To George Rolleston 2 September [1875]
Summary
Thanks for GR’s "Address" [see 10141].
Wishes he had not quoted Bagehot’s remark [in Descent 1: 239] about decrease in savage populations. Interest in subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Rolleston |
Date: | 2 Sept [1875] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.6119/68) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10150 |
To George Rolleston 24 August [1876]
Summary
Thanks GR for his notes and essays [see 10581].
Similar appendages to those GR mentions [see 10581] appear on the necks of goats, but the idea of reversion to a common progenitor of goats and pigs "stumps" CD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Rolleston |
Date: | 24 Aug [1876] |
Classmark: | George family (private collection) [but the images are from a facsimile DAR 185: 124] |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10582F |
To George Rolleston [1860–82]
Summary
Envelope only, addressed to Professor Rolleston in Oxford.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Rolleston |
Date: | [1860–82] |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 76) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13891F |
To George Rolleston 1 June [1860]
Summary
Thanks for invitation [to stay with GR at Oxford], but his poor state of health requires him to stay in private lodgings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Rolleston |
Date: | 1 June [1860] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.6119/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2820A |
To George Rolleston 6 June [1860]
Summary
CD’s plans are uncertain because of his daughter’s [Henrietta Darwin] fever.
If GR would kindly reserve rooms for CD near college, CD will write before the meeting [of British Association at Oxford] if he is prevented from coming.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Rolleston |
Date: | 6 June [1860] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.6119/) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2822A |
To George Rolleston 2 March [1861]
Summary
Agrees with GR’s remarks on Asa Gray’s pamphlet.
New edition of Origin to appear immediately.
Fact of clubbed fingernails in cyanosis quite new to CD. Asks for information.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Rolleston |
Date: | 2 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.6119/5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3076 |
To George Rolleston 7 March [1861]
Summary
Thanks for explanation of cyanosis and clubbed nails.
Hopes GR will work out point about mucus tubes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Rolleston |
Date: | 7 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.6119/6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3083 |
To George Rolleston 5 September [1861]
Summary
GR’s letter is a gold-mine.
Pleased to have Pierre Gratiolet’s comment on the embryology of greatly modified organs
and GR’s valuable cases of analogous variation.
Doubts craniologists, but recounts his father’s opinion that the shape of CD’s head was altered when he returned from the Beagle.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Rolleston |
Date: | 5 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal College of Physicians of London (ALS/D12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3245 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
Rolleston, George | (8) |