To Henry Johnson 18 November 1880
Summary
Is obliged for the clear answers to his queries.
Regrets that his health will not permit a visit to Wroxeter.
Will sign his name on next page, but "what geese people are about autographs".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Johnson |
Date: | 18 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | Private collection |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12827A |
To B. J. Placzek [after 19 November 1880]
Summary
Expresses doubts that pigeons could rest one wing during flight.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Baruch Jakob Placzek |
Date: | [after 19 Nov 1880] |
Classmark: | Placzek 1883, p. 112 n. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12829F |
To G. H. Darwin 20 November [1880]
Summary
Glad GHD goes on with ripple-marks; if he makes out a theory of ripples, they might give important information about the most ancient deposits.
CD has been wonderfully glorified in the Times [review of Movement in plants, 20 Nov 1880].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 20 Nov [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12830 |
To J. V. Carus 22 November 1880
Summary
Very pleased by JVC’s note about Movement in plants. Feared he would find it intolerably dull. Some missing sheets are being replaced. Also sends a perfect copy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 22 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 183–184) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12840 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 November 1880
Summary
Admires Wallace’s Island life.
Criticises: 1. His view of similar plants on distant mountains – CD prefers previous low-land connections to Wallace’s summit–summit dispersal;
2. Source of warmth for ancient Arctic climate;
3. Origin of S. Australian flora.
CD’s favourite cases in Movement in plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 496–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12841 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 23 November [1880]
Summary
WTT-D’s suggestion about absorbent function of pegs in Abronia suggests origin of pegs in Welwitschia, which deeply interests CD. Previously could not see how pegs became large enough to be of mechanical use. Now thinks tissue between hypocotyl and radicle absorbs fluid, which would favour rise of peg to expose larger surface.
Rejects German contempt for investigating use of organs.
Asks WTT-D to observe how worms draw Robinia leaves into burrows.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 23 Nov [1880] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 209–11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12843 |
To G. H. Darwin 23 November [1880]
Summary
Discusses GHD’s ripple theory. Asks him how they are formed.
Delighted to hear that light is dawning in GHD’s eyes on the planetary system.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 23 Nov [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 99 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12844 |
To W. E. Darwin 23 [November 1880]
Summary
Asks WED to observe whether worms consistently draw acacia leaves into their burrows with a particular end first.
Will soon know whether he will need worm-castings from Beaulieu.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 23 [Nov 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 153: 137 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12848 |
To Frederick McDermott 24 November 1880
Summary
CD does "not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederick McDermott |
Date: | 24 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | Bonhams, New York (dealers) (21 September 2015) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12851 |
To G. E. Mengozzi [after 24 November 1880]
Summary
Asks GEM to thank La Scuola Italica for the honour conferred upon him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Giovanni Ettore Mengozzi |
Date: | [after 24 Nov 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 112v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12853 |
To Raphael Meldola 25 November 1880
Summary
References to Fritz Müller’s papers relevant to Weismann’s Studien [in Kosmos (Aug, Sept, and Oct 1877)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 25 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12854 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 25 November [1880]
Summary
Will be pleased to have VOK come to Down any day.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | 25 Nov [1880] |
Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12855 |
To Carlos Ribeiro 25 November 1880
Summary
Thanks for his great work on prehistoric remains in Portugal and his paper on Tertiary formations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carlos Ribeiro |
Date: | 25 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia (Records of the Portuguese Geological Commission 1857–1918) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12857F |
To M. T. Masters [after 25 November 1880]
Summary
Thanks for note. CD had had misgivings about Chatin but had assumed he was trustworthy [see Movement in plants, p. 389].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | [after 25 Nov 1880] |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12859 |
To T. H. Huxley [after 26 November 1880]
Summary
Is glad that Hooker will sign memorial for Wallace’s pension. Had thought it hopeless because Hooker objected to ARW’s spiritualism and his bet on the sphericity of the globe.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [after 26 Nov 1880] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 349) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12864 |
To G. H. Darwin [27 November 1880]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [27 Nov 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12865 |
To Hermann Müller 27 November 1880
Summary
Has heard of flood from which Fritz Müller escaped. Has he lost books, microscope, apparatus? Offers £50 or £100.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 27 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 442 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12866 |
To William Preyer 27 November 1880
Summary
Will send copy of Movement in plants.
Encloses copies of articles [unspecified].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Date: | 27 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 270 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12867 |
To James Geikie 27 November 1880
Summary
Thanks JG for his magnificent book [Prehistoric Europe].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Murdoch (James) Geikie |
Date: | 27 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 333 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12869 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 November [1880]
Summary
Wants to see Frank become F.R.S. before he dies.
Pities Wallace and wants a pension for him very much.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 Nov [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 500–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12870 |
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Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
Huxley, T. H. | (3) |
Buckley, A. B. | (2) |
Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (47) |
Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
Huxley, T. H. | (3) |
Buckley, A. B. | (2) |
Cooke, R. F. | (2) |