To E. P. Wright 28 February [1879]
Summary
Has already written a testimonial for [?William Ramsay] McNab as Professor of Botany. Hence what he can write for EPW will not be of much use.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Perceval Wright |
Date: | 28 Feb [1879] |
Classmark: | Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms gb-00525) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11908 |
To E. P. Wright 26 March [1865]
Summary
Thanks for fact about the buffalo diving.
Asks whether the animal was a Bos or a Bubalus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Perceval Wright |
Date: | 26 Mar [1865] |
Classmark: | Malmö Museer (MM 031992) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4793F |
To E. P. Wright 3 April [1865]
Summary
Did not know that the Arnee had been called a Bubalus.
Thanks for information about shrimps.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Perceval Wright |
Date: | 3 Apr [1865] |
Classmark: | Malmö Museer (MM 031993) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4802F |
To E. P. Wright 25 May [1870]
Summary
Thanks for copy of part one of EPW’s Spicilegia biologica (Wright 1870).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Perceval Wright |
Date: | 25 May [1870] |
Classmark: | Malmö Museer (MM 031994) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7201F |
From E. P. Wright 26 February 1879
Summary
Is applying for the Chair of Botany at Edinburgh and asks CD for a testimonial.
Author: | Edward Perceval Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 176 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11905 |
From Edward Perceval Wright 24 March 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for subscribing to the Cybele Hibernica.
Reports some observations made on the common buffaloes of India seen swimming and diving in 12ft of floodwater in order to crop the herbage beneath.
Author: | Edward Perceval Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 174 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4793 |
From E. P. Wright 31 March 1865
Summary
It is Bos arni which dives for herbage and in so doing it also swallows many freshwater shrimps.
Author: | Edward Perceval Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 175 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4802 |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Wright, E. P. | (3) |
Wright, E. P. | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |