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To Nature   16 December 1879

Summary

Reports information sent by E. Schulte [12254] on the colours of the male Diadema bolina.

Discusses extent to which consciousness came into play in the origin of certain instincts, including sexual display.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  16 Dec 1879
Classmark:  Nature, 8 January 1880, p. 237
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12359

To Nature   15 December [1879]

Summary

CD has repeated a test of whether hybrids of the common and Chinese goose are fertile inter se. Reports his success, and comments on its significance for the theory of descent.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  15 Dec [1879]
Classmark:  Nature, 1 January 1880, p. 207
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12391

To Nature   [before 27 March 1879]

Summary

In reply to a query [in Nature 19 (1879): 433] CD reports that vessels full of water were kept on the deck of a ship to discourage rats from gnawing holes in the ship’s water casks.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  [before 27 Mar 1879]
Classmark:  Nature, 27 March 1879, p. 481
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8826

To ?   9 January 1879

Summary

Thanks correspondent for the copies of his engraving. "The work seems to be, though I cannot pretend to be a judge, a vy fine production".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  9 Jan 1879
Classmark:  Dr Mirko Majer (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11823

To ?   23 January [1879?]

Summary

Orders a sheet of gold-beater’s skin for plant experiments.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  23 Jan [1879?]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11841

To Nature   [before 20 March 1879]

Summary

Comments on a letter from Fritz Müller [11839] and particularly on the subject of the disappearance of certain structures in organisms. FM’s explanation deserves serious consideration.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  [before 20 Mar 1879]
Classmark:  Nature, 20 March 1879, pp. 462–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11945

To ?   21 April 1879

Summary

Thanks for letter and articles: gratifying to hear that agriculturalists attend to his works.

Cannot decipher German writing so has stuck the address from the letter on the envelope.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  21 Apr 1879
Classmark:  RR Auction (dealers) (July 2006)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12006F

To ?   5 June 1879

Summary

Unable to accept invitation.

Looked at leaves and saw no sign that animal matter was absorbed. Believes insects were caught only accidentally.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  5 June 1879
Classmark:  Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (5 December 2013)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12089

To ?   23 October 1879

Summary

Is obliged for the note about Wallis Nash’s death, but he has since heard that the report was false.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  23 Oct 1879
Classmark:  Ronald T. Raines (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12268F

From Jan van Bolhuis   [13 November 1879]

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Summary

Does CD believe in the "Word of the Lord", i.e., Genesis?

Author:  Jan van Bolhuis
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [13 Nov 1879]
Classmark:  DAR 160: 236
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12315

From Ernst Krause   14 November 1879

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Summary

Thanks for English edition [of Erasmus Darwin]. John Murray has not answered letters of German publisher. Questions CD about persons mentioned in book, in order to annotate German edition.

Author:  Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Nov 1879
Classmark:  DAR 92: B49–50
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12316

To Newman Marks   14 November [1879]

Summary

Returns the memorial, signed, expressing concern about proposed renovations at St Mark’s in Venice.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Newman (Newman) Marks
Date:  14 Nov [1879]
Classmark:  The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (Venice Memorial); The Times, 19 November 1879, p. 8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12316F

To Francis Galton   14 November [1879]

Summary

Returns completed questionnaire concerning visualising faculty [see LL 3: 177–9]. Thinks age important. Recalls faces of school friends but cannot remember those of people recently met.

Comments on his part [of Erasmus Darwin].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Galton
Date:  14 Nov [1879]
Classmark:  UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/28)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12317

From Anthony Rich   14 November 1879

Summary

Thanks for Erasmus Darwin.

Author:  Anthony Rich
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Nov 1879
Classmark:  DAR 176: 139
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12318

From W. S. Dallas   14 November 1879

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Thanks CD for a copy of Erasmus Darwin.

Author:  William Sweetland Dallas
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Nov 1879
Classmark:  DAR 99: 131–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12319

From G. W. Norman   15 November 1879

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Thanks for Erasmus Darwin.

Author:  George Warde Norman
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Nov 1879
Classmark:  DAR 99: 191
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12320

From Newman Marks   15 November 1879

Summary

Thanks CD for signing a memorial.

Author:  Thomas Newman (Newman) Marks
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Nov 1879
Classmark:  DAR 171: 40
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12321

From James Torbitt   15 November 1879

Summary

Encloses latest report on his new potatoes. Believes the plants should be grown from seed every fourth year to preserve yield and disease-resistance.

Author:  James Torbitt
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Nov 1879
Classmark:  DAR 52: E4; DAR 178: 156
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12322

From Reginald Darwin   17 November 1879

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Sends a book on shorthand

and a paper, probably by Erasmus Darwin, entitled "Moral and physical hermeneutics", on the subject of temperance.

Author:  Reginald Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Nov 1879
Classmark:  DAR 99: 164–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12323

To Ernst Krause   17 November 1879

Summary

Answers EK’s questions. Sorry to report Erasmus Darwin sold only 600 copies at advance sale.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:  17 Nov 1879
Classmark:  The Huntington Library (HM 36197)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12324
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