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DCP-LETT-8914

From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 169: 94
Summary:

Wishes to dedicate his memoir ["Monographie der Gattung Anthracotherium", Paleontographica 22 (1876): 131–347] to CD as founder of evolutionary theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8916

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
21 May 1873
Source of text:
Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg branch: SPBB ARAS (Fond 300. Register 1a. Folder 4. P. 1-2 r)
Summary:

VOK’s paper ["Osteology of Hyopotamidae", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 21 (1872–3): 147–65] appears a very valuable one.

Discusses work of VOK’s brother [Alexander] on Sagitta and the ascidians.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9035F

From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Aug 1873
Source of text:
V. O. Kovalevsky 1873–4 , pp. [ii–iii]
Summary:

Talks of his attempts to describe the course of descent for a part of the animal kingdom, and thanks CD for his help and support.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9251

From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 169: 95
Summary:

Russian Expression has sold nearly 2000 copies.

Plans to come to England to study collections of vertebrate fossils from the Chalk. This will complement his work in the south of France.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9253

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
24 Jan [1874]
Source of text:
Institut Mittag-Leffler
Summary:

Has ordered James Clerk Maxwell’s book [On the stability of the motion of Saturn’s rings (1859)] as a present for Sofya Kovalevsky.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9257

From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 169: 96
Summary:

On obtaining Clerk Maxwell’s memoir on Saturn for his wife, Sofya.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9469

From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 May 1874
Source of text:
DAR 169: 97
Summary:

Regret at reading of Huxley’s death [a false report].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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