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DCP-LETT-11874

From:
Naples Zoological Station
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 172: 2
Summary:

Seventieth birthday greetings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11874F

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

DCP-LETT-11875

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

DCP-LETT-11876

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

DCP-LETT-11877

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

DCP-LETT-11878

From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 312
Summary:

Seventieth birthday greetings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11879

From:
Greiz College
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 94r
Summary:

Send 70th birthday congratulations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11880

From:
Arthur Mellersh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 149
Summary:

Birthday wishes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11881

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11882

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

DCP-LETT-11883

From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 313
Summary:

HM’s teaching methods and his ideas are under attack in Germany along with the works of Ernst Krause.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11883A

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11883F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 25 Feb 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 60
Summary:

Directs CD where to find tools in his room. Has been looking at agave and aloe flowers. Thanks family for their letters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11884

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
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DCP-LETT-11885

From:
Carl August Lindvall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 170: 4
Summary:

Outlines his theory to explain the form of certain Swedish sandhills and puts forward his ideas regarding the geological history of the earth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11886

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

DCP-LETT-11887

From:
Walter Butler Cheadle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 161: 136
Summary:

Second request that CD sign a Cambridge memorial [i.e., petition]. The heading has been amended to include graduates who have formerly studied medicine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11887F

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

DCP-LETT-11888

From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 389
Summary:

Requests testimonial from CD for position of Assistant Keeper, Zoological Dept, British Museum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11889

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
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