To Roland Trimen 27 July 1871
Summary
Invites RT to call on him while he is staying at Haredene.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | 27 July 1871 |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 70) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7884 |
From Roland Trimen 20 September 1871
Summary
On St G. J. Mivart’s Genesis of species and Chauncey Wright’s review of it [North Am. Rev. (July 1871)].
| Author: | Roland Trimen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 190 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7956 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From Roland Trimen 20 September 1871 …
- … DAR 178: 190 Roland Trimen London, Woburn Square, 24 20 Sept 1871 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … letter from Emma Darwin to Roland Trimen, [22 August 1871] ). An announcement appeared in …
- … the natural and the supernatural. The letter to Roland Trimen, 24 May [1871] , was a reply …
- … to England. See letter to Roland Trimen, 24 May [1871] and n. 4. Trimen, while visiting …
- … to the letter from Roland Trimen, 17 and 18 April 1871 . Trimen was a clerk of the second …
From Roland Trimen [21] August [1871]
Summary
Intends to visit CD at Haredene.
| Author: | Roland Trimen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [21] Aug [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 189 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7915 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From Roland Trimen [21] August [1871] …
- … DAR 178: 189 Roland Trimen London, Guildford St, 71 [21] Aug [1871] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … this letter and the letter from Roland Trimen, 26 July 1871 (see n. 2, below). In 1871, …
- … of Science (see letter from Roland Trimen, 26 July 1871 and n. 3). The sister has not …
- … 1871 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)); see also letter to Roland Trimen, 27 July 1871 . …
From Emma Darwin to Roland Trimen [22 August 1871]
Summary
CD is very unwell; will be unable to see RT.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | [22 Aug 1871] |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 71) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7916 |
To Roland Trimen 24 May [1871]
Summary
Cannot explain why moths fly into candle flames and birds against lighthouses. Has felt it was just curiosity which attracted them.
CD does believe dogs have some sense of humour.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | 24 May [1871] |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 69) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7880 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To Roland Trimen 24 May [1871] …
- … Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 69) Charles Robert Darwin Down 24 May [1871] Roland Trimen …
- … relationship between this letter and the letter from Roland Trimen, 17 and 18 April 1871 . …
- … Letter from Roland Trimen, 17 and 18 April 1871 . CD discussed curiosity in animals in …
To Roland Trimen 13 November [1871]
Summary
Regrets he is too unwell to see RT before his departure for the Cape; wishes him well.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | 13 Nov [1871] |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 72) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8064 |
From Roland Trimen 26 July 1871
Summary
Hopes to visit during CD’s stay at Haredene.
| Author: | Roland Trimen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 July 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 188 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7883 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From Roland Trimen 26 July 1871 …
- … DAR 178: 188 Roland Trimen London, Guildford St, 71 26 July 1871 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter from Roland Trimen, 17 and 18 April 1871 . Trimen was writing from Guilford …
- … 1871), in which there is a short notice of the “Descent”, which I wrote merely with the object of to some extent counteracting the false idea of the work afforded to the not very learned Cape public by stupid paragraphs & mangled extracts in the Colonial newspapers. Hoping to hear of your improved health, I remain | Faithfully yours, | Roland Trimen …
From Roland Trimen 17 and 18 April 1871
Summary
Man’s spiritual life separates him from other animals.
Why are moths attracted, often fatally, to lights?
Thanks for copy of Descent.
| Author: | Roland Trimen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 and 18 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 187 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7692 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … From Roland Trimen 17 and 18 April 1871 …
- … DAR 178: 187 Roland Trimen Colonial Office, Cape Town 17 Apr 1871 18 Apr 1871 Charles …
- … Trimen was a clerk of the second class in the Colonial Office at Cape Colony until 1872, when he took a position as private secretary to Henry Barkly (see Colonial Office list 1871 and DSAB ; for Trimen’s dissatisfaction with his official duties, see Correspondence vol. 17, letter from Roland …
To Chauncey Wright 23 September [1871]
Summary
Forwards a letter. Has distributed 220 copies of the pamphlet [Darwinism 1871].
Thomas Henry Huxley has sent review of St George Jackson Mivart’s On the genesis of species and his review of Descent in Quarterly Review (Mivart 1871a and [Mivart] 1871c) to the Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76] .
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
| Date: | 23 Sept [1871] |
| Classmark: | Massachusetts Historical Society (George E. Nitzsche Unitariana collection, box 4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7964F |
From Francis Galton 13 September 1871
Summary
Is turning to experiments with rats, "Siamesed together" for cross-circulation.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A33–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7938 |
From Roland Trimen 20 February 1868
Summary
Proportion of sexes in butterflies; discussion of subject at meeting of Entomological Society, London.
Attraction of males by female Lasiocampa quercus. [see Descent 1: 311–12.]
| Author: | Roland Trimen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 85: B59–60a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5902 |
Trimen, Roland. 1871b. Notes on the geographical distribution and dispersion of insects; chiefly in reference to a paper by Mr. Andrew Murray, F.L.S., "On the geographical relations of the chief Coleopterous Faunae". [Read 20 April 1871.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Zoology) 11: 276–84.
From Roland Trimen 31 December 1867
Summary
On ocelli.
Sexual differences and proportion of sexes in butterflies.
Coleoptera.
[See Descent 1: 310; 2: 132.]
| Author: | Roland Trimen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Dec 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A30–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5744 |
From Raphael Meldola 26 March 1872
Summary
A. G. Butler has named the specimens sent by CD with Fritz Müller’s letter.
Sends several facts relating to sexual selection, mimicry, and hybrids.
Discusses the possibility that mimicked and mimicking forms have descended from originally allied forms and have diverged in structure but not in appearance.
| Author: | Raphael Meldola |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Mar 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 89–90b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8252 |
From Roland Trimen 13 January 1868
Summary
Variations in the ocelli of Lepidoptera.
Encloses six pages from his catalogue of S. African butterflies [Rhopalocera Africae australis, 2 pts (1862, 1866)].
| Author: | Roland Trimen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Jan 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 40–2, 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5785 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Roland Trimen, 26 March 1868 . CD probably refers to notes on sexual differences in butterflies that he later received in the letter from George Fraser, 12 April 1871 ( …
- … 1871. McCracken, Donal P. 1997. Gardens of empire: botanical institutions of the Victorian British empire. London and Washington: Leicester University Press. Trimen, Roland. …
To Raphael Meldola 27 January [1872]
Summary
Invites RM to keep some specimens as long as he wishes.
Recalls vaguely the mention of a butterfly species in which the male alone is mimetic.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 27 Jan [1872] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8184 |
To Henry Walter Bates 11 February [1868]
Summary
Asks about proportions of male to female insects.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 11 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5858 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 December 1868]
Summary
T. H. Farrer’s paper is capital.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Dec 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 247; Linnean Society of London MS. SP 56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6511 |
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