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
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 |
From Samuel Butler 21 January 1880
Summary
SB has decided to lay the matter [the subject of 12393 and 12396] before the public and has written to the Athenæum stating the facts. [Athenæum 31 Jan 1880.]
Author: | Samuel Butler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12438 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 27 January [1880]
Summary
Asa Gray wants seeds of a variety of cotton known as vine cotton.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 27 Jan [1880] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 203–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12440 |
From W. E. Darwin [28 January 1880]
Summary
Thanks CD for giving money to the children. Is going to give money to Bessy, but not invest it until she is really rich. Returns Butler’s letter. Thinks Butler is looking for a grievance to write an article about.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Jan 1880] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 80) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12440G |
To G. H. Darwin 29 January [1880]
Summary
Sorry to hear of his illness.
On his visit to J. F. McLennan, GHD might tell him that CD thinks A. R. Wallace would work up McLennan’s materials conscientiously.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 29 Jan [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12441 |
From Oskar von Giesl 29 January 1880
Summary
Asks CD to write his opinion of the views expressed in "Die Darwin’sche Theorie und die Landwirtschaft" in his journal, Reunion.
Author: | Oskar von Giesl |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12442 |
To Hermann Welcker 30 January 1880
Summary
Thanks for letter of 18th January 1880 and for present of Essays. Interested in Welcker’s investigation of the 'ligamentum teres', and his comment on the feet of the Chinese.
Will esteem it an honour if Welcker dedicates his next book to him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hermann Welcker |
Date: | 30 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Universitätsarchiv (Rep. 29, Nr. 715) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12442G |
To J.-H. Fabre 31 January 1880
Summary
Comments on JHF’s book [Souvenirs entomologiques (1879)].
Discusses story told by Erasmus Darwin about a wasp cutting off wings of fly.
Sorry JHF is opposed to descent theory.
Suggests experiment concerning insects’ sense of direction.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean-Henri Casimir (Jean-Henri) Fabre |
Date: | 31 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 14; Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque centrale, Paris (Ms FAB 32) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12443 |
To Wallis Nash 1 February 1880
Summary
Can well understand WN’s new life. WN’s departure a heavy loss.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Wallis Nash |
Date: | 1 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | F. Louise Nash Barton (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12446 |
From Richard Litchfield 1 February 1880
Summary
Advises against making any reply to Samuel Butler’s charges.
Author: | Richard Buckley Litchfield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B72–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12447 |
From R. B. Litchfield 1 February 1880
Summary
Has shown S. Butler’s Athenæum letter to Frederick Pollock, who confirms RBL’s advice that it needs no answer. Sends an imaginary response by Butler.
Author: | Richard Buckley Litchfield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B75–8, 81 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12448 |
To T. H. Huxley 2 February 1880
Summary
Asks THH to advise him about a response to Samuel Butler’s attack accusing CD of dishonesty. Quotes the advice of others but will do what THH advises.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 2 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 336) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12451 |
From W. Z. Seddon 2 February 1880
Summary
WZS, 12-year-old pupil, asks where he can find answer to question of what causes different shades of colour in inhabitants of earth.
Author: | William Zaccheus Seddon |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 126 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12452 |
To R. B. Litchfield 2 February 1880
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Buckley Litchfield |
Date: | 2 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12453 |
To G. J. Romanes 3 February 1880
Summary
Says it is not likely he will be able to criticise GJR’s work.
Recommends Jean-Henri Fabre, Souvenirs entomologiques [1879].
Encloses letters from J. F. Moulton [12350 and 12356].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 3 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.570) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12454 |
From Asa Gray 3 February 1880
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 209.6: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12455 |
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