From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 178: 170, 171/3
Summary:
Forster cannot help at present. Is sending copies of an enclosure [missing] to Downing Street.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Walter Raleigh Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Dec 1880
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Microfilm10682); DAR 202: 17
Summary:
Writes on behalf of the Archbishop of Canterbury to invite CD to a private conference organised in an attempt to reconcile science and religion. [Enclosed is a printed two-page memorial calling for such a conference.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[3 December 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 254
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[12 December 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 255
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Cayley, Arthur
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
14 December 1880
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1913
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
31 December 1880
Source of text:
DAR 258: 666
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 15 Dec 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 62
Summary:
Will stay until London until after the Linnean Society meeting unless CD wants anything. Asks to send abstracts of papers. Has made short abstracts of papers for Nature.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 95: 502–3
Summary:
Responds, with some embarrassment, to JDH’s caution on Frank’s F.R.S. prospects.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec [1880]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 84)
Summary:
Will soon manage to go to Beaulieu. Is glad the book is going off well. Is thinking of going to the Roman Villa at Brading on the Isle of Wight.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
2 Dec [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 164
Summary:
Gives instructions to WED about looking for earthworm activity at Brading.
Mentions James Geikie’s excellent book [Prehistoric Europe (1881)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 174: 72
Summary:
CD’s comment that certain instincts originate as variations of the brain, rather than as habits, is supported by Brown-Séquard’s and C. F. O. Westphal’s work on epileptiform movements.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Maurice Herbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 166: 187
Summary:
News of JMH’s second marriage.
Death of Charles Whitley’s wife.
Thinks CD’s fame in Europe is greater than that of Cuvier.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Dec [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 111
Summary:
Description of remains of a Roman villa and the worm activity at the site.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 174: 12
Summary:
Thanks CD for his note and his new book [Movement in plants].
Makes him feel "we must go beyond plants for a really elemental pathology".
Wishes he knew enough about crystals to work at them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 104: 148–9
Summary:
Wants to propose Frank for F.R.S. now, with election in 1882.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 166: 216
Summary:
Preoccupied by reorganisation of Botanic Garden.
Regards to Francis Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 169: 111
Summary:
Comments on Pangenesis. Quotes long passage from article by Fritz Müller concerning regeneration of lost members among crustaceans.
Kosmos has been sold to Eduard Koch in Stuttgart; will be converted into a weekly. Science will be de-emphasised. Krause seeking new publisher to continue on old basis.
Gustav Jäger injured in train accident.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 95: 504–5
Summary:
Thanks for agreeing to propose Frank as F.R.S.
Would have enjoyed discussing Island life.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Eduard Adolf (Eduard) Strasburger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 177: 266
Summary:
Thanks CD for a copy of his book [Movement in plants].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 162: 157
Summary:
Thanks for Movement in plants; particularly supports indirect rather than direct action of light and gravity on plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
- Allman, G. J.1
- Bentham, George1
- Browne, W. R.2
- Campbell, G. D.1
- Cayley, Arthur1
- Cohn, F. J.1
- Darwin, C. R.53
- Darwin, Emma3
- Darwin, Francis3
- Darwin, G. H.2
- Darwin, W. E.4
- Delpino, Federico1
- Dodel-Port, Arnold1
- Dodel-Port, Carolina1
- Farrer, T. H.1
- Flower, W. H.1
- Geikie, James2
- Günther, Albert1
- Hahn, Otto2
- Haliburton, S. H.2
- Herbert, J. M.1
- Hildebrand, Friedrich1
- Hooker, J. D.4
- Huxley, T. H.3
- Johnson, Henry (a)1
- Kielland, A. L.1
- Krause, Ernst2
- Litchfield, H. E.3
- Mackintosh, Daniel1
- Mengozzi, G. E.1
- Mostyn Owen, S. H.2
- Paget, James1
- Preyer, William1
- Reade, T. M.1
- Strasburger, Eduard1
- Torbitt, James6
- Vries, Hugo de1
- Vöchting, Hermann2
- Williams, S. H.2
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