To H. N. Moseley 23 and 30 January 1879
Summary
Has told John Lubbock how highly he thinks of HNM’s work, and has heard that HMN’s claims will be fully considered.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Date: | 23 and 30 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11843F |
To Melchior Neumayr 24 January 1879
Summary
Has offered Leopold Würtenberger money to aid in his work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Melchior Neumayr |
Date: | 24 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 184 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11844 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 25 January [1879]
Summary
Movements in Oxalis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 25 Jan [1879] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–1881: ff. 153–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11845 |
From H. W. Bates 25 January 1879
Summary
F. Galton and others suggest that he go in for Fellowship [of Royal Society]. Asks that CD propose him. If he is unable to do so HWB will not be hurt to wait another year.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11846 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 27 January 1879
Summary
Oxalis seeds incorrectly named. H. N. Moseley says pigeons in Malaya eject seeds fit for germination.
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 259, DAR 209.6: 207 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11847 |
To H. W. Bates 26 January 1879
Summary
It will give CD real pleasure to propose HWB for F.R.S. Asks that he send him the necessary information for the certificate as well as a list of men he would like to sign it. He should not be disappointed if not elected first time. [Bates elected F.R.S. 2 June 1881.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 26 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11848 |
From A. F. Batalin 29 January 1879
Summary
Thanks for CD’s interest in his paper on plant movements ["Über die Ursachen der periodischer Bewegungen der Blumen und Laubblätter", Flora 56 (1873): 433–41, 449–55]. AFB concentrated on clear cases, though he knows there are others.
Experiments on function of movement: Mimosa leaves, held so they cannot move, die.
Author: | Alexander Fedorovich Batalin (Александр Федорович Баталин) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 209.14: 178 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11849 |
From Leopold Würtenberger 29 January 1879
Summary
Thanks CD for gift to support his research.
Author: | Leopold Würtenberger |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 185 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11850 |
To Edmund Mojsisovics von Mojsvár 29 January 1879
Summary
Comments on EM’s work in Dolomites [Die Dolomit-Riffe von Südtirol (1879)]. Had wondered whether ancient corals formed reefs.
Obliged for EM’s photograph. Sends his own.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann August Georg Edmund (Edmund) Mojsisovics von Mojsvár |
Date: | 29 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 384 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11851 |
To W. B. Cheadle 31 January 1879
Summary
Declines to sign petition concerning Professorship of Pathology at Cambridge.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Walter Butler Cheadle |
Date: | 31 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.559) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11852 |
From C. F. Austin February 1879
Summary
Encloses Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, with account of a fungus that exhales chlorine;
relates his discovery in 1852 of a flowering plant that had "perfectly formed beetles" in the place of anthers.
Author: | Coe Finch Austin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 130 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11853 |
From Karl Beger [c. 12 February 1879]
Author: | Friedrich Theodor Karl (Karl) Beger |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 12 Feb 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11854 |
From D. Appleton & Co. 1 February 1879
Author: | D. Appleton & Co |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11855 |
From Henry Potonié 1 February 1879
Summary
Cites evolutionary passages by Alexander Braun in English edition of Braun’s Verjüngung [1853].
Author: | Henry Potonié |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11856 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 3 February 1879
Summary
Heliotropic movements. Is giving up experiments until the spring.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 3 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 158–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11857 |
To H. N. Moseley 4 February 1879
Summary
Comments on HNM’s book [Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger" (1879)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Date: | 4 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11858 |
From Thomas Maston 5 February 1879
Summary
A stonemason who has read Origin and Descent and defends CD’s theory against theological prejudice, would like to read CD’s other books but is too poor to afford them.
Author: | Thomas Maston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11859 |
From H. N. Moseley 5 February 1879
Summary
Sends regards from Capt. Charles Owen, who had collected beetles for CD.
Owen’s son is going to Oregon with Wallis Nash.
Author: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 258 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11860 |
From Raphael Meldola 6 February 1879
Summary
Has arranged for publication of his translation of Weismann.
S. H. Scudder article on sexual dimorphism in butterflies [Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 12 (1877): 150–8].
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 134 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11861 |
To Raphael Meldola 7 February 1879
Summary
Wishes to subscribe to RM’s translation of Weismann.
Has seen Scudder’s article.
A. R. Wallace’s article ["Animals and their native countries", Nineteenth Century 5 (1879): 247–59] is excellent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 7 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11862 |
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