Sends enclosure regarding inherited handwriting from Life, letters, and journals of George Ticknor [ed. G. S. Hillard (1876)].
Showing 41–60 of 287 items
The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Sends enclosure regarding inherited handwriting from Life, letters, and journals of George Ticknor [ed. G. S. Hillard (1876)].
Expresses his gratitude for the gift [a birthday album from a number of Dutch scientists]; he cannot imagine a more honourable testimonial.
Regrets that F. Hilgendorf proved so greatly in error ["Planorbis Multiformis", Monatsber. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1866): 474–504; "Noch einmal Planorbis Multiformis", Z. Dtsch. Geol. Ges. 29 (1877): 50–62].
Discusses polymorphic species.
Surprised that shell form developed from various different progenitors.
Reminds CD of C. Nägeli’s conclusions on Hieracium.
But still retains belief expressed in first edition of Origin that variation in protean species is neither advantageous nor disadvantageous.
Has read a large part of the Novara voyage [Narrative of the circumnavigation of the globe by the Austrian frigate "Novara" (1861–3)] with pleasure. CD was particularly interested in the scandalous French behaviour at Tahiti.
Sends thanks to Anthropological Society for sending birthday greetings.
Asks RK [Linnean Society Librarian] to send several journal volumes and articles.
Thanks EH for album of photographs of German scientists.
Pleased and honoured by WTT-D’s review ["Darwin on fertilisation", Nature 15 (1876–77): 329–32]. Comments on review.
Thanks for the honour conferred upon him [see 10826]; it is quite beyond his deserts.
Negotiations for loan of drawings [of Lepidoptera] have failed.
Praises AG’s abstract of Cross and self-fertilisation [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 13 (1877): 125–41].
Hopes soon to finish with dimorphic plants.
Corrects an important misprint in English edition of Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 275, line six from top [but see 10877].
Sends correction to p. 275 of Cross and self fertilisation [but see letter to Édouard Heckel, 4 March 1877].
CD, who has acted as treasurer of the Down Friendly Club for the last 27 years, urges the members not to dissolve the Club, but to continue it and retain about £1000 of the funds on hand to ensure its safety and ability to give assistance to members when they are ill or invalided, or to provide for their burial when dead.
Replies to some of George Henslow’s criticisms [of Cross and self-fertilisation] made in his article ["Fertilisation of plants", Gard. Chron. n.s. 7 (1877): 203–4].
Thanks AD-P for his articles [Wesen und Begründung der Abstammungs- und Zuchtwahltheorie (1877)] and the eulogistic manner in which he mentions CD’s name.
Thanks OZ for a "magnificent Album".
On Beagle voyage CD believed in permanence of species. Had occasional vague doubts. In autumn of 1836 saw how many facts indicated common descent of species. In 1837 opened notebook to record facts.
Accedes to her [unspecified] request.
CD has harangued the Down Friendly Club. Does not think it will dissolve.
His specimen catalogue has not been returned from Cambridge museum. If not lost, will answer query.