From Jan van Bolhuis [13 November 1879]
Author: | Jan van Bolhuis |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 Nov 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 236 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12315 |
From Ernst Krause 14 November 1879
Summary
Thanks for English edition [of Erasmus Darwin]. John Murray has not answered letters of German publisher. Questions CD about persons mentioned in book, in order to annotate German edition.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B49–50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12316 |
From Anthony Rich 14 November 1879
Summary
Thanks for Erasmus Darwin.
Author: | Anthony Rich |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12318 |
From W. S. Dallas 14 November 1879
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 131–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12319 |
From G. W. Norman 15 November 1879
Author: | George Warde Norman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 191 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12320 |
From Newman Marks 15 November 1879
Summary
Thanks CD for signing a memorial.
Author: | Thomas Newman (Newman) Marks |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12321 |
From James Torbitt 15 November 1879
Summary
Encloses latest report on his new potatoes. Believes the plants should be grown from seed every fourth year to preserve yield and disease-resistance.
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 52: E4; DAR 178: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12322 |
From Reginald Darwin 17 November 1879
Summary
Sends a book on shorthand
and a paper, probably by Erasmus Darwin, entitled "Moral and physical hermeneutics", on the subject of temperance.
Author: | Reginald Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 164–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12323 |
From James Paget 18 November 1879
Summary
Thanks for Erasmus Darwin. It is a rare life and an unmatched illustration of the transmission of intellectual strength.
Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12328 |
From Eduard Schulte 18 November 1879
Summary
Supports CD’s theory but doubts that butterfly life-cycle is consistent with it. Metamorphosis of butterflies is not comparable to that of other insects.
Comments on butterfly fertilisation of flowers.
Author: | Eduard Schulte |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12329 |
From James Torbitt 20 November 1879
Summary
Intends to get his ideas on the "wearing out" of varieties printed.
This year’s crosses were failures.
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 157 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12332 |
From Ernst Krause 24 November 1879
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12334 |
From John Ball 28 November 1879
Summary
Thanks CD for noticing some difficulties in his hypothesis. Concedes that there is no proof that higher plants are more intolerant of carbon dioxide than lower plants. Argues that the main difference between the lowlands and the high mountains in Palaeozoic times would be the much greater climatic fluctuations that would occur on the mountains. Discusses carbon dioxide diffusion in the Palaeozoic atmosphere. Thinks that the large number of species and genera peculiar to high mountains favours the assumption that "their diffusion must date from a geologically remote period" [see ML 2: 20–2].
Author: | John Ball |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12335 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 November 1879
Summary
Congratulations on Erasmus Darwin; likes CD’s part better than Ernst Krause’s.
Received false notice of Asa Gray’s death.
Gray and JDH engaged in comparing widely separated but floristically similar regions.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 134–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12336 |
From James Torbitt [after 19 November 1879]
Summary
Encloses a report on JT’s potato varieties by William Meredith, one of the many individuals in the country who are growing them.
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 19 Nov 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12337 |
From E. S. Galton 19 November 1879
Summary
Her brother-in-law, Edward Wheler, died on Sunday.
Sends some corrections for Erasmus Darwin.
Author: | Emma Sophia Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | Private collection |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12337F |
From E. R. Shaw 2 December 1879
Summary
Describes bearded horses seen on island of Sark.
Author: | Edmund Rogers Shaw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 148 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12339 |
From A. A. W. Hubrecht 2 December 1879
Summary
Expresses his gratitude for CD’s criticism and advice relating to his unripe hypothesis [see 12200]. His new results regarding the anatomy of different genera of Nemerteans, especially the discovery of a central nervous system.
Author: | Ambrosius Arnold Willem Hubrecht |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Research |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12339A |
From E. L. Sturtevant 4 December 1879
Summary
Observations on maize.
Author: | Edward Lewis Sturtevant |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 270 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12341 |
From Robert Christison 4 December 1879
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of Erasmus Darwin.
Author: | Robert Christison, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12342 |
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Krause, Ernst | (21) |
Dallas, W. S. | (19) |
Darwin, Francis | (10) |
Darwin, Reginald | (10) |
Torbitt, James | (9) |