From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
N. N. Christophe
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (item 26009)
Summary:
Thanks for birthday greetings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Avery Crawley
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 143: 302
Summary:
Can give no information. Has never read works of Aristotle, but has unbounded respect for him as observer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
12 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 440
Summary:
Has just heard that HM has been treated shamefully by his Government. What has happened?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arnold Dodel-Port
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms. Z VIII 417.2)
Summary:
Thanks AD-P for the gift of part of his Atlas [see 11039].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
13 Feb 1879
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 5)
Summary:
Discusses heliotropism in plant cotyledons. Asks for information.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
14 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 30 (EH 88205968)
Summary:
Has been asked to contribute to W. K. Clifford memorial fund. Asks JT’s advice on how much the committee hopes to raise. Would like to give handsomely but feels bound "with such a lot of children, not to be extravagant".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[before 25 Feb 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 12
Summary:
CD cannot find his pincers and other tools for microscopical dissection. Does FD know where he should look?
Hopes FD will feel better after "so complete a change" [trip to North Africa].
Sends his love to George.
Bernard gets more charming every day.
CD has been put on a committee for a memorial fund for W. K. Clifford.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Ludwig
Date:
16 Feb 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Sends thanks to the Masters for congratulations on his birthday, saying "the approbation & sympathy of one’s fellow-workers in the acquisition of knowledge is the highest possible reward which any man ought to desire".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
17 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 31 (EH 88205969)
Summary:
Thanks JT for his information. Sends £50 to the W. K. Clifford memorial fund.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carlos Ribeiro
Date:
17 Feb 1879
Source of text:
Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia (Records of the Portuguese Geological Commission 1857–1918)
Summary:
Thanks for having sent prehistoric remains.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
Date:
20 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 71)
Summary:
"I do not know whether the enclosed will be of any use to you.– I can say nothing of your fitness for the desired office, as I know nothing whatever of its duties.
I am sincerely sorry to hear of Mr F. Smith’s death."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
Date:
[before 21 Feb 1879]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Read GA’s book [The colour-sense] with "great interest". Makes criticisms and suggestions.
Cannot believe in GA’s theory of the origin of pleasure and pain.
Is glad he defends sexual selection;
CD finds A. R. Wallace’s explanations "mere empty words" and for many years he has "quite doubted [ARW’s] scientific judgment".
Considers the possible effect of environmental colour on the colour tastes of animals.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Date:
21 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Manuscript Collection: Folio A.L.S. Charles Darwin)
Summary:
Sends short testimonial [missing] for RBS, but doubts its value as he has has already given one for the same office [to A. G. Butler, see 11888].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
British Museum
Date:
21 Feb 1879
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 17)
Summary:
Letter of recommendation for Richard Bowdler Sharpe, ornithologist.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
21 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 160–1)
Summary:
Wants to borrow Duchartre’s Éléments de botanique [1867].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
21 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 153
Summary:
Circular about the distribution of the overplus of his income and advice on investment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
21 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 50
Summary:
Is increasing FD’s allowance.
Has begun his chapter on sleep of plants [for Movement in plants].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Höchberg
Date:
25 Feb 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.560)
Summary:
Discusses the value of a vegetable diet.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
25 [Feb 1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 162)
Summary:
Thanks for book [Duchartre, Éléments de botanique].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl August Lindvall
Date:
25 Feb 1879
Source of text:
Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (MS C. A. Lindvall)
Summary:
CAL’s letter [see 11885] would not be printed by the Geological Society as it is too speculative and has no new information.
Encloses his photograph.
Contributor:
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Author
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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.315
- 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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