To John Lubbock 2 August [1866]
Summary
Has read abstract of JL’s paper ["On the present state of archaeological science", Athenæum 21 July 1866, pp. 79–82] and praises it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 2 Aug [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 63 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5172 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John …
- … To John Lubbock 2 August [1866] …
- … 63 Charles Robert Darwin Down 2 Aug [1866] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … between this letter and the letter from John Lubbock, 4 August 1866 . The reference is to …
- … Horace Gordon. 1914. Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London: Macmillan. …
To John Lubbock 15 November 1866
Summary
Asks JL to look up a paper by Thomas Hincks on Polyzoa or Bryozoa [Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 2d ser. 1 (1861): 278–81].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 15 Nov 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 1 (EH 88205926) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5278 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 October [1866]
Summary
Did not think JDH had written Murray review [see 5217].
Does not think Gardeners’ Chronicle best for publication of "Insular floras" [Gard. Chron. (1867): 6–7, 27, 50–1, 75–6].
T. Laxton’s article, on direct action of pollen of peas on seed and pod, a grand physiological fact and "delightful" for Pangenesis.
Interview with Herbert Spencer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 Oct [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 301 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5227 |
To Robert Swinhoe [September 1866]
Summary
Hooker’s lecture to BAAS ["Insular floras"] was capital,
but hears Wallace’s paper [Address to Anthropology Section, Rep. BAAS 36 (1866): 93–4] was best.
Pleased RS continues zealous work for natural history.
CD considers the report that N. American antelopes’ horns are intermediate between hollow and solid horns of ruminants to be one of the more curious facts he has lately heard of with respect to higher animals [C. A. Canfield, "On the habits of the prongbuck", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1866): 105–11].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Swinhoe |
Date: | [Sept 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 329r |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5202 |
To W. D. Fox 24 August [1866]
Summary
Family news. Describes [final] illness of Susan Darwin [d. 3 Oct 1866]. CD’s health better.
Making rapid progress on Variation.
Has heard of hybrids between moths mentioned by WDF.
Work on [4th] edition of Origin has delayed Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 24 Aug [1866] |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5197 |
To B. D. Walsh 24 December [1866]
Summary
Balbiani’s puzzling observations on Aphis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 24 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5320 |
To B. D. Walsh 20 August [1866]
Summary
On various subjects: Dana’s misquotations,
H. J. Clark’s book Mind in nature [1865],
BDW’s Cynips experiments, galls,
Balbiani’s paper on aphids ["Sur la reproduction et l’embryogénie des pucerons", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 62 (1866): 1231–4, 1285–9, 1390–4].
Claus and other Germans testing CD’s views of variability in common lower animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 20 Aug [1866] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5194 |
To Williams & Norgate 10 February [1866]
Summary
Orders Richard Owen’s Anatomy of vertebrates [1866–8],
subscribes to Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
and orders three back numbers of Medical Times and Gazette.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 10 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (ASHCOMBE COLLECTION/V/52) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5002 |
letter | (8) |
Lubbock, John | (2) |
Walsh, B. D. | (2) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Lubbock, John | (2) |
Walsh, B. D. | (2) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |
Williams & Norgate | (1) |