To A. S. Horner 25 May [1851]
Summary
Thanks for her sympathy on the death of Annie Darwin, and sends news of Emma Darwin and the baby Horace.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Anne Susanna Lloyd; Anne Susanna Horner |
| Date: | 25 May [1851] |
| Classmark: | Cheffins (dealers) (10 January 2019, lot 209) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1428F |
To Leonard Horner 20 March [1861]
Summary
Comments on LH’s "Anniversary Address of the President", [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 17 (1861): xxxi–lxxii]. Notes LH’s comments on metamorphism, antiquity of man, and the Bible. Thanks him for his remarks on Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Horner |
| Date: | 20 Mar [1861] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (9–10 July 2018, lot 374) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3094 |
Horner, J. B. (1823–1916)
Matches: 2 hits
- … Horner, of Walks in Florence and its environs (1873) and translator, with Leonora Pertz, of German works. England & Wales, national probate calendar ( index of wills and administrations ) , 1858–1966 (Ancestry.com, accessed 10 …
- … 10 August 2016) Bibliography Freeman, Richard Broke. 1978. Charles Darwin: a companion. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, Shoe String Press. NUC : The national union catalog. Pre-1956 imprints. 685 vols. and supplement (69 vols. ). London and Chicago: Mansell. 1968–81. 4,5,7,11,14 Horner, …
To K. M. Lyell 20 November 1881
Summary
Thanks for Life, letters and journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart. (K. M. Lyell ed. 1881), but he has already ordered a copy. Can he send the ordered copy to her to give to another, or can he send it on her behalf?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Katharine Murray Horner; Katharine Murray Lyell |
| Date: | 20 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | Kinnordy MS (private collection) (Sold at Sotheby’s (dealers), 9–10 July 2018, lot 375) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13492F |
From J. D. Hooker 16 February 1864
Summary
CD’s climbing plant experiments make it impossible to deny nerve force in plants.
Has discussed Frankland’s new glacial theory with Lyell.
Bishop Colenso’s trial.
Possibility of Scott’s coming to Kew as a curator.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 183–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4408 |
Horner, Leonora (1818–1908)
Matches: 1 hit
- … Horner, of German works. Married the German historian Georg Heinrich Jacob Pertz in Berlin in 1854. Died in Cambridge. ADB s.v. Pertz, Georg Heinrich BMD ( Marriage index, Death index ) Census returns of England and Wales 1901 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG13/77/197/57) England & Wales, national probate calendar ( index of wills and administrations ) , 1858–1966 (Ancestry.com, accessed 10 …
To Charles Lyell 10 November [1856]
Summary
Illnesses of Mrs Horner and Emma Darwin.
Death of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood.
Mentions work on his "Big Book" [Natural selection].
Remarks on J. A. H. de Bosquet’s discovery of a Chthamalus in the Chalk.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 10 Nov [1856] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.140) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1984 |
From J. D. Hooker 15 September 1863
Summary
Pleased CD accepts continental extension for New Zealand, whose flora has many genera like Rubus with great diversity and connecting intermediates. Suggests geological uplifting creates more space, hence opportunities for preservation of intermediates. Sees clash with CD on causes of extreme diversity of form in a group.
JDH’s attitude toward democratisation of science.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Sept 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 163–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4306 |
To A. S. Horner [4 October 1842]
Summary
Emma recovering well from birth of third child, Mary Eleanor.
Sorry to hear Leonard Horner has been ill.
Has received high praise of Coral reefs from Lyell.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Anne Susanna Lloyd; Anne Susanna Horner |
| Date: | [4 Oct 1842] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 1 (EH 88206053) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-648 |
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- … Horner , their daughter. Refers to the controversial election of a successor to William Lonsdale as Curator of the Geological Society. However the election did not take place until December. See letters to Lyell, [5 and 7 October 1842] , and William Hallowes Miller , [16 October – 27 November 1842]. Lonsdale had retired from his position because of ill health. On this occasion his friends presented him with a silver cup and a subscription of £600 ( Geikie 1875 , 1: 372). According to his Account Book (Down House MS), CD contributed £10. …
To J. D. Dana 5 April [1857]
Summary
Asks whether Crustacea from temperate parts of the Southern Hemisphere are more strongly analogous to those in same latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere than are Arctic to Antarctic Crustacea.
Discusses astonishing finds of mammalian and reptilian remains in Purbeck beds; notes reactions of Lyell.
Has doubts about Richard Owen’s recent classification of mammals [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 2 (1858): 1–37].
Works away [on Natural selection].
Asa Gray has given valuable assistance.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
| Date: | 5 Apr [1857] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2072 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10, below). C. Lyell 1857a . Copies of this and the revised edition, C. Lyell 1857b , are in the Darwin Library–CUL. Both contain annotations. Joseph Barrande, a French geologist living in exile in Prague, had found a ‘colony’ of Upper Silurian fossils in the Lower Silurian strata, which Lyell, in a letter of 23 August 1856 to Leonard Horner , …
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| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Horner, A. S. | (2) |
| Lloyd, A. S. | (2) |
| Dana, J. D. | (1) |
| Horner, K. M. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Horner, A. S. | (2) |
| Lloyd, A. S. | (2) |
| Dana, J. D. | (1) |
