To Adolf Ernst 5 January 1880
Summary
Has read AE’s paper in Nature [21 (1880): 217] on Melochia, a new family of heterostyled plants, and suggests some crosses to be carried out to determine the fertility of illegitimate seedlings.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Adolf Ernst |
| Date: | 5 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8972) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12402 |
To Ernst Krause 5 January 1880
Summary
The reviews of Erasmus Darwin are mainly favourable.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 5 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36198) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12403 |
From A. S. Wilson 5 January 1880
Summary
Results of his second year of experiments with Russian wheat varieties will be published in Gardeners’ Chronicle [n.s. 13 (1880): 108, 172–3].
Observations on germination of wheat.
| Author: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 115 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12404 |
From W. E. Darwin 6 January [1880]
Summary
Delighted by honour CD has received from Turin. Agrees with Horace that the money ought to be given to the Zoological Station at Naples.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Jan [1880] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 79) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12404F |
To Vincent, Teja & Co 5 January 1880
Summary
Requests that they receive, on his behalf, an award of 12000 lira [lire!?] from the Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin, and transmit it to the Union Bank, London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Vincent, Teja & Co. |
| Date: | 5 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12405 |
To C. H. Tindal 5 January 1880
Summary
Thanks for the information about Dr Erasmus Darwin and his parents.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Harrison Tindal |
| Date: | 5 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 118 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12405F |
To J.-H. Fabre 6 January 1880
Summary
Thanks JHF for copy of his Souvenirs entomologiques [1879].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean-Henri Casimir (Jean-Henri) Fabre |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque centrale, Paris (Ms FAB 32) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12406 |
To William Cole 6 January 1880
Summary
Regrets he is unwilling to join [Epping Forest Field Club], but encloses a guinea to aid with their preliminary expenses.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Cole |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archivess (Essex Naturalists Field Club MLDA/9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12407 |
To J. T. Murray 6 January 1880
Summary
Thanks JM for sending Drosera specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Thomas Murray |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 3069) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12408 |
From Ernst Krause 7 January 1880
Summary
Pleased by favourable English newspaper reviews of Erasmus Darwin. Charles Reinwald has not yet said whether he wants to use annotations intended for German readers.
| Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12409 |
To Antonio Mendola 8 January [1880]
Summary
Thanks for the offer of specimens, but cannot use them due to other work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Antonio Mendola |
| Date: | 8 Jan [1880] |
| Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (7 June 2010) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12409F |
From F. B. Goodacre 7 January 1880
Summary
FBG greatly interested in CD’s article ["Fertility of hybrids from the Chinese and common goose"] but has not altered his opinion on the matter.
| Author: | Francis Burges Goodacre |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12410 |
To A. S. Wilson 8 January 1880
Summary
Glad ASW has solved puzzle of outer seeds.
Quite agrees about great improbability of sudden transformations.
Asks for copy of report from Gardeners’ Chronicle [see 12404].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
| Date: | 8 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 369 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12411 |
To Hyacinth Hooker 8 January 1880
Summary
Thanks for gift of bananas.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hyacinth Symonds; Hyacinth Jardine; Hyacinth Hooker |
| Date: | 8 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 311) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12411F |
From A. R. Wallace 9 January 1880
Summary
Gratified by CD’s praise.
Describes plan of his new book [Island life (1880)].
Efforts to secure a post.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B142–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12412 |
From E. A. Wheler 10 January 1880
Summary
Thanks CD for Erasmus Darwin. Comments on it.
News of Violetta Darwin’s death.
| Author: | Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 197–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12413 |
To the Darwin children 10 January 1880
Summary
Circular letter regarding the distribution of CD’s excess income, with a note addressed to W. E. Darwin concerning his handling of Elizabeth Darwin’s share.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 10 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 155 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12414 |
To Horace Darwin 11 January [1880]
Summary
Sends enclosure [missing], which HD is to forward to W. E. Darwin, as everyone else has seen it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Jan [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12415 |
From Asa Gray 12 January 1880
Summary
Sends some cotton seeds for CD.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 201 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12416 |
From Lawson Tait 12 January 1880
Summary
Plans a "Darwin Festival" to celebrate CD’s birthday.
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12418 |
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