To Arnold Dodel-Port 12 February 1879
Summary
Thanks AD-P for the gift of part of his Atlas [see 11039].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arnold Dodel-Port |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms. Z VIII 417.2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11877 |
From E. L. Sturtevant 4 December 1879
Summary
Observations on maize.
| Author: | Edward Lewis Sturtevant |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Dec 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 270 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12341 |
From Anton Stecker 24 February 1879
Summary
Has not been able to complete Bohemian edition of Origin because of trip to Africa.
Is collecting zoological evidence for CD’s theory.
| Author: | Anton Stecker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 251 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11901 |
From the masters of Greiz College 12 February 1879
Summary
Send 70th birthday congratulations.
| Author: | Greiz College |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 94r |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11879 |
From Carl Kraus 8 January 1879
Summary
A supporter of "the presumptive connection between socialism and evolution through natural selection" sends essays of Carl Vogt and requests CD to comment on them publicly.
| Author: | Carl (Charles) Kraus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11822 |
From W. E. Darwin 9 January 1879
Summary
Sends figures on increase in value of North Western Railway stocks. Says consol stock considered much more secure for bankers. Does not think his own bank is in danger of a run. Is glad to see the Emperor of Prussia has confirmed CD’s appointment to Academy. Is snowing at Bassett.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 70) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11823F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 26, letter from Emil du Bois-Reymond, 7 November 1878 ). The Times , 7 January 1879, reported that the German emperor had confirmed the appointments of CD and of Richard Owen . The emperor of Germany was Wilhelm I. Sara Darwin was William’s wife. Horace Darwin had been unwell but was improving (letters from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [6 January 1879] and [12 …
From W. D. Fox 3 March [1879]
Summary
Sends family news;
describes what remains of his "menagerie" and tells of his interest in the framework of his son’s German badger-hound.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Mar [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 172–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11913 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 26), but CD did not mention his children’s health. In CD’s letter to Fox of 14 February 1878 , he mentioned the health of family members. William Erasmus and Sara Darwin did not have any children. Fox’s unmarried daughters were Agnes Jane , Julia Mary Anne , Gertrude Mary , and Edith Darwin Fox . Gertrude was married on 10 September 1879 ( The Times , 12 …
To Francis Darwin 25 June [1879]
Summary
Suggests experiments to test the response of radicles to light. Considers an alternative term for heliotropism.
Will be curious to have FD’s spiral theory about circumnutation explained to him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 25 June [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12122 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 12, and 13 September, on the application of caustic to mustard radicles, are in DAR 209.7: 71. On CD’s use of gold-beater’s skin, see letter to ? , 23 January [1879? ] , nn. 1 and 2. Karl Goebel , a botanist in Sachs’s laboratory, had suggested the terms proshelic and aphelic to refer to movement towards or away from light (see letter from Francis Darwin, [after 16 June 1879] . The Darwins were away from home between 26 …
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