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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
15 Feb 1876
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.485)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for present of book [unspecified].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
30 June [1875-81]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.496)
Summary:

Asks for copy of [unspecified] essay, but will not answer it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
28 Sept 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.549)
Summary:

Urges publication of an exposure of Williams the spiritualist medium.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
3 Aug 1880
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD sends thanks for further instructions for making a solution, which will be followed as soon as Francis [Darwin] returns.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
17 June 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.591)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for sending paper on molluscs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[after 1836?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.626)
Summary:

[Excised fragment only.] "I am greedy for facts.—"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
20 June [1861-8]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Sends a copy of the paper [with A. R. Wallace, "On the tendency of species to form varieties" (1858), Collected papers 2: 3–19] about which his correspondent asked; CD’s parts were written years ago and not intended for publication; he gave permission for publication of the extracts. Wallace’s paper seems to him excellent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
19 Dec [1852 or 1854]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.100)
Summary:

Ray Society has given CD 22 copies [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
26 Mar [1858?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.34)
Summary:

Returns the Greenland catalogue, which he has kept too long.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
26 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.242)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for book on old bones.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
1 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.283)
Summary:

Asks for information about cases for stove-plants. [Answers recorded in another hand.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
10 May [1866?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

The apparent difference in arm lengths of compositors is due to a drooping shoulder. File-makers stand in a peculiar position and call one of their legs the hind leg.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
2 Aug [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.318)
Summary:

Has not seen K. E. von Baer’s paper ["Über Papuas und Alfuren", Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg (Sci. Nat.) 8 (1859): 269–346], but has read extract.

Knew of case of hairy and toothless family through John Crawfurd, Journal of an embassy from the Governor-General of India [2d ed. (1834)].

Working on causes of variability.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Mar [1870-1]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Declines offer of book on physics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
10 May [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.396)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for item of criticism in a foreign newspaper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
8 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.405)
Summary:

Declines to join movement; has not sufficiently considered subject.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Mar [1872-4]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.406)
Summary:

CD has lost his reference to cross between gold and silver pheasants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
30 July [1872-4]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks recipient for information about eye colour of his shepherd dogs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
18 July [1873?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.430)
Summary:

Comments on ability of recipient to move his scalp.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[June–Sept 1873?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (T. H. Huxley papers Mss.B.H981)
Summary:

Printed memorandum giving reasons why there should be subsidy on a large scale of scientific research unencumbered with teaching.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project