To James Shaw 11 February [1866]
Summary
Discusses beauty of birds and butterflies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Shaw |
| Date: | 11 Feb [1866] |
| Classmark: | R. Wallace ed. 1899, pp. lvi–lvii; |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5004 |
From James Shaw 14 February 1866
Summary
Reports instances of birds admiring their images in mirrors or on pictures.
| Author: | James Shaw |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 150 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5005 |
From James Shaw 19 April 1866
Summary
Anecdotes about appreciation of beauty by animals.
| Author: | James Shaw |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Apr 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 10–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5060 |
To James Shaw 24 November [1866]
Summary
Has seen the Athenæum and admires his article on beauty ["Feeling of beauty among animals", Athenæum (24 Nov. 1866): 681].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Shaw |
| Date: | 24 Nov [1866] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (1986) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5284A |
To Fritz Müller 25 September [1866]
Summary
Fertilisation in orchids: Friedrich Hildebrand’s paper.
Self-sterility.
Climbing plants.
Agassiz’s attempts to eliminate all Darwinian views.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 25 Sept [1866] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5216 |
From J. F. Stephens to Robert Peel 8 June 1846
Summary
Petitions for a Civil Pension.
| Author: | James Francis Stephens |
| Addressee: | Robert Peel, 2d baronet |
| Date: | 8 June 1846 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 40593: 187–91 Papers of Sir Robert Peel) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-983G |
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- … Shaw, George. 1800–26. General zoology, or a systematic natural history. 14 vols. , vols. 9–14 continued by J. F. Stephens. London: George Kearsley [and others]. Stephens, James Francis. 1828–46. Illustrations of British entomology; or, a synopsis of indigenous insects: containing their generic and specific distinctions. 11 …
Document type
| letter | (6) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Shaw, James | (2) |
| Stephens, J. F. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Shaw, James | (2) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Peel, Robert | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Shaw, James | (4) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Peel, Robert | (1) |
| Stephens, J. F. | (1) |
