To G. H. Darwin [after 25 February 1879]
Summary
Frank [Darwin] has found a Trifolium remarkable for "bloom", but it was not in flower. If GHD knows where it grows, could he dig up the whole plant?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [after 25 Feb 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10342 |
To Francis Darwin [4 February – 8 March 1879]
Summary
Requests some seeds.
Believes the leaves of Phyllanthus sleep like those of Cassia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [4 Feb – 8 Mar 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11815 |
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 |
From Leopold Würtenberger 7 February 1879
Summary
£100 has arrived and LW will set to work.
Author: | Leopold Würtenberger |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11863 |
From George Henslow 8 February 1879
Summary
GH no longer believes in the value of cross-fertilisation in plants.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 175 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11864 |
To Edward Frankland 8 February 1879
Summary
Gives results of the experiments: the leaves in most cases make the water alkaline. It cannot be ammonia. He and his son, Francis, suspect potash, which is valued as a manure. Will be grateful for the analysis EF has offered.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 8 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (Frankland Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11864A |
From Ernst Haeckel 9 February 1879
Summary
Sends birthday wishes.
Comments on progress of CD’s theory in Germany. Mentions opposition of Rudolf Virchow and his reply Freie Wissenschaft und freie Lehre [1878].
Describes research trip to Brittany and Normandy.
Research on Challenger Radiolaria.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11865 |
From Karl Alberts 9 February 1879
Summary
Birthday congratulations from the editors of Kosmos. They will mark the occasion with a special number of Kosmos.
Author: | Karl Alberts |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11866 |
To Karl Alberts [after 9 February 1879]
Summary
Thanks KA and the other editors of Kosmos for the issue published in honour of his birthday. Sees there is much in it that will interest him greatly.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl Alberts |
Date: | [after 9 Feb 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 95v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11867 |
From Ernst Krause 10 February 1879
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11868 |
To Anton de Bary 11 February 1879
Summary
Thanks ADeB for sending him Botanische Zeitung, but asks him to send it no more, as CD takes it regularly and has procured the volumes from the beginning.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Anton Heinrich (Anton) de Bary |
Date: | 11 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A 45) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11869 |
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Darwin, Francis | (4) |
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Tyndall, John | (2) |