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DCP-LETT-12645

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[before 1 Aug 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 64
Summary:

Are there old furrowed fields on hillsides in N. Wales, if so can FD look for earthworm activity?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12675F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Aug 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 63
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12677

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow
Date:
4 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 53
Summary:

Sends a statement of the assets of the Down Friendly Society. Asks for advice on consulting an actuary.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12678

From:
Samuel Tolver Preston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 174: 62
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12679

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
5 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 66
Summary:

Discusses corrections [to Movement in plants]. Has dispatched chapter nine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12680

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ralph Price Hardy
Date:
6 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 62
Summary:

Asks RPH [an actuary] to act on behalf of the Down Friendly Society whose members wish the rates of benefits to be raised.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12681

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ralph Price Hardy
Date:
[after 11 Aug 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 67v
Summary:

Forwards some tables on behalf of the Down Friendly Society and discusses the changes in benefits requested by the members.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12682

From:
Adolf Ernst
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 163: 22
Summary:

Cobaea fertilisation.

Describes moth-pollination of gentian growing on Venezuelan mountains.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12683

From:
Samuel Tolver Preston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 174: 63
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?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12684

From:
William Crawford Williamson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 181: 108
Summary:

On growth and development of Drosera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12685

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ralph Price Hardy
Date:
11 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 63
Summary:

Discusses matters relating to the Down Friendly Society.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12686

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
11 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 67
Summary:

Dispatches a chapter [of Movement in plants] for FD to look over.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12687

From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 315
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].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12688

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Wesley Judd
Date:
[15 Aug 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 9
Summary:

Invites him to lunch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12690

From:
William Edward Armytage Axon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 11–12
Summary:

Inquires whether a printed letter of CD’s [see 11902] correctly represents his views on vegetarianism.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12692

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 169: 108
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12693

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Crawford Williamson
Date:
18 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 221.4: 246 (photocopy)
Summary:

WCW’s specimens are interesting, but CD thinks the slowness of the change might have been expected.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12694

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 167: 36
Summary:

Sends specimens of what he takes to be barnacles found on rocks in the mountains.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12694F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Aug 1880
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 77)
Summary:

Asks CD to invite William James to stay before he returns to America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12697

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
23 [Aug 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 96
Summary:

Asks GHD to decipher a letter [in German] he has received with a book: The Bible in science.

Enjoyed his stay in Cambridge extremely.

Contributor:
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