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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

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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

From W. B. Cheadle   17 February 1879

Summary

Second request that CD sign a Cambridge memorial [i.e., petition]. The heading has been amended to include graduates who have formerly studied medicine.

Author:  Walter Butler Cheadle
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Feb 1879
Classmark:  DAR 161: 136
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11887

From A. G. Butler   19 February 1879

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Requests testimonial from CD for position of Assistant Keeper, Zoological Dept, British Museum.

Author:  Arthur Gardiner Butler
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Feb 1879
Classmark:  DAR 160: 389
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11888

From Anton de Bary   20 February 1879

Summary

Since he was innocent of sending the Botanische Zeitung to CD, he inquired of the editor, who informs him that it is sent every week by post by order of Williams and Norgate.

Author:  Anton Heinrich (Anton) de Bary
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Feb 1879
Classmark:  DAR 162: 133
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11890

From Grant Allen   21 February [1879]

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Thanks for criticisms of Colour-sense.

Clarifies his views that actions desirable for species result in development of nervous organs capable of pleasurable stimulation.

Believes that all "tastes" occurring in nature are explicable with reference to ancestral habits and that none is purely arbitrary.

Author:  Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Feb [1879]
Classmark:  DAR 159: 44
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11894

From W. E. Darwin   25 February [1879]

Summary

Thanks CD profusely for the circular which detailed his and Emma Darwin’s plans to increase their children’s income. Thinks a few hundred really makes the difference for feeling really rich, especially as he now knows how important it is for bankers to have available personal savings.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Feb [1879]
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 71)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11896F

From Karl Höchberg   21 February 1879

Summary

Describes health-related arguments for vegetarianism. Notes arguments that anthropoid apes are vegetarians. Asks whether man is sufficiently adapted to mixed diet so that meat is not harmful?

Author:  Karl Höchberg
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Feb 1879
Classmark:  DAR 166: 227
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11897

From C. W. Hamilton   21 February 1879

Summary

Encloses a press clipping [missing] of his observations [on stem structure?].

Author:  Charles William Hamilton
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Feb 1879
Classmark:  DAR 166: 91
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11898

From Hugo de Vries   24 February 1879

Summary

Did not wish to imply that some leaves are insensitive to light, only that he could not measure their sensitivity. Contraction of roots seems common.

Author:  Hugo de Vries
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Feb 1879
Classmark:  DAR 209.3: 336
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11900

From Anton Stecker   24 February 1879

Summary

Has not been able to complete Bohemian edition of Origin because of trip to Africa.

Is collecting zoological evidence for CD’s theory.

Author:  Anton Stecker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Feb 1879
Classmark:  DAR 177: 251
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11901

From E. P. Wright   26 February 1879

Summary

Is applying for the Chair of Botany at Edinburgh and asks CD for a testimonial.

Author:  Edward Perceval Wright
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Feb 1879
Classmark:  DAR 181: 176
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11905

From A. S. Wilson   27 February 1879

Summary

Sends results of the first year’s experiments with the Russian wheat varieties sent by CD [see 11483].

Author:  Alexander Stephen Wilson
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 Feb 1879
Classmark:  DAR 181: 114
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11906

From Frederick King   27 February 1879

Summary

A founding member of the Royal Agricultural Society sends information on the specificity of sheep varieties to soil types.

Author:  Frederick King
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 Feb 1879
Classmark:  DAR 169: 19
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11907

From A. F. Batalin   28 February 1879

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Sleep movements in Oxalis acetosella.

Author:  Alexander Fedorovich Batalin (Александр Федорович Баталин)
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Feb 1879
Classmark:  DAR 209.14: 179, 180
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11910
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