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DCP-LETT-12488

From:
Henry Faulds
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1880
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/22, 23)
Summary:

Asks CD’s help in obtaining data on finger-prints – both of ancient impressions in pottery and of living men of all races. Suggests a comparative study with similar markings of lemuroid monkeys might yield results of value about man’s origin. Gives the practical utility of prints in identification in criminal and legal studies and investigations. Encloses a form.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12489

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
17 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (128)
Summary:

Seed germination.

Strange that his plants [of Megarrhiza] behaved differently from AG’s [see 12455].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12490

From:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 181: 116
Summary:

On clubroot fungus of cultivated Cruciferae.

Will give Russian wheat varieties another trial.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12491

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Cole
Date:
17 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Essex Naturalists Field Club MLDA/10)
Summary:

Thanks for the honour conferred upon him by the Epping Forest Field Club.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12492

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otago University
Date:
[16 Feb 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 43
Summary:

Testimonial for S. B. J. Skertchly, stating CD’s high opinion of his work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12493

From:
Jean-Henri Casimir (Jean-Henri) Fabre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 2
Summary:

On instinct in insects. Intends to experiment as CD proposes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12494

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean-Henri Casimir (Jean-Henri) Fabre
Date:
20 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque centrale, Paris (Ms FAB 32)
Summary:

Discusses sense of direction of cats and other animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12495

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
20 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 371
Summary:

Speculates on origin of habit [of insects?] of laying eggs on plants of certain families.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12496

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
21 [Feb 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 91
Summary:

Nature [21 (1880): 382] has an item about tremors and earth movements in Japan.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12497

From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 162: 219
Summary:

Thanks CD for his offer. Suggests it be used to start a fund to pay travel expenses of English naturalists who want to come to the Station.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12499

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
A. Gapitche
Date:
24 Feb 1880
Source of text:
ML 2: 444–5
Summary:

No one can prove death is inevitable, but the evidence in favour of this belief is overwhelming. It is in the highest degree improbable that man should cease to follow the general law of evolution, and evolution implies successive generations, which implies death.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12500

From:
George Moultrie Salt
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
[26? Feb 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 9
Summary:

Wishes EAD to sign some road bonds and then forward them to CD so that they may be paid off. [EAD note to CD enclosed, saying he does not know where the money will go.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12501

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Date:
27 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 705)
Summary:

Leaves decision as to use of his gift to AD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12502

From:
Henry William Crosskey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 160: 187
Summary:

Forwards, on behalf of the Birmingham Philosophical Society, an address offering CD the first honorary membership of the Society. Encloses formal record of this meeting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12504

From:
Adolf Ernst
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 163: 21
Summary:

Plants in Venezuelan plains.

Observations on Turnera: heterostyly, leaf-base glands’ secretion eaten by ants.

Observations on role of leaf secretions in fertilisation of Marcgravia and Passiflora.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12505

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
[after 16 Feb 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 19v
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for a gift of books.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12879

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James William Condell Fegan
Date:
[before 25 Feb 1880]
Source of text:
Fullerton 1930, p. 30
Summary:

Gladly turns reading room over to JWCF for his mission work. Through his gospel services there is not a drunkard left in the village.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000765

From:
David Gill
To:
Warren de la Rue
Date:
10 February 1880
Source of text:
MM/12/97, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000766

From:
Warren de la Rue
To:
William Spottiswoode
Date:
26 February 1880
Source of text:
MM/12/98, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001149

From:
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
To:
Isaac Newton
Date:
9 February 1880
Source of text:
MM/17/14, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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