From J. H. Comstock 4 June 1880
Summary
Summarises points of interest in his Report upon cotton insects [U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology (1879)].
| Author: | John Henry Comstock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 217 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12621 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 November 1880
Summary
Admires Wallace’s Island life.
Criticises: 1. His view of similar plants on distant mountains – CD prefers previous low-land connections to Wallace’s summit–summit dispersal;
2. Source of warmth for ancient Arctic climate;
3. Origin of S. Australian flora.
CD’s favourite cases in Movement in plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 496–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12841 |
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 31 December 1880
Summary
Signs a certificate sent to him by CD [see 12954].
Sends CD a ticket to his lecture on 25 February, in which he will propose that the mode by which the excitable parts of plants influence other parts at a distance is essentially the same as in the excitable structure of animals, contrary to the views of Hermann Munk and Julius Sachs.
Interested in chapters 6 and 7 of Movement in plants.
| Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-42) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12958A |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin. Assisted by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880. Munk, Hermann. 1876. Die …
- … Francis Darwin ’s certificate of proposal for fellowship of the Royal Society of London . See letter to J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 29 December 1880 and n. 2. Burdon Sanderson’s lecture was part of a series organised by the Royal Institution of Great Britain . Hermann Munk , in his paper ‘Die elektrischen und Bewegungs-Erscheinungen am Blatte der Dionaea muscipula ’ (The electrical and movement phenomena in leaves of Dionaea muscipula ), had concluded that the electromotive effect on the leaf cell was a direct result of the movement of water out of the cell ( Munk 1876 , …
From Francis Darwin [25–7 May 1880]
Summary
Hopes CD got telegram about Convolvulus. Is measuring plants every four hours. Will go to Brittany by boat from Southampton on Monday night.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25–7 May 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12616F |
From J. D. Hooker 22 November 1880
Summary
Praise for Movement in plants, lately arrived.
Praise for Wallace’s Island life
and astonishment that he could be a spiritualist.
Differs with Wallace on age of SW. Australian flora. JDH ascribes its peculiarities to isolation by an inland sea.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 142–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12838 |
From G. H. Darwin 27 July 1880
Summary
Asks CD’s advice on how to answer a letter requesting his endorsement of Wrigley, his former teacher at Clapham School.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 July 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 64.2: 94; DAR 210.2: 85 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12668 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Francis Darwin, [1 August 1880] ) and Elizabeth Darwin had gone to Warwick; however, Henrietta Emma and Richard Buckley Litchfield visited from 26 to 29 July 1880 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). The section of the letter from ‘Pure trypsin’ to the end was written on the back of the envelope. In 1876, …
To James Torbitt 12 March [1880]
Summary
Asks about possible erratum in JT’s account of experiments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Torbitt |
| Date: | 12 Mar [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 115 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12535 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Francis Darwin , bracketed ‘1880’ in pencil; this probably means that 1880 was not in the original text but is nevertheless correct. Torbitt was preparing a report on his potato-breeding experiments in response to CD’s queries (see letter from James Torbitt, 12 March 1880 ). Torbitt evidently sent part of the report before completing it; see letter to James Torbitt, 17 March [1880] . For CD’s queries, see the letter to James Torbitt, 6 March [1880] , and the postcard to James Torbitt, 11 March [1880] . Torbitt had been carrying out his experiments since 1873 and corresponding with CD about them from 1876 ( …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
| Comstock, J. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Torbitt, James | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
| Comstock, J. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
