To August Kanitz 3 July [1867]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | August Kanitz |
Date: | 3 July [1867] |
Classmark: | C. G. Boerner in Leipzig (dealer) (4–6 December 1911) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5576F |
From E. A. Darwin 3 March 1867
Summary
He has promised Mark [coachman to R. W. Darwin and Susan] that CD will continue the payment of £20 a year after EAD’s death; the house is rent free.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B57–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5428 |
From W. S. Dallas 19 August 1868
Summary
The material [from F. Müller] makes the translation more like a new edition.
German entomologists are becoming Darwinists.
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6325 |
From John Lubbock 12 February 1867
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Feb 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5400 |
From Henry Walter Bates 11 March 1867
Summary
Sexual ornamentation of insects: coloration of Epicalia genus [of tropical S. American butterflies];
horned genera of lamellicorn beetles [see Descent 1: 370, 388].
Wallace brought CD’s question about gay-coloured caterpillars before the Entomological Society. Members now seeking explanations.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A36–9, A46–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5438 |
Lessona, Michele (1823–94)
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- … 1867. Rector, University of Turin, 1877–80. Senator of the realm, 1892. Translated some of CD’s works into Italian. British Medical Journal , 18 August 1894, p. 395 DBI . Bibliography DBI : Dizionario biografico degli Italiani. Edited by Alberto M. Ghisalberti et al. 100 vols. Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana. 1960–2020. 19,27,30 Darwin, C. R. …
To J. D. Hooker 17 December 1879
Summary
Miss Arabella Buckley’s letter on Wallace’s poor health and finances leads CD to seek JDH’s aid in getting a Government pension.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 491–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12360 |
From A. B. Meyer 24 November 1869
Summary
Wants to arrange a joint photograph of CD and Wallace for a publication on their lives and works.
Author: | Adolf Bernhard Meyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7008 |
To Charles Lyell [3 March 1866]
Summary
Has returned memorial to Chancellor of Exchequer; thanks CL for his note.
Lengthy remarks on cool period. Did not know of CL’s interest. New facts in new German and English [4th] editions of Origin will be too late for CL’s use. CD’s ten-year-old MS on cool period is available.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [3 Mar 1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.315) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5025 |
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- … 1867–8. Principles of geology or the modern changes of the earth and its inhabitants considered as illustrative of geology. 10th edition. 2 vols. London: John Murray. Natural selection : Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. …
From George Henslow 1 November 1865
Summary
Has made observations on pollination mechanism in Medicago sativa [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 327–9], which his brother-in-law [J. D. Hooker] would accept. Wants to check that CD has not already made them.
Also sends interpretation of Salvia.
His observations come from following CD’s generalisation in Origin [p. 79] on necessity of out-crossing.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Nov 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 150 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4928 |
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- … 1867): 327–9. Jackson, Benjamin Daydon. 1928. A glossary of botanic terms with their derivation and accent. 4th edition. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Natural selection : Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. …
From Charles Lyell 10 March 1866
Summary
Comments on cool-period MS. Still believes geographical changes principal cause of former changes of climate.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 408–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5031 |
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- … 1867–8. Principles of geology or the modern changes of the earth and its inhabitants considered as illustrative of geology. 10th edition. 2 vols. London: John Murray. Natural selection : Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. …
To Charles Lyell 20 November [1860]
Summary
Admires Edward Forbes’s theory of continental extensions, but it will discourage investigation of distribution.
Mentions Oswald Heer’s proposed map of Atlantis.
Discusses extinction of plants caused by the glacial era. Migration of plants and animals during glacial period.
Encourages CL’s work [on Antiquity of man (1863)].
Comments on unfriendly reviews. Asks CL’s opinion about including a reply to reviewers in next edition of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 20 Nov [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.233) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2989 |
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- … 1867–8. Principles of geology or the modern changes of the earth and its inhabitants considered as illustrative of geology. 10th edition. 2 vols. London: John Murray. Natural selection : Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. …
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