To W. E. Darwin [before 16 September 1880]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [before 16 Sept 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 168 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12383 |
To Williams & Norgate [before 4 September 1880]
Summary
Requests a list of books.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | [before 4 Sept 1880] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12390F |
To F. M. Balfour 4 September 1880
Summary
Praises FMB’s BAAS address [on embryology, Rep. BAAS 50 (1880): 636–44]. Recent progress of embryology splendid.
In work on plants, astonished at sensitivity of radicle and its power to transmit stimuli to adjoining part; such general sensitivity should be considered in genesis of nervous system.
Feels "malicious" pleasure at FMB’s criticism of Herbert Spencer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
Date: | 4 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12706 |
To R. P. Hardy 7 September 1880
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ralph Price Hardy |
Date: | 7 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12708 |
To W. E. Darwin 10 September [1880]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 10 Sept [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 162 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12710 |
To Adolf Ernst 11 September 1880
Summary
Thanks for seeds of Cobaea;
was much interested in AE’s article ["On the fertilisation of Cobaea penduliflora", Nature 22 (1880): 148–9] opposing G. E. M. Bonnier’s view ["Les nectaires", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 6th ser. 8 (1879): 6–212].
Case of Lisianthus is an excellent one of structure and movement of parts adapted to cross-fertilisation.
Asks whether worm-castings are found in the area.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adolf Ernst |
Date: | 11 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8974) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12711 |
To J. V. Carus 14 September 1880
Summary
Sends sheets of Movement in plants for translation, if JVC sees fit. It has some value and novelty, CD believes, but is very dull.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 14 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 179–180) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12713 |
To Wilhelm Viëtor 16 September 1880
Summary
Improvement in orthography would be national benefit, but cannot contribute to WV’s paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Adolf Theodor Wilhelm (Wilhelm) Viëtor |
Date: | 16 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 194a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12714 |
To B. D. Wrangham 16 September 1880
Summary
Thanks for sending him a copy of the striking passage from Kepler.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartlett Downs Wrangham |
Date: | 16 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 72756) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12714G |
To J. V. Carus 21 September 1880
Summary
CD is ashamed of length of Movement in plants – with index, nearly 600 pages. JVC will be awfully sick of ch. 1.
In intervals of correcting proofs, he is writing on the formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms. It will be a curious little book [Earthworms].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 21 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 181–182) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12718 |
To Wilhelm Breitenbach 21 September 1880
Summary
Comments on WB’s paper ["Über Variabilitäts-Erscheinungen an den Blüthen von Primula elatior und eine Anwendung des biogenetischen Grundgesetzes", Bot. Ztg. 38 (1880): 577–80].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Wilhelm Breitenbach |
Date: | 21 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12719 |
To T. M. Reade 22 September 1880
Summary
Obliged for paper ["Oceans and continents" (1880)].
Agrees that John Murray’s view [of coral reefs] is far-fetched.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Mellard Reade |
Date: | 22 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | University of Liverpool Library (TMR1.D.7.6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12721 |
To Josiah Mason 22 September 1880
Summary
Sends formal regrets that he cannot accept luncheon invitation or attend Huxley’s address [at opening of Mason College, Birmingham].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Josiah Mason |
Date: | 22 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Manuscripts and Archives Division. (Montague Collection of historical autographs: Series 1, box 2, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12722 |
To J. S. Keltie [after 24 September 1880]
Summary
Writes a sentence with which to preface B. G. Wilder’s letter [see 12726]. [Not used by and, perhaps, not sent to Nature.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Keltie |
Date: | [after 24 Sept 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 105v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12727 |
To George King 29 September 1880
Summary
Grieved to hear of John Scott’s death.
Could GK visit Down?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George King |
Date: | 29 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12730 |
To James Torbitt 29 September 1880
Summary
Rejoices at good news. Will let T. H. Farrer hear the result. Cannot see why some of new varieties should not endure fungus-proof for years.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | 29 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12731 |
letter | (16) |
Carus, J. V. | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Balfour, F. M. | (1) |
Breitenbach, Wilhelm | (1) |
Ernst, Adolf | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Carus, J. V. | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Balfour, F. M. | (1) |
Breitenbach, Wilhelm | (1) |
Ernst, Adolf | (1) |
Hardy, R. P. | (1) |
Keltie, J. S. | (1) |
King, George | (1) |
Mason, Josiah | (1) |
Reade, T. M. | (1) |
Torbitt, James | (1) |
Viëtor, Wilhelm | (1) |
Williams & Norgate | (1) |
Wrangham, B. D. | (1) |