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DCP-LETT-3339

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer
Date:
5 Dec [1861]
Source of text:
Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 3)
Summary:

Admires LR’s book [Die Fauna der Pfahlbauten (1861)].

Will attempt to arrange for skull of wild white Chillingham cattle to be sent by Earl of Tankerville.

CD has come to same conclusion as LR on zebus.

CD’s MS of Variation is half-prepared.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3389

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer
Date:
15 and 16 Jan 1862
Source of text:
Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 1)
Summary:

Lord Tankerville has not responded to the request for the skulls which LR requires for his research. CD addressed Lord T through his friend Sir Henry Holland, who is prepared to try again, despite Lord T’s rudeness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3443

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer
Date:
11 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 2)
Summary:

Chillingham cattle leg bones will be sent to LR.

J. E. Gray has read a paper on unusual Japanese domesticated pig at the Zoological Garden ["On the skull of the Japanese pig", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1862): 13–17].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5040

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albert Müller
Date:
28 Mar [1866]
Source of text:
Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (Allgemeine Autographensammlung, D)
Summary:

Writes on slave-making ants; cannot explain why fewer slaves are caught in England than in Switzerland.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5527

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer
Date:
4 May [1867]
Source of text:
Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 4)
Summary:

Thanks LR for sending his works.

Correcting proofs of Variation.

Chapter on pigs and cattle derived mostly from LR’s work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5930

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer
Date:
25 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 5)
Summary:

Will forward LR’s memoir to Earl of Tankerville. Has sent LR’s pamphlet on "Darwin Lehre" [Die Grenzen der Thierwelt (1868)] to a German lady he employs as a translator. Cannot agree that there is an innate principle of perfection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7810

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gerhard Friedrich (Gerhard) Rohlfs
Date:
8 June 1871
Source of text:
Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (Allgemeine Autographensammlung, D)
Summary:

Thanks GR, who made one of the most wonderful expeditions on record, for some notes which he will consider if he ever has to prepare a new edition [of Descent].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9306

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer
Date:
20 Feb 1874
Source of text:
Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 6)
Summary:

Thanks for LR’s essay on living and fossil turtles [Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Neuchâtel 9 (1873): 439–41].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday0941

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 September 1836
Source of text:
UB MS NS 310
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0953

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
26 November 1836
Source of text:
UB MS NS 311
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0959

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
26 December 1836
Source of text:
UB MS NS 312
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0967

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
28 January 1837
Source of text:
UB MS NS 313
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0968

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
6 February 1837
Source of text:
UB MS NS 314
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0990

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 April 1837
Source of text:
UB MS NS 315
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0991

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
2 May 1837
Source of text:
UB MS NS 316
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0993

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
4 May 1837
Source of text:
UB MS NS 317
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1015

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
9 July 1837
Source of text:
UB MS NS 318
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1030

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
21 September 1837
Source of text:
UB MS NS 319
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1046

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
5 November 1837
Source of text:
UB MS NS 320
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1055

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
31 December 1837
Source of text:
UB MS NS 321
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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