A237.1    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

the large dining-hall and schoolrooms, and in front, near the great gates, the masters residence. On the gate pillars stood two nearly life-size figures of boys in the costume of the school long blue coat and yellow petticoat, with breeches and yellow stockings, a dress which was quite familiar to us. Occasionally we went to see the boys dine in the grand dining-hall, where the old-world style of everything was of great interest. At the ringing of an outside bell the boys, 250 in all, came in

A237.1    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

hands we worked this up with our fingers till it formed a compact stiff mass. Before doing this, we begged a little bright water-colour, carmine or Prussian blue, from our sisters, and also, I think, a very small portion of gum. When all was thoroughly incorporated so that the whole lump was quite uniform in colour and texture, we divided it into balls about the size of a large marble, and carefully pressed them on to the seals, at the same time squeezing the bread up between our fingers into

A237.1    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

thick as a goose-quill, and about an inch and a half long. They are large and overlap each other, with margins of a fine metallic blue. The whole skin of the neck is very loose and extensible, and when the crest is expanded the neck is inflated, and the cylindrical neck-ornament hangs down in front of it. The effect of these two strange appendages when the bird is at rest and the head turned backwards must be to form an irregular ovate black mass with neither legs, beak, nor eyes visible, so

A237.1    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

centre of Eastern Sumatra, the forest is only in patches, and it is the height of the rains, so I get nothing. A longicorn is a rarity, and I suppose I shall not have as many species in two months as I have obtained in three or four days in a really good locality. I am getting, however, some sweet little blue butterflies (Lyc nid ), which is the only thing that keeps up my spirits. The letter to my friend Silk will be, perhaps, a little more amusing, and perhaps not less instructive. Lobo Roman

A237.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

this time of year is one mass of odoriferous foliage and flowers, chiefly of a Labiate undershrub (Gardoquia fasciculata, Bth.). Another slope of far wider extent is much gayer with varied colour mainly of the blue flowers of Dalea Mutisii H. B. K. a papilionaceous shrub allied to the Indigos and of the red-purple foxglove-like flowers of Lamourouxia virgata H. B. K. (which is parasitic on the roots of the Dalea) mingled with the yellow flowers of the Quitenian broom (Genista Quitensis, L.), and

A237.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

-plant, Symplocapus f tidus, was in flower, as was the pretty blue hepatica, also found in Europe. February and March were, however, very cold, and Washington was snow-covered and [page] 11

A237.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

. Edwards met me and took me to his pleasant house with a broad verandah in a pretty orchard at the foot of the mountain, which rises in a steep forest-clad slope close behind. The grass of the orchard was full of the beautiful white flowers of the blood-root (Sanguinaria canadensis), together with yellow and blue violets, and there were fine views of the river and high sloping hills, which, together with the tramways and coal trucks on the railway, and here and there the chimneys of a colliery engine

A237.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

strange detached pinnacles. Fine precipices occur at Echo Ca on and Weber's Ca on. The Devil's Slide is formed by two vertical dykes descending a steep mountain-side only two or three feet apart, leaving a narrow passage or slide between them. Reaching Ogden in the afternoon, I took the train to Salt Lake City, passing the fine highly cultivated plain on the shores of Salt Lake, the fields being all irrigated. Some of the meadows were blue with the beautiful Camassia esculenta, an easily grown

A237.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

the bogs near; and I also found the brilliant scarlet Silene Californica. Lower down, the Calochortus venustus was abundant and in richly varied colour, the curious Brodi a volubilis, and the handsome blue B. grandiflora. [page] 16

A237.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

, were among the gems of the Rocky Mountain flora. Others were European, as Anemone narcissiflora, Ranunculus nivalis, Astragalus alpina, and Androsace septentrionalis; while others, again, were British, as Silene acaulis, Dryas octopetala, and the rare Swertia perennis, which here dotted the grass with its curious slaty-blue flowers. The scenery was just like many a Swiss Alp, where snow-peaks were not in sight, and the flowers, if not quite so brilliant or so numerous in species, were especially

