From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 248
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s testimonial.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
13 May [1872]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:
Is the horned toad of Oregon a batrachian or a lizard?
Hopes AG will be promoted in the British Museum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
13 May [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 153: 17
Summary:
Will FD try to persuade A. D. Bartlett to show a live snake to a porcupine and observe whether the porcupine rattles the quills on its tail? [See 8333.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
14 May [1872]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Thanks for information on sexual colours in pigeons.
Will send latest edition of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 112–13
Summary:
More on Ayrton affair. Conduct of Gladstone and the Ministry despicable. They have owned him to be in right but will not raise a finger until exposure in Parliament is imminent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Hector
Date:
14 May 1872
Source of text:
Te Papa Archives, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (MU000279/001/0001/0001)
Summary:
Acknowledges election as Honorary Member of the New Zealand Institute [now Royal Society N. Z.].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 249
Summary:
AG’s application for an appointment to Assistant Keeper at the British Museum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 May [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 224
Summary:
Is sorry JDH cannot come to Down.
Hopes the House of Lords "pitch into the accursed fellow" [Ayrton].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 169: 116; Darwin Pamphlet Collection, CUL, G748
Summary:
Sends his article ["Review of Owen’s Cuvierian principle of palaeontology"].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 160: 47
Summary:
Reports aggressive reactions of three kinds of porcupines to a snake, concluding that in the wild they would probably kill and eat it [see Expression, pp. 93–4]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Briton Riviere
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 176
Summary:
Sends sketches of expressions in two dogs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edmund Denman Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 190
Summary:
Reports and describes massive hailstones which fell in Petoraghur [Nepal].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 60
Summary:
WWR is beginning to appreciate CD’s warnings against his polemical writing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 160: 332
Summary:
Sends quotation from Thomas Moore’s Memoirs [ed. Lord John Russell, (1853–6)] about hereditary peculiarity in handwriting.
On colour-blindness in his family.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 250
Summary:
O. Salvin will not be applying for the same post as AG.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Green
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 224
Summary:
Sends duplicate of his previous letter [8189]; he addressed it simply to C. Darwin, England, and had no reply.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Briton Riviere
Date:
19 May [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 320
Summary:
Comments on drawings of hostile dog and affectionate dog.
Sends small gift of money.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Briton Riviere
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 177
Summary:
Will himself correct the details on the woodblock CD finds acceptable. The second one followed CD’s instructions, contrary to his own experience.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 61
Summary:
His book has received bad reviews; therefore CD’s letter cheers him up.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Sketchley Ffinden
Date:
21 May [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 122
Summary:
Sends £35 as his subscription towards the building of a vicarage.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Author
- ARW's pilot in the Aru Islands1
- Airy, Hubert1
- Bartlett, A. D.1
- Bentham, George1
- Browne, Hugh1
- Butler, Samuel (b)3
- Dana, J. D.1
- Darwin, C. R.22
- Darwin, Emma1
- Darwin, G. H.1
- Darwin, W. E.1
- Galton, Francis2
- Gray, Asa1
- Green, William1
- Günther, Albert5
- Hampden, John1
- Hooker, J. D.3
- Krefft, Gerard1
- Mantegazza, Paolo1
- Martinelli, Fulvio1
- Michelet, Athénaïs1
- Montague, H.1
- Mueller, Ferdinand von3
- Müller, Hermann1
- Reade, W. W.3
- Riviere, Briton5
- Schmick, J. H.1
- Smith, E. D.1
- Tegetmeier, W. B.1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel1
- Wright, Chauncey1
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