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 |
From Francis Galton 5 July 1880
Summary
Thanks for mentioning CarlVogt, to whom he will write.
Comments on Dr Erasmus Darwin’s interest in mental imagery.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 July 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A104–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12647 |
To A. W. Howitt [before 30 November 1880]
Summary
Thanks AWH for copy of Fison and Howitt 1880, which he will read when it is returned by J. F. McLennan.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred William Howitt |
| Date: | [before 30 Nov 1880] |
| Classmark: | St Mark’s National Theological Centre Library (Tippett Collection TIP 70/10/30/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12874F |
From R. F. Cooke 19 October 1880
Summary
Cost of electrotypes from the woodcuts [in Movement in plants] for French and German editions. Suggests CD charge more than actual cost in order to repay his expenses.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Oct 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 509 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12765 |
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- … 10. But really you should make these foreign publishers pay more for at the usual rate of charging per inch &c they w d . be over £40. Suppose you mentioned £20. We have a set now ready to go to Stuttgart & sh d . like to know your feelings as to the German Translation also. We thought of charging them £25 or £30. …
To T. H. Huxley 11 [April] 1880
Summary
Sorry he missed THH’s lecture ["The coming of age of The origin of species", Royal Institution, 9 Apr 1880]. Has read press notices and heard from his children of its great success.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 11 [Apr] 1880 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 340) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12574 |
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- … 10 April 1880, p. 2. The lecture was published in Nature , 6 May 1880 ( T. H. Huxley 1880c ). An unsigned review of Origin by Huxley had appeared in The Times , 26 December 1859, pp. 8–9 ( [T. H. Huxley] 1859 ). On the events that took place at the Oxford meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, particularly the verbal encounter between Samuel Wilberforce , the bishop of Oxford, and Huxley on 30 …
Document type
| letter | (5) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Howitt, A. W. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Howitt, A. W. | (1) |
