To W. E. Darwin [before 16 September 1880]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [before 16 Sept 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 168 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12383 |
To Williams & Norgate [before 4 September 1880]
Summary
Requests a list of books.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | [before 4 Sept 1880] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12390F |
To F. M. Balfour 4 September 1880
Summary
Praises FMB’s BAAS address [on embryology, Rep. BAAS 50 (1880): 636–44]. Recent progress of embryology splendid.
In work on plants, astonished at sensitivity of radicle and its power to transmit stimuli to adjoining part; such general sensitivity should be considered in genesis of nervous system.
Feels "malicious" pleasure at FMB’s criticism of Herbert Spencer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
Date: | 4 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12706 |
From Horace Darwin 4 September 1880
Summary
Observations on earthworms.
Author: | Horace Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 64.1: 34–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12707 |
To R. P. Hardy 7 September 1880
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ralph Price Hardy |
Date: | 7 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12708 |
From Horace Darwin 9 and 12 September 1880
Summary
Reports evidence of earthworm activity.
Author: | Horace Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 and 12 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 64.1: 36–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12709 |
To W. E. Darwin 10 September [1880]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 10 Sept [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 162 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12710 |
To Adolf Ernst 11 September 1880
Summary
Thanks for seeds of Cobaea;
was much interested in AE’s article ["On the fertilisation of Cobaea penduliflora", Nature 22 (1880): 148–9] opposing G. E. M. Bonnier’s view ["Les nectaires", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 6th ser. 8 (1879): 6–212].
Case of Lisianthus is an excellent one of structure and movement of parts adapted to cross-fertilisation.
Asks whether worm-castings are found in the area.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adolf Ernst |
Date: | 11 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8974) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12711 |
From F. M. Balfour 13 September 1880
Summary
Thanks for letter, which made up for difficulty of his speech [at BAAS meeting, Swansea].
Has met Horace Darwin and wife;
climbed Matterhorn.
Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12712 |
To J. V. Carus 14 September 1880
Summary
Sends sheets of Movement in plants for translation, if JVC sees fit. It has some value and novelty, CD believes, but is very dull.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 14 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 179–180) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12713 |
From B. D. Wrangham [before 16 September 1880]
Summary
An extract from a life of Kepler about the motions of Mars.
Author: | Bartlett Downs Wrangham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 16 Sept 1880] |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 72756) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12713F |
To Wilhelm Viëtor 16 September 1880
Summary
Improvement in orthography would be national benefit, but cannot contribute to WV’s paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Adolf Theodor Wilhelm (Wilhelm) Viëtor |
Date: | 16 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 194a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12714 |
From W. E. Darwin 16 September 1880
Summary
Sends four wrist bands, and advice on putting them on. George is well. Can easily get worm castings. Lilly and Mlle Wild arrived in a storm to stay the night. Is much amused by Sedgwick’s ferocious letter about Vestiges.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 78) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12714F |
To B. D. Wrangham 16 September 1880
Summary
Thanks for sending him a copy of the striking passage from Kepler.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartlett Downs Wrangham |
Date: | 16 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 72756) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12714G |
From D. Appleton & Co. 17 September 1880
Author: | D. Appleton & Co |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 107 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12715 |
From J. V. Carus 18 September 1880
Summary
Will be happy to translate CD’s new book [Movement in plants]. Asks how large the book will be.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 113 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12716 |
To J. V. Carus 21 September 1880
Summary
CD is ashamed of length of Movement in plants – with index, nearly 600 pages. JVC will be awfully sick of ch. 1.
In intervals of correcting proofs, he is writing on the formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms. It will be a curious little book [Earthworms].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 21 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 181–182) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12718 |
To Wilhelm Breitenbach 21 September 1880
Summary
Comments on WB’s paper ["Über Variabilitäts-Erscheinungen an den Blüthen von Primula elatior und eine Anwendung des biogenetischen Grundgesetzes", Bot. Ztg. 38 (1880): 577–80].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Wilhelm Breitenbach |
Date: | 21 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12719 |
From T. M. Reade 21 September 1880
Summary
Sends his paper ["Oceans and continents", Geol. Mag. 7 (1880): 385–91].
Thinks John Murray of Edinburgh goes out of his way to deny an elevation/subsidence view of coral reefs ["On the structure and origin of coral reefs and islands", Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh 10 (1878–80): 505–18].
Author: | Thomas Mellard Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12720 |
To T. M. Reade 22 September 1880
Summary
Obliged for paper ["Oceans and continents" (1880)].
Agrees that John Murray’s view [of coral reefs] is far-fetched.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Mellard Reade |
Date: | 22 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | University of Liverpool Library (TMR1.D.7.6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12721 |
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D. Appleton & Co | (2) |
Darwin, Horace | (2) |
Balfour, F. M. | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Carus, J. V. | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Balfour, F. M. | (1) |
Breitenbach, Wilhelm | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (33) |
Carus, J. V. | (3) |
Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
Balfour, F. M. | (2) |
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