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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

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Summary

Responds, with some embarrassment, to JDH’s caution on Frank’s F.R.S. prospects.

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]

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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

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Wants to propose Frank for F.R.S. now, with election in 1882.

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

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Thanks for agreeing to propose Frank as F.R.S.

Would have enjoyed discussing Island life.

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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