will write to William Spottiswoode about the fund for Huxley. CD is raising his subscription to £300. "We have done a good day’s work … [it] gives me a higher opinion of human nature than I had before, though I am not one of those who think lowly of mankind."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 8 Apr [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 13 (EH 88205951) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8850 |
To John Tyndall 20 October [1875]
Summary
JT’s tube [of boiled infusion] dated 16 Oct was clear on 19th; on the 20th it was muddy and contained many bacteria in living movement.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 20 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10207 |
From John Tyndall 5 December 1878
Summary
Will provide the siren.
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: C22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11774 |
From John Tyndall 21 April 1873
Summary
[Sir Joseph?] Whitworth’s contribution brings total to over £2000. Wishes CD could be persuaded to come to lunch with Huxley and Emerson.
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Apr 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: C15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8870 |
From John Tyndall 23 October [1875]
Summary
Asks whether he may send two or three other tubes [of boiled infusions] to be placed in the open and observed for him.
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: C19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10218 |
From John Tyndall 8 April [1873]
Summary
William Spottiswoode was not at home, but JT sought out Herbert Spencer. Spencer will come with JT to see CD [about the Huxley fund].
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Apr [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: C10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8849 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Tyndall, John | (4) |
| Tyndall, John | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
