From James Dixon 7 May 1880
Summary
Corrects CD’s statement [Descent 1: 19] that the platysma myoides muscle cannot be brought into voluntary action. He can move every one of his facial muscles.
Author: | James Dixon |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 May 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 185 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12598 |
From John Lubbock 9 May 1880
Summary
Writes regarding an [unspecified] election at a university. JL wonders whether William Darwin would speak to two Southampton men about it.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 May 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 157 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12600 |
From T. H. Huxley 10 May 1880
Summary
Hopes CD does not think his faith in natural selection is weak because he omitted mention of it in his lecture.
Is working on dogs. They will make a case for "Darwinismus".
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 May 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 352 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12603 |
From James Torbitt 13 May 1880
Summary
Has planted six, as opposed to eleven acres last year, to keep within expenditure. Must pollen be used immediately? Fourteen landowners are growing potatoes for JT.
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 May 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 165 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12605 |
From F. E. Abbot 15 May 1880
Summary
Thanks for money for further subscription to Index; FEA soon to step down as editor.
On CD’s solid reputation in America among rising men of science.
Author: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 May 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12607 |
From J. Harris 16 May 1880
Summary
Can CD explain why apes still exist, now that humans have evolved.
Author: | J. Harris |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 May 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 198: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12608F |
From S. T. Preston 20 May 1880
Summary
Thanks for CD’s comments on his paper ["On a point relating to brain dynamics", Nature 22 (1880): 29–30].
Contends that self-interest as a motive for conduct is more salutary than is generally thought, and should be considered in the evolution of morality.
Author: | Samuel Tolver Preston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 May 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12610 |
From E. A. Darwin 20 May [1880]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 May [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12611 |
From B. J. Sulivan 20 May 1880
Summary
Thanks CD for the loan of a book;
discusses his family’s health and other domestic affairs.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 May 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 311 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12612 |
From William Spottiswoode 21 May 1880
Summary
S. M. Hersfeld [Herzfeld] has applied to WS for financial assistance in order to retrieve some books and apparatus from a carrier. He has previously been aided by CD, so WS seeks his advice.
Author: | William Spottiswoode |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 May 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 238 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12613 |
From William Spottiswoode 24 May 1880
Summary
Since CD supplied Herzfeld with money to retrieve his goods from the carrier, but he did not use it for that purpose, WS sees no way of helping him except to send him home as "a distressed Austrian subject".
Author: | William Spottiswoode |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 May 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 239 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12616 |
From Francis Darwin [25–7 May 1880]
Summary
Hopes CD got telegram about Convolvulus. Is measuring plants every four hours. Will go to Brittany by boat from Southampton on Monday night.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25–7 May 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12616F |
From G. H. Darwin 28 May 1880
Summary
Writes of a Mrs Noel, who is annoyed with CD’s neglect of Erasmus Darwin’s brother, W[illiam] A[lvey] D[arwin I], [in Erasmus Darwin].
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 May 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12617 |
From J. E. Harting 1 May [1880?]
Summary
Wild cat gestation is twelve days longer than domestic cat, a fact not mentioned in Variation.
Author: | James Edmund Harting |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 May [1880?] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13815 |
letter | (14) |
Spottiswoode, William | (2) |
Abbot, F. E. | (1) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
Spottiswoode, William | (2) |
Abbot, F. E. | (1) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |