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From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 171: 254
Summary:

Sends a Japanese book illustrating the expression of emotions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
Date:
5 Nov 1876
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 7)
Summary:

Thanks for Japanese book and for HNM’s papers on observations made during Challenger voyage.

Would be pleased if HNM visited him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 171: 255
Summary:

Accepts invitation to Down for 17 or 18 November.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 17 Nov 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 253
Summary:

Finds he does not have a duplicate of the Japanese natural history book. Sends other volumes of grotesque pictures.

He can show F. W. Hutton erred in calling Peripatus novae zelandiae self-fertilising; suspects J. F. Bullar has made a similar error on parasitic Isopoda. They both mistook spermatophores for testes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
Date:
22 Nov [1876]
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 8)
Summary:

Thanks for Japanese books, and papers by HNM.

Comments on Peripatus.

Not disappointed at what William Thomson says about evolution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
Date:
7 Feb 1877
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 9)
Summary:

Would like to see the photographs.

Was glad to read HNM’s paper on the New Zealand Peripatus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 256
Summary:

Sends revises [of his Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger", 1872–6 (1879)] and asks permission to dedicate it to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
Date:
26 Nov [1878]
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 10)
Summary:

Thanks for HNM’s offer to dedicate book [Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger" (1879)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
Date:
20 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 11)
Summary:

Thanks for HNM’s [Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger" (1879)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 257
Summary:

Thanks CD for accepting dedication.

Asks CD to support his candidacy for position as Registrar of the University of London by talking to Sir John Lubbock, one of the most influential members of the Senate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
Date:
23 and 30 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 12)
Summary:

Has told John Lubbock how highly he thinks of HNM’s work, and has heard that HMN’s claims will be fully considered.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
Date:
4 Feb 1879
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 13)
Summary:

Comments on HNM’s book [Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger" (1879)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 258
Summary:

Sends regards from Capt. Charles Owen, who had collected beetles for CD.

Owen’s son is going to Oregon with Wallis Nash.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project