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 |
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 Edward Frankland 29 May [1879]
Summary
Hearty thanks for the two bottles of pure water.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 29 May [1879] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10001A |
To G. H. Darwin [after 25 February 1879]
Summary
Frank [Darwin] has found a Trifolium remarkable for "bloom", but it was not in flower. If GHD knows where it grows, could he dig up the whole plant?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [after 25 Feb 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10342 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 4 July [1879?]
Summary
Thanks WTT-D for Drosophyllum seeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 4 July [1879?] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 65–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11033 |
To Francis Darwin 3 June [1879]
Summary
Asks whether canary grass and oats have chlorophyll in their cotyledons.
Has been working hard at circumnutation of leaves to see whether sleep movements are exaggerated circumnutation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 3 June [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11541 |
To Ann Marston 20 July [1879]
Summary
Will not sign a petition, for he feels vivisection is essential to the progress of physiology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ann Marston |
Date: | 20 July [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11619 |
To Francis Darwin [4 February – 8 March 1879]
Summary
Requests some seeds.
Believes the leaves of Phyllanthus sleep like those of Cassia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [4 Feb – 8 Mar 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11815 |
To Francis Darwin? [1879–80?]
Summary
Discusses A. B. Frank’s views [Beiträge zur Pflanzenphysiologie (1868)] on how plants position themselves; differences and similarities compared with their own conclusions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [1879–80?] |
Classmark: | DAR LIB 2003/2004 (in box with A. B. Frank, Beiträge zur Pflanzenphysiologie, 1868, and Die natürliche wagerechte Richtung von Pflanzentheilen, 1870) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11816 |
To Albert Günther 1 January 1879
Summary
Thanks AG for his kind note and returns his good wishes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Date: | 1 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11817 |
To A. S. Wilson 4 [June] 1879
Summary
Mentions wheat varieties sent by Governor General of Turkestan.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Date: | 4 [June] 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 366 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11820 |
To Edward Frankland 4 January [1879]
Summary
Fears that the promised bottle of pure water may have been despatched or stolen in passage. [See 11768a.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 4 Jan [1879] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (Frankland Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11820A |
To W. E. Darwin 10 January [1879]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 152 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11824 |
Darwin, C. R. | (320) |
Krause, Ernst | (25) |
Darwin, Francis | (22) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (19) |
Darwin, G. H. | (15) |