skip to content

Darwin Correspondence Project

Search Results

Darwin Correspondence Project
Search:
"Darwin C R" in search-correspondent disabled_by_default
1882::01::17 in date disabled_by_default
3 Items
Sorted by:  
Page: 1

From William Ogle   17 January 1882

Summary

Sends a translation of Aristotle’s De partibus animalium and imagines that if the old teleologist were alive CD would convince him of his errors.

Author:  William Ogle
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 173: 10
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13621

To William Ogle   17 January 1882

Summary

Thanks WO for gift of his translation [Aristotle’s De partibus animalium]. Suspects the introduction would interest him more than the text "notwithstanding that he [Aristotle] was such a wonderful old fellow".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Ogle
Date:  17 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 261.5: 18 (EH 88205916)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13622

From A. B. Mitford   17 January 1882

Summary

The Secretary to the First Commissioner of Her Majesty’s Works thanks CD for providing the funds for a new edition of Steudel’s Nomenclator [Index Kewensis].

Author:  Algernon Bertram Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale; Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 171: 180
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13620