From:
Horace Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 65: 99, 100; DAR 162: 72, 73
Summary:
Worm-castings. Encloses notes about worm activities at Gravetye Manor.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Sara
Date:
[30 October 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 139
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
George King
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 169: 22
Summary:
Very pleased to receive CD’s dinner invitation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George King
Date:
2 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 146: 18
Summary:
Glad GK will come. But cannot talk long to anyone.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joshua Frederick (Frederick) Parsons
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 174: 26
Summary:
Reports case of a girl’s sudden death when a large abscess, formed by a cherry-stone in the vermiform appendix, burst into the peritoneum. Perhaps relevant to Descent [2d ed., pp. 20–1].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 169: 109
Summary:
Has sent 2d ed. of his book, Werden und Vergehen [1880]. Notes that book was attacked in Prussian House of Deputies by ultramontane critics of Hermann Müller who had recommended it to his pupils.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 162: 32
Summary:
Asks CD to join in a testimonial supporting James Murie’s candidacy for Librarian of Linnean Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 100
Summary:
Replies to CD’s questions [in 12732] regarding the Abinger Hall excavations.
Torbitt.
Family news.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 176: 111
Summary:
Edmond Barbier is dead and his widow needs support.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Katherine Elizabeth Sophy (Sophy) Wedgwood
Date:
8 Oct [1880]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add 4251: 335)
Summary:
Asks her to look for worm-castings in heath. Thinks heath conditions may be unfavourable. CD is sure Lucy would look with her, from her well-known affection for worms. Asks what sort of lantern Lucy used.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[before 9 Oct 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 97
Summary:
Discusses how fruits of lime-trees arranged themselves in a ripple-like way on a flooded walk.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 86
Summary:
Is having a trough made to try experiments [on ripple-marks].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 101
Summary:
Sends the marked plans of the Abinger Hall excavation site.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 102
Summary:
Replies to CD’s questions about worms at Abinger ruins.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 106: B144
Summary:
Indicates portions of Island life that will interest CD. Explanation of the geological climate is the foundation stone of the book.
Hooker’s approval of the theory of Australian and New Zealand floras.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Caird
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 161: 5
Summary:
Comments on the progress of Torbitt’s experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Bibbens Aveling
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 159: 133
Summary:
Mentions CD’s approval of earlier articles on CD’s works, and requests approval and permission to dedicate to CD a second work on CD’s thought for the International Library of Science and Free-thought.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 176: 112
Summary:
Édouard Heckel will translate Movement in plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Baxter, Payne, and Lepper
Date:
14 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 29
Summary:
Questions BP & Co. on notices requesting the payment of rent charges.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Katherine Elizabeth Sophy (Sophy) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Oct [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 69
Summary:
On worms and worm-castings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project