To Nature [before 30 December 1880]
Summary
Quotes an extract from a letter from Mr Sanderson of Chislehurst on the disappearance of black or spotted sheep from Australian flocks when the coloured sheep ceased to be of use to man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | [before 30 Dec 1880] |
Classmark: | Nature, 30 December 1880, p. 193 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12955 |
To J. D. Hooker [29 December 1880]
Summary
Asks JDH to read the enclosed Memorial, sign it, and send it to T. H. Huxley.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [29 Dec 1880] |
Classmark: | Jeffrey Winograd (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11300F |
From Francis Darwin [before 15 December 1880]
Summary
Will stay until London until after the Linnean Society meeting unless CD wants anything. Asks to send abstracts of papers. Has made short abstracts of papers for Nature.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 15 Dec 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12379F |
To Ernst Krause [12 December 1880]
Summary
CD is pleased that EK will answer Butler. Thinks Butler is half insane.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | [12 Dec 1880] |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36203) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12465 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 December 1880
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 502–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12880 |
From W. E. Darwin 1 December [1880]
Summary
Will soon manage to go to Beaulieu. Is glad the book is going off well. Is thinking of going to the Roman Villa at Brading on the Isle of Wight.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Dec [1880] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 84) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12880F |
To J. B. Innes 2 December 1880
Summary
Hensleigh Wedgwood has told CD that land JBI had inquired about will be sold at auction with the house [Trowmer [Tromer!?] Lodge].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 2 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | Elizabeth Margaret Elliott Lucas (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12881 |
To W. E. Darwin 2 December [1880]
Summary
Gives instructions to WED about looking for earthworm activity at Brading.
Mentions James Geikie’s excellent book [Prehistoric Europe (1881)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 164 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12882 |
From William Preyer 2 December 1880
Summary
CD’s comment that certain instincts originate as variations of the brain, rather than as habits, is supported by Brown-Séquard’s and C. F. O. Westphal’s work on epileptiform movements.
Author: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12883 |
From J. M. Herbert 28 December 1880
Summary
News of JMH’s second marriage.
Death of Charles Whitley’s wife.
Thinks CD’s fame in Europe is greater than that of Cuvier.
Author: | John Maurice Herbert |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 187 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12884 |
From W. E. Darwin 3 December [1880]
Summary
Description of remains of a Roman villa and the worm activity at the site.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Dec [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12885 |
From James Paget 3 December 1880
Summary
Thanks CD for his note and his new book [Movement in plants].
Makes him feel "we must go beyond plants for a really elemental pathology".
Wishes he knew enough about crystals to work at them.
Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12886 |
From J. D. Hooker 4 December 1880
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 148–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12887 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 4 December 1880
Summary
Preoccupied by reorganisation of Botanic Garden.
Regards to Francis Darwin.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 216 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12888 |
From Ernst Krause 4 December 1880
Summary
Comments on Pangenesis. Quotes long passage from article by Fritz Müller concerning regeneration of lost members among crustaceans.
Kosmos has been sold to Eduard Koch in Stuttgart; will be converted into a weekly. Science will be de-emphasised. Krause seeking new publisher to continue on old basis.
Gustav Jäger injured in train accident.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12889 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 December 1880
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 504–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12890 |
From Edouard Strasburger 5 December 1880
Summary
Thanks CD for a copy of his book [Movement in plants].
Author: | Eduard Adolf (Eduard) Strasburger |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 266 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12891 |
From Federico Delpino 6 December 1880
Summary
Thanks for Movement in plants; particularly supports indirect rather than direct action of light and gravity on plants.
Author: | Federico Delpino |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 157 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12892 |
To T. H. Huxley [7 December 1880]
Summary
Asks to see THH on Thursday or Friday to hear about the Wallace affair.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [7 Dec 1880] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 355) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12893 |
From T. M. Reade 7 December 1880
Summary
Recommends letters by William Topley in Geological Magazine. WT discusses past distribution of oceans and continents.
Author: | Thomas Mellard Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | University of Liverpool Library (TMR2.D.1.3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12894 |
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Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
Huxley, T. H. | (3) |
Romanes, G. J. | (3) |
Torbitt, James | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (40) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Huxley, T. H. | (4) |
Torbitt, James | (3) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (89) |
Huxley, T. H. | (7) |
Torbitt, James | (6) |
Darwin, W. E. | (5) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |