To ? 3 August 1880
Summary
CD sends thanks for further instructions for making a solution, which will be followed as soon as Francis [Darwin] returns.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 3 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12676 |
To ? 18 August [1880?]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for information on a plant. It is too late for his present work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 18 Aug [1880?] |
| Classmark: | Harvard University, Department of Psychology |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13289A |
To Francis Darwin [before 1 August 1880]
Summary
Are there old furrowed fields on hillsides in N. Wales, if so can FD look for earthworm activity?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [before 1 Aug 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12645 |
To O. C. Marsh 31 August 1880
Summary
Has received OCM’s Odontornithes memoir. Believes his work affords the best support to evolution that has appeared in the last 20 years.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Othniel Charles Marsh |
| Date: | 31 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12673 |
From Francis Darwin [1 August 1880]
Summary
Thanks for letter and journals. Sends information on earthworms and also information from Mr Ruck. Describes his fishing and his success finding sea shore plants that are new to him.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Aug 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12675F |
To J. M. F. Ludlow 4 August 1880
Summary
Sends a statement of the assets of the Down Friendly Society. Asks for advice on consulting an actuary.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow |
| Date: | 4 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12677 |
From S. T. Preston 5 August 1880
Summary
Sends his paper on "Natural science and morality", notwithstanding CD’s disinclination for the subject. This work parallels H. Spencer’s in the Data of ethics [1879].
Clerk Maxwell and William Thomson have encouraged his work in physics; STP looks for CD’s support on evolution.
| Author: | Samuel Tolver Preston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12678 |
To Francis Darwin 5 August [1880]
Summary
Discusses corrections [to Movement in plants]. Has dispatched chapter nine.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Aug [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12679 |
To R. P. Hardy 6 August [1880]
Summary
Asks RPH [an actuary] to act on behalf of the Down Friendly Society whose members wish the rates of benefits to be raised.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ralph Price Hardy |
| Date: | 6 Aug [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12680 |
To R. P. Hardy [after 11 August 1880]
Summary
Forwards some tables on behalf of the Down Friendly Society and discusses the changes in benefits requested by the members.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ralph Price Hardy |
| Date: | [after 11 Aug 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 67v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12681 |
From Adolf Ernst 7 August 1880
Summary
Cobaea fertilisation.
Describes moth-pollination of gentian growing on Venezuelan mountains.
| Author: | Adolf Ernst |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12682 |
From S. T. Preston 8 August 1880
Summary
Appreciates what CD says about his writing on two diverse subjects. Argues for value of "interdisciplinary approach". Has CD seen the pamphlet, "Physics and ethics" which he co-authored with an anonymous friend?
| Author: | Samuel Tolver Preston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12683 |
To Eduard Strasburger 8 August 1880
Summary
Thanks for his book on the formation and division of cells.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Eduard Adolf (Eduard) Strasburger |
| Date: | 8 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, Handschriftenabteilung (NL Strasburger I) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12683F |
From W. C. Williamson 10 August 1880
Summary
On growth and development of Drosera.
| Author: | William Crawford Williamson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 108 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12684 |
To R. P. Hardy 11 August [1880]
Summary
Discusses matters relating to the Down Friendly Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ralph Price Hardy |
| Date: | 11 Aug [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12685 |
To Francis Darwin 11 August [1880]
Summary
Dispatches a chapter [of Movement in plants] for FD to look over.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Aug [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12686 |
From Hermann Müller 14 August 1880
Summary
HM’s son will visit CD when he comes to London.
Is glad CD approves of his judgment of G. Bonnier’s paper on nectaries [Gaston Bonnier, "Les nectaires", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 8 (1879): 5–212].
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 315 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12687 |
To J. W. Judd [15 August 1880]
Summary
Invites him to lunch.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Wesley Judd |
| Date: | [15 Aug 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12688 |
To A. B. Buckley 16 August [1880]
Summary
Believes A. S. Packard is in error on some points. Refers to his own observations on slave-making ants in Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arabella Burton Buckley |
| Date: | 16 Aug [1880] |
| Classmark: | University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Joseph Halle Schaffner collection, box 1, folder 2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12689 |
From W. E. A. Axon 17 August 1880
Summary
Inquires whether a printed letter of CD’s [see 11902] correctly represents his views on vegetarianism.
| Author: | William Edward Armytage Axon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 11–12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12690 |
| letter | (34) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
| Innes, J. B. | (2) |
| Judd, J. W. | (2) |
| Preston, S. T. | (2) |
| Axon, W. E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Darwin, Francis | (3) |
| Hardy, R. P. | (3) |
| Hughes, T. M. | (2) |
| Judd, J. W. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Darwin, Francis | (4) |
| Judd, J. W. | (4) |
| Hardy, R. P. | (3) |
| Innes, J. B. | (3) |
| Hughes, T. M. | (2) |
| Preston, S. T. | (2) |
| Unidentified | (2) |
| Williamson, W. C. | (2) |
| Axon, W. E. A. | (1) |
| Buckley, A. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Ernst, Adolf | (1) |
| Higgins, H. H. | (1) |
| Krause, Ernst | (1) |
| Ludlow, J. M. F. | (1) |
| Marsh, O. C. | (1) |
| Monk, H. W. | (1) |
| Müller, Hermann | (1) |
| Strasburger, Eduard | (1) |
