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DCP-LETT-12542

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B57
Summary:

German edition of Erasmus Darwin delayed because Murray has not sent phototypes and galvanographs.

Two of CD’s articles from Nature to appear in April Kosmos ["Sexual colours in butterflies", Collected papers 2: 220–2, Kosmos 7 (1880): 72–4;

"Fertility of hybrids from the Chinese goose", Collected papers 2: 219–20, Kosmos 7 (1880): 77–8].

Moritz Wagner will begin a series criticising natural selection.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12543

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
23 Mar 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36204)
Summary:

Regrets delay of photographs [for German edition of Erasmus Darwin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12544

From:
Edward Sylvester Morse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 247; Nature , 15 April 1880, pp. 561–2
Summary:

Offended by F. V. Dickins’ review [Nature 21 (1880): 350] of his Omori mound paper. Asks CD to have it reviewed elsewhere and encloses a letter to Nature he wants CD to forward. [See 12571.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12545

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
24 Mar [1880]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (130)
Summary:

Thanks for Megarrhiza seeds and information. Has been greatly interested by Megarrhiza germination.

Samuel Butler has attacked CD over Erasmus Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12546

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Caird
Date:
24 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 52: E7a, E9–14, E16v
Summary:

Encloses a statement regarding the progress of Torbitt’s potato experiments, and discusses the handling of the fund CD holds for Torbitt.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12549

From:
James Caird
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 161: 4
Summary:

Is impressed by the scale of Torbitt’s experiments. Discusses financial assistance. If Torbitt’s work succeeds, they will be amply repaid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12551

From:
Christopher Columbus Graham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 201: 12
Summary:

Informs CD that the letter CCG received from him has been framed to be hung in the Kentucky State House.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12552

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
28 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 118
Summary:

"[James] Caird seems satisfied with what I have said of your method and the results hitherto attained." Can now promise to send £90 in the autumn.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12554

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Woodd Fox
Date:
29 Mar 1880
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-12)
Summary:

Grieves with CWF at the approaching death of his father, W. D. Fox. Remembers how they breakfasted together every day at Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12555

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
30 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 119
Summary:

Encloses letter about JT’s potato experiments sent to T. H. Farrer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12556

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Apr 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 209.6: 203
Summary:

Germination and root of Ipomoea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12557

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 178: 164
Summary:

Is keeping down his expenditure; has some landowners growing potatoes for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12558

From:
Jules (Saint Geniez) Rouquette
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 201: 33
Summary:

Sends a poem he has composed in honour of CD.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12559

From:
Georg Heinrich Schneider
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 177: 59
Summary:

Describes studies with Ernst Haeckel

and research on psychology of lower animals.

Sends book [Der thierische Wille (1880)] and describes his views on the subject.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12560

From:
S. M. Herzfeld
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 166: 191
Summary:

Impoverished German doctor asks for money.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12560F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Georg Heinrich Schneider
Date:
3 Apr 1880
Source of text:
Alfred S. Posamentier (private collection)
Summary:

CD thanks the author for the copy of Der thierische Wille.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12561

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adolf Ernst
Date:
4 Apr 1880
Source of text:
State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8973)
Summary:

Thanks for interesting letter; is sure it would be worth while to test fertility of illegitimate offspring of heterostyled plants.

Would welcome any information on occurrence of bloom-covered leaves on dry plains.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12562

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 209.6: 204–6
Summary:

Encloses a letter from Volney Rattan of California.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12563

From:
S. M. Herzfeld
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 166: 192
Summary:

Thanks for cheque.

Wants to see CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12564

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
5 [Apr 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 156
Summary:

Discusses a book

and the "splendid news about the elections".

Contributor:
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