A237.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

. Coming near the North Platte river, the fine blue Iris missouriensis was seen in the marshes. There was good grass here, and plenty of cattle grazing. The river was about a mile wide, but shallow and full of mud-banks. [page] 18

A237.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

primulas, and stony passes from which the snow had just retreated. On the Strela pass, about eight thousand feet, I found some charming little alpines I had not seen before, among them the very dwarf Viola alpine, growing among stones, the leaves hardly visible and the comparatively large flat flowers of a very deep blue-purple, with a large orange-yellow eye. This is peculiar to the Eastern Alps, and seems difficult to cultivate, as few dealers have it in their lists. I sent home a few plants

A237.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

really meant to tell them that those two diagrams were both accurate, and when I said again that though on different scales both represented the same facts, he looked up at the ceiling with an air which plainly said, If you will say that you will say anything! The Commission lingered on for six years, and did not issue its final report till 1896, while the evidence, statistics, and diagrams occupied numerous bulky blue-books. The most valuable parts of it were the appendices, containing the

A237.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

331 Nordhoff, Mr., A. R. Wallace dines with, ii. 119 Norfolk, Duke of, ii. 44 North, Miss, reference to her flower painting, ii. 147, 161; gives A. R. Wallace a plant of blue Puya, ii. 205 North Platte river, ii. 184 Notre Dame de Lourdes, by M. Henri Lasserre, ii. 305 307 Nulty, Bishop, of Meath, a supporter of land nationalization, ii. 256 Nutwood Cottage, the residence of A. R. Wallace at Godalming, ii. 103 O Oastler, Mr. Robert, on the condition of New Lanark, i. 101 Oceanic Islands, A. R

A281    Pamphlet:     1908. The Darwin-Wallace celebration held on Thursday, 1st July, 1908 by the Linnean society of London. London: Printed for the Linnean Society.   Text   PDF

of nature, we became impressed amidst those charming surroundings. When the day was waning, we sat down on the side of a slope, high above the valley, awaiting the sunset and the purple glow of the twilight on the opposite mountains. The beautifully-formed, barren heights stood out clearly against the blue sky; in wide bends the limpid river wound through the deep green meadows and groves, and the silhouette of the venerable old town of Jena rose high in the distance, still clad in its medi val

A297    Book:     Darwin, Francis & E. Hamilton Acton. 1909. Practical physiology of plants. Cambridge: University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

experiment 41, and when constant readings are obtained, cover the beaker with a double bell-jar containing ammoniacal copper-sulphate solution and note the result. Sunlight must be employed as the source of light. After an interval of 4 or 5 minutes, when the readings should be approaching constancy, replace the blue jar by another containing potassium bichromate solution, and take a series of readings. It will probably be necessary to alternate the blue and orange light several times before a

A297    Book:     Darwin, Francis & E. Hamilton Acton. 1909. Practical physiology of plants. Cambridge: University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

. Qualitative tests for Tannins. Test portions of the neutral aqueous solution with :— (1) A few drops of ' neutral' ferric chloride (large excess must be carefully avoided). Blue-black or dull green coloration shows tannins. (2) A few drops of solution of potassium ferri-cyanide and ammonia. Beddish-brown coloration changing to brown shows tannins. (3) Gelatin solution. Dirty white precipitate shows tannins. (4) Lime-water (Ca(OH)2). Blue, brown, or red colour or precipitate shows tannins. (5

A297    Book:     Darwin, Francis & E. Hamilton Acton. 1909. Practical physiology of plants. Cambridge: University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

give a higher reading than that of F. In sunshine the difference may be 4° G. If the stomata of F are made to close, e.g. by means of darkness, the temperatures of F and W become practically identical. (118 a) Stahl's cobalt method2. It is well known that paper impregnated with a solution of a cobalt salt, e.g. cobalt chloride, changes from blue to red when it is placed in damp air and reassumes the blue colour when dried. Stahl has been able by taking ad- 1 Francis Darwin, Phil. Trans., 165 B

