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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
29 Nov [1842-55]
Source of text:
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library (BANC MSS 74/78 z)
Summary:

Not able to assist JP as he knows no schoolmaster in the area.

Cannot answer zoological question but thinks the two Serpulae are distinct.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
26 [Aug 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 272
Summary:

Discusses specimen of Balanus crenatus.

Sorry JP’s children are ill.

Will come to Liverpool if well [for meeting of BAAS].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
[8 Sept – 13 Oct 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 273
Summary:

Comments on JP’s work [Old Price’s remains (1863–4)].

Anglo-American relations. Progress of the Civil War.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
26 Nov 1868
Source of text:
DAR 147: 274
Summary:

Thanks JP for congratulations on success of George Darwin at Cambridge.

Does not have time to investigate propagation of Cardamine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
27 [July 1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.445)
Summary:

Discusses Utricularia sent by JP.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
28 July [1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks JP for note.

Sends instructions for mailing Utricularia plants to Down in his absence.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
18 Sept [1875-9]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 277
Summary:

Working on plant physiology; has not strength to discuss difficult subject with anyone.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
17 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 147: 279
Summary:

Stripes on animals curious subject for investigation. Not likely to take it up again.

Recommends cutting plant stems under water.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
8 Sept [1877-80]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 278
Summary:

Kind of JP to send notes on horses, but will not write on subject again.

Erasmus Darwin has not left his house for three years.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
10 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 280
Summary:

Thanks JP for congratulations on LL.D. [awarded by Cambridge University].

Comments on Rudolf Virchow’s book [Die Freiheit der Wissenschaft im modernen Staat (1877)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
2 Apr [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 281
Summary:

On his discovery of ova of Flustra.

"Pray do not call me Dr Darwin."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
3 Sept [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 282
Summary:

Thanks for letter about death of Erasmus Darwin.

Cannot answer question about dotterels.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
27 Dec 1881
Source of text:
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library (BANC MSS 74/78 z)
Summary:

Congratulates JP on marriage of daughter.

Consoles him on his poor health.

Death of Mrs Smith a severe loss.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project