To Ernst Krause 28 November 1880
Summary
Bad news about Kosmos [ceasing publication].
Fritz Müller’s losses [in a flood]; "I have long looked on him as the best observer in the world."
EK’s astonishing account of crustacean that repairs its legs in an ancestral form seems to support Pangenesis, which has hardly any friends.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 28 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36209) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12871 |
To A. W. Howitt [before 30 November 1880]
Summary
Thanks AWH for copy of Fison and Howitt 1880, which he will read when it is returned by J. F. McLennan.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred William Howitt |
| Date: | [before 30 Nov 1880] |
| Classmark: | St Mark’s National Theological Centre Library (Tippett Collection TIP 70/10/30/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12874F |
To W. E. Darwin 30 November [1880]
Summary
Asks whether WED can collect some worm-castings from Beaulieu Abbey.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Nov [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 163 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12876 |
To R. F. Cooke 8 November [1880]
Summary
Thanks RC for telling him about sale of 600 copies [of Movement in plants]. He had expected less, so loss will not be as heavy as he feared. Asks whether he should not have 250 more copies printed and what it would cost to have the type kept up.
Instructions for presentation copies.
The index is the worst ever published.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 8 Nov [1880] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 378–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12804 |
To R. F. Cooke 20 November 1880
Summary
Likes appearance [of Movement in plants].
The Times review should sell a few more copies.
Thanks Murray for present of volumes by Charles St John [A tour in Sutherlandshire, 2 vols. (1849?)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 20 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 380–1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12832 |
To Walter White 28 November [1880]
Summary
Asks for list of Royal Society Council members, which CD needs because council members never back up certificates.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Walter White; Royal Society of London |
| Date: | 28 Nov [1880] |
| Classmark: | Liverpool Central Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12872 |
To S. H. Haliburton 22 November 1880
Summary
Thanks SH for her kind letter; would like to see her again.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton |
| Date: | 22 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12839 |
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| Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (3) |
| Buckley, A. B. | (2) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Buckley, A. B. | (2) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
| Crier, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (47) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Geikie, James | (1) |
| Haliburton, S. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Howitt, A. W. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (3) |
| John Murray | (2) |
| Johnson, Henry (a) | (2) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
| Krause, Ernst | (1) |
| Mackintosh, Daniel | (1) |
| Masters, M. T. | (1) |
| Maw, George | (1) |
| McDermott, Frederick | (1) |
| Meldola, Raphael | (1) |
| Mengozzi, G. E. | (1) |
| Mostyn Owen, S. H. | (1) |
| Müller, Hermann | (1) |
| Nature | (1) |
| Paget, James | (1) |
| Placzek, B. J. | (1) |
| Preyer, William | (1) |
| Rattan, Volney | (1) |
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| Roebuck, W. D. | (2) |
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| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
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| White, Walter | (1) |
| Williams & Norgate | (1) |
| Williams, S. H. | (1) |
| Williamson, W. C. | (1) |
