From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 5 Dec 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 13
Summary:
Sends list of bills.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 5 Dec 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 19
Summary:
Has no chance of paying his debts, and asks for money.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1870
Source of text:
DAR 171: 382
Summary:
Has just heard that 1st volume of Dutch edition [of Descent] has been announced for 10 December. Was CD aware that the Dutch intended to publish vol. 1 by itself?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
5 Dec [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 4
Summary:
Sends a cheque to clear FD’s debts. Hopes he will be more careful in the future.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Allen, Fanny
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
8 December [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 24
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Dec [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 68
Summary:
Progress on his Russian translation of Descent.
Alexander Kovalevsky is at Tor in Sinai, where C. G. Ehrenberg was in 1827.
Has CD seen Ernst Haeckel’s new book [Biologische Studien (1870–7)]?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Dec 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 67
Summary:
Forgot to send books.
Saw Miss [Henrietta] Darwin; chastised her for being out when book [Descent] has not yet appeared.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lambert Adolphe Jacques (Adolphe) Quetelet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Dec 1870
Source of text:
DAR 175: 12
Summary:
CD elected Associate Member of the Royal Belgian Academy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lambert Adolphe Jacques (Adolphe) Quetelet; Société Royale des Sciences, des Lettres, et des Beaux-arts de Belgique
Date:
[after 15 Dec 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 175: 12v
Summary:
Thanks Academy for his election as Associate Member.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Édouard Joseph Louis Marie (Édouard) van Beneden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec 1870
Source of text:
DAR 160: 132
Summary:
CD has been nominated as a Membre Associé of the Belgian Royal Academy.
Discusses crustacean embryology; EvB is at variance with Dohrn.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
17 Dec [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 5 (EH 88205903)
Summary:
Thanks WO for valuable letter. Feels he need not trouble any more about platysma. If WO ever sees someone suffering great fear, CD asks him to observe the neck.
Hopes to visit WO when next in London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 295
Summary:
Congratulations on Leonard Darwin’s success at Woolwich Academy.
Mentions the current activities of his own sons and of some old acquaintances.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Ogle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 17 Dec 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 5
Summary:
Would be pleased to be visited by CD.
J. Wyman will make observations on black pigs and white pigs in Florida.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 [Dec 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B69–70
Summary:
Has received a letter, and two packets of securities.
Comments on George’s escape.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Laurent-Guillaume De Koninck
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Dec 1870
Source of text:
DAR 169: 51
Summary:
Congratulates CD on his election to L’Académie Royale de Belgique.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Laurent-Guillaume De Koninck
Date:
[after 19 Dec 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 83
Summary:
Thanks LGK for the part he played in getting CD elected as an Associate [of Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Allen, Fanny
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
20 December [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 219.11: 12
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 42
Summary:
CD is correct; his notes are on the Jollof, not the Tollof, tribe.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 [Dec 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B71–2
Summary:
Confirms number of shares.
Reports on conversation with Henry Holland.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
