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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.

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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.

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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.

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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:
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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:
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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.

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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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DCP-LETT-12583

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B58r
Summary:

Sends German edition of Erasmus Darwin.

[CD’s notes form part of a draft for 12586.]

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DCP-LETT-12584

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
20 Apr [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 8
Summary:

Gives advice regarding a house.

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DCP-LETT-12585

From:
John Fiske
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 127
Summary:

Is coming to England to lecture and would like to meet CD again.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12585A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
20 Apr 1880
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (Frankland Collection)
Summary:

May CD’s son send some bottles of water, in which Pelargonium leaves have been immersed, for more precise analysis of the potassium or other soluble ash? Can EF recommend a professional analyst to take on further experiments?

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12586

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
21 Apr 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36205)
Summary:

Glad to receive the German edition of Erasmus Darwin. Hopes sales will be good. Favourable review has appeared in the United States, in the Nation.

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DCP-LETT-12587

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1880
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 96
Summary:

Preparing his book, Animal intelligence [1882].

Spent an afternoon with a spiritualist but did not learn anything.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12588

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
23 Apr [1880]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 366–7)
Summary:

His family shake heads in dismal manner at his proposed title for his MS: "The Circumnutating Movements of Plants". Makes several other suggestions [none of which was adopted].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12589

From:
Henry Pitman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 99: 195
Summary:

Would like more information about Erasmus Darwin’s shorthand writing for his series on "Shorthand writers of renown".

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DCP-LETT-12590

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 504
Summary:

His publishers are as puzzled as CD about what the title of his new book [Movement in plants] should be. Sends a tentative one in proof [missing].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12591

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
27 Apr 1880
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (July 1986)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for writing, "but such malconformations, as you mention, are not very rare & therefore do not possess much novelty".

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