From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 166: 76
Summary:
Sends birthday wishes.
Discusses work on Medusae.
Recalls visit to Down.
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From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B55
Summary:
Birthday greetings.
Regrets Butler’s malicious attack.
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From:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 160: 294
Summary:
Describes formation of student nature study club at the University of Jena. Sends birthday greetings from the club.
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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 162: 218
Summary:
Sends birthday greetings
and the good news of a subvention for the Zoological Station received from the German government. There are now 20 naturalists working at the Station.
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From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 144: 486
Summary:
It might be possible to borrow £500 [for potato experiments]. Variety of "The Champion" spreading over the Kingdom. Champion lately less able to produce.
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From:
William Cole
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 19
Summary:
At the inaugural meeting of the Epping Forest & Essex Naturalists’ Field Club, CD was elected an Honorary Member.
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From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 160: 171
Summary:
Has been at work on Orchideae for Genera plantarum and has found CD’s Orchids wonderfully useful. Comments on some problems of botanical terminology.
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From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B56
Summary:
Agrees not to reply to Butler.
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From:
Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 121
Summary:
Asks CD to telegraph a testimonial for him.
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From:
Henry Faulds
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1880
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/22, 23)
Summary:
Asks CD’s help in obtaining data on finger-prints – both of ancient impressions in pottery and of living men of all races. Suggests a comparative study with similar markings of lemuroid monkeys might yield results of value about man’s origin. Gives the practical utility of prints in identification in criminal and legal studies and investigations. Encloses a form.
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From:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 181: 116
Summary:
On clubroot fungus of cultivated Cruciferae.
Will give Russian wheat varieties another trial.
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From:
Jean-Henri Casimir (Jean-Henri) Fabre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 2
Summary:
On instinct in insects. Intends to experiment as CD proposes.
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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 162: 219
Summary:
Thanks CD for his offer. Suggests it be used to start a fund to pay travel expenses of English naturalists who want to come to the Station.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 138–9
Summary:
The debt of plant geography to voyages may be JDH’s topic at BAAS meeting [at Swansea].
Photographs from New Zealand forwarded.
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From:
Henry William Crosskey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 160: 187
Summary:
Forwards, on behalf of the Birmingham Philosophical Society, an address offering CD the first honorary membership of the Society. Encloses formal record of this meeting.
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From:
Adolf Ernst
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 163: 21
Summary:
Plants in Venezuelan plains.
Observations on Turnera: heterostyly, leaf-base glands’ secretion eaten by ants.
Observations on role of leaf secretions in fertilisation of Marcgravia and Passiflora.
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From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Mar 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 160
Summary:
Potatoes will be lost unless JT has immediate authority to proceed.
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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 162: 220
Summary:
Thanks CD for his cheque for £100. Has told Secretary of BAAS Committee [for the Station], so that he may report it. [See O. J. R. Howarth, The British Association (1931), pp. 196–7.]
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From:
Joseph Lemuel Chester
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 161: 140
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s appreciation of his work on family history. Sends one of his books [unidentified].
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 82
Summary:
Writes on family matters and researches.
Mentions construction of a pendulum
and completion of a paper he will send to the Royal Society.
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- Hooker, J. D.21
- Krause, Ernst19
- Romanes, G. J.19
- Torbitt, James17
- Darwin, Francis16
- Rich, Anthony13
- Farrer, T. H.12
- Huxley, T. H.12
- Wallace, Alfred Russel10
- Gray, Asa9
- Müller, Fritz9
- Wallace, A. R.9
- Moseley, H. N.8
- Sulivan, B. J.8
- Huxley, Thomas Henry7
- Arruda Furtado, Francisco de6
- Brunton, T. L.6
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- Simpson, J. F.6
- Carus, J. V.5
- Crick, W. D.5
- D. Appleton & Co5
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