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From:
Williams & Norgate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1857
Source of text:
DAR 91: 81
Summary:

CD is informed that a certain work [unspecified] is not available separately.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
16 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Orders J. E. Tennent’s work on Ceylon [Sir James Emerson, afterwards Tennent, Ceylon, an account of the island, physical, historical, and topographical (1859)], and Richard Owen’s Classification and distribution of Mammalia [1859].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
29 [Jan 1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.194)
Summary:

Orders copy of book by Louis Agassiz [Nomenclatoris Zoologici Index Universalis (1846)].

Mentions book sent by Quatrefages de Bréau.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
6 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection)
Summary:

Orders first part of vol. 3 of Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Histoire naturelle générale des règnes organiques [3 vols. (1854–62)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Williams & Norgate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1860
Source of text:
DAR 91: 82
Summary:

W&N have not yet received the German edition of the Origin.

Recommend French–English and French dictionaries.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
1 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
Swiss National Library, Helvetic Archives (SLA-Rhyn-06-d/02)
Summary:

Thanks for information about French dictionaries.

Asks that Westminster Review [of Apr 1860] be sent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
10 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
Alexander Autographs (dealers) (20 February 2005, Lot 273)
Summary:

Asks Williams & Norgate to forward one copy of the German translation of Origin (Bronn trans. 1860) to Jan van der Hoeven, and another to Jacob Moleschott.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
13 [May 1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Orders latest issues of North British Review and Dublin Magazine of Natural History. Also would like an order placed for him for a French translation of F. Unger, Versuch einer Geschichte der Pflanzen-Welt [1852], if such a translation has appeared.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
18 May [1860]
Source of text:
Lanier family (private collection)
Summary:

Requests a copy of Unger 1852 (Versuch einer Geschichte der Pflanzenwelt; an attempt at a history of the vegetable kingdom).

Requests a copy of the issue of British and Foreign Medical Review which contains a review of Origin, if it is a different publication from British and Foreign Medical and Chirurgical Review

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
[1861]
Source of text:
Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms alb-67:134)
Summary:

Requests Natural History Review for 1861 until further notice.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
16 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
RR Auction (dealers) (14 June 2018, Lot 30)
Summary:

Wishing to purchase a copy of Ferguson’s illustrated series of rare and prize poultry, including comprehensive essays upon all classes of domestic fowl (Ferguson 1854).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
4 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Autogr.: Darwin, Charles Robert, Bl. 1-2 )
Summary:

CD is obliged for the securing of [Ferguson’s illustrated book of domestic poultry]. Since he has already been given a copy, may he return this one?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
25 Aug [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 119
Summary:

Instructions to a book seller.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
[7 Feb 1863 or earlier]
Source of text:
Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections (Paul Philemon Kies Autograph Collection, 1533–1970: 1 Autograph letters, 1533–1970 box 1, folder 55)
Summary:

Wishes to order Botanische Zeitung for 2 and 9 January 1863.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
10 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (ASHCOMBE COLLECTION/V/52)
Summary:

Orders Richard Owen’s Anatomy of vertebrates [1866–8],

subscribes to Annals and Magazine of Natural History,

and orders three back numbers of Medical Times and Gazette.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Williams & Norgate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 96: 48
Summary:

Progress of CD’s order for certain books.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
27 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
Scrope-Howe family (private collection)
Summary:

Requesting information about the publication history of Lavater 1820.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Williams & Norgate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 181: 104
Summary:

Information on the publishing history of a book [J. C. Lavater, Physiognomische Fragmente, 4 vols. (1775–8)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
6 May [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 118
Summary:

"Be so good as to send me Unsere Zeit with Julius Frauenstädt’s article ["Darwin’s Auffassung des geistigen und sittlichen Lebens des Menschen" n.s. 8 (May 1872), 597–605]. I am much obliged for the information."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
30 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
Duke’s, Dorchester (dealers) (6 September 2018, lot 367)
Summary:

Asks them to procure the two volumes of Living Cirripedia for Anton Dohrn’s zoological station in Naples.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project