From Francis Darwin [after 2 June 1879]
Summary
Geotropism.
Experimenting on Porlieria in damp and dry earth.
Hermann Müller has been ridiculed for teaching children "in the beginning was Carbon".
Will ask about Ernst Krause.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 2 June 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 209.5: 230–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12075 |
From Nicolai Mengden 3 June 1879
Summary
Thanks for reply to query. Asked E. Haeckel same question and his answer agreed with CD’s. Haeckel disbelieves in the supernatural. What does CD think?
Author: | Nicolai Mengden, Baron von Mengden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 June 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 152 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12079 |
From John Murray 3 June [1879]
Summary
Is well disposed toward publishing Krause’s essay on Dr Erasmus Darwin, particularly if CD undertakes to fill up its gaps. He thinks ED’s reputation is increasing.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 June [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12080 |
From Raphael Meldola 4 June 1879
Summary
Wants to republish Fritz Müller’s paper ["Ituna and Thyridia", Kosmos 5 (1879): 100–8] in Proceedings of the Entomological Society. [Thyridita!?]
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 June 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 137 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12082 |
From W. S. Dallas 4 June 1879
Summary
Has finished the first part of Krause’s MS [of Erasmus Darwin]. Expects to receive the concluding portion soon.
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 June 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 107–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12083 |
From V. H. Darwin 5 June [1879]
Author: | Violetta Harriot Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 June [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 171 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12085 |
From Ernst Krause 7 June 1879
Summary
Hopes to send last part of his work soon. CD may lay it aside or print only parts of it. Wants to add account of evolutionists before Erasmus Darwin. Superficial account by Samuel Butler makes this necessary.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 June 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12092 |
From Francis Galton 7 June 1879
Summary
Conveys some information about Dr Erasmus Darwin’s second wife and discusses photos of him and his wife.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 June 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.9: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12094 |
From B. J. Sulivan 9 June 1879
Summary
Reports on his family’s illnesses and other domestic matters.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 June 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 309 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12097 |
From Francis Galton 9 June 1879
Summary
Memorandum about Dr Erasmus Darwin’s bequests.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 June 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.14: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12097F |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 10 June 1879
Summary
Sleep in Crotalaria.
Report of John Ball’s lecture to Geographical Society: Alpine flora is direct descendant of Palaeozoic flora ["On the origin of the flora of the European Alps", Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography 1: 564–88].
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 June 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 209.10: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12099 |
From F. B. White 11 June 1879
Author: | Francis Buchanan White (Francis) (Buchanan) White |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 June 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 129 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12103 |
From Ernst Krause 13 June 1879
Summary
Has completed his MS and sent it to Dallas.
Has ignored Butler’s criticism of natural selection and corrected only his views of Buffon and Goethe.
It would be best to drop EK’s text from book and quote only certain portions of it.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 June 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B29–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12105 |
From Paul Aussant-Carà 13 June 1879
Author: | Paul (Paolo) Aussant-Carà |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 June 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 128 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12106 |
From Hermann Otto 15 June 1879
Summary
Thanks for copy of Descent.
Author: | Hermann Otto |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 June 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12107 |
From Thomas Comber 15 June 1879
Summary
Sends specimens showing gynodioecism in Plantago lanceolata.
Author: | Thomas Radcliffe (Thomas) Comber |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 June 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 215 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12108 |
From W. S. Dallas 16 June 1879
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 June 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12110 |
From Francis Darwin [after 16 June 1879]
Summary
Reports on roots and climbing plants experiments he is performing in Sachs’ laboratory. Orchids with air roots have come. Goebel says proshelic better than helic.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 16 June 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12111F |
From Raphael Meldola 18 June 1879
Summary
Discusses Fritz Müller’s paper on the mutual protection of certain mimics ["Ituna and Thyridita", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1879): xx–xxviii]. [Thyridia!?]
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 June 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 138 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12113 |
From G. H. Darwin 24 June 1879
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 June 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12116 |
letter | (22) |
Darwin, Francis | (3) |
Dallas, W. S. | (2) |
Galton, Francis | (2) |
Krause, Ernst | (2) |
Meldola, Raphael | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Darwin, Francis | (3) |
Dallas, W. S. | (2) |
Galton, Francis | (2) |
Krause, Ernst | (2) |
Meldola, Raphael | (2) |
Aussant-Carà, Paul | (1) |
Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
Comber, Thomas | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Darwin, V. H. | (1) |
Mengden, Nicolai | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Otto, Hermann | (1) |
Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
White, Francis Buchanan | (1) |