A211    Book:     Geikie, A. 1909. Charles Darwin as geologist: The Rede Lecture given at the Darwin Centennial Commemoration on 24 June 1909. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

deep and wide valleys of the Blue Mountains in New South [page] 4

A297    Book:     Darwin, Francis & E. Hamilton Acton. 1909. Practical physiology of plants. Cambridge: University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

plugged tubes: sterilise and preserve for use. Expose a saucer of solution N to the air, until it is infected with one of the blue moulds:—Penicillium or Aspergillus. With a sterilised needle remove spores of the mould selected and shake up in a small flask of pure water: rapidly filter through a sterile funnel, plugged with cotton-wool to make the spores separate from one another. Add one drop, or more, according to the quantity of spores in the water, to a tube of the gelatine just liquefied, and

A297    Book:     Darwin, Francis & E. Hamilton Acton. 1909. Practical physiology of plants. Cambridge: University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

portions for amides by:— (1) Addition of freshly precipitated and well washed cupric hydroxide. Amides form a deep blue liquid with solution of the hydroxide—if this liquid is carefully evaporated and [page break

A331    Book:     Poulton, Edward Bagnall. 1909. Charles Darwin and the Origin of species: addresses, etc., in America and England in the year of the two anniversaries. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.   Text   Image

. Conspicuous among well-defended insects are the dark steely or iridescent greenish blue fossorial wasps or sand-wasps, Sphex and the allied genera. Many Longicorn beetles mimic these in colour, slender shape of body and limbs, rapid movements, and the readiness with which they take to flight. On Dec. 21, 1812, Burchell captured one such beetle (Promeces viridis) at Kosi Fountain on the journey from the source of the Kuruman River to Klaarwater. It is correctly placed among the Longicorns in his

A331    Book:     Poulton, Edward Bagnall. 1909. Charles Darwin and the Origin of species: addresses, etc., in America and England in the year of the two anniversaries. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.   Text   Image

surface, inconspicuous when contrasted with that of the male, suggests that the species is palatable as compared with the rest of this combination and that its Mimicry is Batesian. 24. The dark ground and pale markings of the female diana are probably analogous with those of other dark female forms in Argynnidae, while the blue colouring is an additional feature of purely mimetic significance. 25. The arrangement of the North American butterflies which converge on Pharm. philenor, in concentric rings

A162    Book:     Seward, A. C. ed. 1909. Darwin and modern science. Essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The origin of species. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

fact that every visible character in a plant is the resultant of the cooperation of specific structure, with its various potentialities, and the influence of the environment. We know, that in a pure species all characters vary, that a blue-flowering Campanula or a red Sempervivum can be converted by experiment into white-flowering forms, that a transformation of stamens into petals may be caused by fungi or by the influence of changed conditions of nutrition, or that plants in dry and poor soil

A297    Book:     Darwin, Francis & E. Hamilton Acton. 1909. Practical physiology of plants. Cambridge: University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

seedling plant of any kind dug up and placed with its roots in a bottle of water. The bell-jars should stand in saucers of dry earth or sawdust, so as to insure the exclusion of colourless light. They must be exposed to diffused light—in sunshine the temperatures are not the same in the two bell-jars. The exposure should be for 1£ or 2 days. The plants in the blue light will be almost starchless. 1 W. Gardiner, Annals of Botany, it. p. 163. s Timiriazefl, Comptes rendus, T. ex. p. 1346. [page break

A297    Book:     Darwin, Francis & E. Hamilton Acton. 1909. Practical physiology of plants. Cambridge: University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

solutions is to dissolve twice the weights of the solids, given in grams per liter, in an ordinary blue glass Winchester quart bottle, containing roughly 2 liters. Water-plants cannot generally be recommended for accurate experiments extending over any considerable time, as we have found it much more difficult to grow them satisfactorily in culture solutions than to grow ordinary plants with the roots immersed. Strong seedlings of any common green plants may be used; of the plants used by Acton

A297    Book:     Darwin, Francis & E. Hamilton Acton. 1909. Practical physiology of plants. Cambridge: University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

being less heavy and therefore more easily fixed in place than glass plates. The glass or talc plates being gently clamped at the edges the papers are confined in spaces in which the dryness of the air will depend on the transpiration of the two surfaces of the leaf. The paper on the lower surface reddens rapidly, while that on the upper side remains blue. A simple plan is to take a pair of similar leaves, placing one, A, with the stomata upwards, the other, B, in the reverse position on a dry

