From R. T. Wright 2 August 1879
Summary
Lack of success in breeding horses in Bengal is related to damp climate. Encloses letter from F. G. Ravenhill concerning an unpublished report by the Stud Commission on animal breeds in Bengal.
| Author: | Robert Temple Wright |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Aug 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 177 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12178 |
From Reginald Darwin 4 August 1879
Summary
Sends an address by Dr Erasmus Darwin [to the Derby Philosophical Society].
| Author: | Reginald Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Aug 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 160–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12180 |
From W. S. Dallas 6 August 1879
Summary
Last minute checking of some quotations has delayed his translation [of Erasmus Darwin].
| Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Aug 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 114–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12184 |
From J. R. Atkin 7 August [1879]
Summary
Thanks for present and letter.
Wishes a good trip to the lakes and sends love to family members.
| Author: | James Richard (Dick) Atkin, Baron Atkin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Aug [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 122 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12185 |
From Hugo de Vries 7 August 1879
Summary
Experiments to determine mechanism of tendril curvature; importance of variations in cell turgidity. Contraction in roots caused by increased turgor.
| Author: | Hugo de Vries |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Aug 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 180: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12186 |
From Archibald Liversidge 7 August 1879
Summary
CD elected honorary member of the Royal Society of New South Wales.
| Author: | Archibald Liversidge |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Aug 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 230: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12186A |
From John Ball 8 August 1879
Summary
Hopes CD will read and comment on his lecture ["Origin of flora of the Alps", Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. (1879)]. Disgrees with CD; JB maintains that the high antiquity of existing plant genera and families explains wide differences in their distribution.
| Author: | John Ball |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Aug 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12187 |
From Anton de Bary 9 August 1879
Summary
His experiments on nutrition of Utricularia are not sufficiently exact or complete to allow them to be published. He will resume experimentation and report to CD.
| Author: | Anton Heinrich (Anton) de Bary |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Aug 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 134 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12188 |
From F. B. Goodacre 11 August 1879
Summary
Crossbreeding experiments with geese.
| Author: | Francis Burges Goodacre |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Aug 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12189 |
From Ernst Krause 16 August 1879
Summary
Regards his part only as material from which CD can select for English edition of Erasmus Darwin.
Regrets dropping comment on Erasmus Darwin’s evolutionary theory.
Asks for translation of British plant names.
Asks CD not to mention in introduction that EK’s part has been reduced.
| Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Aug 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B35–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12194 |
From John Denny 16 August 1879
Summary
JD communicates, after seven years, news of a new "sport" of Pelargonium, sterile both with other varieties and with the mother plant, thus indicating that it is possibly a new species.
| Author: | John Denny |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Aug 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 161 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12195 |
From W. S. Dallas 18 August 1879
Summary
WSD sent MS of his translation of Erasmus Darwin on 6 August. Hopes CD received all of it.
| Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Aug 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 118–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12197 |
From E. S. Morse 26 August 1879
Summary
Sends proofs [of "The shell mounds of Omori, Japan", Tokyo Univ. Mem. 1 (1879)], which may interest CD for the changes between ancient and modern forms.
| Author: | Edward Sylvester Morse |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Aug 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 246 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12201 |
From W. S. Dallas 28 August 1879
Summary
He has no cause to complain at CD’s suppression of parts of his translation. Will do his best to correct and improve the proofs.
| Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Aug 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 120–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12202 |
From W. M. Hacon 28 August 1879
Summary
Requests a letter of introduction to Prof. Jowett for his son, who is entering Balliol College.
| Author: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Aug 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12203 |
From Ernst Haeckel 30 August 1879
Summary
Accepts invitation to visit Down.
Describes travel plans in Scotland.
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Aug 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 75 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12205 |
| letter | (16) |
| Dallas, W. S. | (3) |
| Atkin, J. R. | (1) |
| Ball, John | (1) |
| Bary, Anton de | (1) |
| Darwin, Reginald | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Dallas, W. S. | (3) |
| Atkin, J. R. | (1) |
| Ball, John | (1) |
| Bary, Anton de | (1) |
| Darwin, Reginald | (1) |
| Denny, John | (1) |
| Goodacre, F. B. | (1) |
| Hacon, W. M. | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Krause, Ernst | (1) |
| Liversidge, Archibald | (1) |
| Morse, E. S. | (1) |
| Vries, Hugo de | (1) |
| Wright, R. T. | (1) |
