To ? 5 November 1880
Summary
Refers correspondent to Descent for some information on marriage arrangements, and on the mental and moral nature of monkeys.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 5 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | Historical Society of Pennsylvania |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12797 |
To Nature 5 November [1880]
Summary
Sir Wyville Thomson misunderstands natural selection when he says the theory "refers the evolution of species to extreme variation guided only by natural selection". CD demurs at the "extreme variation" and the "only". No one has said evolution depends only on natural selection. CD has adduced many facts on the effects of use and disuse and on the direct action of the environment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 5 Nov [1880] |
Classmark: | Nature, 11 November 1880, p. 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12800 |
To John Crier November 1880
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Crier |
Date: | Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12787 |
To W. D. Roebuck [after 2 November 1880]
Summary
Expresses his gratitude for the Address he has been given.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Denison Roebuck |
Date: | [after 2 Nov 1880] |
Classmark: | Manchester Guardian, 2 May 1882, p. 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12790 |
To A. R. Wallace 3 November 1880
Summary
High praise for Island life; ARW’s "best book". Encloses notes of comments and criticism. Hooker pleased by dedication.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 3 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434 ff. 292–3); Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Wallace Papers WP/6/4/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12791 |
To Volney Rattan 3 November 1880
Summary
Thanks for seeds of Megarrhiza and for information in letter to Asa Gray.
Will send copy of Movement in plants in which Megarrhiza is discussed [see pp. 81–2].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Volney Rattan |
Date: | 3 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library (BANC MSS 74/78 z) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12792 |
To W. D. Roebuck 3 November 1880
Summary
Thanks for address honouring him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Denison Roebuck |
Date: | 3 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | Leeds University Library Special Collections (SC MS 429/89) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12793 |
To T. H. Huxley 5 November 1880
Summary
Has read THH’s review of Sir Wyville Thomson’s [Introduction to the] Voyage of the "Challenger".
Sends a draft of a letter for Nature [Collected papers 2: 223–4]. He particularly asks THH to decide whether he should include a certain paragraph [see ML 1: 389].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 5 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 344) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12796 |
To George Maw 8 November 1880
Summary
Believes the flexure in GM’s dead animals must result from the greater strength of the muscles on the left side. Thinks his son George once tested the strength of each leg of a group of boys, and CD could get his notes if wanted.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Maw |
Date: | 8 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/18) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12805 |
To A. B. Buckley 9 November 1880
Summary
Thanks for information about Wallace. Is preparing memorial to be submitted to Government [seeking pension for Wallace].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arabella Burton Buckley |
Date: | 9 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 183 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12806 |
To T. H. Huxley 13 November 1880
Summary
Sends draft of memorial for a pension for Wallace with suggested names of signers. Asks THH’s help.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 13 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 346) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12811 |
To Daniel Mackintosh 13 November 1880
Summary
Comments on DM’s ["The Moel-Tryfan shelly deposits", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 37 (1881): 351–69].
Comments on cause of earthquakes.
Believes formation of ice lowered level of sea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Mackintosh |
Date: | 13 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 334 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12812 |
To G. J. Romanes 14 November [1880]
Summary
Comments on hybridisation; cites authorities. Sends book by Wilhelm Olbers Focke [Die Pflanzen-Mischlinge (1881)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 14 Nov [1880] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.574) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12814 |
To Henry Johnson 14 November 1880
Summary
Thanks for information on the slope of ground at Worcester.
CD’s passion now is worms.
Sends Movement in plants. While correcting proof, CD remembered an old article by HHJ, which he regrets not including.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Johnson |
Date: | 14 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12816 |
To A. B. Buckley 14 November 1880
Summary
Comments on her new book [Life and her children (1880)]. "… you have treated evolution with much dexterity and truthfulness".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arabella Burton Buckley |
Date: | 14 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 184 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12818 |
To James Paget 14 November 1880
Summary
Surprising thought that diseases of plants should illustrate human pathology.
Will recommend A. B. Frank’s article in a German encyclopedia, on diseases of plants, to Francis Darwin.
Gives JP a good case of regeneration in plants – the radicle of the common bean. That plants have little power of regeneration is not difficult to understand by anyone who believes in Pangenesis, "if such a man exists … There is reason to think that my imaginary gemmules have small power of passing from cell to cell."
Refers to early experiments in which he tried to produce galls in plants by injecting poisons.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Date: | 14 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.5703/31) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12819 |
To G. J. Romanes 15 November 1880
Summary
Comments on GJR’s article on hybridisation.
Recommends his article ["Fertility and hybrids from the Chinese and common goose", Collected papers 2: 219–20].
Discusses crosses of Lythrum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 15 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.575) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12820 |
To Williams & Norgate 16 November 1880
Summary
Although he cannot use the Neapolitan work, his respect for the service to science rendered by the Zoological Station at Naples leads him to subscribe.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 16 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (4 November 2010, lot 46) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12823A |
To B. J. Sulivan 17 November 1880
Summary
BJS’s case is one of the direct action of the pollen of one variety on the mother plant of another variety. Gives references to analogous cases.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 17 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12825 |
To W. C. Williamson 18 November 1880
Summary
Receiving deputation gave CD pleasure.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Crawford Williamson |
Date: | 18 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 221.4: 247 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12826 |
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