To [William Newton] 17 April 1880
Summary
Unable to comment on F. Lloyd’s criticism of Francis Galton’s Hereditary genius [?A scientific view of Mr Galton’s theories of heredity (1876)].
Sorry about Lloyd’s health.
Does not care much about abuse or fame, an advantage of age.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Newton |
| Date: | 17 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12580 |
From Alfred Newton 11 February 1870
Summary
Is glad to hear that CD is pleased with AN’s notice of his work on pigeons.
He will not soon forget the pleasure of his visit to Down.
| Author: | Alfred Newton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Feb 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7103 |
From G. H. Darwin 14 February 1869
Summary
Explains the point about gravitation and heat that CD does not understand in J. Croll’s letter [6218?].
Cambridge news.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6614 |
From F. M. Balfour [14] December [1876]
Summary
Lists his chief publications and suggests names of biologists in the Royal Society whom CD might ask to sign his nomination certificate.
| Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14] Dec [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10712 |
From Michael Foster 30 January 1875
Summary
Account of the fund to help Anton Dohrn’s zoological station at Naples.
| Author: | Michael Foster |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Jan 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 215/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9835F |
From George Rolleston 26 December 1876
Summary
Has sent Balfour’s certificate on to Ray Lankester, and encloses a certificate for Moseley for CD to sign.
Calls attention to a paper by Emil Bessels on Eskimos, which he extracts [see 10737].
CD has cited GR for material that is not his in Variation, 2d ed., 1: 469, on transmission of mutilation.
| Author: | George Rolleston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 212 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10734 |
From J. D. Hooker 28 January 1868
Summary
Wollaston’s situation hopeless; he must go to Boulogne or Jersey to live. A friend will keep his collection and books together.
JDH’s opinion of Wollaston’s Coleoptera Hesperidum [1867].
Cannot read Duke of Argyll.
CD’s view of Asa Gray as foreign member of Royal Society; compares him to Candolle.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Jan 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 189–190 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5807 |
| letter | (7) |
| Balfour, F. M. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Foster, Michael | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Newton, William | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Balfour, F. M. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Foster, Michael | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
