From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
29 May [1879]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:
Hearty thanks for the two bottles of pure water.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[after 25 Feb 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 76
Summary:
Frank [Darwin] has found a Trifolium remarkable for "bloom", but it was not in flower. If GHD knows where it grows, could he dig up the whole plant?
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
4 July [1879?]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 65–6)
Summary:
Thanks WTT-D for Drosophyllum seeds.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
3 June [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 25
Summary:
Asks whether canary grass and oats have chlorophyll in their cotyledons.
Has been working hard at circumnutation of leaves to see whether sleep movements are exaggerated circumnutation.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ann Marston
Date:
20 July [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 22
Summary:
Will not sign a petition, for he feels vivisection is essential to the progress of physiology.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[4 Feb – 8 Mar 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 49
Summary:
Requests some seeds.
Believes the leaves of Phyllanthus sleep like those of Cassia.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
1 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:
Thanks AG for his kind note and returns his good wishes.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
4 [June] 1879
Source of text:
DAR 148: 366
Summary:
Mentions wheat varieties sent by Governor General of Turkestan.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
4 Jan [1879]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (Frankland Collection)
Summary:
Fears that the promised bottle of pure water may have been despatched or stolen in passage. [See 11768a.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
9 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Dr Mirko Majer (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for the copies of his engraving. "The work seems to be, though I cannot pretend to be a judge, a vy fine production".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
10 Jan [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 152
Summary:
G[eorge] has visited A[nthony] R[ich] at Worthing.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Jung
Date:
11 Jan 1879
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 681, 28–9 June 2005)
Summary:
Suggests MJ does not worry about the differences in opinion between ecclesiastics and scientists.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Harrison Blackley
Date:
14 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Formerly in the private collection of Dr T. B. Robinson
Summary:
Thanks CHB for his anecdote about a provincial girl’s reaction to being told men descended from monkeys.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Höchberg
Date:
13 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 145: 129
Summary:
Thanks for essay on origin of taste for music. Will send to Edmund Gurney.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fiske
Date:
14 June [1879]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 8266)
Summary:
Will send carriage to station on 18th.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Melchior Neumayr
Date:
15 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (13 December 2017)
Summary:
Asks MN about trustworthiness of Leopold Würtenberger. Would like to aid LW financially in his work.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Würtenberger
Date:
15 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Helmut Würtenberger (private collection)
Summary:
Is sorry that LW’s circumstances interfere with his scientific work. Does not think any English scientific society can help.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[18 Jan 1879]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.558)
Summary:
Notes advertisement of Tito Vignoli, Fundamentalgesetz der Intelligenz im Thierreiche [1879].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
18 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 333)
Summary:
Has read Hume with great pleasure, but found parts very stiff reading.
George Darwin has visited Anthony Rich.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
Date:
19 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks GdeS for his photograph; sends his own. Glad to hear GdeS’s work [Le monde des plantes (1879)] is popular in France.
Contributor:
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- Alberts, Karl3
- Allen, Grant3
- Asher, G. M.1
- Bary, Anton de2
- Bates, H. W.2
- Behrens, Wilhelm1
- Blackley, C. H.1
- Blyth, E. K.1
- British Museum1
- Brunton, T. L.3
- Buckley, A. B.2
- Burdon Sanderson, J. S.1
- Butler, A. G.1
- Candolle, Casimir de1
- Carus, J. V.1
- Cheadle, W. B.1
- Chester, J. L.1
- Christophe, N. N.1
- Collings, E. J.1
- Cooke, R. F.3
- Coues, Elliott1
- Crawley, J. A.1
- Crick, W. D.1
- Dallas, W. S.1
- Darwin, C. M. C.3
- Darwin, C. R.
- Darwin, Caroline2
- Darwin, Elizabeth1
- Darwin, Francis21
- Darwin, G. H.14
- Darwin, H. E.2
- Darwin, Horace3
- Darwin, Leonard3
- Darwin, Reginald9
- Darwin, W. E.3
- Dodel-Port, Arnold2
- Dohrn, Anton1
- Du Bois-Reymond, Emil1
- Edinburgh University1
- Errera, L. A.2
- Farrer, T. H.6
- Ffinden, G. S.3
- Fiske, John4
- Fordyce, John1
- Forster, L. M.1
- Frankland, Edward3
- Gaertner, Albin1
- Galton, E. A.6
- Galton, E. S.2
- Galton, Francis7
- Garrison, W. P.2
- Gladstone, W. E.1
- Goodacre, F. B.5
- Gray, Asa2
- Grey, Thomas de1
- Günther, Albert1
- Haast, Julius von1
- Hacon, W. M.1
- Haeckel, Ernst5
- Harvard University Library1
- Henslow, George1
- Hildebrand, Friedrich1
- Hill, George Birkbeck1
- Hooker, J. D.9
- Hubrecht, A. A. W.1
- Huxley, T. H.2
- Höchberg, Karl2
- John Murray3
- Johnson, Henry (a)1
- Jung, Mary1
- Kaufman, K. P. von1
- Kellogg, Fanny1
- Krause, Ernst25
- Lankester, E. R.1
- Lindvall, C. A.1
- Litchfield, H. E.2
- Lockyer, Norman1
- Lubbock, John1
- Ludwig, Friedrich1
- Mackintosh, Daniel2
- Marchand, Felix1
- Marks, Newman1
- Marshall, Victor3
- Marston, Ann1
- McLachlan, Robert1
- Meldola, Raphael5
- Mengden, Nicolai1
- Mojsisovics von Mojsvár, Edmund1
- Morse, E. S.1
- Moseley, H. N.3
- Murray, John (b)2
- Müller, Fritz1
- Müller, Hermann1
- Nature4
- Neumayr, Melchior2
- Newton, Alfred1
- Nägeli, C. W. von1
- O’Callaghan, E. H.1
- Packard, A. S., Jr1
- Paget, James2
- Payne, A. H.1
- Pfeffer, Wilhelm1
- Pitman, H. A.2
- Pozzi, S. J.1
- Reichardt, H. W.1
- Reinwald, C.-F.3
- Retzius, Gustaf2
- Ribeiro, Carlos1
- Richardson, B. W.2
- Romanes, G. J.3
- Royal College of Physicians1
- Saporta, Gaston de1
- Scherzer, Karl von1
- Schulte, Eduard1
- Semper, C. G.1
- Sharpe, R. B.1
- Shaw, E. R.1
- Sim, George1
- Sleigh, George1
- Stokes, G. G.1
- Sulivan, B. J.2
- Tegetmeier, W. B.1
- Thiselton-Dyer, W. T.19
- Tindal, C. H.2
- Torbitt, James5
- Tyndall, John2
- Unidentified5
- Vries, Hugo de3
- Wedgwood, Caroline2
- Weismann, August1
- Weyenbergh, Hendrik1
- Wheatley, H. B.1
- Wheler, E. A.6
- White, Francis Buchanan1
- Wilks, Samuel1
- Wilson, A. S.3
- Woodward, Henry1
- Wright, E. P.1
- Würtenberger, Leopold1
- Zeuthen, H. G.1
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