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DCP-LETT-12375

From:
Antonio Mendola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 150
Summary:

Reports from an Italian baron that a calf’s horn that was buried in a field set roots; mule’s hairs incubated in water come alive.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12375F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Harrison Tindal
Date:
29 Dec 1879
Source of text:
Bonhams, New York (dealers) (19 October 2009)
Summary:

Thanks for MS as it shows many of Erasmus Darwin’s ideas were formed 20 years before he published Zoonomia. Would like to publish last letter if there is a second edition of his little book. MS will be returned registered post.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12376

From:
Emil Witte
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 181: 134
Summary:

Relates case of selective immunity to rinderpest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12376A

From:
Ercole Ricotti
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 230: 78
Summary:

CD awarded a prize of 12,000 lire in recognition of his recent research on plant physiology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12377

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
30 Dec [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 368
Summary:

Package of wheat varieties from Russia lost in transit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12378

From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 26
Summary:

WMH’s agent is coming to Down for CD to sign transfer of £5000 North Eastern Railway stocks. Horace is coming to his office to execute the marriage-settlement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12391

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
15 Dec [1879]
Source of text:
Nature , 1 January 1880, p. 207
Summary:

CD has repeated a test of whether hybrids of the common and Chinese goose are fertile inter se. Reports his success, and comments on its significance for the theory of descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP5295

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 December 1879
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 95: 494-5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5304

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 December 1879
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 95: 491-3
Summary:

About Miss Buckley's concerns for ARW's ill-health and his desire to obtain regular partially outdoor work, or indoor work that can be partially done from home. Darwin suggests to Hooker that they might advocate for ARW to receive a government pension given ARW's scientific achievements.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5307

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 December 1879
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 104: 136-7
Summary:

Hooker argues against Darwin's suggestion that ARW receive a government pension.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP6777

From:
Arabella Burton Fisher (née Buckley)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 December 1879
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 160: 366
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP7128

From:
Arabella Burton Fisher (née Buckley)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 December 1879
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 160: 368
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP7138

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Fisher (née Buckley)
Date:
17 December 1879
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 143: 180
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP7139

From:
Arabella Burton Fisher (née Buckley)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 December 1879
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 160: 367
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP7140

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Fisher (née Buckley)
Date:
19 December 1879
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 143: 181
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12348

From:
Emma Gisborne; Emma Nixon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 189–90
Summary:

Thanks for Erasmus Darwin.

Violetta Darwin is near death.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12353

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
11 [Dec 1879]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983)
Summary:

Sends M. Guthrie’s book [On Mr Spencer’s formula of evolution (1879)], although HEL may not care to read it having seen Moulton’s letter [12350].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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