To Williams and Norgate 16 January [1860]
Summary
Orders J. E. Tennent’s work on Ceylon [Sir James Emerson, afterwards Tennent, Ceylon, an account of the island, physical, historical, and topographical (1859)], and Richard Owen’s Classification and distribution of Mammalia [1859].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
| Date: | 16 Jan [1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2653 |
To Williams and Norgate 29 [January 1860]
Summary
Orders copy of book by Louis Agassiz [Nomenclatoris Zoologici Index Universalis (1846)].
Mentions book sent by Quatrefages de Bréau.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
| Date: | 29 [Jan 1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.194) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2666 |
To Williams and Norgate? 6 March [1860]
Summary
Orders first part of vol. 3 of Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Histoire naturelle générale des règnes organiques [3 vols. (1854–62)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
| Date: | 6 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2723 |
To Williams and Norgate 1 April [1860]
Summary
Thanks for information about French dictionaries.
Asks that Westminster Review [of Apr 1860] be sent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
| Date: | 1 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | Swiss National Library, Helvetic Archives (SLA-Rhyn-06-d/02) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2739 |
To Williams & Norgate 10 April [1860]
Summary
Asks Williams & Norgate to forward one copy of the German translation of Origin (Bronn trans. 1860) to Jan van der Hoeven, and another to Jacob Moleschott.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
| Date: | 10 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | Alexander Autographs (dealers) (20 February 2005, Lot 273) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2755F |
To Williams & Norgate 13 [May 1860]
Summary
Orders latest issues of North British Review and Dublin Magazine of Natural History. Also would like an order placed for him for a French translation of F. Unger, Versuch einer Geschichte der Pflanzen-Welt [1852], if such a translation has appeared.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
| Date: | 13 [May 1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2797 |
To Williams & Norgate 18 May [1860]
Summary
Requests a copy of Unger 1852 (Versuch einer Geschichte der Pflanzenwelt; an attempt at a history of the vegetable kingdom).
Requests a copy of the issue of British and Foreign Medical Review which contains a review of Origin, if it is a different publication from British and Foreign Medical and Chirurgical Review
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
| Date: | 18 May [1860] |
| Classmark: | Lanier family (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2810F |
From Williams & Norgate 29 March 1860
Summary
W&N have not yet received the German edition of the Origin.
Recommend French–English and French dictionaries.
| Author: | Williams & Norgate |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Mar 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 91: 82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2735 |
| letter | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Williams & Norgate | (1) |
| Williams & Norgate | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
