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DCP-LETT-4696

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Busk
Date:
4 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Thanks GB for proposing him for Copley Medal; suspects he is responsible for the praise in Sabine’s "splendid eulogy" on his work. Has, however, written to Sabine to say he would have liked a little more said about the Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5197

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
24 Aug [1866]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Family news. Describes [final] illness of Susan Darwin [d. 3 Oct 1866]. CD’s health better.

Making rapid progress on Variation.

Has heard of hybrids between moths mentioned by WDF.

Work on [4th] edition of Origin has delayed Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5436

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
11 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Sends a sentence, quoting JP, on inherited peculiarities in eye-brows. Asks whether he may use it in his chapter on inheritance [Variation, ch. 12].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5934B

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert McLachlan
Date:
25 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology)
Summary:

Is obliged for the facts about the hybrids [see 5910], which permit him to reject the view of B. D. Walsh (and H. W. Bates?) that organs play an important part in keeping incipient species distinct.

He has asked John Murray to send RM a copy of Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7178

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden
Date:
2 May [1870]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Record Unit 7177, Image No. SIA2016-009764)
Summary:

Thanks for copies of FVH’s "Preliminary field report [of the U. S. Geological Survey] of Colorado and New Mexico" [Am. J. Sci. 49 (1870): 258–63] and Geological report [of the exploration] of the Yellowstone [and Missouri] River[s under the direction of Captain W. F. Reynolds (1869)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7355

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
3 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Will collect the "precious animal" [deerhound puppy] from King’s Cross.

Thanks GC for information on the perch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7937

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Busk
Date:
13 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

CD plans to use notes provided by GB. [See Origin, 6th ed., p. 193.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8055A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hodder Michael Westropp
Date:
7 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

"Please accept my thanks for your kind present of your two Papers."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-811

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Thomas Ansted
Date:
[c. Jan 1845]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (George P. Merrill photograph collection, Record Unit 7177, Image No. SIA2016-009765)
Summary:

Asks about Fuegian specimens stored at the Geological Society. CD needs them soon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8371A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Adolf Ludwig (William) Marshall
Date:
6 June [1872]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Thanks WALM for having sent interesting publications, especially the one on relation of structure of man to lower animals,

and just a few days since, on protuberances on bird skulls. WALM’s facts on the latter subject have an important bearing on the acquisition of sexual characters. CD is pleased that the influence of sexual selection is admitted.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8740

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
18 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

JP’s note [8739] suggests reversion, but that is an easy trap. Will look to the ears of "our brethren at the Zool. Gardens".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-921

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
28 Oct [1845]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Comments on potato disease and its effects on the poor.

Describes visit to his Lincolnshire farm,

to York where he discussed hybrids with the Dean of Manchester [William Herbert],

his meeting with Charles Waterton, and his delight with Chatsworth.

Disappointed at Hooker’s failure to receive the Edinburgh chair; believes JDH will make a great botanist.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9895

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horatio Piggot
Date:
20 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Thanks for his suggestion about drawings for future edition [of Coral reefs].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-992

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Mallet
Date:
26 Aug [1846]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Thanks RM for "Dynamics of earthquakes" [Trans. R. Irish Acad. 21 (1848): 50–106]. It has cleared up his ideas on undulations. Now wishes he had said nothing about them in Journal of researches. Sends his paper ["Certain volcanic phenomena in S. America", Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Wishes RM would investigate Chile. Speculates whether earthquakes coincide with moon or tides.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday0086

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
the Proprietors of the Literary Gazette
Date:
24 August 1818
Source of text:
SI D MS 554A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday0113

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Richard Phillips
Date:
30 May 1820
Source of text:
SI D MS 554A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday0196

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Richard Phillips
Date:
5 May 1823
Source of text:
SI D MS 554A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday0249

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Cochrane
Date:
31 December 1824
Source of text:
SI D MS 554A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday0272

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Richard Phillips
Date:
4 November 1825
Source of text:
SI D MS 554A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday0275

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
André-Marie Ampère
Date:
17 November 1825
Source of text:
SI D MS 554A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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