From:
John Price
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[July 1826]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 40
Summary:
Tells CD he is recovering from the illness with which he was afflicted when CD visited.
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:
John Price
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 174: 74
Summary:
Visiting W. D. Fox.
Sends specimen of Cardamine pratensis,
and an account of a striped horse.
Discusses Pangenesis.
Has returned to religion and has been reflecting on God’s mercies, one of which CD should remember from about 1828 at Bodnant.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Price
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Oct 1868
Source of text:
DAR 174: 75
Summary:
Congratulates CD on success at Cambridge [of George Darwin].
Would like CD to study the anomalous Cardamine pratensis.
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:
John Price
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 205.2 (Letters): 248
Summary:
Has experimented with some success in growing twigs with buds
and a grass plant from which a ptarmigan had extracted the core.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Price
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 July 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 143
Summary:
Has some Utricularia minor for CD. Has found the bladders on U. vulgaris are not floats.
Thanks CD for book [Descent, 2d ed.].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Price
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 90
Summary:
Observations on flotation of Utricularia vulgaris.
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:
John Price
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 174: 76
Summary:
Nathan Hubbersty [of Cambridge days] is very ill.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project