From Francis Darwin [1 August 1880]
Summary
Thanks for letter and journals. Sends information on earthworms and also information from Mr Ruck. Describes his fishing and his success finding sea shore plants that are new to him.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Aug 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12675F |
From S. T. Preston 5 August 1880
Summary
Sends his paper on "Natural science and morality", notwithstanding CD’s disinclination for the subject. This work parallels H. Spencer’s in the Data of ethics [1879].
Clerk Maxwell and William Thomson have encouraged his work in physics; STP looks for CD’s support on evolution.
| Author: | Samuel Tolver Preston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12678 |
From Adolf Ernst 7 August 1880
Summary
Cobaea fertilisation.
Describes moth-pollination of gentian growing on Venezuelan mountains.
| Author: | Adolf Ernst |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12682 |
From S. T. Preston 8 August 1880
Summary
Appreciates what CD says about his writing on two diverse subjects. Argues for value of "interdisciplinary approach". Has CD seen the pamphlet, "Physics and ethics" which he co-authored with an anonymous friend?
| Author: | Samuel Tolver Preston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12683 |
From W. C. Williamson 10 August 1880
Summary
On growth and development of Drosera.
| Author: | William Crawford Williamson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 108 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12684 |
From Hermann Müller 14 August 1880
Summary
HM’s son will visit CD when he comes to London.
Is glad CD approves of his judgment of G. Bonnier’s paper on nectaries [Gaston Bonnier, "Les nectaires", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 8 (1879): 5–212].
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 315 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12687 |
From W. E. A. Axon 17 August 1880
Summary
Inquires whether a printed letter of CD’s [see 11902] correctly represents his views on vegetarianism.
| Author: | William Edward Armytage Axon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 11–12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12690 |
From Ernst Krause 18 August 1880
Summary
Responds to CD’s offer to pay for subscription to Kosmos.
Comments on his own honorarium for English edition of Erasmus Darwin. Success of German edition.
| Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 108 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12692 |
From J. B. Innes 19 August 1880
Summary
Sends specimens of what he takes to be barnacles found on rocks in the mountains.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12694 |
From W. E. Darwin 20 August 1880
Summary
Asks CD to invite William James to stay before he returns to America.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 77) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12694F |
From J. B. Innes 24 August 1880
Summary
"Barnacles" [from rocks in Scottish mountains, identified as lichens],
burglar alarms,
and family news.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12698 |
From J. W. Judd 24 August 1880
Summary
Plans to visit Down.
| Author: | John Wesley Judd |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12699 |
From H. W. Monk 27 August 1880
Summary
Believes he knows some "great truth" and wishes to meet with CD to discuss it.
| Author: | Henry Wentworth Monk |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 201: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12702 |
From J. W. Judd 28 August 1880
Summary
Overjoyed at having met CD.
Sends a paper by William Whitaker [? "On subaerial denudation", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 23 (1867): 265–6].
| Author: | John Wesley Judd |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 87 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12703 |
| Innes, J. B. | (2) |
| Judd, J. W. | (2) |
| Preston, S. T. | (2) |
| Axon, W. E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Innes, J. B. | (2) |
| Judd, J. W. | (2) |
| Preston, S. T. | (2) |
| Axon, W. E. A. | (1) |
