From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
11 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 67
Summary:
Dispatches a chapter [of Movement in plants] for FD to look over.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 315
Summary:
HM’s son will visit CD when he comes to London.
Is glad CD approves of his judgment of G. Bonnier’s paper on nectaries [Gaston Bonnier, "Les nectaires", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 8 (1879): 5–212].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Wesley Judd
Date:
[15 Aug 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 9
Summary:
Invites him to lunch.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
16 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Joseph Halle Schaffner collection, box 1, folder 2)
Summary:
Believes A. S. Packard is in error on some points. Refers to his own observations on slave-making ants in Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Edward Armytage Axon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 11–12
Summary:
Inquires whether a printed letter of CD’s [see 11902] correctly represents his views on vegetarianism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Hugh Higgins
Date:
18 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
Bedfordshire Archives and Records Service (HG12/8/3)
Summary:
Thanks HHH for essay.
Describes disposition of cirripede specimens.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 169: 108
Summary:
Responds to CD’s offer to pay for subscription to Kosmos.
Comments on his own honorarium for English edition of Erasmus Darwin. Success of German edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Crawford Williamson
Date:
18 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 221.4: 246 (photocopy)
Summary:
WCW’s specimens are interesting, but CD thinks the slowness of the change might have been expected.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 167: 36
Summary:
Sends specimens of what he takes to be barnacles found on rocks in the mountains.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Aug 1880
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 77)
Summary:
Asks CD to invite William James to stay before he returns to America.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas McKenny Hughes
Date:
23 Aug 1880
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 43)
Summary:
Honoured by offer of medal from Chester Natural History Society, but if he is expected to attend in person to receive it he regrets he must decline. Asks TMH to decide for him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
23 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
JBI’s "barnacles" would have been extraordinary, but they are hard lichens.
Has revisited Cambridge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
23 [Aug 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 96
Summary:
Asks GHD to decipher a letter [in German] he has received with a book: The Bible in science.
Enjoyed his stay in Cambridge extremely.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 167: 37
Summary:
"Barnacles" [from rocks in Scottish mountains, identified as lichens],
burglar alarms,
and family news.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Wesley Judd
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 168: 86
Summary:
Plans to visit Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Wesley Judd
Date:
25 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 10
Summary:
Explains how to reach Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas McKenny Hughes
Date:
26 Aug 1880
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 8)
Summary:
CD is sorry for the trouble TMH has had. Fully approves of the rule [that the medal be awarded to a local worker?]. The knowledge that the Chester Natural History Society wished to honour him is the real gratification, which he will never forget.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Wentworth Monk
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 201: 27
Summary:
Believes he knows some "great truth" and wishes to meet with CD to discuss it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Wesley Judd
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 168: 87
Summary:
Overjoyed at having met CD.
Sends a paper by William Whitaker [? "On subaerial denudation", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 23 (1867): 265–6].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
18 Aug [1880?]
Source of text:
Harvard University, Department of Psychology
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for information on a plant. It is too late for his present work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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- Axon, W. E. A.1
- Bailey, Frederick2
- Buckley, A. B.1
- Candolle, Alphonse de1
- Darwin, C. R.34
- Darwin, Emma6
- Darwin, Francis4
- Darwin, G. H.1
- Darwin, W. E.2
- Ernst, Adolf1
- Gill, David3
- Gray, Asa1
- Hardy, R. P.3
- Higgins, H. H.1
- Hooker, J. D.6
- Hooker, Joseph2
- Huggins, William1
- Hughes, T. M.2
- Innes, J. B.3
- Johnson, WS1
- Judd, J. W.4
- Kempe, Hermann1
- Krause, Ernst1
- Linnean Society of London1
- Litchfield, H. E.5
- Ludlow, J. M. F.1
- Manby, Charles1
- Marsh, O. C.1
- Meldola, Raphael2
- Monk, H. W.1
- Mueller, Ferdinand von9
- Müller, Hermann1
- Norris, Richard Hill1
- Preston, S. T.2
- Strasburger, Eduard1
- Tepper, Otto1
- Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner1
- Unidentified2
- Wallace, Alfred Russel7
- Williamson, W. C.2
- [Hooker, Joseph]1
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