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Letter from Charles Darwin to P.B. Mason [Philip Brookes Mason], 7615
No full textDarwin is interested in occurrence of hair on backs of weakly children. Darwin asks Mason if he would report particulars of any case he observes during next 6 - 12 months. Transcription: "March 24 Down Beckenham Kent Dear Sir I am greatly obliged for your valuable letter. A short time ago I was calling on an eminent physician + he took off his neck [chart?], bared his neck + showed me the platysma in splendid [voluntary] action. I am much interested by what you say about the hair on the backs of [] children. Would it be asking too great a favour to beg you to observe during next 6 or 9 or 12 months any case-giving the [] of age, sex, specs [] with hair-length of longest hair + +. I think a detailed case might be well worth giving. Pray believe me Dear Sir with my best thanks In [] yours vy faithfully Ch. Darwin" Letter sent from Down, Beckenham, Kent, England. Envelope includedThe Robert M. Stecher Collection of Charles Darwin Books and Manuscript
Letter from Charles Darwin to John Brodie Innes [7445]
No full textTranscription:"My dear Innes I was truly obliged for your kind & extremely pleasant letter. I was at first awfully annoyed: I really think being examined in court wd half-kill me.— I have had no communication with Mr Horsman; but my solicitor from what I cd. told him, thought the man wd. never be such a fool, as to bring the case into court. He advises me to take no trouble till he hears from Mr. Horsman's solicitors that he is earnest. I have already heard of 3 unpaid debts in this village. If things go on I will apply to Lubbock for chance of his having preserved the letters to which you refer. If I have to defend myself, I will push things to extreme. I heard that he bolted from Hotel at Torquay, after leaving Down, without paying his bill. I suspect that Mr Robinson is the informant, as he is now in this neighbourhood—curate at Brasted, & is a friend of Horsman's. If he is informant, it is too bad, for I remember explaining to Mr R, why people wd not pay subscriptions for School & to him, only to me, & why persons did not call on him, as his predecessor had been a mere swindler. Poor little Mr R. will look like a fool, if asked in court why he left Down. I believe & hope that you will prove right, & that the case will never come to trial. Certainly we have been unfortunate in Mr H. & Mr R. Mr Powell is, I think, a thoroughly good man & gentleman. Does good work of all kinds in the Parish, but preaches, I hear, very dull sermons. I shd. be a wonderful brute, if I had one single unpleasant recollection of an association with your name. We often differed, but you are one of those rare mortals, from whom one can differ & yet feel no shade of animosity, & that is a thing which I shd feel very proud of, if anyone cd. say of me. Farewell with very kind remembrances to Mrs Innes & your son, Yours very sincerely, Charles Darwin" Letter, signed by sender. Sent from Down House, near Beckenham, Kent, England.The Robert M. Stecher Collection of Charles Darwin Books and Manuscript
Western Reserve College campus, exterior
No full textblack and white distant exterior topographical view of campus showing 6 buildings / leafless trees on grass lawn in foregroundplace
Letter from Charles Darwin to [H. W. Bates] 6120
No full textDarwin has questions for Bates related to colour differences in the sexes of butterflies, particularly in relation to HWB's paper, "On variation in sexes of Argynnis diana". Also mentions that his manuscript on Lepidoptera is longer than he intended and the information is four-fifths owed to H.W. Bates. Transcription: "April 15 c1862 1868 Down. Bromley. Kent.S.C. My dear Bates Will you looks at p.2 of enclosed note (which please return for it has been + is precious to me), at [] with two blue lines, + [] me in the name of the one Papilio, in which there is no difference in colour in the two sexes. Also should you call this one species a beautiful or [] one, either relating to [] other Butterflies as to the genus Papilio?- As I am writing I will ask another question: in your communication to W.H. Edwards in [] of Philadelphia, you speak of the females of [] Diana, Sagona, Paphia, Papilio [], as departing from the type of their family.- Now are there more [] than their males? The [] female of P. [] cannot be considered 10. Will [] as the above females []? I suppose you do not know whether in the case of their species the males or females appear most numerous. I hear from Walsh + Edwards that with P. [] the males are as 4 to 1 to the females. H. Doubleday has [] me up to good way of estimating number of sexes, [] by priced German [] + the results are striking: there with Butterflies out of 114 sp. + [], in which the sexes differ in [] (of causes there is no difference in very common species) the males in every case but one are cheapest; that according to the standard on an average, there ought to be for every 100 females 143 males.- So return to the female Butterflies, Wallace things in the [] that in all cases when the female is most beautiful she is mimetic. My [] has [] to greater length than I like, but has interested me much; + I owe 4/5 of my information to your great + [] kindness. yours very sincerely Ch. Darwin" Letter, signed by sender to [Henry Walter Bates]. Sent from Down House, near Beckenham, Kent, England.The Robert M. Stecher Collection of Charles Darwin Books and Manuscript
Letter from Charles Darwin to [H. W. Bates] 6135
