Taylor, John Ellor. 1876. The aquarium: its inhabitants, structure & management. London: Hardwicke.
Taylor, John Ellor. 1878b. Flowers; their origin, shapes, perfumes, and colours. Boston: Roberts Brothers.
To Thomas Spring Rice [before 7 July 1838]
Summary
Express their concern that the offer for sale to the British Museum, by G. A. Mantell and Thomas Hawkins, of two valuable collections, has been declined.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; William Buckland; Adam Sedgwick; John Phillips; William Whewell; Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Charles Stokes; William John Hamilton; Edward Stanley; Richard Owen; William Clift; Charles Babbage; John Bostock; Peter Mark Roget; John Taylor; Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2d Marquess of Northampton; William John Broderip |
| Addressee: | Thomas Spring Rice |
| Date: | [before 7 July 1838] |
| Classmark: | House of Commons papers; accounts and papers, 1837/38, XXXVI, 307 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-421F |
Taylor, John Ellor. 1878a. Flowers; their origin, shapes, perfumes, and colours. London: Hardwicke & Bogue.
Phillips, John. 1837–9. Treatise on geology. 2 vols. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, John Taylor, and A. Spottiswoode.
[Taylor, John Ellor.] 1872. The geographical distribution of animals and plants, geologically considered. Westminster Review n.s. 41: 28–49.
Herschel, John Frederick William. 1830a. A preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy. Part of Dionysius Lardner’s Cabinet cyclopædia. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green; John Taylor.
Henslow, John Stevens. 1837. Descriptive and physiological botany. New edition. Part of Dionysius Lardner’s Cabinet cyclopædia. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Greene, & Longmans; John Taylor.
Swainson, William. 1836–7. On the natural history and classification of birds. 2 vols. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman; John Taylor.
To J. E. Taylor 13 January [1872]
Summary
Thanks for sending his article in the Westminster Review [n.s. 41 (1872): 28–49] and the notice of CD’s work.
Natural selection is under a cloud at present, but CD expects that it will be resuscitated.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Ellor Taylor |
| Date: | 13 Jan [1872] |
| Classmark: | Morristown National Historical Park (Lloyd W. Smith MS 696) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8157A |
To the Geological Society of London 4 October 1842
Summary
Papers by T. J. Newbold [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1842): 702–5], T. C. Hunt [3 (1842): 565–6] and J. Phillips [3 (1842): 705–6] need not be printed in Transactions of the Geological Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Geological Society of London |
| Date: | 4 Oct 1842 |
| Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/130) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-647 |
To J. E. Taylor 26 June 1878
Summary
Thanks JET for his book.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Ellor Taylor |
| Date: | 26 June 1878 |
| Classmark: | Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation (tipped into J. E. Taylor 1878b (DK T243f STR)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11567 |
From J. E. Taylor 25 June 1878
Summary
Sends CD a copy of his book [Flowers; their origin, shapes, perfumes and colours (1878)].
| Author: | John Ellor Taylor |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 June 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11566 |
To J. P. Taylor 16 November 1881
Summary
Elaborates on the theories propounded in his recently published work [Earthworms], describing the reproductive system of worms and the absorption of organic matter in the soil. [See 13483.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Pitt Taylor |
| Date: | 16 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (28 March 1984) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13487A |
From J. P. Taylor 14 November 1881
Summary
Thinks CD overestimates earthworms’ role in creating mould. Gives some observations on worms and questions about their breeding habits.
| Author: | John Pitt Taylor |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13483 |
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