From R. O. Jones 20 November 1871
Summary
The horns of castrated male lambs compared with horns of ewes. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 506.]
Author: | Robert Owen Jones |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Nov 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 119–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8078 |
From C. G. Semper 5 October 1878
Author: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Oct 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 140 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11716 |
To W. E. Darwin 27 [February 1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 27 [Feb 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2227 |
To W. E. Darwin 15 March [1871]
Summary
Wants WED to thank F. de Chaumont for some valuable observations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (RAMC/473/1). Trustees of the Army Medical Services Museum. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11936 |
To W. E. Darwin [after 11 November 1871]
Summary
Sends enclosure for Captain Jones.
Comments on essay by E. D. Cope ["On the origin of genera", Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 20 (1868): 242–300].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [after 11 Nov 1871] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.502) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8039 |
To W. E. Darwin 11 February [1871]
Summary
Would like precise details about pouting of English children to add to his information about children of savages.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 11 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 31) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8208 |
To Francis Darwin 18 June [1878]
Summary
Has been observing the movements of leaves and cotyledons; sleep movements are exaggerated circumnutation. Reports some odd observations on movement in Oxalis species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 18 June [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11559 |
From W. E. Darwin 17 and 20 May [1863]
Summary
Alarmed that CD did not see what WED saw in Corydalis lutea. Has found buckbean in the New Forest. Will get seeds of Corydalis claviculata.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 and 20 May 1863 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 16) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4168F |
To G. W. Norman 15 September [1876]
Summary
Thanks GWN for condolences on death of Amy, his daughter-in-law.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Warde Norman |
Date: | 15 Sept [1876] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.497) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10599 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 2 June 1878
Summary
Cactus and Cycas seedlings: observations and queries.
Working hard on plant movements.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 2 June 1878 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 126–7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11540 |
From W. E. Darwin 11 November 1871
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 121–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8061 |
From W. E. Darwin [19 November 1871]
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19 Nov 1871] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 37) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8041F |
To W. E. Darwin 19 [June 1866]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 19 [June 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5125 |
From F. S. B. F. de Chaumont to W. E. Darwin 16 April 1871
Author: | Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 16 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 136 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7688 |
From F. S. B. F. de Chaumont to W. E. Darwin 11 March 1871
Summary
In response to queries on expression, which WED had asked on CD’s behalf, reports on shrugging and pouting observed in his children.
Author: | Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 135 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7573 |
To Francis Darwin 20 September [1876]
Summary
Suggests German works worth translating.
Is glad FD is keeping busy; he has worked excellently on proof-sheets [of Orchids (1877)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 20 Sept [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10611 |
From W. E. Darwin 11 October [1862]
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3756F |
To W. E. Darwin 11 September [1876]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 11 Sept [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10593 |
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