To H. N. Moseley 5 November 1876
Summary
Thanks for Japanese book and for HNM’s papers on observations made during Challenger voyage.
Would be pleased if HNM visited him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Date: | 5 Nov 1876 |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10663 |
To H. N. Moseley 22 November [1876]
Summary
Thanks for Japanese books, and papers by HNM.
Comments on Peripatus.
Not disappointed at what William Thomson says about evolution.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Date: | 22 Nov [1876] |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10685 |
To H. N. Moseley 7 February 1877
Summary
Would like to see the photographs.
Was glad to read HNM’s paper on the New Zealand Peripatus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Date: | 7 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10834F |
To H. N. Moseley 26 November [1878]
Summary
Thanks for HNM’s offer to dedicate book [Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger" (1879)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Date: | 26 Nov [1878] |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11762 |
To H. N. Moseley 20 January 1879
Summary
Thanks for HNM’s [Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger" (1879)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Date: | 20 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11837 |
To H. N. Moseley 23 and 30 January 1879
Summary
Has told John Lubbock how highly he thinks of HNM’s work, and has heard that HMN’s claims will be fully considered.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Date: | 23 and 30 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11843F |
To H. N. Moseley 4 February 1879
Summary
Comments on HNM’s book [Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger" (1879)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Date: | 4 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11858 |
To H. N. Moseley 2 May 1880
Summary
Invites HNM to Down on 9 May.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Date: | 2 May 1880 |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12594H |
To H. N. Moseley 25 September 1881
Summary
Gives his high opinion of HNM’s abilities.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Date: | 25 Sept 1881 |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13355 |
To H. N. Moseley 7 April 1882
Summary
Adds to his previous subscription for the Rolleston Memorial Fund.
Hopes HNM’s position at Oxford is satisfactory.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Date: | 7 Apr 1882 |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 16) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13763 |
From H. N. Moseley 3 November 1876
Summary
Sends a Japanese book illustrating the expression of emotions.
Author: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Nov 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 254 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10661 |
From H. N. Moseley 7 November 1876
Summary
Accepts invitation to Down for 17 or 18 November.
Author: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Nov 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 255 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10665 |
From H. N. Moseley [after 17 November 1876]
Summary
Finds he does not have a duplicate of the Japanese natural history book. Sends other volumes of grotesque pictures.
He can show F. W. Hutton erred in calling Peripatus novae zelandiae self-fertilising; suspects J. F. Bullar has made a similar error on parasitic Isopoda. They both mistook spermatophores for testes.
Author: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 17 Nov 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 253 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10678 |
From H. N. Moseley 24 November 1878
Summary
Sends revises [of his Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger", 1872–6 (1879)] and asks permission to dedicate it to CD.
Author: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Nov 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 256 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11761 |
From H. N. Moseley 21 January 1879
Summary
Thanks CD for accepting dedication.
Asks CD to support his candidacy for position as Registrar of the University of London by talking to Sir John Lubbock, one of the most influential members of the Senate.
Author: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 257 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11840 |
From H. N. Moseley 5 February 1879
Summary
Sends regards from Capt. Charles Owen, who had collected beetles for CD.
Owen’s son is going to Oregon with Wallis Nash.
Author: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 258 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11860 |
From H. N. Moseley 30 April 1880
Summary
F. V. Dickins feels hurt at CD’s censure of him over the Omori shell mound controversy [see Collected papers 2: 222–3]. Dickins is well educated in science and long familiar with Japan, having been editor of the Japan Mail. In Japan, E. S. Morse is considered a charlatan, and American scientists, e.g., A. Agassiz, have a low opinion of him.
Author: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Apr 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 259 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12595 |
From H. N. Moseley 24 September 1881
Author: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Sept 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 114 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13354 |
From H. N. Moseley 7 October 1881
Summary
Thanks for presentation copy of Earthworms.
Describes a worm from Ceylon.
Author: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Oct 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 260 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13375 |
From H. N. Moseley 9 October 1881
Summary
Sends a paper by Arnold von Lasaulx ["Ueber sogenannten kosmischen Staub", Mineralogische und petrographische Mitteilungen 3 (1880–1): 517–32. HNM does not believe in meteoric dust, which CD takes for granted in Earthworms.
Author: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Oct 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 261 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13384 |
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Moseley, H. N. | (14) |
Darwin, C. R. | (10) |