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 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 December [1879]
Summary
Movement of cotton plant cotyledons.
Thanks JDH for his praise of Erasmus Darwin.
Delighted that JDH is thinking about geographical distribution, wishes he would go over the New Zealand flora again.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Dec [1879] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 193–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12338 |
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 |
To E. R. Shaw 4 December 1879
Summary
Thanks ERS for information about variation in horses.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edmund Rogers Shaw |
Date: | 4 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.568) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12340 |
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 |
From T. L. Brunton 5 December 1879
Author: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12343 |
From A. H. Payne 5 December 1879
Summary
Asks CD to express his opinion on vivisection to help the anti-vivisection cause in Germany.
Author: | Albert Henry Payne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12344 |
To F. B. Goodacre 5 December 1879
Summary
Were the hybrid geese FBG sent to CD brother and sister from the same hatch? CD intends to send a letter on their breeding to Nature [Collected papers 2: 219–20].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Burges Goodacre |
Date: | 5 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | Dr John Goodacre (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12345 |
From F. B. Goodacre 8 December 1879
Summary
The hybrid geese FBG sent to CD were brother and sister from the same hatch. Would greatly value a copy of Nature containing CD’s letter.
Author: | Francis Burges Goodacre |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12346 |
From W. E. Darwin [8 December 1879]
Summary
Returns Guthrie. Comments at length on Guthrie’s critique of Spencer.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [8 Dec 1879] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 72) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12346F |
From J. W. Judd 9 December 1879
Summary
Sorry he was out when CD came to visit.
Author: | John Wesley Judd |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12347 |
To A. H. Payne 10 December 1879
Summary
Gives his opinion on vivisection. CD detests cruelty but believes that physiology "is one of the most important sciences" and that it cannot progress without experiments on living animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albert Henry Payne |
Date: | 10 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms gb-00523) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12349 |
From J. F. Moulton 10 December 1879
Summary
At CD’s request he has read Malcolm Guthrie’s book [On Mr Spencer’s formula of evolution (1879)], which is a critique of First principles. He finds it a helpful clarification of Spencer’s views; however, it is as pseudo-scientific as the book it criticises.
Author: | John Fletcher Moulton, Baron Moulton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 278 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12350 |
From Raphael Meldola 11 December 1879
Summary
Sends subscription form for English edition of Weismann’s Studien.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12351 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 11 December [1879]
Summary
Wants some apheliotropic plants for experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 11 Dec [1879] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 197–8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12352 |
To Raphael Meldola 12 December [1879]
Summary
Would like to subscribe to English edition of Weismann.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 12 Dec [1879] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12354 |
From A. G. Butler 13 December 1879
Summary
Supplies facts on the colours of each sex in butterflies from the genera Ornithoptera and Heterochroa.
Author: | Arthur Gardiner Butler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 391 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12355 |
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