To James Torbitt 19 December 1880
Summary
Does JT require part or all of £90 that CD holds from subscribers for his experiments?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | 19 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 125 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12925 |
To G. J. Romanes 20 December 1880
Summary
Comments on papers by Francis Darwin.
Suggests methods for growing seedlings for experiments involving light.
Comments on GJR’s observations on monkey.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 20 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.576) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12926 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 December 1880
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 507–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12927 |
To Patrick Geddes 20 December 1880
Summary
Gives permission to copy figures from Insectivorous plants for article in Encyclopaedia Britannica [by PG, 9th ed., vol. 13, pp. 134–40].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Patrick Geddes |
Date: | 20 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (MS.10521) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12928 |
To Otto Hahn 20 December 1880
Summary
Thanks for his letter and magnificently illustrated book.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Otto Hahn |
Date: | 20 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 251: 3334 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12929F |
To Daniel Mackintosh 21 December 1880
Summary
The recipient is thanked for his "interesting letter".
CD sends an article received from [James Geikie?]. "You will see that it is important to know whether the laminae of slate have ever been bent up-hill."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Mackintosh |
Date: | 21 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | Christie’s, New York (dealers) (9 June 1999) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12930F |
To W. R. Browne 22 December 1880
Summary
Believes the conference will be of no value because individuals can only decide for themselves on the truths of science and religion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Walter Raleigh Browne |
Date: | 22 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 7385) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12931 |
To Albert Günther 22 December [1880]
Summary
Anxious that AG should consider a memorial [for A. R. Wallace]. Makes arrangements to avoid delay.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Date: | 22 Dec [1880] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12932 |
To J. L. Hawkins 23 December 1880
Summary
Thanks for information about cats avoiding certain species of mice.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Luther Hawkins |
Date: | 23 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | Private collection |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12932F |
To T. H. Huxley [29 December 1880]
Summary
Has asked Hooker to sign the Wallace memorial and send it on to THH.
Read splendid lecture by THH on evolution in the Times ["On the application of the laws of evolution to the arrangement of the Vertebrata and more particularly of the Mammalia", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1880): 649–62].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [29 Dec 1880] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 363) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12935 |
To J. M. Herbert 25 December [1880]
Summary
Recalls student days at Cambridge and microscope JMH gave him.
Discusses his children, health, and work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Maurice Herbert |
Date: | 25 Dec [1880] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.577) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12937 |
To James Torbitt 25 December 1880
Summary
Suggests JT make public his letter to W. E. Gladstone [on results of potato experiments]; thinks post office would object to JT’s plan of distribution.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | 25 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 126 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12938 |
To Ernst Krause 26 December 1880
Summary
CD’s sons tell him that Samuel Butler in Unconscious memory states that some passages in Erasmus Darwin were taken from his Evolution, old and new. Their unprejudiced view is that the passages do come from Butler. CD hopes EK will give a clear explanation if he writes on the matter in Kosmos.
CD is taking no public notice of Butler’s attack on himself.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 26 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36210) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12939 |
To T. H. Huxley 27 December 1880
Summary
Has obtained signatures for the memorial. Wonders whether Gladstone would see a deputation and offers to write to Gladstone instead. Asks THH’s advice.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 27 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 354) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12941 |
To George Bentham 27 December 1880
Summary
Asks GB to sign certificate for Francis Darwin [candidate for Royal Society].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 27 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 723) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12942 |
To Albert Günther 27 December 1880
Summary
Sends memorial [for A. R. Wallace] for AG to sign. Asks whether AG will forward it to Owen; CD cannot send it as he has not spoken to him for 20 years.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Date: | 27 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12944 |
To Francis Darwin 27 December [1880]
Summary
FD’s abstract ["Physiology of plants", Nature 23 (1880): 178–81] is excellent, and as clear as daylight.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 27 Dec [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12945 |
To G. D. Campbell [before 27 December 1880]
Summary
Encloses a memorial for Wallace which he hopes the Duke will read. Asks that he inform Gladstone of the memorial.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Douglas Campbell, 8th duke of Argyll |
Date: | [before 27 Dec 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12946 |
To Francis Darwin [after 27 December 1880]
Summary
The Duke of Argyll has written to Gladstone in support of a pension for A. R. Wallace.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [after 27 Dec 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12950 |
To H. W. Bates [before 29 December 1880]
Summary
Informs HWB of arrangements for signing the memorial to W. E. Gladstone [for a civil pension for Wallace]. CD has got Duke of Argyll to write to Gladstone in favour of it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | [before 29 Dec 1880] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12951 |
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Huxley, T. H. | (4) |
Torbitt, James | (3) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Browne, W. R. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Huxley, T. H. | (4) |
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Browne, W. R. | (2) |
Darwin, Francis | (2) |
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Günther, Albert | (2) |
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Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
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