A35    Pamphlet:     Shipley, A.E. [1909]. Charles Darwin. [Cambridge, Privately Printed].   Text   Image

Darwin's time by the present Dean of Westminster and successive College deans. Darwin, as has been said, came up after Christmas. Among those of his contemporaries at Christ's, who had joined the previous October, was A. T. Holroyd, who, a few years later, in 1836, journeyed up the Nile and crossed the desert to Khartum. He penetrated up the Blue Nile to Sennaar, and again across the desert to the White Nile and Kordofan. Later he explored the Syrian desert, and Holroyd's tracks were common on maps of

A162    Book:     Seward, A. C. ed. 1909. Darwin and modern science. Essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The origin of species. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

. Conspicuous among well-defended insects are the dark steely or iridescent greenish blue fossorial wasps or sand-wasps, Sphex and the allied genera. Many Longicorn beetles mimic these in colour, slender shape of body and limbs, rapid movements, and the readiness with which they take to flight. On Dec. 21, 1812, Burchell captured one such beetle (Promeces viridis) at Kosi Fountain on the journey from the source of the Kuruman River to Klaarwater. It is correctly placed among the Longicorns in his

A297    Book:     Darwin, Francis & E. Hamilton Acton. 1909. Practical physiology of plants. Cambridge: University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

, tests for and estimation of, see Sugars; hydrolysis of, by glycase, 309 Manipulation and apparatus, books dealing with, 240 Mannite, see Sugars Marks for measuring growth, ink used for, 144 n. Martynia, irritable stigmaof, 211n. Material to be analysed, preparatory treatment of, 240 Mangin, see Bonnier Mercury, growth of roots into, 1C8 Metabolism, chemistry of, 235 Methylene blue absorbed by living cell, 124 Mej'er, on assimilation of sugar, 32 n. Micrometer-screw, 135; used as auxanometer

A36    Periodical contribution:     Darwin Centenary Number. Christ's College Magazine. vol. XXIII, Easter Term, 1909.   Text   Image   PDF

to be congratulated on obtaining his Blue. Of the rest of the team, C. H. Harper and J. T. M. Mee were invaluable in the half-back line. MUSICAL SOCIETY. A successful Smoking Concert was held in the Hall (by kind permission of the Master and Fellows) on Saturday, March 6th. The programme contained several familiar numbers with which a large audience was much pleased, the Selections from Gilbert and Sullivan Operas (which were performed through the courtesy of Mrs D'Oyly Carte) proving very

A162    Book:     Seward, A. C. ed. 1909. Darwin and modern science. Essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The origin of species. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

replaced (not succeeded) by perfect forms; fourth, that the natural cause of the production of perfect forms was the extinction of the imperfect2. But the fundamental idea of one stage giving origin to another was absent. As the blue gean teemed with treasures of beauty and threw many upon its shores, so did Nature produce like a fertile artist what had to be rejected as well as what was able to survive, but the idea of one species emerging out of another was not yet conceived. 1 Columbia

A162    Book:     Seward, A. C. ed. 1909. Darwin and modern science. Essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The origin of species. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

), often with a steel-blue ground-colour, while the under surface is well concealed when the butterfly is at rest,—thus there are two kinds of protective coloration each with a different meaning! The same thing may be observed in many non-mimetic butterflies, for instance in all our species of Vanessa, in which the under side shows a grey-brown or brownish-black protective coloration, but we do [page break

A162    Book:     Seward, A. C. ed. 1909. Darwin and modern science. Essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The origin of species. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

fertilisation. In dioecious plants we must aim at the reproduction of brothers and sisters. We may at the outset take it for granted that a pure species remains the same under similar external conditions; it varies as these vary. It is characteristic of a species that it always exhibits a constant relation to a particular environment. In the case of two different species, e.g. the hay and anthrax bacilli or two varieties of Campanula with blue and white flowers respectively, a similar

