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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William John Broderip
Date:
[31 Aug 1842]
Source of text:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Summary:

Discusses toad [mentioned in Journal of researches, p. 115].

Describes house at Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
[4 or 11] Sept 1842
Source of text:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Summary:

Thanks GRW for collection [of insects] he has made up for CD’s nephew.

Leaves decision to GRW as to which institutions should receive CD’s Beagle insects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
13 Nov [1845]
Source of text:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Summary:

Sends corrections and suggestions for an advertisement for Zoology and Geology of "Beagle".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Wickham Flower
Date:
23 Mar [1851]
Source of text:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Summary:

Thanks JWF for [cirripede] fossils; one species seems from a new formation.

Regrets that his health makes it necessary to decline an invitation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Henry Gosse
Date:
22 Sept [1856]
Source of text:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Summary:

CD is working hard on variations.

Asks if PHG’s bald-pate pigeon [described in A naturalist’s sojourn in Jamaica (1851)] is a true rock-pigeon.

Can he obtain a specimen of the rabbits that have run wild, and a wild canary, and the body of any domestic or fancy pigeon which has been in the West Indies for some generations?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Frederick William Herschel, 1st baronet
Date:
11 Nov [1859]
Source of text:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Summary:

Sends a copy of Origin as a measure of his respect and in recognition of the obligation he feels he owes to JFWH’s book [A preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy (1831)]. "Scarcely anything in my life made so deep an impression on me."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
11 Mar 1874
Source of text:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for offer of [unidentified] rare book but does not accept it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
The Times
Date:
23 June 1876
Source of text:
The Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin ( The Times (London, England) collection MS 4238)
Summary:

Forwards for publication an article by Dr Richardson [apparently not published] showing the necessity of experiments on living animals. Hopes it will make women, "who from the tenderness of their hearts and from their profound ignorance are the most vehement opponents of all such experiments", pause.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Benjamin Dancer
Date:
25 Oct [1881]
Source of text:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin (John Benjamin Dancer MS 1052 1.3)
Summary:

Informs JBD that his book [Earthworms] profited from JBD’s interesting notice ["On the transfer of subsoil to the surface", Proc. Manchester Lit. & Philos. Soc. 16: 247–8].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project