From Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky 26 February 1868
Summary
His translation and printing of Variation will be completed in two months.
His work on a relief committee for Russia’s agricultural distress has forced him to travel 1000 miles in the last week.
Plans to visit CD in July.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5938 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 4 March [1868]
Summary
Sends sheets with alterations to be made [in Russian translation of Variation]. VOK should consider adding to the title-page that CD is a Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences (St Petersburg).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | 4 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5979 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 22 December 1868
Summary
The first half of vol. 2 of Variation is printed.
News of his marriage.
Sends portraits of Russian scientists.
Hopes CD will write his book on man and asks permission to translate it.
Moving to Germany for two or three years.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Dec 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6510 |
From Vladimir Onofrievich Kovalevsky [January–March 1869]
Summary
Has written to Moscow about translations of Origin. Wishes to translate additions to the fifth English edition and print them as a supplement.
Pleased by CD’s high opinion of Alexander Kovalevsky.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Jan–Mar 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6541 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 13 September 1869
Summary
Since March has been living in Heidelberg, where his wife is studying mathematics and physics.
The Russian translation of Variation has been printed in his absence; he will bring a copy to Down if he receives one from Russia.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6890 |
From Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky 20 February [1870]
Summary
Moritz Wagner is going to attack selection theory in his new book on his travels in America [Naturwissenschaftliche Reisen im tropischen Amerika (1870)].
K. G. Semper may attack CD’s theory of coral islands.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Feb [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7114 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 28 February [1870]
Summary
Describes his brother Alexander’s discovery of male of Bonellia, a striking example of dimorphism. Encloses a plate with notes on his brother’s work.
The difficulty his wife, Sofya Kovalevsky, has had as a woman in being admitted to Berlin University. Kirchow [Gustav Robert Kirchhoff], at Heidelberg, has taken an interest in her.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Feb [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7121 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 7 August [1870]
Summary
Plans to visit Down in a week.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Aug [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7297 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 15 August [1870]
Summary
Wishes to visit Down.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Aug [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7302 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 5 September [1870]
Summary
Will order the first set of casts from Murray.
Thanks CD for a book for his wife from the Royal Society Library.
His brother [Alexander] is delighted at being referred to in CD’s work [Descent 1: 205].
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Sept [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7317 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 15 September 1870
Summary
Requests a copy of [Living] Cirripedia to send to his brother, Alexander, who is working in Naples and wishes to verify CD’s discovery of complementary males.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Sept 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 81 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7320 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 20 September 1870
Summary
Thanks for Cirripedia. Sorry CD has had to buy the books.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Sept 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7322 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 5 October 1870
Summary
Forwards Alexander Kovalevsky’s letter [7326] with the information on the vertebrate character of ascidian larvae.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Oct 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7334 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 11 October [1870]
Summary
Leaving England.
Asks CD to send four sheets [of Descent proofs].
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Oct [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7342 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 22 November 1870
Summary
Sofya Kovalevsky not admitted to University in Berlin.
Translating the four sheets CD sent. When will book [Descent] be printed?
Alexander [Kovalevsky] has gone to the Red Sea to study corals.
Will work on live Scalpellum at Naples in spring.
Bemoans England’s Prussian sympathies. Paris will fall without bombardment.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Nov 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7381 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 12 December [1870]
Summary
Progress on his Russian translation of Descent.
Alexander Kovalevsky is at Tor in Sinai, where C. G. Ehrenberg was in 1827.
Has CD seen Ernst Haeckel’s new book [Biologische Studien (1870–7)]?
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Dec [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7389 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 15 January [1871]
Summary
Has received (from CD) the sheets of the second volume [of Descent].
He fears he has offended CD or someone in England and he begs to know his offence.
His brother is working at the Red Sea and wishes CD to know that he has evidence for the affinity of ascidians and vertebrates in their nervous systems.
Plans to go to Paris upon its imminent capitulation to help his sister-in-law.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7442 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 29 January 1871
Summary
Has received all the proof-sheets of first volume and of second volume to p. 168 [Descent].
Leaves for Paris tomorrow.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7463 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 18 February 1871
Summary
VOK and his wife walked 25 miles through the Prussian lines to Paris.
Natural history collections undamaged by bombardment, but Edmond Hébert and A. J. Gaudry fear Prussians will rob them.
Several sheets of Descent lost as they passed through the lines.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7488 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 14 March 1871
Summary
Russian translation of Descent in progress, but the Minister of Interior has banned CD’s work and the book will be seized.
His foolish brother-in-law, Mayor of Montmartre, attempted to defend their section against the government.
CD’s queries on man and camels have gone to Alexander [Kovalevsky] in Sinai.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7583 |
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