From C. F. Austin February 1879
Summary
Encloses Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, with account of a fungus that exhales chlorine;
relates his discovery in 1852 of a flowering plant that had "perfectly formed beetles" in the place of anthers.
| Author: | Coe Finch Austin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 130 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11853 |
From Karl Beger [c. 12 February 1879]
Summary
Birthday wishes.
| Author: | Friedrich Theodor Karl (Karl) Beger |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 12 Feb 1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 121 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11854 |
From D. Appleton & Co. 1 February 1879
Summary
Statement of U.S. sales of CD’s works.
| Author: | D. Appleton & Co |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11855 |
From Henry Potonié 1 February 1879
Summary
Cites evolutionary passages by Alexander Braun in English edition of Braun’s Verjüngung [1853].
| Author: | Henry Potonié |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11856 |
From Thomas Maston 5 February 1879
Summary
A stonemason who has read Origin and Descent and defends CD’s theory against theological prejudice, would like to read CD’s other books but is too poor to afford them.
| Author: | Thomas Maston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 88 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11859 |
From H. N. Moseley 5 February 1879
Summary
Sends regards from Capt. Charles Owen, who had collected beetles for CD.
Owen’s son is going to Oregon with Wallis Nash.
| Author: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 258 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11860 |
From Raphael Meldola 6 February 1879
Summary
Has arranged for publication of his translation of Weismann.
S. H. Scudder article on sexual dimorphism in butterflies [Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 12 (1877): 150–8].
| Author: | Raphael Meldola |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 134 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11861 |
From Leopold Würtenberger 7 February 1879
Summary
£100 has arrived and LW will set to work.
| Author: | Leopold Würtenberger |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 186 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11863 |
From George Henslow 8 February 1879
Summary
GH no longer believes in the value of cross-fertilisation in plants.
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 175 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11864 |
From Ernst Haeckel 9 February 1879
Summary
Sends birthday wishes.
Comments on progress of CD’s theory in Germany. Mentions opposition of Rudolf Virchow and his reply Freie Wissenschaft und freie Lehre [1878].
Describes research trip to Brittany and Normandy.
Research on Challenger Radiolaria.
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11865 |
From Karl Alberts 9 February 1879
Summary
Birthday congratulations from the editors of Kosmos. They will mark the occasion with a special number of Kosmos.
| Author: | Karl Alberts |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 95 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11866 |
From Ernst Krause 10 February 1879
Summary
Birthday greetings.
| Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11868 |
From Grant Allen 12 February 1879
Summary
Has sent copy of his new book, Colour-sense [1879]; in anticipation of criticism, he justifies his reliance on recorded observations rather than experiments, by the heavy demands of his career as a journalist.
| Author: | Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11873 |
From the Naples Zoological Station 12 February 1879
Summary
Seventieth birthday greetings.
| Author: | Naples Zoological Station |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11874 |
From Hermann Müller 12 February 1879
Summary
Seventieth birthday greetings.
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 312 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11878 |
From the masters of Greiz College 12 February 1879
Summary
Send 70th birthday congratulations.
| Author: | Greiz College |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 94r |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11879 |
From Arthur Mellersh 13 February 1879
Summary
Birthday wishes.
| Author: | Arthur Mellersh |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 149 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11880 |
From Hermann Müller 14 February 1879
Summary
HM’s teaching methods and his ideas are under attack in Germany along with the works of Ernst Krause.
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 313 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11883 |
From Francis Darwin [c. 25 February 1879]
Summary
Directs CD where to find tools in his room. Has been looking at agave and aloe flowers. Thanks family for their letters.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 25 Feb 1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11883F |
From C. A. Lindvall 16 February 1879
Summary
Outlines his theory to explain the form of certain Swedish sandhills and puts forward his ideas regarding the geological history of the earth.
| Author: | Carl August Lindvall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11885 |
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| Butler, A. G. | (1) |
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| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
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| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Hamilton, C. W. | (1) |
| Henslow, George | (1) |
| Höchberg, Karl | (1) |
| King, Frederick | (1) |
| Krause, Ernst | (1) |
| Lindvall, C. A. | (1) |
| Maston, Thomas | (1) |
| Meldola, Raphael | (1) |
| Mellersh, Arthur | (1) |
| Moseley, H. N. | (1) |
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| Potonié, Henry | (1) |
| Stecker, Anton | (1) |
| Vries, Hugo de | (1) |
| Wilson, A. S. | (1) |
| Wright, E. P. | (1) |
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