To W. C. McIntosh 18 June 1880
Summary
Asks for information about worms.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Carmichael McIntosh |
| Date: | 18 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 351 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12640 |
To E. B. Tylor 19 June [1880]
Summary
Discusses animals’ ability to learn to recognise danger, especially poisonous herbs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Date: | 19 June [1880] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 50254: 96–8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12641 |
From E. B. Tylor 21 June 1880
Summary
Learning by experience of others: birds being killed by telegraph wires when first set up; sheep in Australia eating poisonous plants.
| Author: | Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 206 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12642 |
To E. H. Stanley 25 June 1880
Summary
Sending EHS (Lord Derby) information about the Niagara affair.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of Derby |
| Date: | 25 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | Liverpool Record Office, Liverpool Central Library (920 DER (15) 43/89/21/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12642F |
From W. E. Darwin 24 June [1880]
Summary
Asks whether CD will forward enclosed to Lord Derby, and offers to send him a copy of the New York state survey. Will go to Beaulieu in the early autumn. Tells story about gallenes raised by hens being attacked.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 June [1880] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 82) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12642G |
From the Spallanzani Monument Committee 30 June 1880
Summary
Printed circular from the committee to set up a monument to Lazzaro Spallanzani in Scandiano.
| Author: | Spallanzani Monument Committee |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 222 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12643 |
To W. E. Gladstone June 1880
Summary
Supporting the abolition of clerical headships and fellowships at Oxford and Cambridge.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Date: | June 1880 |
| Classmark: | Roundell 1880, pp. 10–11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12647F |
From A. C. Ramsay 18 June [1880]
Summary
Further details of pavement that sank from action of earthworms. There were plenty of castings, which first led him to think worms were involved.
| Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 June [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13210 |
To John Murray 13 June [1880]
Summary
Letter of introduction for R. B. Litchfield.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 13 June [1880] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 ff. 60–1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9491 |
From R. F. Cooke 12 June 1880
Summary
Matters related to Climbing plants
and reprint [1880] of Forms of flowers.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 505 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12631 |
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