From Ferdinand von Mueller 8 October 1867
Summary
Forwards answers from Charles Walter to some of CD’s queries about expression.
| Author: | Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich (Ferdinand) von Mueller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Oct 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5626 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Forwards answers from Charles Walter to some of CD’s queries about expression. …
- … 11’ brown crayon End of letter : ‘Charles Walter | The answers by M rs Green. ’ pencil …
- … Yours | most obed t . Serv t . | Charles Walter | Landscape Photo. Artist Ferd: Mueller …
- … Mueller wrote this in the margin of Charles Walter’s letter to him. CD had asked Mueller …
DCP-LETT-1826
Summary
Table of measurements of heights, lengths of body parts, and weight, made on Indian tigers in 1831, 1832, and 1853.
| Author: | Walter Elliot |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.10: 97 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1826 |
From Walter Elliot 7 September 1869
Summary
Sends excerpt on polygamous breeding habits of Asiatic elephants by Lieut. Johnstone [Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (1868): 128]. [See Descent 1: 268.]
| Author: | Walter Elliot |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Sept 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6880 |
From Walter Elliot 7 August 1869
Summary
Polygamous breeding habits of the Indian wild boar. [See Descent 1: 267.]
| Author: | Walter Elliot |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Aug 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A72–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6856 |
McGrigor, C. R. (1811–90)
Matches: 2 hits
- … and army agent with his brother, Walter McGrigor, at 17 Charles Street, St James’s Square, …
- … Charles Street, 1869–90. Succeeded to the baronetcy in 1858. Modern English biography . Bibliography Modern English biography : Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols. ). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921. 6 Walter …
To H. W. Bates 30 April [1863]
Summary
After finishing vol. 2 [of Naturalist on the river Amazons], CD still has only praise. Remarks that his family is also enjoying the book. He regrets having finished, since he so enjoyed the descriptions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 30 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4132 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Charles Robert Darwin Charles Langton, Hartfield 30 Apr [1863] Henry Walter Bates …
- … the Amazon valley", by Henry Walter Bates. ] [By Charles Darwin. ] Natural History Review …
- … Walter. 1863. The naturalist on the River Amazons. A record of adventures, habits of animals, sketches of Brazilian and Indian life, and aspects of nature under the equator, during eleven years of travel. 2 vols. London: John Murray. Marginalia : Charles …
From H. W. Bates 8 April 1863
Summary
Preparations under way to move to London account for delay in thanking CD for his review [Collected papers 2: 87–92].
His book is finished, and he is sending a copy to CD; owing to the great expense few copies will be sent to reviewers.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4079 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … DAR 160: 74 Henry Walter Bates Leicester 8 Apr 1863 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … the Amazon valley", by Henry Walter Bates. ] [By Charles Darwin. ] Natural History Review …
- … Walter. 1863. The naturalist on the River Amazons. A record of adventures, habits of animals, sketches of Brazilian and Indian life, and aspects of nature under the equator, during eleven years of travel. 2 vols. London: John Murray. Collected papers : The collected papers of Charles …
To Asa Gray 20 March [1880]
Summary
Asks AG to confirm whether Ipomoea leptophylla "makes a great tuber as big as a mangel-wurzel".
Petioles of Cotyledons behave partly like those of Megarrhiza.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 20 Mar [1880] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (Walter Deane Autograph Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12541 |
From H. W. Bates 11 January 1862
Summary
Grieved to hear of CD’s illness; begs him not to give moment’s thought to his MS until health has returned.
Plans to exhibit mimetic butterflies at Linnean Society.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Jan 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3381 |
From H. W. Bates 25 January 1862
Summary
Thanks CD for returned MS and letter with its good opinion. Asks CD to write to Murray.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Jan 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 65a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3412 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … DAR 160.1: 65a Henry Walter Bates Leicester 25 Jan 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Walter. 1863. The naturalist on the River Amazons. A record of adventures, habits of animals, sketches of Brazilian and Indian life, and aspects of nature under the equator, during eleven years of travel. 2 vols. London: John Murray. Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles …
To Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen 5 March [1871]
Summary
Thanks for letter [7533] and the interesting notes. Even more interesting is HHHvZ’s case of the De Haas family.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen |
| Date: | 5 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (Walter Deane Autograph Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7548 |
From H. W. Bates 14 June 1862
Summary
Sends answer to Wedgwood’s query
and is sorry to hear CD is again unwell.
His book is progressing very slowly.
Asks that CD not make use of any of the facts about generative organs in beetles for he finds "such a chaos of statements" that facts are not to be depended upon.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 June 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3604 |
From H. W. Bates [before 25 September 1861]
Summary
Mention of Volucella.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 25 Sept 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.3: 63 (fragile) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3240 |
From H. W. Bates 24 October 1863
Summary
Returns Gray’s review [of paper on mimetic analogy, Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 285–90]
and expresses his sorrow over CD’s health.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Oct 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4323 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … DAR 160: 78 Henry Walter Bates Haverstock Hill 24 Oct 1863 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Walter. 1861. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley. Lepidoptera : Heliconidæ. [Read 21 November 1861. ] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 23 (1860–2): 495–566. ‘Two forms in species of Linum ’: On the existence of two forms, and on their reciprocal sexual relation, in several species of the genus Linum. By Charles …
From W. D. Crick 18 February 1882
Summary
Has found a Dytiscus marginalis with a small bivalve attached to its leg.
| Author: | Walter Drawbridge Crick |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 263 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13692 |
From W. D. Crick 24 March 1882
Summary
According to John Gwyn Jeffreys’ book [British conchology (1862–9)] shell is Sphaerium corneum, a synonym of Cyclas cornea.
| Author: | Walter Drawbridge Crick |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Mar 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 253 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13738 |
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