To Hubert Airy 27 January [1876?]
Summary
Agrees to aid HA in applying for membership in a society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hubert Airy |
Date: | 27 Jan [1876?] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10369 |
To Hubert Airy 5 April [1871]
Summary
Discusses loss of voluntary movement of ears in man and monkey.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hubert Airy |
Date: | 5 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7659 |
To Hubert Airy 10 [December] 1871
Summary
Discusses movement of ears and contraction of the platysma.
Discusses phyllotaxy, citing work of Carl Nägeli and Chauncey Wright.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hubert Airy |
Date: | 10 [Dec] 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8060 |
To Hubert Airy? 9 June [1872?]
Summary
Agrees to read paper; warns he lacks mathematical knowledge.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hubert Airy |
Date: | 9 June [1872?] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.408) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8377 |
To Hubert Airy 24 August 1872
Summary
CD’s son Leonard of the Royal Engineers has applied to Sir George Biddell Airy to be an observer on the Venus Expedition. Leonard failed to mention his qualifications, which CD now relates with the request that HA draw them to his father’s attention.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hubert Airy |
Date: | 24 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | CUL: Royal Greenwich Observatory archives 6/273 (section 3–4: 348–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8486A |
To Hubert Airy [before 21 January 1873]
Summary
Sends HA’s paper ["On leaf arrangement"] with a supporting note [from CD] to Royal Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hubert Airy |
Date: | [before 21 Jan 1873] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS. Add. 7656: RS899) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8744 |