From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 166: 356
Summary:
Sees no use in a deputation. Suggests CD send the memorial with a letter.
Family news.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[after 27 Dec 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 69
Summary:
The Duke of Argyll has written to Gladstone in support of a pension for A. R. Wallace.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
[before 29 Dec 1880]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Informs HWB of arrangements for signing the memorial to W. E. Gladstone [for a civil pension for Wallace]. CD has got Duke of Argyll to write to Gladstone in favour of it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Johnson
Date:
28 Dec [1880]
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:
The report that CD is seriously ill is false, but the kind letters that it produced have done a good turn. [See 12943.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
[29 Dec 1880]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Asks HWB to sign the memorial, possibly with official title, and then to pass it quickly to Hooker.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
29 Dec 1880
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 18)
Summary:
Asks PLS to sign the memorial for a pension for Wallace.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
29 Dec 1880
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-24)
Summary:
Requests JSBS sign certificate for [Francis Darwin’s] candidacy [for Royal Society].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
[before 30 Dec 1880]
Source of text:
Nature , 30 December 1880, p. 193
Summary:
Quotes an extract from a letter from Mr Sanderson of Chislehurst on the disappearance of black or spotted sheep from Australian flocks when the coloured sheep ceased to be of use to man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
30 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 144: 102
Summary:
Statement of money transactions with James Torbitt and record of year’s success enclosed. Torbitt desires him to return £90. He is doubtful of being able to continue this spring.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 88
Summary:
Sends diagrams [missing] showing worm action at two sites.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander Lange Kielland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 201: 18, 18a
Summary:
Discusses Chinese lions at Fontainebleau; considers their appearance may indicate an ancient knowledge of some sort of evolutionary connection between lions and toads.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1880
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-42)
Summary:
Signs a certificate sent to him by CD [see 12954].
Sends CD a ticket to his lecture on 25 February, in which he will propose that the mode by which the excitable parts of plants influence other parts at a distance is essentially the same as in the excitable structure of animals, contrary to the views of Hermann Munk and Julius Sachs.
Interested in chapters 6 and 7 of Movement in plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter White
Date:
231 Dec 1880
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (5 April 2022, lot 147)
Summary:
Sending a Royal Society certificate of candidacy for his son Francis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Manby
To:
William Spencer Johnson
Date:
22 December 1880
Source of text:
MM/21/60, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
Text Online
From:
the Ostschweizerische geographisch-commercielle Gesellschaft
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
2 December 1880
Source of text:
MS 8261, La Trobe Library, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
4 December 1880
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 290
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Engelmann
Date:
4 December 1880
Source of text:
George Engelmann papers, Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, USA
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Graham Berry
Date:
12 December 1880
Source of text:
T80/12201, unit 1229, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, VictoriaMS annotation by W. Odgers, 16 December 1880: 'To Mr. Webb who will be good enough to bring this paper to the C. Sec's notice when the Conference assembles in Sydney.' For a published copy of this letter see B81.02.01
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Frederick Bailey
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 December 1880
Source of text:
In and out letter and packet book, letter register, Colonial Botanist, book one, 1879-1894, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Maurice Holtze
Date:
25 December 1880
Source of text:
GRG 19/391, State Records of South Australia, Adelaide
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Author
Addressee
Correspondent
- Allman, G. J.1
- Allman, George James1
- Bailey, Frederick1
- Bates, H. W.2
- Bates, Henry Walter2
- Bentham, George2
- Berry, Graham1
- Brady, Henry Bowman1
- Browne, W. R.4
- Buddington, Thomas Cushman1
- Burdon Sanderson, J. S.2
- Campbell, G. D.1
- Cayley, Arthur1
- Cohn, F. J.1
- Croll, James1
- Darwin, C. R.107
- Darwin, Emma3
- Darwin, Francis3
- Darwin, Francis ("Frank")1
- Darwin, G. H.2
- Darwin, W. E.5
- Delpino, Federico1
- Dodel-Port, Arnold1
- Dodel-Port, Carolina1
- Engelmann, George1
- Farrer, T. H.1
- Flower, Benjamin Orange1
- Flower, W. H.1
- Geddes, Patrick1
- Geikie, James2
- Gosse, Philip Henry ("Henry")1
- Gray, Asa1
- Günther, Albert3
- Günther, Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf4
- Hahn, Otto2
- Haliburton, S. H.2
- Hawkins, J. L.1
- Herbert, J. M.2
- Hildebrand, Friedrich1
- Holtze, Maurice1
- Hooker, J. D.8
- Hooker, Joseph1
- Huxley, T. H.7
- Huxley, Thomas Henry7
- Innes, J. B.1
- Johnson, Henry (a)2
- Johnson, William Spencer1
- Kielland, A. L.1
- Krause, Ernst4
- Linnean Society1
- Litchfield, H. E.3
- Mackintosh, Daniel2
- Manby, Charles1
- Meldola, Raphael2
- Mengozzi, G. E.1
- Mostyn Owen, S. H.2
- Mueller, Ferdinand von6
- Murie, James1
- Nature1
- Nevill, D. F.1
- Ostschweizerische geographisch-commercielle Gesellschaft1
- Paget, James2
- Preyer, William1
- Reade, T. M.3
- Romanes, G. J.5
- Sargent, Epes1
- Sclater, P. L.1
- Sclater, Philip Lutley1
- Strasburger, Eduard1
- Torbitt, James6
- Vries, Hugo de1
- Vöchting, Hermann2
- Wallace, Alfred Russel11
- Wallace, Violet Isabel1
- Walpole, D. F.1
- Wedderburn, David1
- White, Walter1
- Williams, S. H.2
- [unknown person]1
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