A34    Book:     Judd, J. W. 1910. The coming of evolution: The story of a great revolution in science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image

Species. Working steadily and continuously he had got as far as Chapter X, completing more than one half the book, when as he says Wallace's letter and essay came 'like a bolt from the blue.' Oppressed by illness, anxiety and perplexity, as we have seen that Darwin was at the time, he fortunately consented to leave matters though with [page] 12

A313    Pamphlet:     Harmer, S. F. and W. G. Ridewood eds. 1910. Memorials of Charles Darwin: a collection of manuscripts portraits medals books and natural history specimens to commemorate the centenary of his birth and the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of "The origin of species" 2d ed. British Museum (Natural History). Special guide no. 4.   Text   Image   PDF

under Domestication, Chap. vii.) Examples of the principal breeds of Domestic Fowl are shown in Case 21. 131. Blue Rock Pigeon, Columba livia, reputed to be the wild ancestral form of all domestic breeds of Pigeon. ( Origin of Species, Chap. i; Animals and Plants under Domestication, Chaps. v and vi.) Examples of the principal breeds of Domestic Pigeon are shown in Case 18. Attention may here be called to the large series of Domestic Animals of all kinds exhibited in the North Hall. 132. Red

A482    Periodical contribution:     Fabre, Henri. 1913. My relations with Darwin. The Fortnightly Review n.s. 94: 661-675.   Text   Image

fifteen Mason-bees, intended for purposes of comparison with mine. I am th'erefore in possession of two sets of insects. Fifteen, marked in pink, have taken the five-mile bend ; fifteen, marked in blue, have come by the straight road, the shortest road for the return to the nest. The weather is warm, very bright and calm; I could not hope for a better day for the success of my experiment. The insects are given their freedom at midday. At five o'clock the arrivals number seven of the pink Mason

A482    Periodical contribution:     Fabre, Henri. 1913. My relations with Darwin. The Fortnightly Review n.s. 94: 661-675.   Text   Image

the distance. But there is nothing to tell me that it is not another, in which case she was content with less. It is the fastest speed that I have succeeded in noting. I myself am back at twelve and within a short time catch three others. I see no more during the rest of the evening. Total : four home, out of ten. The 4th of May is a very bright, calm, warm day, weather highly propitious for my experiments. I take fifty Mason-bees marked with blue. The distance to be travelled remains the same

F1553.2    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1702-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 2   Text   Image   PDF

blue with blue-bells. The flowers are here very beautiful, and the number of flowers; the darkness of the blue of the common little Polygala almost equals it to an alpine gentian. There are large tracts of woodland, [cut down] about once every ten years; some of these enclosures seem to be very ancient. On the south side of Cudham Wood a beech hedge has grown to Brobdignagian size, with several of the huge branches crossing each other and firmly grafted together. Larks abound here, and their

F1553.2    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1702-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 2   Text   Image   PDF

white chip bonnet trimmed with blonde and flowers. Harriet has given me a very hand-some plaid satin, a dark one, which is very gorgeous, hand-somely made up with black lace; and that and my blue Paris gown, which I have only worn once, and the other blue and white sort of thing will set me up for the present. Jessie and Susan gave Fanny strict orders not to let me be shabby. (And a grand velvet shawl too.) Our gaieties were first going to the play, which Charles actually proposed to do himself

F1553.2    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1702-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 2   Text   Image   PDF

that I never had the energy to write, though I was often thinking of it. Now I am quite well and strong and able to enjoy the use of my legs and my baby, and a very nice looking one it is, I assure you. He has very dark blue eyes and a pretty, small mouth, his nose I will not boast of, but it is very harmless as long as he is a baby. Elizabeth went away a week too soon while he was a poor little wretch before he began to improve. She was very fond of him then, and I expect she will admire him as

F1553.1    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1792-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 1   Text   Image   PDF

The Races began yesterday, and by accident we have had the smartest set-out we ever had, as our carriage is new, and being so many we were obliged to have four horses; and the post-boys had been stimulated by a rival inn to sport new blue jackets and silver-laced hats, so we went to the Course gloriously. Eliza, Caroline, Tom and Bob Wedgwood1 are with us, and I find it much more comfortable not to have any outlyers. To-day however we have the Sneyd-Kynnerslys, who dine and go to the ball

