From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 209.7: 159
Summary:
"Dia" [as a prefix] means "through, across".
WED’s wife would like to meet the Huxleys.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Buckley Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B75–8, 81
Summary:
Has shown S. Butler’s Athenæum letter to Frederick Pollock, who confirms RBL’s advice that it needs no answer. Sends an imaginary response by Butler.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield; Richard Buckley Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Feb 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 92: B72–4; B91–4
Summary:
Advise against making any reply to Samuel Butler’s charges.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Zaccheus Seddon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 177: 126
Summary:
WZS, 12-year-old pupil, asks where he can find answer to question of what causes different shades of colour in inhabitants of earth.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 209.6: 201
Summary:
Germination of Megarrhiza. AG’s observations at variance with CD’s.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Buckley Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B79–80
Summary:
Thinks Huxley’s judgment on answering S. Butler’s charges would be trustworthy, though THH is horribly pugnacious and would naturally be for fighting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B82–3
Summary:
Has read Butler’s letter and CD’s draft reply and Litchfield’s letter. Has no hesitation in saying CD should take no notice. Litchfield’s advice is judicious.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 99: 133–134
Summary:
Since CD has decided not to answer S. Butler’s charge, WSD will not reply either.
Will look over Francis Darwin’s lecture ["Climbing plants"] with a view to publishing it in Popular Science Review [19 (1880): 213–29].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B53
Summary:
Thinks CD has no need to reply to Samuel Butler’s hostile article [in the Athenæum]. Offers to reply himself.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1880
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 95
Summary:
Thinks Herbert Spencer has done little service to science but a great service to thinking.
Thinks importance of mathematics overestimated [by J. F. Moulton] in criticising Spencer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B54
Summary:
Returns [Butler’s] attack, which he forgot to send yesterday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
