Search: Busk, George in addressee 
Sorted by:

Showing 110 of 10 items

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Busk; Linnean Society
Date:
30 Mar [1858]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (SP.585c)
Summary:

Expresses his strong opinion that Huxley’s paper ["Agamic reproduction and morphology of Aphis", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 22 (1858): 193–220, 221–36] should be published.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Busk
Date:
5 Apr [1861]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (SP.704A)
Summary:

Sends two letters from G. Lincecum about ants ("perhaps the most marvellous instinct ever recorded") for possible publication. [See Gideon Lincecum, "The habits of the ""agricultural ants"" of Texas", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 6 (1862): 29–31.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Busk
Date:
4 Dec [1864]
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 GB for proposing him for Copley Medal; suspects he is responsible for the praise in Sabine’s "splendid eulogy" on his work. Has, however, written to Sabine to say he would have liked a little more said about the Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Busk
Date:
12 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.387)
Summary:

Discusses his blunder in "confounding the two foramina" [in the skull] of apes [in Descent].

Discusses views of George Rolleston, St George Mivart, and Huxley on the occurrence of the foramina.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Busk
Date:
2 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 88
Summary:

Is preparing a new edition of Origin [6th ed. (1872)] and asks GB for information on the gradations between the vibracula and avicularia of the Polyzoa and on what he bases his opinion concerning the homology of the avicularium with the zooid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Busk
Date:
13 Sept [1871]
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:

CD plans to use notes provided by GB. [See Origin, 6th ed., p. 193.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Unidentified
To:
George Busk
Date:
5 Apr 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 386
Summary:

Contradicts passages in Descent and Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Busk
Date:
14 February 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.87, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Busk
Date:
20 February 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.88, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Busk
Date:
4 March 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.89-90, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project