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DCP-LETT-12564F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Faulds
Date:
7 Apr 1880
Source of text:
Faulds [1912?], pp. 22–3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12564G

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Apr [1880]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 81)
Summary:

Is beginning Geikie’s Ice age. Describes flints found on the common. Comments on exciting election.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12565

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
7 Apr 1880
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/24)
Summary:

Encloses letter [see 12488] and circular from Henry Faulds [regarding thumb impressions]. Anthropology Institute may care about it.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12566

From:
Valentine Ball
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 160: 37
Summary:

Has received CD’s acknowledgment, through Ernest De La Rue, for the copy he sent of Jungle life [in India (1880)].

Offers to collect material for CD on his return to India.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12567

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 105: A103
Summary:

Will see what can be done about getting thumb impressions, to see if the markings are persistent.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12568

From:
Henry Woodward
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 181: 151
Summary:

Seeks testimonial, as he is applying for the Keepership of Geology at the British Museum.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12569

From:
Charles Woodd Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 172
Summary:

W. D. Fox’s sufferings have ended; he died that morning.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12570

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Sylvester Morse
Date:
9 [Apr] 1880
Source of text:
Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11)
Summary:

[Copy erroneously dated March.]

Has forwarded ESM’s letter to Nature ["Omori shell mounds", Collected papers 2: 222–3].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12571

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
9 Apr [1880]
Source of text:
Nature , 15 April 1880, p. 561
Summary:

Forwards a letter from E. S. Morse on Omori shell mounds refuting F. V. Dickins’ review [Nature 21 (1880): 350] of Morse’s memoir ["The shell mounds of Omori", Mem. Sci. Dep. Univ. Tokyo 1 (1879) pt 1].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12572

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Woodd Fox
Date:
10 [Apr] 1880
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-13)
Summary:

Condolences upon the death of CWF’s father, William Darwin Fox.

[Wrongly dated March by CD.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12573

From:
Henry Woodward
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 181: 152
Summary:

Thanks CD for his testimonial and congratulates him on "The coming of age of the ""Origin of Species""". [T. H. Huxley, Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 9 (1879–81): 361–8; Collected essays, vol. 2.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12574

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
11 [Apr] 1880
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 340)
Summary:

Sorry he missed THH’s lecture ["The coming of age of The origin of species", Royal Institution, 9 Apr 1880]. Has read press notices and heard from his children of its great success.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12575

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Giovanni Battista Ercolani
Date:
14 Apr 1880
Source of text:
Biblioteca Comunale dell’Archiginnasio, Bologna (Collezione degli autografi, XXIII, 6543)
Summary:

Thanks GBE for his great work on the placenta [Nuove ricerche sulla placenta nei pesci cartilaginosi e ne mammiferi (1880)]. The relationship between placental structure and mammalian classification has always seemed interesting to CD.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12576

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
15 Apr 1880
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 205–6)
Summary:

Wants Ipomoea seeds for observing germination.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12577

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
Date:
15 Apr 1880
Source of text:
Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Letter, C. R. Darwin to F. E. Abbot (15 April 1880), in folder Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101)
Summary:

Thanks FEA for copy of a review of a book on evolution by "an ignorant lawyer".

Sends £5 for Index subscription.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12578

From:
William Tearle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 16] Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 201: 38
Summary:

Attempts to reconcile accounts of man’s creation in Origin and in Genesis, to both of which he is devoted.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12579

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Tearle
Date:
16 Apr 1880
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.572)
Summary:

Comments on concept of revelation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12580

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Newton
Date:
17 Apr 1880
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Unable to comment on F. Lloyd’s criticism of Francis Galton’s Hereditary genius [?A scientific view of Mr Galton’s theories of heredity (1876)].

Sorry about Lloyd’s health.

Does not care much about abuse or fame, an advantage of age.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12581

From:
Christopher Columbus Graham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 165: 82
Summary:

CD’s framed letter may be hung in a fireproof gallery in the State House, now being finished.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12582

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
19 Apr 1880
Source of text:
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library (BANC MSS 74/78 z)
Summary:

Thanks for the letter from Volney Rattan [see 12553].

Discusses protective adaptation of seedlings from frost.

Contributor:
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