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DCP-LETT-12633

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
Date:
13 June [1880]
Source of text:
Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Letter, W. E. Darwin to F. E. Abbot (13 June [1880]), in folder Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101)
Summary:

CD has asked him to express appreciation for the Index and regret that FEA will no longer be running it. CD wishes FEA to stop the weekly advertisement of his appreciation of the Index.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12634

From:
Thomas Meehan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 114
Summary:

Suggests plants whose stamens show movement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12635

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 178: 167
Summary:

JT attempting to get Government backing for his experiments; wishes to quote from CD’s letter in support of his work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12636

From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 176: 110
Summary:

Annual report on sale of Reinwald editions of CD’s works.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12637

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
16 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 121
Summary:

Offers advice concerning letter to [William Edward?] Forster requesting Government aid [for potato experiments].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12638

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
17 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 261.9: 11 (EH 88205984)
Summary:

Notes on worm action, and CD’s questions concerning source of nutriment for worms in ACR’s courtyard [see Earthworms, pp. 192–3].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12638F

From:
Ebenezer Turnbull
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 198: 209
Summary:

Information about the death of John Scott, his nephew.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12639

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
18 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 160
Summary:

Wants WED to collect some worm-castings from Beaulieu Abbey.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12640

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Carmichael McIntosh
Date:
18 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 146: 351
Summary:

Asks for information about worms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12641

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Burnett Tylor
Date:
19 June [1880]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 50254: 96–8)
Summary:

Discusses animals’ ability to learn to recognise danger, especially poisonous herbs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12642

From:
Edward Burnett Tylor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 178: 206
Summary:

Learning by experience of others: birds being killed by telegraph wires when first set up; sheep in Australia eating poisonous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12642F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of Derby
Date:
25 June 1880
Source of text:
Liverpool Record Office, Liverpool Central Library (920 DER (15) 43/89/21/2)
Summary:

Sending EHS (Lord Derby) information about the Niagara affair.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12642G

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 June [1880]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 82)
Summary:

Asks whether CD will forward enclosed to Lord Derby, and offers to send him a copy of the New York state survey. Will go to Beaulieu in the early autumn. Tells story about gallenes raised by hens being attacked.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12643

From:
Spallanzani Monument Committee
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 177: 222
Summary:

Printed circular from the committee to set up a monument to Lazzaro Spallanzani in Scandiano.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12647F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
June 1880
Source of text:
Roundell 1880 , pp. 10–11
Summary:

Supporting the abolition of clerical headships and fellowships at Oxford and Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13210

From:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 19
Summary:

Further details of pavement that sank from action of earthworms. There were plenty of castings, which first led him to think worms were involved.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9491

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
13 June [1880]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 ff. 60–1)
Summary:

Letter of introduction for R. B. Litchfield.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000315

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Thomas George Bonney
Date:
28 June 1880
Source of text:
MM/6/75, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000774

From:
David Gill
To:
Warren de la Rue
Date:
6 June 1880
Source of text:
MM/12/109, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000775

From:
David Gill
To:
Warren de la Rue
Date:
6 June 1880
Source of text:
MM/12/110, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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