To Francis Galton 7 April 1880
Summary
Encloses letter [see 12488] and circular from Henry Faulds [regarding thumb impressions]. Anthropology Institute may care about it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/24) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12565 |
To E. S. Morse 9 [April] 1880
Summary
[Copy erroneously dated March.]
Has forwarded ESM’s letter to Nature ["Omori shell mounds", Collected papers 2: 222–3].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Sylvester Morse |
| Date: | 9 [Apr] 1880 |
| Classmark: | Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12570 |
To C. W. Fox 10 [April] 1880
Summary
Condolences upon the death of CWF’s father, William Darwin Fox.
[Wrongly dated March by CD.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Woodd Fox |
| Date: | 10 [Apr] 1880 |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12572 |
To T. H. Huxley 11 [April] 1880
Summary
Sorry he missed THH’s lecture ["The coming of age of The origin of species", Royal Institution, 9 Apr 1880]. Has read press notices and heard from his children of its great success.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 11 [Apr] 1880 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 340) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12574 |
To G. B. Ercolani 14 April 1880
Summary
Thanks GBE for his great work on the placenta [Nuove ricerche sulla placenta nei pesci cartilaginosi e ne mammiferi (1880)]. The relationship between placental structure and mammalian classification has always seemed interesting to CD.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Giovanni Battista Ercolani |
| Date: | 14 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | Biblioteca Comunale dell’Archiginnasio, Bologna (Collezione degli autografi, XXIII, 6543) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12575 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 15 April 1880
Summary
Wants Ipomoea seeds for observing germination.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 15 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 205–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12576 |
To F. E. Abbot 15 April 1880
Summary
Thanks FEA for copy of a review of a book on evolution by "an ignorant lawyer".
Sends £5 for Index subscription.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
| Date: | 15 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Letter, C. R. Darwin to F. E. Abbot (15 April 1880), in folder Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12577 |
To William Tearle 16 April 1880
Summary
Comments on concept of revelation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Tearle |
| Date: | 16 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.572) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12579 |
To [William Newton] 17 April 1880
Summary
Unable to comment on F. Lloyd’s criticism of Francis Galton’s Hereditary genius [?A scientific view of Mr Galton’s theories of heredity (1876)].
Sorry about Lloyd’s health.
Does not care much about abuse or fame, an advantage of age.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Newton |
| Date: | 17 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12580 |
To Asa Gray 19 April 1880
Summary
Thanks for the letter from Volney Rattan [see 12553].
Discusses protective adaptation of seedlings from frost.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 19 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library (BANC MSS 74/78 z) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12582 |
To Horace Darwin 20 April [1880]
Summary
Gives advice regarding a house.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12584 |
To Edward Frankland 20 April 1880
Summary
May CD’s son send some bottles of water, in which Pelargonium leaves have been immersed, for more precise analysis of the potassium or other soluble ash? Can EF recommend a professional analyst to take on further experiments?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
| Date: | 20 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (Frankland Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12585A |
To Ernst Krause 21 April 1880
Summary
Glad to receive the German edition of Erasmus Darwin. Hopes sales will be good. Favourable review has appeared in the United States, in the Nation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 21 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36205) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12586 |
To J. V. Carus 28 April 1880
Summary
MS of Movement in plants in final stage. Fears it will displease many German physiologists. It is an attempt to bring all the diversified movements of plants under one general law or system.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 28 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 176–178) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12593 |
To Williams & Norgate 28 April [1880]
Summary
Forgot he owned vol. 1 of Hermann Engelhard von Nathusius’s Vorträge über Viehzucht und Raßenkenntniss (Nathusius 1872–80). Please to send vol. 2 when convenient.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
| Date: | 28 Apr [1880] |
| Classmark: | eBay (22 August 2019) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12593F |
To H. D. Garrison 29 April 1880
Summary
Thanks for the interesting case of inheritance.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Herod Dailey Garrison |
| Date: | 29 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | Spike Tyson (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12594F |
To H. N. Moseley 2 May 1880
Summary
Invites HNM to Down on 9 May.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
| Date: | 2 May 1880 |
| Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 14) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12594H |
To T. H. Huxley [May 1880?]
Summary
Discusses Pallasian doctrine; considers plants are splendid for making one believe in natural selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | [May 1880?] |
| Classmark: | Janet Huxley (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12595H |
To Williams & Norgate 3 May [1880]
Summary
Requests a copy of Ray Lankester’s lecture or essay on degeneration (Lankester, E. Ray. 1880. Degeneration: A chapter in Darwinism. London: Macmillan.).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
| Date: | 3 May [1880] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12595J |
To E. R. Lankester 6 May [1880]
Summary
Hopes that Lankester will come stay next Sunday. Clark, Galton and Moseley will also be there.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edwin Ray Lankester |
| Date: | 6 May [1880] |
| Classmark: | Private collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12596F |
| letter | (327) |
| Torbitt, James | (17) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (14) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (14) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (13) |
| Krause, Ernst | (13) |
