From C. H. Blackley 13 January 1879
Summary
Relates anecdote about a provincial girl’s reaction to being told men descended from monkeys.
| Author: | Charles Harrison Blackley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 194 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11826 |
To C. H. Blackley 14 January 1879
Summary
Thanks CHB for his anecdote about a provincial girl’s reaction to being told men descended from monkeys.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Harrison Blackley |
| Date: | 14 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | Formerly in the private collection of Dr T. B. Robinson |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11826F |
To Karl Höchberg 13 January 1879
Summary
Thanks for essay on origin of taste for music. Will send to Edmund Gurney.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Karl Höchberg |
| Date: | 13 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 145: 129 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11827 |
To John Fiske 14 June [1879]
Summary
Will send carriage to station on 18th.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Fiske |
| Date: | 14 June [1879] |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 8266) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11828 |
To Melchior Neumayr 15 January 1879
Summary
Asks MN about trustworthiness of Leopold Würtenberger. Would like to aid LW financially in his work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Melchior Neumayr |
| Date: | 15 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (13 December 2017) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11829 |
To Leopold Würtenberger 15 January 1879
Summary
Is sorry that LW’s circumstances interfere with his scientific work. Does not think any English scientific society can help.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leopold Würtenberger |
| Date: | 15 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | Helmut Würtenberger (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11829F |
From Gaston de Saporta 16 January 1879
Summary
Sends his photograph; asks for CD’s.
| Author: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11830 |
From W. K. Parker 17 January 1879
Summary
Sends CD a book on science and scriptures written by a clergyman friend [unidentified].
| Author: | William Kitchen Parker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11831 |
From Karl Höchberg 17 January 1879
Summary
Points out comment by Grant Allen supporting his theory of the origin of colour sense. Is English translation of his essay possible?
| Author: | Karl Höchberg |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 226 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11832 |
To G. J. Romanes [18 January 1879]
Summary
Notes advertisement of Tito Vignoli, Fundamentalgesetz der Intelligenz im Thierreiche [1879].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | [18 Jan 1879] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.558) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11833 |
To T. H. Huxley 18 January 1879
Summary
Has read Hume with great pleasure, but found parts very stiff reading.
George Darwin has visited Anthony Rich.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 18 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 333) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11834 |
To Gaston de Saporta 19 January 1879
Summary
Thanks GdeS for his photograph; sends his own. Glad to hear GdeS’s work [Le monde des plantes (1879)] is popular in France.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
| Date: | 19 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11835 |
To Raphael Meldola 20 January 1879
Summary
Sends the Fritz Müller article from Kosmos.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 20 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11836 |
To H. N. Moseley 20 January 1879
Summary
Thanks for HNM’s [Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger" (1879)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
| Date: | 20 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11837 |
From Melchior Neumayr 21 January 1879
Summary
Respects Leopold Würtenberger’s work. Will initiate inquiry if CD wishes. LW’s work suffers from his limited circumstances. Will assist him if he asks.
Mentions his own forthcoming work ["Zur Kenntniss der Fauna des untersten Lias in den Nordalpen", Abh. K.-K. Geol. Reichsanst. 7 (1874–82), vol. 5].
| Author: | Melchior Neumayr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11838 |
From Fritz Müller 21 January 1879
Summary
Has lately found frog that has eggs on its back.
Pupae of caddis-flies living on rocks have lost fringe of hairs on their feet. In species that live in the water these are used for swimming.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | Nature, 20 March 1879, pp. 463–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11839 |
From H. N. Moseley 21 January 1879
Summary
Thanks CD for accepting dedication.
Asks CD to support his candidacy for position as Registrar of the University of London by talking to Sir John Lubbock, one of the most influential members of the Senate.
| Author: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 257 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11840 |
To ? 23 January [1879?]
Summary
Orders a sheet of gold-beater’s skin for plant experiments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 23 Jan [1879?] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11841 |
To Emil du Bois-Reymond 23 January 1879
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of diploma.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emil Heinrich (Emil) Du Bois-Reymond |
| Date: | 23 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11842 |
From W. S. Dallas 23 January 1879
Summary
Suggests references that might answer CD’s [unidentified] request for information about coral islands.
| Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11843 |
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