To ? 3 August 1880
Summary
CD sends thanks for further instructions for making a solution, which will be followed as soon as Francis [Darwin] returns.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 3 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12676 |
To ? 18 August [1880?]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for information on a plant. It is too late for his present work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 18 Aug [1880?] |
| Classmark: | Harvard University, Department of Psychology |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13289A |
To Francis Darwin [before 1 August 1880]
Summary
Are there old furrowed fields on hillsides in N. Wales, if so can FD look for earthworm activity?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [before 1 Aug 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12645 |
To O. C. Marsh 31 August 1880
Summary
Has received OCM’s Odontornithes memoir. Believes his work affords the best support to evolution that has appeared in the last 20 years.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Othniel Charles Marsh |
| Date: | 31 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12673 |
To J. M. F. Ludlow 4 August 1880
Summary
Sends a statement of the assets of the Down Friendly Society. Asks for advice on consulting an actuary.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow |
| Date: | 4 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12677 |
To Francis Darwin 5 August [1880]
Summary
Discusses corrections [to Movement in plants]. Has dispatched chapter nine.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Aug [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12679 |
To R. P. Hardy 6 August [1880]
Summary
Asks RPH [an actuary] to act on behalf of the Down Friendly Society whose members wish the rates of benefits to be raised.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ralph Price Hardy |
| Date: | 6 Aug [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12680 |
To R. P. Hardy [after 11 August 1880]
Summary
Forwards some tables on behalf of the Down Friendly Society and discusses the changes in benefits requested by the members.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ralph Price Hardy |
| Date: | [after 11 Aug 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 67v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12681 |
To Eduard Strasburger 8 August 1880
Summary
Thanks for his book on the formation and division of cells.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Eduard Adolf (Eduard) Strasburger |
| Date: | 8 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, Handschriftenabteilung (NL Strasburger I) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12683F |
To R. P. Hardy 11 August [1880]
Summary
Discusses matters relating to the Down Friendly Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ralph Price Hardy |
| Date: | 11 Aug [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12685 |
To Francis Darwin 11 August [1880]
Summary
Dispatches a chapter [of Movement in plants] for FD to look over.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Aug [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12686 |
To J. W. Judd [15 August 1880]
Summary
Invites him to lunch.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Wesley Judd |
| Date: | [15 Aug 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12688 |
To A. B. Buckley 16 August [1880]
Summary
Believes A. S. Packard is in error on some points. Refers to his own observations on slave-making ants in Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arabella Burton Buckley |
| Date: | 16 Aug [1880] |
| Classmark: | University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Joseph Halle Schaffner collection, box 1, folder 2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12689 |
To H. H. Higgins 18 August [1880]
Summary
Thanks HHH for essay.
Describes disposition of cirripede specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Hugh Higgins |
| Date: | 18 Aug [1880] |
| Classmark: | Bedfordshire Archives and Records Service (HG12/8/3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12691 |
To W. C. Williamson 18 August [1880]
Summary
WCW’s specimens are interesting, but CD thinks the slowness of the change might have been expected.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Crawford Williamson |
| Date: | 18 Aug [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.4: 246 (photocopy) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12693 |
To T. M. Hughes 23 August 1880
Summary
Honoured by offer of medal from Chester Natural History Society, but if he is expected to attend in person to receive it he regrets he must decline. Asks TMH to decide for him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas McKenny Hughes |
| Date: | 23 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 43) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12695 |
To J. B. Innes 23 August [1880]
Summary
JBI’s "barnacles" would have been extraordinary, but they are hard lichens.
Has revisited Cambridge.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 23 Aug [1880] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12696 |
To G. H. Darwin 23 [August 1880]
Summary
Asks GHD to decipher a letter [in German] he has received with a book: The Bible in science.
Enjoyed his stay in Cambridge extremely.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 23 [Aug 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 96 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12697 |
To J. W. Judd 25 August [1880]
Summary
Explains how to reach Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Wesley Judd |
| Date: | 25 Aug [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12700 |
To T. M. Hughes 26 August 1880
Summary
CD is sorry for the trouble TMH has had. Fully approves of the rule [that the medal be awarded to a local worker?]. The knowledge that the Chester Natural History Society wished to honour him is the real gratification, which he will never forget.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas McKenny Hughes |
| Date: | 26 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12701 |
| letter | (20) |
| Darwin, Francis | (3) |
| Hardy, R. P. | (3) |
| Hughes, T. M. | (2) |
| Judd, J. W. | (2) |
| Unidentified | (2) |
| Buckley, A. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
| Darwin, Francis | (3) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Hardy, R. P. | (3) |
| Higgins, H. H. | (1) |
| Hughes, T. M. | (2) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Judd, J. W. | (2) |
| Ludlow, J. M. F. | (1) |
| Marsh, O. C. | (1) |
| Strasburger, Eduard | (1) |
| Unidentified | (2) |
| Williamson, W. C. | (1) |
