From Arthur Mellersh 13 February 1879
Summary
Birthday wishes.
Author: | Arthur Mellersh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 149 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11880 |
To Hugo de Vries 13 February 1879
Summary
Discusses heliotropism in plant cotyledons. Asks for information.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugo de Vries |
Date: | 13 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | Artis Library (De Vries 5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11881 |
To John Tyndall 14 February 1879
Summary
Has been asked to contribute to W. K. Clifford memorial fund. Asks JT’s advice on how much the committee hopes to raise. Would like to give handsomely but feels bound "with such a lot of children, not to be extravagant".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 14 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 30 (EH 88205968) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11882 |
From Hermann Müller 14 February 1879
Summary
HM’s teaching methods and his ideas are under attack in Germany along with the works of Ernst Krause.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 313 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11883 |
To Francis Darwin [before 25 February 1879]
Summary
CD cannot find his pincers and other tools for microscopical dissection. Does FD know where he should look?
Hopes FD will feel better after "so complete a change" [trip to North Africa].
Sends his love to George.
Bernard gets more charming every day.
CD has been put on a committee for a memorial fund for W. K. Clifford.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [before 25 Feb 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11883A |
From Francis Darwin [c. 25 February 1879]
Summary
Directs CD where to find tools in his room. Has been looking at agave and aloe flowers. Thanks family for their letters.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 25 Feb 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11883F |
To Friedrich Ludwig 16 February 1879
Summary
Sends thanks to the Masters for congratulations on his birthday, saying "the approbation & sympathy of one’s fellow-workers in the acquisition of knowledge is the highest possible reward which any man ought to desire".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Ludwig |
Date: | 16 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11884 |
From C. A. Lindvall 16 February 1879
Summary
Outlines his theory to explain the form of certain Swedish sandhills and puts forward his ideas regarding the geological history of the earth.
Author: | Carl August Lindvall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11885 |
To John Tyndall 17 February [1879]
Summary
Thanks JT for his information. Sends £50 to the W. K. Clifford memorial fund.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 17 Feb [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 31 (EH 88205969) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11886 |
From W. B. Cheadle 17 February 1879
Summary
Second request that CD sign a Cambridge memorial [i.e., petition]. The heading has been amended to include graduates who have formerly studied medicine.
Author: | Walter Butler Cheadle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 136 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11887 |
To Carlos Ribeiro 17 February 1879
Summary
Thanks for having sent prehistoric remains.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carlos Ribeiro |
Date: | 17 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia (Records of the Portuguese Geological Commission 1857–1918) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11887F |
From A. G. Butler 19 February 1879
Summary
Requests testimonial from CD for position of Assistant Keeper, Zoological Dept, British Museum.
Author: | Arthur Gardiner Butler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 389 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11888 |
To A. G. Butler 20 February [1879]
Summary
"I do not know whether the enclosed will be of any use to you.– I can say nothing of your fitness for the desired office, as I know nothing whatever of its duties.
I am sincerely sorry to hear of Mr F. Smith’s death."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arthur Gardiner Butler |
Date: | 20 Feb [1879] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 71) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11889 |
From Anton de Bary 20 February 1879
Summary
Since he was innocent of sending the Botanische Zeitung to CD, he inquired of the editor, who informs him that it is sent every week by post by order of Williams and Norgate.
Author: | Anton Heinrich (Anton) de Bary |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 133 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11890 |
To Grant Allen [before 21 February 1879]
Summary
Read GA’s book [The colour-sense] with "great interest". Makes criticisms and suggestions.
Cannot believe in GA’s theory of the origin of pleasure and pain.
Is glad he defends sexual selection;
CD finds A. R. Wallace’s explanations "mere empty words" and for many years he has "quite doubted [ARW’s] scientific judgment".
Considers the possible effect of environmental colour on the colour tastes of animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen |
Date: | [before 21 Feb 1879] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11891 |
To R. B. Sharpe 21 February [1879]
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].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Bowdler Sharpe |
Date: | 21 Feb [1879] |
Classmark: | McGill University Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Manuscript Collection: Folio A.L.S. Charles Darwin) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11892 |
To the British Museum 21 February 1879
Summary
Letter of recommendation for Richard Bowdler Sharpe, ornithologist.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | British Museum |
Date: | 21 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 17) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11893 |
From Grant Allen 21 February [1879]
Summary
Thanks for criticisms of Colour-sense.
Clarifies his views that actions desirable for species result in development of nervous organs capable of pleasurable stimulation.
Believes that all "tastes" occurring in nature are explicable with reference to ancestral habits and that none is purely arbitrary.
Author: | Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 44 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11894 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 21 February [1879]
Summary
Wants to borrow Duchartre’s Éléments de botanique [1867].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 21 Feb [1879] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 160–1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11895 |
To the Darwin children 21 February 1879
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Date: | 21 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 153 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11896 |
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