From Ernst Krause 1 September 1879
Summary
Acquaintances say principal contents of Seward book should be recounted in German edition of Erasmus Darwin.
Will CD check MS for errors?
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Sept 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B37–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12208 |
From F. B. Goodacre 1 September 1879
Summary
Would like CD to write a paper on the results of geese experiments; hopes CD will not object to his doing the same despite the variance of their conclusions [see F. B. Goodacre, "Question of identity of Chinese and domestic goose", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1879): 710–12 and CD’s "Fertility of hybrids from the Chinese and common goose", Collected papers 2: 219–20].
Author: | Francis Burges Goodacre |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Sept 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12210 |
From Otto Hahn 1 September 1879
Summary
Sends copy of Die Urzelle [1879].
Clerical party in Germany rejoicing because science cannot explain all facts at once.
Author: | Otto Hahn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Sept 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12211 |
From Hugo de Vries 2 September 1879
Summary
Force of turgor is true cause of movement in plants. HdeV hopes to identify the substance which increases the cell’s water-absorbing power.
Author: | Hugo de Vries |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Sept 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 180: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12213 |
From Ernst Haeckel 3 September 1879
Summary
Arranges to visit Down.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Sept 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12215 |
From John Murray 3 September [1879]
Summary
Likes CD’s memoir of his grandfather and offers to publish 1000 copies at his own risk, giving half the profits to CD.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Sept [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B12–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12217 |
From Victor Marshall 7 September 1879
Summary
VAEGM pleased CD enjoyed his stay at Coniston.
Reports some rude remarks about CD made by John Ruskin.
Author: | Victor Alexander Ernest Garth (Victor) Marshall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Sept 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12220 |
From F. B. Goodacre 8 September 1879
Author: | Francis Burges Goodacre |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Sept 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12221 |
From Hugo de Vries 10 September 1879
Summary
Movement of tentacles of Drosera.
Author: | Hugo de Vries |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Sept 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 180: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12223 |
From Ernst Krause 12 September 1879
Summary
Thanks for printed sheets and MS. Intends that German version should follow the English, but will add notes to clarify unfamiliar material for German readers.
Thanks for list of plant names.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Sept 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B39–40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12227 |
From W. S. Dallas 13 September 1879
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12228 |
From W. S. Dallas 15 and 16 September 1879
Summary
Sends his corrected proofs [of Erasmus Darwin] for CD’s approval, with questions and final arrangements.
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 and 16 Sept 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 123–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12232 |
From James Torbitt 18 September 1879
Summary
Illness of his wife.
Potato crossing experiments; believes he has increased yield considerably.
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Sept 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 154 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12233 |
From Melchior Neumayr 19 September 1879
Summary
Sends new publication [see 11838].
Plans major study of evolutionary palaeontology.
Comments on form series discovered by Joachim Barrande.
Has not heard from Leopold Würtenberger.
Author: | Melchior Neumayr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Sept 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12234 |
From W. S. Dallas 19 September 1879
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Sept 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 125–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12235 |
From Henry Johnson 22 September [1879]
Summary
Requests autograph for a friend.
Has retired to Ludlow because of angina pectoris.
He and his daughter, Mary, were present in the cave near Tenby when George Rolleston found so many antediluvial bones.
Author: | Henry Johnson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Sept [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12236 |
From Henry Johnson 26 September [1879]
Summary
Thanks CD for his autograph.
Author: | Henry Johnson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Sept [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12238 |
From E. Desrousseaux 30 September 1879
Summary
ED is at work on a book to be called "Les grands phénomènes de la nature", which will furnish additional proof of CD’s doctrine.
Expounds his theory that all phenomena originate in movement.
Author: | E. Desrousseaux |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Sept 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 173 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12239 |
From R. F. Cooke 6 September 1879
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Sept 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B5–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12219 |
From R. F. Cooke 11 September 1879
Summary
On cost of the portrait of Dr Darwin, for Erasmus Darwin.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Sept 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 502 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12226 |
letter | (20) |
Dallas, W. S. | (3) |
Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
Goodacre, F. B. | (2) |
John Murray | (2) |
Johnson, Henry (a) | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Dallas, W. S. | (3) |
Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
Goodacre, F. B. | (2) |
John Murray | (2) |
Johnson, Henry (a) | (2) |
Krause, Ernst | (2) |
Vries, Hugo de | (2) |
Desrousseaux, E. | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Hahn, Otto | (1) |
Marshall, Victor | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Neumayr, Melchior | (1) |
Torbitt, James | (1) |