To [Otago University] [16 February 1880]
Summary
Testimonial for S. B. J. Skertchly, stating CD’s high opinion of his work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Otago University |
| Date: | [16 Feb 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12492 |
To J.-H. Fabre 20 February 1880
Summary
Discusses sense of direction of cats and other animals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean-Henri Casimir (Jean-Henri) Fabre |
| Date: | 20 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque centrale, Paris (Ms FAB 32) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12494 |
To A. S. Wilson 20 February 1880
Summary
Speculates on origin of habit [of insects?] of laying eggs on plants of certain families.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
| Date: | 20 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 371 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12495 |
To G. H. Darwin 21 [February 1880]
Summary
Nature [21 (1880): 382] has an item about tremors and earth movements in Japan.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 21 [Feb 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12496 |
To A. Gapitche 24 February 1880
Summary
No one can prove death is inevitable, but the evidence in favour of this belief is overwhelming. It is in the highest degree improbable that man should cease to follow the general law of evolution, and evolution implies successive generations, which implies death.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | A. Gapitche |
| Date: | 24 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | ML 2: 444–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12499 |
To Anton Dohrn 27 February 1880
Summary
Leaves decision as to use of his gift to AD.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Date: | 27 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 705) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12501 |
To W. H. Flower [after 16 February 1880]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for a gift of books.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
| Date: | [after 16 Feb 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 19v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12505 |
To J. W. C. Fegan [before 25 February 1880]
Summary
Gladly turns reading room over to JWCF for his mission work. Through his gospel services there is not a drunkard left in the village.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James William Condell Fegan |
| Date: | [before 25 Feb 1880] |
| Classmark: | Fullerton 1930, p. 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12879 |
To T. H. Farrer 14 February 1880
Summary
Torbitt too poor to go on with [potato] experiments. If anything is to be done it must be by Government.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12479 |
To H. E. Litchfield 1 February [1880]
Summary
Sends the Litchfields two drafts of a letter in reply to Samuel Butler’s letter to the Athenæum; hopes for their approval.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 1 Feb [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B98–101, B102, B121; DAR 185: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12445 |
| letter | (30) |
| Krause, Ernst | (3) |
| Dohrn, Anton | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
| Tait, Lawson | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Krause, Ernst | (3) |
| Dohrn, Anton | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
| Tait, Lawson | (2) |
| Wilson, A. S. | (2) |
| Athenæum | (1) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Breitenbach, Wilhelm | (1) |
| Cole, William | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Fabre, Jean-Henri | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Fegan, J. W. C. | (1) |
| Flower, W. H. | (1) |
| Gapitche, A. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
| Litchfield, R. B. | (1) |
| Nash, Wallis | (1) |
| Otago University | (1) |
| Seddon, W. Z. | (1) |
