DCP-LETT-1826
Summary
Table of measurements of heights, lengths of body parts, and weight, made on Indian tigers in 1831, 1832, and 1853.
| Author: | Walter Elliot |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.10: 97 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1826 |
Smith, William. 1826. On Dahlias. [Read 5 December 1826.] Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London 7 (1830): 141–67.
Lister, Thomas Henry. 1826. Granby. 3 vols. London.
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- … Lister, Thomas Henry. 1826. Granby. 3 vols. London. 1 …
From Caroline Darwin [27 February 1826]
Summary
Theatre at Shrewsbury.
Spark’s death.
Harry [Henry Allen] Wedgwood will make the circuit for the first time at the forthcoming assizes.
| Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Feb 1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-24 |
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- … From Caroline Darwin [27 February 1826] …
- … Darwin/Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood [Shrewsbury] [27 Feb 1826] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Scenes of the Rhine, Belgium and Holland (1826) ‘all of which have been much esteemed’ ( …
- … at the Theatre-Royal, Edinburgh, on 4 March 1826. Joseph Corbett . An Anti-Slavery Society …
- … Wedgwood was called to the Bar 10 February 1826. Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Batty , amateur …
To Susan Darwin 29 January [1826]
Summary
Sends thanks to all for their letters.
News of dining and theatre at Edinburgh.
CD will learn to stuff birds from "a blackamoor".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Jan [1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A3–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-22 |
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- … To Susan Darwin 29 January [1826] …
- … DAR 92: A3–4 Charles Robert Darwin Edinburgh 29 Jan [1826] Susan Elizabeth Darwin …
- … of London 33: 83–6. Lister, Thomas Henry. 1826. Granby. 3 vols. London. Ure, Andrew. 1823. …
- … Dr Andrew Duncan , the elder. Lister 1826 . Ure 1823 , p. 598. The article on ‘Nitrogen’ …
- … p. 112). Samuel Parr Eyre died 1 February 1826 ( Shrewsbury School Register ). Identified …
To Caroline Darwin 8 April [1826]
Summary
CD is studying the Bible, likes the gospels best.
Glad he stayed for T. C. Hope’s lectures on electricity.
Is running short of funds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 8 Apr [1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-30 |
From John Price [July 1826]
Summary
Tells CD he is recovering from the illness with which he was afflicted when CD visited.
| Author: | John Price |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [July 1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-32 |
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Cassini, Henri. 1826–34. Opuscules phytologiques. 3 vols. Paris: F. G. Levrault.
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- … Cassini, Henri. 1826–34. Opuscules phytologiques. 3 vols. Paris: F. G. Levrault. NC …
Constable, William George. 1927. John Flaxman, 1755–1826. London: University of London Press.
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- … William George. 1927. John Flaxman, 1755–1826. London: University of London Press. 7 …
Lesson, René Primevère and Garnot, Prosper. 1826–30. Zoologie. In Duperrey, Louis Isidore, Voyage autour du monde, sur la corvette de sa majesté La Coquille, pendant les années 1822–5. 2 vols. in 3 and atlas. Paris. 1826–30.
Bellot, Hugh Hale. 1929. University College London, 1826-1926. London: University of London Press.
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- … Hugh Hale. 1929. University College London, 1826-1926. London: University of London Press. …
Ross, James Clark. 1826. Zoology. Appendix, pp. 91–120, of Parry, William Edward, Journal of a third voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1824–25, in His Majesty’s Ships Hecla and Fury. London. 1826.
Rüppell, Eduard, 1826–8. 1845. Systematische Uebersicht der Vögel Nord-Ost- Afrikas. Frankfurt-am-Main.
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- … Rüppell, Eduard, 1826–8. 1845. Systematische Uebersicht der Vögel Nord-Ost- Afrikas. …
Brewster, David. 1826. Results of the thermometrical observations made at Leith Fort, every hour of the day and night, during the whole of the years 1824 and 1825. [Read 23 January 1826.] Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 10: 362-88; Edinburgh Journal of Science n.s. 5: 18–32.
Harris, J. H. (1826–86)
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- … John Hyde Harris 1826–86 New Zealand lawyer and politician. …
Oswald, Eugene (1826–1912)
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- … Ernst Eugen August Oswald Eugene 1826–1912 German born teacher and author. …
To Caroline Darwin 6 January 1826
Summary
CD comments on lectures and lecturers at Edinburgh.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1826 |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-20 |
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- … To Caroline Darwin 6 January 1826 …
- … 28 Charles Robert Darwin Edinburgh 6 Jan 1826 Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin/Caroline …
- … Edinburgh. Jan. 6 th . | 1826— My dear Caroline, Many thanks for your very entertaining …
- … of zoological and botanical observations made in 1826. A notebook in DAR 118 of zoological …
- … University of Edinburgh on 27 March 1827 (not 1826, as CD states in the Autobiography , …
From E. A. Darwin 10 October [1826]
Summary
Medical studies in London. Compares lectures and students at London and Edinburgh. Comments on the cost of dissection.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Oct [1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-35 |
From James Farley Turner [28 July 1826]
Summary
Is coming to Shrewsbury. Finds little to do but hunt rabbits. Has heard from Nathan Hubbersty and Frederick Watkins.
| Author: | James Farley Turner |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 July 1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 187 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-33 |
From E. A. Darwin [9 March 1826]
Summary
Describes his trip by canal to Glasgow, and sightseeing there.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [9 Mar 1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-25 |
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- … John Stevens Henslow. Fox’s diary and accounts for 1824 to 1826, now in Christ’s College Old Library …
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- … Majesty’s ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836. [Edited by Robert FitzRoy.] …
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- … Majesty’s ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836. [Edited by Robert FitzRoy.] …
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Summary
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- … Majesty’s ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836. [Edited by Robert FitzRoy.] …
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Orundellico was one of the Yahgan, or canoe people of the southern part of Tierra del Fuego. He was the fourth hostage taken by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830 following the theft of the small surveying boat. This fourteen-year old boy was…
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- … Majesty’s ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836. [Edited by Robert FitzRoy.] …
