From:
Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 121
Summary:
Asks CD to telegraph a testimonial for him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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
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
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
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
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 138–9
Summary:
The debt of plant geography to voyages may be JDH’s topic at BAAS meeting [at Swansea].
Photographs from New Zealand forwarded.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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
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
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 503
Summary:
Three hundred copies of Erasmus Darwin remain from the 1000 printed. Demand is small.
Should 250 copies of Forms of flowers be printed before type is distributed?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Mar 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 160
Summary:
Potatoes will be lost unless JT has immediate authority to proceed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 162: 220
Summary:
Thanks CD for his cheque for £100. Has told Secretary of BAAS Committee [for the Station], so that he may report it. [See O. J. R. Howarth, The British Association (1931), pp. 196–7.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Lemuel Chester
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 161: 140
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s appreciation of his work on family history. Sends one of his books [unidentified].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 82
Summary:
Writes on family matters and researches.
Mentions construction of a pendulum
and completion of a paper he will send to the Royal Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
4 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 111
Summary:
Going to London today to speak to T. H. Farrer about funds for potato breeding experiments. "I have told Farrer I would subscribe £50."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
5 Mar [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 92
Summary:
The Colonel [J. L. Chester] is pleased [see 12509].
Jos[iah Wedgwood III] is dying.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 178: 161
Summary:
Wonders whether Lord Derby would advance him the money to continue his work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Addressee
- Agassiz, Alexander2
- Allman, G. J.1
- Astley, G. S.1
- Aveling, E. B.1
- Axon, W. E. A.1
- Barrois, Jules1
- Baxter, Payne, and Lepper1
- Breitenbach, Wilhelm3
- Brunton, T. L.6
- Buckland, A. W.1
- Buckley, A. B.7
- Burg, C. L. van der1
- Butler, Samuel (b)1
- Caird, James1
- Campbell, G. D.2
- Capes, Frederick1
- Carpenter, W. B.1
- Clinch, G.1
- Clutterbuck, J. C.1
- Cohn, F. J.1
- Cooke, R. F.3
- Cooper, J. D.2
- Crick, W. D.1
- Crier, John1
- Darwin, C. R.692
- Darwin, Caroline1
- Darwin, E. A.1
- Darwin, Elizabeth6
- Darwin, Emma3
- Darwin, Francis37
- Darwin, G. H.37
- Darwin, H. E.9
- Darwin, Horace10
- Darwin, Leonard9
- Darwin, Sara1
- Darwin, W. E.29
- Dawson, James1
- Dixon, James1
- Engelhardt, Alphons von1
- Evans, Edith1
- Fabre, Jean-Henri1
- Farrer, T. H.4
- Fayrer, Joseph2
- Flower, W. H.2
- Geddes, Patrick1
- Geikie, Archibald1
- Geikie, James4
- Gladstone, W. E.1
- Graham, William2
- Graves, A. E.1
- Hacon, W. M.1
- Hadley, Margaret2
- Hahn, Otto1
- Haliburton, S. H.2
- Hall, Arthur1
- Hardy, R. P.4
- Harris, J.1
- Head, P. R.1
- Heldreich, Theodor von1
- Holmgren, Frithiof1
- Hooker, J. D.18
- Hughes, T. M.2
- Hunter, Edith1
- Hurndall, Frank1
- Huxley, T. H.2
- Jackson, H. W.2
- Jellinek, E. L.1
- Jenner, William1
- Jesse, G. R.2
- John Murray3
- Johnson, Henry (b)1
- Judd, J. W.2
- Keltie, J. S.1
- Kennard, C. A.1
- King, George4
- Krause, Ernst3
- Lankester, E. R.1
- Litchfield, H. E.10
- Litchfield, R. B.1
- Lubbock, John2
- Ludlow, J. M. F.1
- Mackintosh, Daniel2
- McIntosh, W. C.2
- Mengozzi, G. E.1
- More, A. G.1
- Mostyn Owen, S. H.2
- Müller, Hermann2
- Newberry, W. H.1
- Nicholson, G. S.1
- Norman, G. W.1
- Ogle, William3
- Otago University1
- Powell, F. G. M.1
- Preston, S. T.2
- Prestwich, Joseph1
- Preyer, William2
- Price, John1
- Ramsay, A. C.1
- Reade, A. A.1
- Rich, Anthony1
- Riley, C. V.1
- Romanes, G. J.3
- Seddon, W. Z.1
- Sedgwick, Sara1
- Sinel, Joseph1
- Smith, C. A.1
- Spencer, Herbert1
- Stanley, William Ford1
- Sulivan, B. J.1
- Tait, Lawson5
- Thompson, D’A. W.1
- Tindal, C. H.1
- Torbitt, James20
- Tyndall, John1
- Unidentified1
- Van Dyck, W. T.1
- Vincent, Teja & Co.1
- Vines, S. H.6
- Viëtor, Wilhelm1
- Voigts-Rhetz, Werner von1
- Vöchting, Hermann1
- Wallis, H. M.2
- Wedgwood, Caroline1
- Wedgwood, Emma3
- Wedgwood, Sophy1
- Weir, J. J.1
- Westropp, H. M.1
- Whiteman, R. G.1
- Wiesner, Julius2
- William Clowes & Sons1
- Williams, S. H.2
- Williamson, W. C.2
- Wilson, A. S.4
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- Cambridge University Library
- Huntington Library5
- The British Library3
- American Philosophical Society2
- Natural History Museum and Archives2
- J. A. Stargardt (dealers)1
- Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque centrale1
- National Library of Scotland1
- Princeton University Library1
- Taylor Library, Shrewsbury School1
- University Library of Uppsala1