From C. G. Semper 26 April 1877
Summary
Explains why he did not add his photograph to the album presented by German naturalists to CD. Instead he wishes to dedicate to CD his work on the vertebrate-type eyes on the back of some Mollusca. [Enclosed is a MS introduction to this work, Über Sehorgane von Typus der Wirbelthieraugen auf dem Rücken von Schnecken.].
Author: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 137 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10942 |
From C. G. Semper 13 July 1877
Summary
Sends work on dorsal eyes of Onchidium ["Über Schneckenaugen", Arch. Mikrosk. Anat. 14 (1877): 118–24]. Comments on work.
Author: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 138 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11050 |
From C. G. Semper 22 July 1878
Summary
Thanks CD for his kind letter and accepts his offer of a writing machine.
Author: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 July 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 137 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11624 |
From C. G. Semper 5 October 1878
Summary
Thanks CD for writing machine.
Recalls visit by CD’s son [Francis].
Author: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Oct 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 140 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11716 |
From C. G. Semper 6 December 1878
Summary
Asks whether he may use CD’s letters in his work [Die natürlichen Existenzbedingungen der Thiere (1880)] in order to show that Moritz Wagner has misrepresented CD’s views.
Discusses the influence of isolation and external conditions on animals, and the relative importance of the direct effect of external conditions and of selection in bringing about change.
Author: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Dec 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11776 |
From C. G. Semper 16 July 1881
Summary
Thanks CD for his kind judgment on his book [The natural conditions of existence (1881)].
E. Ray Lankester has written an unfriendly review of it [Nature 23 (1880–1): 405–9].
Author: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 141 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13246 |
From C. G. Semper 25 January 1874
Summary
Discusses coral reefs
and encloses a copy of his "Reisebericht" [Z. Wiss. Zool. 13 (1863): 538–70], as requested by CD.
Author: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 135 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9255 |
From C. G. Semper 8 February 1874
Summary
Comments on G. H. Lewes’s book [The life and works of Goethe (1855)].
Author: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Feb 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 136 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9276 |