Search: 1850-1859 in date 
Darwin, C. R. in correspondent 
Mantell, W. B. D. in correspondent 
Sorted by:

Showing 15 of 5 items

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell
Date:
17 Nov 1854
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-268)
Summary:

Requests authoritative information on erratic boulders and marks of glaciers in New Zealand, and especially in southern islands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell
Date:
3 Apr [1856]
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-268)
Summary:

Reminds WBDM of his promise of information about the quartz boulders and an iceberg with fragment of rock seen in southern ocean.

Sends other questions [on separate sheet (missing)] which WBDM will think ridiculous, but all bear on plants and animals under domestication.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell
Date:
[before 10 Apr 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 85: A99
Summary:

CD asks whether New Zealand tribes have an idea of beauty in women which is "like ours"; WBDM answers, "Yes".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell
Date:
10 Apr [1856]
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-268)
Summary:

Thanks WBDM for his reply [missing] to CD’s previous letter [1603].

Asks for more details on the erratic blocks.

Asks also if there is good evidence that there formerly existed [in New Zealand] some animal with hair, like an otter or beaver.

Finally, do the uncivilised natives have the same ideal of [human] beauty as Europeans?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell
Date:
5 June [1856-9]
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-268)
Summary:

Thanks WBDM for the particulars on the iceberg.

Will look up the barnacle specimen to which he refers at British Museum.

WBDM should remember when he returns to New Zealand that aboriginal rat and frog are "great desiderata in Natural History".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project