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From:
Karl von Scherzer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 51
Summary:

Craniological part of Novara voyage report is done.

Expresses his satisfaction at CD’s election as a Foreign Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences, Vienna.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl von Scherzer
Date:
24 Jan [1876]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms. 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 38))
Summary:

Thanks for KHvS’s book [La province de Smyrne (1873)].

Discusses possible meeting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl von Scherzer
Date:
22 Sept 1876
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 sending Moritz Wagner’s letter and his essays [on "Der Naturprocess der Artbildung" in Das Ausland (1875)]. Will read them and write to Wagner when his health is better.

Declines to receive Scherzer at Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl von Scherzer
Date:
24 Dec 1876
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Thanks for volume on craniology

and for suggestion to Austrian Government that CD receive volumes on Novara voyage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl von Scherzer
Date:
13 Feb 1877
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Joseph Halle Schaffner collection, box 1, folder 2)
Summary:

Has read a large part of the Novara voyage [Narrative of the circumnavigation of the globe by the Austrian frigate "Novara" (1861–3)] with pleasure. CD was particularly interested in the scandalous French behaviour at Tahiti.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl von Scherzer
Date:
14 May [1877]
Source of text:
Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms gb-00526)
Summary:

Received Moritz Wagner’s essays [Das Ausland (May 1875)] and sent him a long letter [10643] disagreeing with his views because they do not explain adaptation.

Thanks for Büchner’s essay [Die Darwin’sche Theorie, 4th ed. (1876)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl von Scherzer
Date:
4 Jan 1878
Source of text:
Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (11 October 2007)
Summary:

Discusses dates when he might meet the prince (Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria) in London, or perhaps the Prince might visit Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl von Scherzer
Date:
1 Apr 1878
Source of text:
University of Southern California Libraries, Special Collections, Feuchtwanger Memorial Library (Collection no. 0204, Lion Feuchtwanger papers, Box 01)
Summary:

Glad to hear of Ernst Haeckel’s reception in Vienna.

R. Virchow’s address ["Liberty of science", Nature 17 (1877–8): 72–4, 92–4, 111–13] very arrogant.

Sorry to hear of death of Arthur Lane.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl von Scherzer
Date:
26 Apr 1878
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, MS.84.2)
Summary:

Congratulates correspondent on appointment to important post.

Leaving tomorrow for visit [with William Darwin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl von Scherzer
Date:
26 Dec 1879
Source of text:
LL 3: 237
Summary:

What a foolish idea seems to prevail in Germany on the connection between Socialism and Evolution through Natural Selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project