F1553.1    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1792-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 1   Text   Image   PDF

remember my mother's telling me of these walks on the sandy paths amongst the wild heath and through the fields of Maer, as if they were one of the happy memories of her youth. Emma Wedgwood to her sister Elizabeth. [MAER, March, 1824.] ... Will you get four fine cambrick pocket handkerchiefs and eight common ones for everyday? Then a common printed cotton gown. I do not wish to give more than 10s. for it. I should like a blue, pink, or buff one. If you happen to be in a ribbon shop, will you get 3

F1553.1    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1792-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 1   Text   Image   PDF

kick made her shoulder black and blue. I was then only a child, but I can still remember the expression of his face, and the very place where he stood in Stonyfield at Down. He was a great favourite with Mr Owen, a peppery and despotic squire of the old school.1 The household was large and not always very orderly. Mr Owen used to hear, or imagined he heard, people walking about late at night; so he determined to trap them and piled up a mass of crockery at the top of the stairs. Hearing a

F1553.2    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1702-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 2   Text   Image   PDF

wonderful country: it is a strange mixture our love of excitement and tranquillity. I wish the awful day was over. I am not very tranquil when I think of the procession: it is very awesome. By the bye, I am glad to say the 24th is on a Thursday, so we shall not be married on an unlucky day. I have been very extravagant and ordered a great many new clothes. Mr Stewart wanted me to have a blue coat and white trousers, but I vowed I would only put on clothes in which I could travel away decently. I

F1553.2    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1702-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 2   Text   Image   PDF

collection of blue ladies, H. Martineau, Mrs Austin,1 Mrs Marcet, c., which is I believe quite a new line for him. Mrs Austin is much found fault with for being too aristocratic; since she has gone to Mayfair they say she only frequents parties of the highest distinction. 1 Wife of John Austin, philosophical jurist. She was one of the Taylors of Norwich, translator and author of various works, a beauty, and mother of the beautiful Lady Duff Gordon. [page] 3

F1553.2    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1702-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 2   Text   Image   PDF

All through my father's middle age, his large frame, clear grey-blue eyes, and brown out-of-door looking complexion, so deceived many of his friends that they were apt to believe his ill-health to be more imaginary than real. The following letter proves that even a keen doctor's eye might have been at fault. Charles Darwin to Emma Darwin, at Maer Hall. [SHREWSBURY, July 3, 1841.] It seems natural to write you a scrap, though I have not to thank you for one. Rather severe I guess. I was very

F1553.2    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1702-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 2   Text   Image   PDF

done she may be cross herself, as she says she is indeed. But whether she is or not, Bessy must put up with it. I am reserving a sledge-hammer for her the next opportunity she gives me by pertness to Brodie. Brodie, our old Scotch nurse, was an invaluable treasure to my mother and a perfect nurse to the children. Her marked features were deeply pitted with smallpox; she had carrotty hair, china-blue eyes, and a most delightful smile. Her father, the owner, I think, of a small ship at Portsoy

F1553.2    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1702-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 2   Text   Image   PDF

him. [DOWN, February, 1881.] I think I never enjoyed anything so much in politics as when the Speaker at last put his foot down on Wednesday morning,2 and all the more because it disappointed horrid Mr Biggar and his papers and Blue books. I was out of all patience with the Speaker and the Executive, but Mrs Mulholland, who called here yesterday, said that the reticence was preconcerted in order to give them plenty of 1 A Civil List pension for Mr Wallace, which was bestowed on January 7, 1881

F1592.2    Book:     Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 2.   Text   Image   PDF

beard and whiskers, which were also white. His eyes were blue and his comple on rather pale. He habitually wore spectacles, and to us he never looked quite natural without them. Towards the end of his life his eyes were subject to inflammation, and the glasses were blue. His hands, though large, were not clumsy, and were capable of very delicate manipulation, as is shown by his skill in handling and preserving insects and bird skins, and also in sketching, where delicacy of touch was essential