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DCP-LETT-12192

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
13 Aug 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36191)
Summary:

CD regrets that he feels large parts of Krause’s essay [on Erasmus Darwin] must be omitted. Gives his criticisms and his plan for condensed publication of his own article, with only parts of EK’s. If EK is unwilling to change, CD will publish his article privately. It is manifest that EK can publish his essay in its extended form in Germany if he wishes to do so.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12193

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
13 Aug [1879]
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:

Reports the results of breeding from FBG’s hybrid geese. The hybrids are fertile inter se. Would FBG like the geese back? If CD publishes his observations may he use FBG’s results?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12194

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B35–6
Summary:

Regards his part only as material from which CD can select for English edition of Erasmus Darwin.

Regrets dropping comment on Erasmus Darwin’s evolutionary theory.

Asks for translation of British plant names.

Asks CD not to mention in introduction that EK’s part has been reduced.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12195

From:
John Denny
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 162: 161
Summary:

JD communicates, after seven years, news of a new "sport" of Pelargonium, sterile both with other varieties and with the mother plant, thus indicating that it is possibly a new species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12196

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fiske
Date:
17 Aug [1879]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 8268)
Summary:

Thanks JF again for his Essays, which he has now read.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12197

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 118–19
Summary:

WSD sent MS of his translation of Erasmus Darwin on 6 August. Hopes CD received all of it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12198

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
19 Aug [1879]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36192)
Summary:

CD is relieved by EK’s response to his criticisms. Will attend to all his instructions and will not print his preface until EK has seen it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12199

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Victor Alexander Ernest Garth (Victor) Marshall
Date:
25 Aug 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD expresses the pleasure the Darwins had in the courtesies extended them by the Marshalls at Coniston.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12200

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ambrosius Arnold Willem Hubrecht
Date:
25 Aug 1879
Source of text:
Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Research
Summary:

Thanks for essay. Doubts AAWH’s theory concerning modifications in first- and last-born offspring.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12201

From:
Edward Sylvester Morse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 246
Summary:

Sends proofs [of "The shell mounds of Omori, Japan", Tokyo Univ. Mem. 1 (1879)], which may interest CD for the changes between ancient and modern forms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12202

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 120–1
Summary:

He has no cause to complain at CD’s suppression of parts of his translation. Will do his best to correct and improve the proofs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12203

From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 21
Summary:

Requests a letter of introduction to Prof. Jowett for his son, who is entering Balliol College.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12203A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Magnus Gustaf (Gustaf) Retzius
Date:
28 Aug 1879
Source of text:
Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (Gustaf Retzius arkiv, Inbundna serien, Engelsmän I, s 35)
Summary:

CD is honoured to receive the magnificent work Finska Kranier (1878).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12204

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
29 Aug 1879
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:

What should CD do with the geese? One gander chases and frightens his grandchild. Does FBG intend to publish his results?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12205

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 75
Summary:

Accepts invitation to visit Down.

Describes travel plans in Scotland.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1381

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
5 August 1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.175, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1382

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
12 August 1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.176, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1383

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
23 August 1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.177, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1384

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
22 August 1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.178, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC173

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
2 August 1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.66-67, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes that he encloses: a cheque for Asa Gray, & Mr Brown's account of the sale of Gray's books etc [enclosures not present]. Asks about 'Mr Millar's check'. JDH's niece Willielma Campbell died after giving birth to still born child. JDH attended the funeral in Glasgow, his wife [Hyacinth Hooker] accompanied him to comfort Isabella Hooker, Willielma's mother. JDH's sister Bessy [Elizabeth Evans-Lombe nee Hooker] is staying with him at Kew on her way to visit their Aunt Brightwen in Norfolk. JDH wishes he had been with Gray in the Alleghenies. JDH asks Gray if he should send Hayden the ATHENAEUM &c for the Survey library. JDH asks what has become of his & Gray's report. George Bentham is visiting Munro. JDH & Bentham are printing the next volume of GENERA PLANTARUM, incl. Chenopodiaceae. JDH criticises Muller's article NATIVE PLANTS OF VICTORIA, particularly his intercalation of monosplanes with Choripetaleae, description of Nyctagineae & figure of Boerhavia. Mentions George Henslow's 'weeds'. Encourages Gray to come to England. JDH would like to make another trip to America but does not want to abandon Bentham as they are working on monocots for GENERA PLANTARUM. JDH praises Bentham's skill & productivity. JDH recommends that Gray work on North American Flora, new edition of his text book & Hayden's report. He suggests Gray read Bales' Royal Geographical Society lecture on alpine floras in GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. Charles Darwin is in the Lake District. Mentions Engelmann's work on differentiating Pinus species. JDH is impatient for the continuation of Watson's bibliography to simplify referencing American botany. Comments on Gray building a library & herbarium [at Harvard] & on narrow minded attitudes towards Sargent. Mentions Clarke. JDH's book TOUR IN MAROCCO [Morocco] is making a loss. Charles Paget Hooker is trying again to pass at the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons, Edinburgh. The glass houses at RBG Kew have been damaged by a hail storm.

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Hooker Project
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