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DCP-LETT-1209

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maria Sarah (Maria) Turner; Maria Sarah (Maria) Hooker
Date:
[17 Dec 1848]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:

Returns letters [from her son, J. D. Hooker, in India].

Asks that B. H. Hodgson’s zoological pamphlets be sent to him at Athenaeum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-944

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
18 Jan [1853]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:

Thanks GRW for his sympathy on his ill health. Feels better lately.

Sends thanks to G. P. Deshayes for his advice.

Asks what "original work" GRW has begun so his name will become better known.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1713

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
8 July [1855]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:

Asks GRW if there is any easy systematic work on Lepidoptera for his sons. Considers making out the names from descriptions fine practice for the intellect; mere collecting is idle work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5406

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Blyth
Date:
[18 Feb 1867]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:

Asks to meet EB for a walk in the Zoological Gardens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5407

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Blyth
Date:
[19 Feb 1867]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:

Is so unwell he must cancel appointment to meet at Zoological Gardens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5413

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Blyth
Date:
23 Feb [1867]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:

Many of EB’s remarks about Origin [4th ed. (1866)] are new to CD.

Thinks of writing a short essay on man.

Struck by EB’s remarks about orang. They are similar to Carl Vogt’s remarks on origin of man from distinct ape families.

Thinks similarity of orang to Malay must be accidental.

Will send Variation when it is published.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6049

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Blyth
Date:
25 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:

Has found EB’s MS most interesting and valuable. Fully half the facts were new to him; will probably use some.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6091

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Blyth
Date:
4 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:

Glad to hear about colours of Hylobates.

Cannot find any statement about which digits in man are most subject to syndactylism in Isidore Geoffroy [Saint-Hilaire]’s Histoire des anomalies [1832–7].

Asks questions concerned with seasonal and sexual changes in plumage of various bird species.

Does male woodpecker share in incubation?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6891

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Blyth
Date:
14 Sept [1869]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:

Thanks EB for his attempts to find out about the mandrills;

sorry to hear that he has been so badly treated by the manager of Land and Water.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6962

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
31 Oct 1869
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for sending extracts about the jackal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8166

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John William Dawson
Date:
19 Jan 1872
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:

Thanks recipient for memoir on fossil plants of the Devonian and Upper Silurian.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8510

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
4 Sept [1872?]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:

Orders some salts for plant experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12474

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Woodward
Date:
13 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Blacker-Wood Manuscript Collection, Woodward Collection of Autographs v. 3)
Summary:

Has signed a paper [unspecified];

thanks HW for his interesting letter and kind expressions about himself and his son.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11892

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Date:
21 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Manuscript Collection: Folio A.L.S. Charles Darwin)
Summary:

Sends short testimonial [missing] for RBS, but doubts its value as he has has already given one for the same office [to A. G. Butler, see 11888].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12011

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
25 Apr 1879
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Manuscript Collection: Folio A.L.S. Charles Darwin)
Summary:

Asks for information about his grandfather’s influence on medical practice, to be used in his preface to Erasmus Darwin [1879, p. 107].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13668

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Johnson
Date:
7 Feb 1882
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Rare and Special Collections, Osler, Art and Archives
Summary:

Thanks for offer of sandstone with annelid tracks.

Suggests J. W. Judd, "most able of living geologists", as lecturer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday0407

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 August 1829
Source of text:
MU MS 173
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday0248

From:
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
24 December 1824
Source of text:
MU MS 173
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday0250

From:
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
17 January 1825
Source of text:
MU MS 173
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday0358

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Jerdan
Date:
5 June 1828
Source of text:
MU MS 173
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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