From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.12: 6
Summary:
Writes regarding CD’s will in the light of Anthony Rich’s proposed bequest.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.12: 7
Summary:
Regrets that illness prevents his travelling to visit CD but would be pleased to see CD or his sons at Worthing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
27 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.556)
Summary:
Recommends article on "Brute and human intellect" by William James [J. Speculative Philos. 12 (1878): 236–78].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 166: 19
Summary:
Sending second codicil for CD to sign.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.12: 8
Summary:
Describes Anthony Rich, whom he has visited.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
29 Dec 1878
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 329)
Summary:
About Anthony Rich, who has decided to leave his fortune to CD [and later also to make a bequest to THH]. CD’s account of what he wrote to Rich.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.12: 9
Summary:
He would be happy to receive a visit from one of CD’s sons at any time.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 104
Summary:
Sends specimens of Commelyna.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Rathbone Greg
Date:
31 Dec 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.557)
Summary:
Discusses a chapter on design, written by WRG’s son [Percy Greg, The devil’s advocate (1878)]. Comments on the younger Greg’s criticisms of natural selection and evolution.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Sorell Arnold
Date:
31 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 21
Summary:
Responds to criticism concerning varieties, species, and genera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Martha Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
30 Dec 1878
Source of text:
69, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
15 December 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.14, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
2 December 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.47, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH provides Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer with the address of Edward Delmar Morgan & asks him to send brochures & an Aponogeton to Edward de Regel there. There is a large party with JDH at Tortwort [Court], incl: Froude & daughter, Martin Theodore & wife, Lord & Lady Somers, Lord Aberdeen & daughter, Mr & Mrs York of Pendock, J Shaw Lefevre & his wife who is Lord Ducie's daughter, Alfred Denison brother of the late Speaker, Mrs Stewart or Stuart. When he returns JDH will arrange to send some Dahlias to Lady Ducie. JDH asks Thiselton-Dyer to send him some leaves of Parrottia [Parrotia persica or Persian ironwood]. He notes that Ducie & Somers are both mad about their gardens & trees. JDH adds in a post script that he saw [Brian Harvey Houghton] Hodgson at the train station, he was going to Chippenham & looked very ill with gout. In a further post script JDH adds that he has visited Hodgson & he looked better.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
16 December 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 43, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
17 December 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 44, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
18 December 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 45, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
Addressee
- Arnold, F. S.1
- Blair, R. A.1
- Cooper, J. D.1
- Darwin, C. R.23
- Darwin, E. A.1
- Darwin, W. E.1
- Duthie, John Firminger1
- Ffinden, G. S.1
- Flower, W. H.1
- Frankland, Edward1
- Gray, Asa3
- Greg, W. R.1
- Hooker, J. D.2
- Huxley, T. H.1
- Lynch, R. I.1
- Meldola, Raphael1
- Murray, John, III1
- Ogle, William1
- Power, John1
- Rich, Anthony2
- Romanes, G. J.3
- Saporta, Gaston de1
- Semper, C. G.1
- Syndics of Cambridge Botanic Garden1
- Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner1
- Torbitt, James1
- Tyndall, John2
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