From:
John Fordyce
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 164: 152
Summary:
Compatibility of evolution and theism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Alfred Pitman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 174: 46
Summary:
CD awarded the Baly Medal of the Royal College of Physicians.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Tachau
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 178: 1
Summary:
Are modifications in human form and intellect due solely to natural selection or do altered external conditions also play a role?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 106
Summary:
Has CD seen Samuel Butler’s Evolution, old and new [1879], which contains a biography of Erasmus Darwin and exposition of his philosophy? "Does not this rather take the wind out of our sails?"
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman (Константин Петрович фон Кауфман)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 169: 1
Summary:
Sends a collection of wheat varieties from Turkestan in response to a newspaper notice of CD’s interest.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Alfred Pitman
Date:
[13 May 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 174: 46
Summary:
Appreciates award of the Baly Medal and hopes to attend ceremony on 26 June.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 76
Summary:
Sends abstracts of more articles [on Dr Erasmus Darwin] from Monthly Magazine.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[11 May 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 81
Summary:
CD is particularly obliged for the copy of Maria Edgeworth’s letter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B26
Summary:
Thanks for answers to questions [in 12032].
Has ordered the new book by Butler [Evolution, old and new (1879)]. It may make EK’s own essay superfluous.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
15 May [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 82
Summary:
Sends some queries connected with his writing of the biographical preface to Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Thomas Winn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 181: 131
Summary:
Sends newspaper cutting referring to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
C. Harris
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 201: 13
Summary:
Wants some Sunday tickets for the Zoological Garden.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward James Collings
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 201: 8
Summary:
Wants information on the use of reason by animals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 20
Summary:
Has searched to no avail for 17th- and 18th-century wills to learn how Elston Hall was acquired by Robert Darwin rather than by William Darwin, even though Robert was the younger son.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B28
Summary:
Samuel Butler seems not even to have read works of Erasmus Darwin. Quotes only passages quoted by other authors. Thorough account now more necessary than ever.
CD’s preliminary notice should be incorporated in German edition completely unchanged, though some annotation is needed to explain matters unfamiliar to German readers.
Would like to have article by CD for Kosmos.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albin Gaertner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 165: 1
Summary:
CD’s works have opened a new world for him.
Sends a case of inheritance: a fingernail biting habit has persisted for four generations in a Viennese lawyer’s family.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Violetta Harriot Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 169–70
Summary:
Will attempt to copy the drawing of Elston Hall [Erasmus Darwin, p. 3]. Does not remember the highway robber story [ibid., pp. 64–5].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 54
Summary:
Fungus is an Aecidium. Porliera, Anthuriums and Aroids will hopefully sprout if weather gets hot. Sachs has changed his ideas about the cause of heliotropism. Describes men he is sharing a lab with.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 159: 45
Summary:
Thanks for postcard informing him of Delboeuf’s review of his book; he had already seen review.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Violetta Harriot Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 [May 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 27
Summary:
Will be glad to draw Elston Hall for CD.
Gives some details of Sir Brook Boothby.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project