No full textDarwin thanks Bates for answering his questions. The manuscript on Lepidoptera is almost finished and Darwin is glad to have Bates read his writing, as he is fearful of mistakes since he is not as familiar with the subject. Transcription: "Ap. 22nd c1862 1868 Down. Bromley. Kent.S.C. My dear Bates. Hearty thanks.- you are the man to answer a question fully + clearly.- I return the drawing which + to [] can [] capital for me.- I have nearly finished my [] on [] + will then have it copied by a man who writes an excellent hand.- Your most kind offer of reading it has made all the difference to me: if I had not known that I shd have been tormented to which time with []. I have tried to be cautious + to avoid blunders, but when one writes on a subject, with which one is not familiar, mistakes almost [] occur. yours vy sincerely C. Darwin Two-thirds of the M.S. relates to fact communicated by you to me. or published by you." Letter, signed by sender. Sent from Down House, near Beckenham, Kent, England.The Robert M. Stecher Collection of Charles Darwin Books and Manuscript
Letter from Charles Darwin to [H. W. Bates] 6022
No full textDarwin requests information on the standard of beauty of 'savages', and on whether the female has any influence in selecting a male. Transcription: "4 Charter Place March 16 c1864 B. Park. N.W My dear Bates It has occurred to me that you must occasionally come to accept [] or Dealers who have lay lived intimately with savages: in this case, if you can, oblige me by leading [] to the notion of savages about the beauty of women, + secondly + more especially how far the women have any indirect influence in getting men, whom they prefer or admire to court them or [] them from their parents. Your will at once see my object.- I have many facts but am greedy for more.- I most thoroughly enjoyed my morning's talk with you.- This [] requires no answer Most sincerely yours C. Darwin" Letter, signed by sender.The Robert M. Stecher Collection of Charles Darwin Books and Manuscript
Letter from Charles Darwin to John Brodie Innes [6497]
No full textTranscription:"Dear Innes, I am much obliged for your letter. I do not think the case worth investigating simply because it is so wonderful & opposed to analogy that no naturalist wd believe it unless the animal was most carefully examined by some well-known, cautious, & experienced zoologist. Even then many wd. disbelieve as the act of union was not observed. A supposed hybrid was exhibited in London between a Deer & Pony; but when examined by Owen turned out to be a monstrosity of a Pony, aided by some manipulation on the hoofs. All such cases have failed when examined into. As I am writing I had perhaps add that rumours are very common in our village about Mr Robinson walking with girls at night. I did not mention them before, because I had not even moderately good authority; but my wife found Mrs Allen very indignant about Mr R.s conduct with one of her maids. I do not believe that there is any evidence of actual immorality. As I repeat only second hand my name must not be mentioned. Our maids tell my wife that they do not believe that hardly anyone will go to Church now that Mr R. has returned. What a plague this Parish does give you. Dear Innes, Very sincerely yours, C. Darwin" Postmark: Postmark: DE 11 68 Letter, signed by sender. Sent from Down House, near Beckenham, Kent, England. Envelope included.The Robert M. Stecher Collection of Charles Darwin Books and Manuscript
Letter from Charles Darwin to [H. W. Bates] 6195
No full textDarwin lists specimens (beetles) that he would like from Mr Janson, emphasizing that he always wants male and female. Darwin also extends an invitation for a Sunday in early June. Transcription: "1867? May 21 My dear Bates Cordial Thanks.- You must not hurry yourself. You understand that I always want male + female. I shd like Tyrhaeus English species Copris (not English sp.) Geotrupes 2 sp. Onitis 4 or 5 or 6, other genera, some differing much, some differing little according to [] in systemal appearance I head in Chile Chiasognatus Grantu squeaking loudly so I wd gladly pay 1 [pound] for a [], if they can be bought: I brought home a dozen sp. but gave them all away. If the beetles do not come named, + they prove interesting, I dare say you'd put me up to getting them named. Will you pay Mr Janson for me? or ask him to send me a mem? any how I shd like his address so that I might apply for more specimens if the result proves interesting, which I don't expect. Should you be able to come down the early part of next month + spend the Sunday here; it wd give us very great pleasure to see you + it wd make it pleasant to Mr Jenner Weir who had been extraordinarily kind + whom I want to invite here. With many thanks yours very sincerely Charles Darwin" Letter, signed by sender to [Henry Walter Bates]. Sent from Down House, near Beckenham, Kent, England.The Robert M. Stecher Collection of Charles Darwin Books and Manuscript
Letter from Charles Darwin to Daniel Oliver, 3587
No full textTranscription: "Dear Oliver Would you have the great kindness to name for me the enclosed plant- if you cannot make out the species, the genus wd. suffice. A friend sent a Woodcocks foot with 9 gr. of earth adhering to it, & this plant came up. It has been grown in pot in greenhouse & the flowers have never opened & stamens appear rudimentary- whether this is natural, or due to the plant being properly a marsh plant, or to some other cause, I know not. Excuse me bothering you & believe me, Yours very sincerely, Ch. Darwin" Letter sent from Down, Bromley, Kent, England.The Robert M. Stecher Collection of Charles Darwin Books and Manuscript
Student Notebooks from the University of Michigan. Chemistry, Machine Drawing, Mining Operations, 1867-1869
No full textThree handwritten, unbound notebooks by Charles F. Brush, Sr. from classes Brush took while in attendance at the University of Michigan as a mining engineering major in the years 1867, 1868, and 1869. Notebooks from classes in chemistry, machine drawing, and mining operationsCharles F. Brush, Sr., PapersSeries 8: Other Papers (1842-1960)Subseries 4: Miscellaneous (1842-1960)Box 29Folder