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To Alfred Krakauer   12 January 1880

Summary

"I am much obliged for your note. I have heard of the other analogous cases, but there remains a doubt whether they may not be accidental coincidences, for such cases certainly occur in non-Jewish families.––"

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Krakauer
Date:  12 Jan 1880
Classmark:  The British Library (Surrogate RP 4481/3)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12419A

To Lawson Tait   13 January 1880

Summary

The honour RLT proposes [Darwin Festival] is a great one, "but would it not be better to wait until I am in my grave?"

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:  13 Jan 1880
Classmark:  Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12420

From A. M. Marshall to F. M. Balfour   13 January 1880

Summary

R. Lawson Tait is generally viewed as a humbug – not a person to be associated with.

Author:  Arthur Milnes Marshall
Addressee:  Francis Maitland Balfour
Date:  13 Jan 1880
Classmark:  DAR 171: 42
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12421

From J. I. Rogers   13 January 1880

Summary

Responds to article in Nature on the sexual colours of butterflies [Collected papers 2: 220–2].

Author:  John Innes Rogers
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Jan 1880
Classmark:  DAR 176: 200
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12422

From W. C. Williamson   13 January 1880

Summary

Sends a seedling Drosera capensis.

Author:  William Crawford Williamson
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Jan 1880
Classmark:  DAR 181: 107
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12423

To Jabez Hogg   14 January 1880

Summary

CD’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, must have published on arsenic, as his father never published on medical subjects.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Jabez Hogg
Date:  14 Jan 1880
Classmark:  Maggs Brothers (dealers) (catalogue 1453, 2011)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12423F

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   15 January 1880

Summary

Thanks for cotton seeds.

Germination of Megarrhiza.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  15 Jan 1880
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 199–200)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12424

To Lawson Tait   15 January [1880]

Summary

Sends copy of Kosmos [containing Krause’s article on Erasmus Darwin].

Believes he can spare an Erasmus Darwin letter.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:  15 Jan [1880]
Classmark:  DAR 221.5: 41
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12425

From Daniel Mackintosh   15 January 1880

Summary

The violent stranding of floating ice as first mentioned in CD’s article ["Ancient glaciers of Caernarvonshire", Collected papers 1: 163–71] is the most remarkable of the Moel Tryfan phenomena.

Author:  Daniel Mackintosh
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Jan 1880
Classmark:  DAR 171: 9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12426

From Ernst Krause   16 January 1880

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What are functions of "yeomen of the armoury" on p. 1? Who is "old Hooker" on p. 34? Needs to explain them in annotations [to Erasmus Darwin].

Author:  Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Jan 1880
Classmark:  DAR 92: B52
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12427

From the Darwin children   17 January 1880

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Summary

Send CD a present of a fur coat.

Author:  Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Jan 1880
Classmark:  DAR 99: 208
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12428

To the Darwin children   17 [January 1880]

Summary

Thanks his children for their present of a fur coat.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:  17 [Jan 1880]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12429

From Lawson Tait   18 January [1880]

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The Birmingham Philosophical Society proposes to celebrate CD’s birthday and make him their first Honorary Member. RLT will draft the address.

Author:  Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Jan [1880]
Classmark:  DAR 99: 213–214
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12430

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   18 January [1880]

Summary

Suspects WTT-D is the author of a good review of Erasmus Darwin in Nature [21 (1880): 245–7].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  18 Jan [1880]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 201–2)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12431

From Hermann Welcker   18 January 1880

Summary

Sends publications.

Discusses comparative anatomy and evolutionary implications of several ligaments.

Thinks effects of Chinese foot-binding are inherited.

Criticises article on Darwinism in Brockhaus’ Lexikon.

Mentions forthcoming book on mammalian vertebrae.

Author:  Hermann Welcker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Jan 1880
Classmark:  DAR 181: 88
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12432

To Asa Gray   19 January 1880

Summary

Describes the germination and early growth of Megarrhiza about which AG has been misinformed. The tubular petioles act functionally like a root.

Ipomoea did not germinate.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  19 Jan 1880
Classmark:  Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (126)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12433

To Ernst Krause   19 January 1880

Summary

Replies to EK’s queries about German translation of CD’s preface to Erasmus Darwin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:  19 Jan 1880
Classmark:  The Huntington Library (HM 36199)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12434

From Charles Dixon   19 January 1880

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Sends seed attached to breast feathers of a heron that had been shot.

Author:  Charles Dixon
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Jan 1880
Classmark:  DAR 205.2: 228
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12435

To Asa Gray   20 January [1880]

Summary

Germination of Delphinium and Megarrhiza.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  20 Jan [1880]
Classmark:  Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (127)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12436

To Ernst Haeckel   21 January 1880

Summary

Thanks EH for copy of book [Das System der Medusen (1879)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:  21 Jan 1880
Classmark:  Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/50 [A 9904])
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12437
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