To Walter Elliot 23 January 1856
Summary
Requests WE’s measurements of tigers.
Asks about a work on domestic pigeons in an Eastern language. Will consult [Ayeen Akbery or, the institutes of the Emperor Akber, trans. from Persian by Francis Gladwin, 2 vols. (1777, 1800)].
Asks for specimen skins of domestic pigeons and poultry. [See Variation 1: 205.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Walter Elliot |
Date: | 23 Jan 1856 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.123) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1824 |
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To Basil Hall [7 January 1840]
Summary
CD regrets inconvenience caused by his having Royal Geographical Society’s copy of Krusenstern’s Atlas [de l’océan Pacifique (1824–7)]. Locates Sulphur Island from it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Basil Hall |
Date: | [7 Jan 1840] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-550 |
Knight, Thomas Andrew. 1824. An account of some mule plants. [Read 6 May 1823.] Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London 5 (1824): 292–6.
Blackadder, Alexander. 1824. On the superficial strata of the Forth district. [Read 15 May 1824.] Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society 5 (1823–4): 424–39.
Wahlenberg, Göran. 1824–6. Flora Suecica. 2 pts. Upsala.
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From John Wood Warter 23 December 1824
Summary
Warns CD against idleness.
Suggests readings in Xenophon and Horace.
Quotes Oliver Goldsmith to correct CD’s pronunciation of "sloth".
Author: | John Wood Warter |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Dec 1824 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 188 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8 |
Horsfield, Thomas. 1824. Zoological researches in Java, and the neighbouring islands. London.
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Murray, Lindley. 1824. English grammar. 5th ed. 2 vols. York.
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Arrowsmith, J. H. (1824–1907)
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Deshayes, Gérard Paul. 1824–37. Description des coquilles fossiles des environs de Paris. 2 vols. and atlas. Paris.
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Hancock, Thomas. 1824. Essay on instinct, and its physical and moral relations. London.
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Peck, Robert McCracken. 1994. William Holbrook Beard (1824–1900). Magazine Antiques 146: 692–700.
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Schmidt, August and Voigt, Bernhard Friedrich. 1824–56. Neue Nekrolog der Deutschen. 30 vols.
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Scott, Walter. 1832. Redgauntlet. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Robert Cadell. London: Whittaker & Co.
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Ward, Thomas Humphry. 1926. History of the Athenæum, 1824-1925. London: printed for the Athenæum Club.
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Wheeler, Stephen, ed. 1925. Annals of the Oriental Club: 1824–1858. [N.p.]: Oriental Club
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Geology in Commentary
Darwin & coral reefs
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The central idea of Darwin's theory of coral reef formation, as it was later formulated, was that the islands were formed by the upward growth of coral as the Pacific Ocean floor gradually subsided. It overturned previous ideas and would in itself…
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- … shown in their Zoologie of Freycinet’s Voyage (1824), that reef-building corals lived only …