From the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin 26 February 1863
Summary
A diploma. CD is elected a corresponding member.
| Author: | Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 229: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4014F |
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- … Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences Darwin, C. R. …
- … From the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin 26 February 1863 …
- … DAR 229: 10 Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences Berlin 26 Feb 1863 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Ehrenberg [Translation] THE ROYAL PRUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Elects the most learned …
- … The Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin was founded in 1700. The list of …
To the secretary, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin 16 March 1863
Summary
Thanks Academy on his election as a Corresponding Member.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences |
| Date: | 16 Mar 1863 |
| Classmark: | Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (II–III–120: 67) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4043 |
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- … Darwin, C. R. Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences …
- … To the secretary, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin 16 March 1863 …
- … II–III–120: 67) Charles Robert Darwin Down 16 Mar 1863 Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences …
- … a corresponding member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences on 23 February 1863; the …
From Emil du Bois-Reymond 7 November 1878
Summary
CD elected foreign associate of the Royal Academy of Sciences [K. Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften].
EdB-R’s paper will be available in English in the New York periodical, Popular Science Monthly, and he hopes CD will read it. [See 11742 and 11842.]
| Author: | Emil Heinrich (Emil) Du Bois-Reymond |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Nov 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 230: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11739A |
From W. E. Darwin 9 January 1879
Summary
Sends figures on increase in value of North Western Railway stocks. Says consol stock considered much more secure for bankers. Does not think his own bank is in danger of a run. Is glad to see the Emperor of Prussia has confirmed CD’s appointment to Academy. Is snowing at Bassett.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 70) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11823F |
To Richard Kippist 31 March [1866]
Summary
Asks [Secretary] to list the proper titles of foreign societies of which he is an honorary member; he has mislaid diplomas.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
| Date: | 31 Mar [1866] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London, Misc. loose letters, case 1: C. Darwin (4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5042 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 December [1865]
Summary
Is working one hour a day now, on illegitimate seedlings of Lythrum and Primula.
Begins to doubt John Scott’s accuracy about primrose and cowslip.
Does JDH believe in Karsten’s denial of parthenogenesis of Coelebogyne?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 Dec [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 278, 278b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4953 |
Wolff, C. F. (1734–94)
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- … Prussian army, 1761, and lecturer in anatomy at the Breslau Military Hospital. Became academician in anatomy at the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences, 1766. Successfully refuted the theory of preformation. ADB DSB Bibliography ADB : Allgemeine deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Royal …
Du Bois-Reymond, Emil (1818–96)
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- … Prussian Academy of Sciences, 1851; permanent secretary, 1876. Appointed professor of physiology at the University of Berlin, 1858. Worked on animal electricity, and in 1850 invented the nerve galvanometer to measure the electrical impulses in nerve and muscle tissue. ADB DSB NDB . Bibliography ADB : Allgemeine deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Royal …
To G. G. Stokes 5 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks for congratulations on Francis Darwin’s success in the tripos examinations at the university of Cambridge.
The king of Prussia has awarded him the order Pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 5 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Heritage Auctions (dealers) (17–18 October 2013) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5839H |
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- … Royal Prussian Order of Merit in the Sciences and Arts) was awarded to CD by Wilhelm I, king of Prussia (see Correspondence vol. 16, letter from the Commission générale des Ordres Royaux, 24 January 1868 ). CD was elected an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 4 December 1865 ( Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 5 (1862–6): 518). He was elected an honorary member in the department of science of the Royal Irish Academy …
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Kippist, Richard | (1) |
| Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences | (1) |
| Stokes, G. G. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Du Bois-Reymond, Emil | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Mivart in Commentary
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
Summary
The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the …
