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:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 106: B145–8
Summary:
Response to CD’s notes [on Island life]:
1. On relation of paucity of fossils to coldness of water;
2. Cessation of the glacial period;
3. Rate of deposit and geological time;
4. The importance of preoccupation (by plants) in relation to plants arriving later.
Charge of speculative explanations is just.
Defends plausibility of migration of plants from mountain to mountain.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Maw
Date:
8 Nov 1880
Source of text:
Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/18)
Summary:
Believes the flexure in GM’s dead animals must result from the greater strength of the muscles on the left side. Thinks his son George once tested the strength of each leg of a group of boys, and CD could get his notes if wanted.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 November 1880
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B145-148
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 294-296
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 308-311]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
8 Nov [1880]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 378–9)
Summary:
Thanks RC for telling him about sale of 600 copies [of Movement in plants]. He had expected less, so loss will not be as heavy as he feared. Asks whether he should not have 250 more copies printed and what it would cost to have the type kept up.
Instructions for presentation copies.
The index is the worst ever published.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project