From:
John Goodsir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Aug [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 75
Summary:
The phial of fluid sent by CD is acid. Sends his microscopical examination.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 11
Summary:
Duke of Argyll has been dubbed "Duke Darwinii" by papers.
Large number of toads have been found in railway cuttings; wishes a scientific observer had taken pains to explain where they came from.
Comments on Scottish schools and on the morals of the adult poor.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug 1863
Source of text:
DAR 164: 17
Summary:
HF will send E. Suess’s paper [Edouard Suess, "Über die Verschiedenheit und die Aufeinanderfolge der tertiären Landfaunen in der Niederung von Wien", Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien (Math–nat. Klasse) 47 (1863): 306–31] which deals directly with natural selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Busk
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 27 Aug 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 378
Summary:
Discusses and suggests treatments for CD’s stomach complaint. Recommends he consult William Brinton.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Crawfurd
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
7 Aug 1863
Source of text:
DAR 161: 237, 237/1
Summary:
Forwards an enclosure for CD, at Archdeacon John Sinclair’s request [extract from J. Sinclair’s Life and works of Sir John Sinclair (1837) 2: 83–5], showing how Dr Erasmus Darwin anticipated Justus von Liebig [in recognising the importance of phosphorus-rich manures].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project