From Lawrence Ruck 12 January [1881]
Summary
Discusses the grazing habits of sheep and cattle on steep hillsides.
Author: | Lawrence Ruck |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 224 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12417 |
From J. D. Hooker 24 February [1881]
Summary
The debt of plant geography to voyages may be JDH’s topic at BAAS meeting [at Swansea].
Photographs from New Zealand forwarded.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Feb [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 138–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12498 |
From W. R. Browne [20–2] November [1881]
Summary
Announces intention to hold a private conference with the Archbishop of Canterbury with the aim of encouraging men of science to reaffirm their religious beliefs and also to publish a series of articles in the Contemporary Review on the state of the various sciences.
Author: | Walter Raleigh Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [20–2] Nov [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 334 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12789 |
To Julius Lippert [May 1881 or later]
Summary
Thanks JL for copy of Die Religionen [1881].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Lippert |
Date: | [May 1881 or later] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection ((MS.7781/1–32 item 23) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12959 |
To G. H. Darwin [before 25 October 1881]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [before 25 Oct 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12961 |
From Wilhelm Breitenbach [before 20 June 1881]
Summary
Arrived in Brazil three months ago. Studying insects and plants, but work suffers from lack of scientific literature.
Fritz Müller has written to him to observe relations between ants and plants.
Writing popular articles about evolution for German newspaper in Brazil.
Sends paper from Kosmos.
Expects to spend several years in Brazil.
Author: | Wilhelm Breitenbach |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 20 June 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12962 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 1 and 6 January 1881
Summary
Thanks VOK for the Russian tea.
Rejoices at his prosperity and appointment at Moscow [Associate Professor, Moscow University, 1880–3].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | 1 and 6 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler (Sophie Kowalevski collections, box 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12963 |
From A. R. Wallace 1 January 1881
Summary
ARW’s view of migration of plants from mountain to mountain gains support from case described in Nature [23 (1880): 125–6] by J. G. Baker. Identical species of alpine plants found in African mountains and Madagascar.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 271.6: a6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12964 |
To Alexander Agassiz 1 [June] 1881
Summary
Thanks AA for letter on coral reefs. "I used to think … that areas of elevation and of subsidence must – as a general rule be separated by a single great line of fissure, or rather of several".
Suggests that AA urge again his views on reappearance of old characters.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Agassiz |
Date: | 1 [June] 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12965 |
To James Torbitt [5] January 1881
Summary
T. H. Farrer and James Caird express great interest in JT’s report. Have instructed CD to hold £90 for use by JT in spring. Caird asks that potatoes be sent to his gardener for trials.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | [5] Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 127 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12966 |
To A. R. Wallace 2 January 1881
Summary
On land migration of plants. The case in Nature is striking but CD doubts that seeds of plants could be blown from mountains of Abyssinia to mountains of Madagascar.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 2 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12968 |
From Ernst Krause 2 January 1881
Summary
Encloses reply to Butler [Kosmos 8 (1881): 321–2]. Has also written a reply intended for English reader. Will have it translated for Popular Science Review if CD thinks suitable.
Report of Jäger accident was an error.
Kosmos has been purchased by Eduard Koch in Stuttgart and will continue as in the past.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B61; DAR 221.2: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12969 |
To H. W. Bates 3 January 1881
Summary
Alarm over Wallace’s memorial; asks HWB if he has received it and forwarded it to Hooker. Wanted to get it to Gladstone before Parliament met.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 3 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12970 |
From T. H. Huxley 3 January 1881
Summary
Returns [Wallace] memorial.
Hopes to be able to send classification paper soon. [See 12935.]
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 9: 202) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12971 |
To W. E. Darwin 3 January [1881]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 170 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12973 |
From James Caird 3 January 1881
Summary
JC and Farrer are impressed with Torbitt’s papers. Will continue financial support.
Author: | James Caird |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12974 |
To W. E. Gladstone [4 January 1881]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ewart Gladstone |
Date: | [4 Jan 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12975 |
To Ernst Krause 4 January [1881]
Summary
CD is pleased with EK’s account in Kosmos [8 (1880–1): 321–2] of the Buffon and Coleridge passage [cited by Samuel Butler, see 12939, 12969]. Would like a translation published in England, but Butler seeks notoriety and would make unscrupulous use of it. Will ask advice. Thinks EK’s letter to Popular Science Monthly, just received, an excellent reply to Butler.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 4 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36211) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12976 |
To A. B. Buckley 4 January 1881
Summary
Memorial for Wallace pension dispatched to W. E. Gladstone.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arabella Burton Buckley |
Date: | 4 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434); DAR 143: 185 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12977 |
From Gottlieb Haberlandt 5 January 1881
Summary
Thanks CD for a second copy of Movement in plants. His letter acknowledging the first must have gone astray. Marvels at the number of interesting observations and is honoured by CD’s mention of his work.
In recent years GH has been applying CD’s principles to the histologico-anatomical structure of plant organs. He will send CD the papers.
Author: | Gottlieb Haberlandt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12980 |
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