Asks for key and letter to be sent to him at the New University Club in London.
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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.
Asks for key and letter to be sent to him at the New University Club in London.
Enlists CD’s support for a marine biological research institution to be built soon on Jersey.
CD awarded honorary LL.D. degree by Cambridge University. [See 11212.]
Writes again about arrangements for the honorary degree ceremony.
Has been working on tides, which he is almost certain have altered the obliquity of the ecliptic.
Sends extract reporting elephants that get drunk on a plant.
Gives a detailed description of the "Colorado Giant" found near Pueblo, alleged to be a fossil man with a tail. [See also 11272.]
FD has sent proofs; nutating of Ricinus; Horace Darwin and the wormograph.
About 150 copies remain of Forms of flowers.
Another issue of Origin will be needed for Murray’s annual sale. Has CD any corrections?
Electrotypes and heliotypes can now be sent to Hjalmar Linnström, since payment is guaranteed by the Swedish Consul.