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From:
Charles Harrison Tindal
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 227.7: 11–13, 16, 18, 25, 128
Summary:

Encloses extracts from the correspondence of [the Ven. Robert] Clive concerning Erasmus Darwin.

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
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From:
Horace Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 65: 99, 100; DAR 162: 72, 73
Summary:

Worm-castings. Encloses notes about worm activities at Gravetye Manor.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Crawford Williamson
Date:
18 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 221.4: 247
Summary:

Receiving deputation gave CD pleasure.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 178: 170, 171/3
Summary:

Forster cannot help at present. Is sending copies of an enclosure [missing] to Downing Street.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Walter Raleigh Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Dec 1880
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Microfilm10682); DAR 202: 17
Summary:

Writes on behalf of the Archbishop of Canterbury to invite CD to a private conference organised in an attempt to reconcile science and religion. [Enclosed is a printed two-page memorial calling for such a conference.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 92: B61; DAR 221.2: 27
Summary:

Encloses reply to Butler [Kosmos 8 (1881): 321–2]. Has also written a reply intended for English reader. Will have it translated for Popular Science Review if CD thinks suitable.

Report of Jäger accident was an error.

Kosmos has been purchased by Eduard Koch in Stuttgart and will continue as in the past.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frithiof Holmgren
Date:
[14] Apr 1881
Source of text:
Uppsala University Library (Frithiof Holmgren Collection)
Summary:

CD gives his opinion on vivisection with the understanding that the whole letter will be published. Worked for Act of Parliament, but disapproves of the one passed. CD convinced English physiologists do not perform cruel experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Date:
[before Feb 1882]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 87
Summary:

Is glad to hear that Hermann Müller approves of D’AWT’s translation of his work [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)]; he hopes a publisher may be found for a work of such high value.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 308
Summary:

Repeats extracts of a letter received from Bishop Stirling’s daughter containing anecdotes and observations of the Fuegian natives.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 15 Dec 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 62
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Clowes & Sons
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 8 Nov 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 180
Summary:

Explains delay in printing proofs [of Movement in plants?].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[18 Mar 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 52: E15
Summary:

On the disease-resisting qualities and yield of certain potatoes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[before 16 Sept 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 168
Summary:

Wants some more rubber bands for his wrist.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Oliver Alexander Ainslie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2[5] Nov 188[0]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 11b
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s letter, and further discussion of the sale of Tromer Lodge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
1 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 185: 6
Summary:

Arrangements regarding HD’s allowances.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 75)
Summary:

Discusses possible investments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Prestwich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 174: 66
Summary:

Having reviewed the history of the Glen Roy debate ["On the origin of the parallel roads of Lochaber, and their bearing on other phenomena of the glacial period", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 170 (1880): 663–776], JP wishes to know whether it is accurate to say CD has abandoned the marine theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 96
Summary:

Concerning subscriptions raised for Torbitt’s experiments on potato disease.

Comments on CD’s latest book [Movement in plants].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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