To Hermann Müller 18 July 1880
Summary
Enjoyed HM’s castigation of Gaston Bonnier ["Gaston Bonniers angebliche Widerlegung der modernen Blumentheorie", Kosmos 7 (1880): 219–36].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 18 July 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 441 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12473 |
To Ernst Haeckel 12 February 1880
Summary
Thanks for his very kind letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 12 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/51 [A 9905]) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12474F |
To Lawson Tait 13 February 1880
Summary
CD thanks RLT for his two notes, a newspaper article, and a copy of RLT’s address honouring him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 13 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12475 |
To Ernst Krause 13 February 1880
Summary
Thanks EK for kind letter.
CD’s date on epitaph is a dreadful mistake. CD often overlooks errata.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 13 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36202) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12476 |
To Wilhelm Breitenbach 13 February 1880
Summary
Thanks society of students at Jena for birthday congratulations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Wilhelm Breitenbach |
Date: | 13 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12477 |
To A. S. Wilson 13 February 1880
Summary
Thanks for articles by ASW in Gardeners’ Chronicle [see 12404]. Agrees with him.
Asks about growth of rootlets from knobs caused by fungus on roots of Cruciferae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Date: | 13 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 370 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12478 |
To T. H. Farrer 14 February 1880
Summary
Torbitt too poor to go on with [potato] experiments. If anything is to be done it must be by Government.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 14 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12479 |
From William Cole 14 February 1880
Summary
At the inaugural meeting of the Epping Forest & Essex Naturalists’ Field Club, CD was elected an Honorary Member.
Author: | William Cole |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12480 |
To Lawson Tait 14 February 1880
Summary
Would be glad to see RLT at Down if he thinks it fit to come there to deliver the address honouring CD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 14 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 535 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12481 |
From George Bentham 15 February 1880
Summary
Has been at work on Orchideae for Genera plantarum and has found CD’s Orchids wonderfully useful. Comments on some problems of botanical terminology.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 171 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12482 |
To Anton Dohrn 15 February 1880
Summary
Thanks AD and the naturalists at the Station for their birthday congratulations.
CD has been awarded the Bressa prize of the Accademia delle Scienze in Turin, and it occurs to him that if the Station wanted some apparatus costing about £100, he would like to pay for it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Date: | 15 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 704) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12483 |
From Ernst Krause 16 February 1880
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12484 |
To George Bentham 16 February 1880
Summary
CD pleased to be of use to GB. He remembers his own work on orchids with pleasure. Thinks GB will be able to improve CD’s terminology for orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 16 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830-1884, GEB/1/3: f. 722) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12485 |
From W. H. Flower to Francis Darwin 16 February 1880
Author: | William Henry Flower |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 142 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12486 |
From S. B. J. Skertchly 16 February [1880]
Author: | Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12487 |
From Henry Faulds 16 February 1880
Summary
Asks CD’s help in obtaining data on finger-prints – both of ancient impressions in pottery and of living men of all races. Suggests a comparative study with similar markings of lemuroid monkeys might yield results of value about man’s origin. Gives the practical utility of prints in identification in criminal and legal studies and investigations. Encloses a form.
Author: | Henry Faulds |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/22, 23) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12488 |
To Asa Gray 17 February 1880
Summary
Seed germination.
Strange that his plants [of Megarrhiza] behaved differently from AG’s [see 12455].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 17 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (128) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12489 |
From A. S. Wilson 17 February 1880
Summary
On clubroot fungus of cultivated Cruciferae.
Will give Russian wheat varieties another trial.
Author: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 116 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12490 |
To William Cole 17 February 1880
Summary
Thanks for the honour conferred upon him by the Epping Forest Field Club.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Cole |
Date: | 17 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Essex Naturalists Field Club MLDA/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12491 |
To [Otago University] [16 February 1880]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Otago University |
Date: | [16 Feb 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12492 |
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