From:
unknown
To:
Gustav Plaar
Date:
25 March 1872
Source of text:
MM/21/13, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
unknown
To:
Secretary of the Royal Society
Date:
27 February 1873
Source of text:
MM/11/51, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
unknown
To:
Secretary of the Royal Society
Date:
4 March 1873
Source of text:
MM/11/52, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
6 March 1873
Source of text:
MM/14/220, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
18 January 1874
Source of text:
MM/14/221, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
8 March 1874
Source of text:
MM/14/222, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
Text Online
From:
?
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[28 May 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1995
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
ARW's pilot in the Aru Islands
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
3? May 1872
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46442 f. 93
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46442 f. 92
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 1
Summary:
Wishes to inform CD that, contrary to CD’s impression, natural selection is widely accepted in U. S. by educated men; encloses copies of his lectures, papers, and the Index.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Aug 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 2
Summary:
Thanks CD for interest in FEA’s work and for money for Index. Sends 1870 volume of Index.
Praises CD’s services to free-thought.
Asks for CD’s view of the influence of his theory on religion, to use in lecture.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 3
Summary:
For CD’s approval, cites passage from CD note he wants to quote in a lecture;
pleads for CD’s moral support for FEA’s work in free-thought movement.
Sends $50 [dollars or pounds!?] because he wants CD to become regular contributor to Index.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 July 1872
Source of text:
DAR 159: 4
Summary:
Thanks CD for five dollars and two-year subscription to Index, and for permission to quote CD’s compliments on Truths for the times.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 159: 5
Summary:
Asks CD to read and comment, for publication, on his forthcoming essay in Index on the evolution of conscience and morals through action and reaction between man and the moral environment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Abbot, F. E.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
19 January 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.7: 5
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
19 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.7: 5
Summary:
Thanks WED for his letter of 20 December 1875. Is surprised and delighted by the support from WED and CD for the Index.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julian Willis Abernethy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 18 Feb 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 140.4: 26
Summary:
A poem, "Burns to Darwin".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William de Wiveleslie Abney
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
[before 27 June 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 148
Summary:
Answers questions about chemistry (see 9202).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Lawford Acland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Aug 1870
Source of text:
DAR 159: A7
Summary:
Is studying Variation, especially Pangenesis. Reports earlier notion of Dr Robert Lee, that resemblance between husband and wife may be partly owing to her having man’s blood circulating in her during pregnancies; thus spouses most resemble each other in large families.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Andrew Leith Adams
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 8
Summary:
Thanks for letter on ALA’s qualifications for vacant chair of natural history.
Reports observations on deer which have larger left antlers than right, possibly for protection of heart.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adolf Bernhard Meyer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 May 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0363; Reel 1087
Summary:
Forwards letter from G. A. Erman to JH and two papers by Erman. AM wants to visit JH to learn of prospects for Erman before AM leaves soon for zoological and magnetic observations in Malay Archipelago.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project