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DCP-LETT-12692

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 169: 108
Summary:

Responds to CD’s offer to pay for subscription to Kosmos.

Comments on his own honorarium for English edition of Erasmus Darwin. Success of German edition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12693

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Crawford Williamson
Date:
18 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 221.4: 246 (photocopy)
Summary:

WCW’s specimens are interesting, but CD thinks the slowness of the change might have been expected.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12694

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 167: 36
Summary:

Sends specimens of what he takes to be barnacles found on rocks in the mountains.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12694F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Aug 1880
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 77)
Summary:

Asks CD to invite William James to stay before he returns to America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12695

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas McKenny Hughes
Date:
23 Aug 1880
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 43)
Summary:

Honoured by offer of medal from Chester Natural History Society, but if he is expected to attend in person to receive it he regrets he must decline. Asks TMH to decide for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12696

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
23 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

JBI’s "barnacles" would have been extraordinary, but they are hard lichens.

Has revisited Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12697

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
23 [Aug 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 96
Summary:

Asks GHD to decipher a letter [in German] he has received with a book: The Bible in science.

Enjoyed his stay in Cambridge extremely.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12698

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 167: 37
Summary:

"Barnacles" [from rocks in Scottish mountains, identified as lichens],

burglar alarms,

and family news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12699

From:
John Wesley Judd
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 168: 86
Summary:

Plans to visit Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12700

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Wesley Judd
Date:
25 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 10
Summary:

Explains how to reach Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12701

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas McKenny Hughes
Date:
26 Aug 1880
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 8)
Summary:

CD is sorry for the trouble TMH has had. Fully approves of the rule [that the medal be awarded to a local worker?]. The knowledge that the Chester Natural History Society wished to honour him is the real gratification, which he will never forget.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12702

From:
Henry Wentworth Monk
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 201: 27
Summary:

Believes he knows some "great truth" and wishes to meet with CD to discuss it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12703

From:
John Wesley Judd
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 168: 87
Summary:

Overjoyed at having met CD.

Sends a paper by William Whitaker [? "On subaerial denudation", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 23 (1867): 265–6].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13289A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
18 Aug [1880?]
Source of text:
Harvard University, Department of Psychology
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for information on a plant. It is too late for his present work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000791

From:
David Gill
To:
Warren de la Rue
Date:
6 August 1880
Source of text:
MM/12/127, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000792

From:
David Gill
To:
William Huggins
Date:
9 August 1880
Source of text:
MM/12/128, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000793

From:
David Gill
To:
Admiralty
Date:
9 August 1880
Source of text:
MM/12/129, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001581

From:
Charles Manby
To:
WS Johnson
Date:
22 August 1880
Source of text:
MM/21/16, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

JHC423

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
23 August 1880
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.67a, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH reports that [John] Smith has returned to RBG Kew in good health & [George] Nicholson has gone on leave. JDH also informs Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer that [Robert] Cross has been in independent communication with Danvers of the India Office, pushig his own agenda regarding the transportation of certain Cinchona plants from RBG Kew. JDH reports Welwitschia seeds are growing well & more cow tree seeds have arrived. Bulbophyllum beccarii has been sent to RBG Kew to be drawn but the stench was so bad that the artist, Matilda Smith, had to give up. JDH & John Smith have surveyed the arboretum & reduced the lawn mowing, they will also surevy the King of Hanover's grounds. He mentions papering the musueum [of economic botany], where [John Reader] Jackson is hard at work. De Candolle & his wife are coming to London to meet Mr & Mrs Asa Gray. JDH has remonstrated [Lovell] Reeve about the bad colouring of the Harriet Thiselton-Dyer's Bucklandia plate [in CURTIS' BOTANICAL MAGAZINE], JDH has heard Reeve underpays his colourists.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC686

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 August 1880
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 61, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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