From:
Henry Coe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1858
Source of text:
DAR 161: 194
Summary:
Cannot explain impurity of his alleged pure lines.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Coe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Oct 1858
Source of text:
DAR 161: 195
Summary:
Sends more bean seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Coe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1858
Source of text:
DAR 161: 196
Summary:
Answers CD’s queries about seed lot he has just sent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Coe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1858
Source of text:
DAR 161: 197
Summary:
Further answers on his seed lot.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edwards Crisp
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Apr 1857
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 221
Summary:
Reports on wheat in the stomach of fish he caught.
Contributor:
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From:
John Rice Crowe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Sept 1855
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 222
Summary:
Forwards two specimens of beans found on north coast of Norway.
Contributor:
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From:
James Dwight Dana
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 29 Dec 1850]
Source of text:
Living Cirripedia (1851): 15 n.
Summary:
Gives his opinion that the larval antennae in Lepas correspond with the inferior antennae, the superior not present, as in most Daphnidae. [See 1381.]
Contributor:
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From:
James Dwight Dana
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 6 Dec 1855]
Source of text:
DAR (CD library – Dana, J. D. 1853)
Summary:
Responds to CD’s criticism of his use of word "Kingdom" in discussing geographical distribution of Crustacea.
Contributor:
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From:
James Dwight Dana
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Sept 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 269 (Letters), DAR 162: 38
Summary:
Responds to CD’s query about the blind fauna of Mammoth Cave.
Gives information from L. Agassiz. Distribution of Crustacea, especially along southern coastlines.
Contributor:
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From:
James Dwight Dana
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 378
Summary:
Agassiz has informed him that the mice and rats of Mammoth Cave are American in type.
Alludes to CD’s doubt of the principle that "progress of life on the globe is parallel with the development in different tribes". Outlines his own ideas on the "unfolding of the type-idea" and its "parallelism with the law of development in the embryo".
Contributor:
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From:
James Dwight Dana
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Apr 1857
Source of text:
DAR 162: 39
Summary:
In reply to CD’s query [see 2072], JDD describes what little is known about the crustacea of the Antarctic and southern lands.
Knows of no species of the cold temperate south identical with those of the cold temperate north.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Freeman Daniell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct – 7 Nov 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 223
Summary:
Responds to CD’s queries on Sierra Leone: fertility of European animals introduced to W. Africa, relationship of health and complexion of Europeans, etc.
Contributor:
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From:
William Freeman Daniell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 270, 271
Summary:
Believes he can give CD information on Mammalia of St Thomas [São Tomé, Gulf of Guinea]. Quotes from a Portuguese history of the islands on unique species of monkeys and civet cats found there.
Contributor:
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From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25? Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 35
Summary:
Commiseration on the death of Anne.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 36
Summary:
Thoughts on the death of Anne.
Contributor:
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 32
Summary:
Feels deeply for them at their "impossible loss" [of Anne].
Contributor:
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1853
Source of text:
DAR 262.11: 13
Summary:
Acknowledges the receipt of some securities.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[May–June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 48: B18
Summary:
Calculations relating to bees’ cells.
Contributor:
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 8 June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 48b
Summary:
Gives calculations on the structure of bees’ cells.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 48a, 50
Summary:
Encloses projections and models relating to geometry of bees’ cells.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project