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From O. A. Ainslie   2[5] November 188[0]

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Thanks for CD’s letter, and further discussion of the sale of Tromer Lodge.

Author:  Oliver Alexander Ainslie
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2[5] Nov 188[0]
Classmark:  DAR 159: 11b
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12388

To Raphael Meldola   25 November 1880

Summary

References to Fritz Müller’s papers relevant to Weismann’s Studien [in Kosmos (Aug, Sept, and Oct 1877)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Raphael Meldola
Date:  25 Nov 1880
Classmark:  Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12854

To V. O. Kovalevsky   25 November [1880]

Summary

Will be pleased to have VOK come to Down any day.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:  25 Nov [1880]
Classmark:  Institut Mittag-Leffler
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12855

From Wilhelm Pfeffer   25 November 1880

Summary

Thanks for Movement in plants.

Describes work [on Pflanzenphysiologie, 2 vols. (1881)].

Author:  Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp (Wilhelm) Pfeffer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Nov 1880
Classmark:  DAR 174: 37
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12856

From William Preyer   25 November 1880

Summary

Sends his book [Naturwissenschaftliche Thatsachen und Probleme. Populäre Vorträge (1880)].

Anxious to receive Movement in plants because CD’s methods may be applicable to his experiments on the earliest movements of animal embryos.

Author:  William Thierry (William) Preyer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Nov 1880
Classmark:  DAR 174: 71
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12857

To Carlos Ribeiro   25 November 1880

Summary

Thanks for his great work on prehistoric remains in Portugal and his paper on Tertiary formations.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Carlos Ribeiro
Date:  25 Nov 1880
Classmark:  Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia (Records of the Portuguese Geological Commission 1857–1918)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12857F

From M. T. Masters   25 November 1880

Summary

Praise for Movement in plants.

He thinks G. A. Chatin, whom CD quotes [p. 389], is mistaken about movement of conifer leaves. Cites his own paper ["Relations between morphology and physiology in the leaves of certain conifers", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 17 (1880): 547–52].

Author:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Nov 1880
Classmark:  DAR 171: 87
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12858

To M. T. Masters   [after 25 November 1880]

Summary

Thanks for note. CD had had misgivings about Chatin but had assumed he was trustworthy [see Movement in plants, p. 389].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:  [after 25 Nov 1880]
Classmark:  Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12859