Sends suggestions for CD’s preface to Erasmus Darwin.
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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.
Sends suggestions for CD’s preface to Erasmus Darwin.
Urges Frank to reconsider his refusal of Cambridge Examinership.
Returns to CD a corrected proof [of "Fritz Müller on a frog having eggs on its back", Nature 19 (1878–9): 462–4].
Discusses adaptations of the pupae of, and Fritz Müller’s work on, Trichoptera.
Offers to translate [E. Krause’s] "Erasmus Darwin" for £10.
Thanks CD for signing his certificate for the Royal Society.
Repeats his willingness to translate E. Krause’s "Erasmus Darwin".
Frank’s reasons for not accepting the Cambridge Examinership.
Had doubts about excerpt from Anna Seward’s book [Life of Dr Darwin]. Sends slightly enlarged version of his "Erasmus Darwin". Includes footnote denouncing Seward’s book.
Finds that part 2 of ED’s Botanic garden, 2d ed. (1790), appeared before part 1 (1791).
Asks if CD would like to subscribe to a reprint of Edward Blyth’s Field articles on cranes.
CD agrees to subscribe to reprint of Blyth’s Field articles on cranes.
Thanks for sketch of Erasmus Darwin by John Dowson [see Erasmus Darwin, p. iv]; would like to incorporate this information into MS. Previous biographers of Erasmus Darwin had insufficient knowledge of what appeared in his works.
Sends his photograph as requested.
Notes and a copy of a letter written by ESG to John Dowson of Whitby. Expresses her opinion of the biographies of Erasmus Darwin written by Mrs Schimmelpenninck and Anna Seward.
Cattle and sheep varieties removed from their native soils degenerate rapidly.
Regrets she has none of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s letters. Relates some anecdotes concerning her grandfather.
Discusses information about Dr Erasmus Darwin.
They have never had any Erasmus Darwin letters.
Sends photographs [of Elston Hall].
Sends a book by her uncle, Charles Darwin [1758–78], and recounts some details of the life of her grandfather, Dr Erasmus Darwin.
Sends Dr Erasmus Darwin’s commonplace book, some letters, and poems.
Family news.
Wants to finish revision of MS on Erasmus Darwin before Dallas begins translation. Has discussed possible German edition with Carl Alberts.
Has succeeded in obtaining Assistant Keeper’s post.
Believes it would be interesting and valuable to study the variation in organs such as scent-fans and "strigillating" [stridulating?] organs among related species of Lepidoptera.