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DCP-LETT-11795

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 121–4
Summary:

Congratulates CD on the Anthony Rich bequest.

Sad but relieved to retire as President of the Royal Society.

Describes battle with Treasury over use of an empty house at Kew.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11796

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 72
Summary:

Asks CD if he would screw himself up to inviting A. Newton to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11797

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
16 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 203
Summary:

Thanks WO for advice and assistance for his son, Horace.

Has read Kerner’s book [see 11666]; finds the translation "as clear as daylight" but fears it is too good for the English public who like "very washy food".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11798

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 479–80
Summary:

Waiting for frost to go so experiments can start again.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11800

From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 166: 18
Summary:

Revision of CD’s will to reflect Anthony Rich’s gift and to increase daughters’ inheritance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11801

From:
Gabriel Cornelius (Gabriel) Max
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 107
Summary:

Relates dream suggesting CD’s belief in spiritualism. Asks if Wallace is clairvoyant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11802

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
22 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 28 (EH 88205966)
Summary:

Returns the siren; the plants "ill luck to them, are not sensitive to aerial vibrations". Is ashamed of his blunder.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11803

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
Date:
22 Dec 1878
Source of text:
Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks for GdeS’s Le monde des plantes [1879].

CD has just read "Végétation polaire" [C. R. Congr. Int. Sci. Geogr. 1 (1878): 197–242] with interest. Hooker gave it conspicuous place in his Royal Society Address (1878).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11804

From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.12: 6
Summary:

Writes regarding CD’s will in the light of Anthony Rich’s proposed bequest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11805

From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.12: 7
Summary:

Regrets that illness prevents his travelling to visit CD but would be pleased to see CD or his sons at Worthing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11806

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
27 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.556)
Summary:

Recommends article on "Brute and human intellect" by William James [J. Speculative Philos. 12 (1878): 236–78].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11807

From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 166: 19
Summary:

Sending second codicil for CD to sign.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11808

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.12: 8
Summary:

Describes Anthony Rich, whom he has visited.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11809

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
29 Dec 1878
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 329)
Summary:

About Anthony Rich, who has decided to leave his fortune to CD [and later also to make a bequest to THH]. CD’s account of what he wrote to Rich.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11810

From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.12: 9
Summary:

He would be happy to receive a visit from one of CD’s sons at any time.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11811

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 104
Summary:

Sends specimens of Commelyna.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11812

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Rathbone Greg
Date:
31 Dec 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.557)
Summary:

Discusses a chapter on design, written by WRG’s son [Percy Greg, The devil’s advocate (1878)]. Comments on the younger Greg’s criticisms of natural selection and evolution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11813

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Sorell Arnold
Date:
31 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 21
Summary:

Responds to criticism concerning varieties, species, and genera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE492

From:
Martha Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
30 Dec 1878
Source of text:
69, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

JHC1736

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
15 December 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.14, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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