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To Adolf Ernst   5 January 1880

Summary

Has read AE’s paper in Nature [21 (1880): 217] on Melochia, a new family of heterostyled plants, and suggests some crosses to be carried out to determine the fertility of illegitimate seedlings.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Adolf Ernst
Date:  5 Jan 1880
Classmark:  State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8972)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12402

To Ernst Krause   5 January 1880

Summary

The reviews of Erasmus Darwin are mainly favourable.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:  5 Jan 1880
Classmark:  The Huntington Library (HM 36198)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12403

To Vincent, Teja & Co   5 January 1880

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Summary

Requests that they receive, on his behalf, an award of 12000 lira [lire!?] from the Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin, and transmit it to the Union Bank, London.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Vincent, Teja & Co.
Date:  5 Jan 1880
Classmark:  DAR 202: 68
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12405

To C. H. Tindal   5 January 1880

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Thanks for the information about Dr Erasmus Darwin and his parents.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Harrison Tindal
Date:  5 Jan 1880
Classmark:  DAR 185: 118
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12405F

To J.-H. Fabre   6 January 1880

Summary

Thanks JHF for copy of his Souvenirs entomologiques [1879].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Jean-Henri Casimir (Jean-Henri) Fabre
Date:  6 Jan 1880
Classmark:  Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque centrale, Paris (Ms FAB 32)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12406

To William Cole   6 January 1880

Summary

Regrets he is unwilling to join [Epping Forest Field Club], but encloses a guinea to aid with their preliminary expenses.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Cole
Date:  6 Jan 1880
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archivess (Essex Naturalists Field Club MLDA/9)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12407

To J. T. Murray   6 January 1880

Summary

Thanks JM for sending Drosera specimens.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Thomas Murray
Date:  6 Jan 1880
Classmark:  Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 3069)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12408

To Antonio Mendola   8 January [1880]

Summary

Thanks for the offer of specimens, but cannot use them due to other work.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Antonio Mendola
Date:  8 Jan [1880]
Classmark:  Christie’s (dealers) (7 June 2010)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12409F

To A. S. Wilson   8 January 1880

Summary

Glad ASW has solved puzzle of outer seeds.

Quite agrees about great improbability of sudden transformations.

Asks for copy of report from Gardeners’ Chronicle [see 12404].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:  8 Jan 1880
Classmark:  DAR 148: 369
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12411

To Horace Darwin   11 January [1880]

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Sends enclosure [missing], which HD is to forward to W. E. Darwin, as everyone else has seen it.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Horace Darwin
Date:  11 Jan [1880]
Classmark:  DAR 185: 7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12415

To Alfred Krakauer   12 January 1880

Summary

"I am much obliged for your note. I have heard of the other analogous cases, but there remains a doubt whether they may not be accidental coincidences, for such cases certainly occur in non-Jewish families.––"

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Krakauer
Date:  12 Jan 1880
Classmark:  The British Library (Surrogate RP 4481/3)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12419A

To Lawson Tait   13 January 1880

Summary

The honour RLT proposes [Darwin Festival] is a great one, "but would it not be better to wait until I am in my grave?"

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:  13 Jan 1880
Classmark:  Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12420

To Jabez Hogg   14 January 1880

Summary

CD’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, must have published on arsenic, as his father never published on medical subjects.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Jabez Hogg
Date:  14 Jan 1880
Classmark:  Maggs Brothers (dealers) (catalogue 1453, 2011)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12423F

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   15 January 1880

Summary

Thanks for cotton seeds.

Germination of Megarrhiza.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  15 Jan 1880
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 199–200)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12424

To Lawson Tait   15 January [1880]

Summary

Sends copy of Kosmos [containing Krause’s article on Erasmus Darwin].

Believes he can spare an Erasmus Darwin letter.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:  15 Jan [1880]
Classmark:  DAR 221.5: 41
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12425

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   18 January [1880]

Summary

Suspects WTT-D is the author of a good review of Erasmus Darwin in Nature [21 (1880): 245–7].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  18 Jan [1880]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 201–2)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12431

To Asa Gray   19 January 1880

Summary

Describes the germination and early growth of Megarrhiza about which AG has been misinformed. The tubular petioles act functionally like a root.

Ipomoea did not germinate.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  19 Jan 1880
Classmark:  Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (126)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12433

To Ernst Krause   19 January 1880

Summary

Replies to EK’s queries about German translation of CD’s preface to Erasmus Darwin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:  19 Jan 1880
Classmark:  The Huntington Library (HM 36199)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12434

To Asa Gray   20 January [1880]

Summary

Germination of Delphinium and Megarrhiza.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  20 Jan [1880]
Classmark:  Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (127)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12436

To Ernst Haeckel   21 January 1880

Summary

Thanks EH for copy of book [Das System der Medusen (1879)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:  21 Jan 1880
Classmark:  Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/50 [A 9904])
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12437
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