From:
Henry Woodward
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 181: 151
Summary:
Seeks testimonial, as he is applying for the Keepership of Geology at the British Museum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Woodd Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 172
Summary:
W. D. Fox’s sufferings have ended; he died that morning.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Sylvester Morse
Date:
9 [Apr] 1880
Source of text:
Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11)
Summary:
[Copy erroneously dated March.]
Has forwarded ESM’s letter to Nature ["Omori shell mounds", Collected papers 2: 222–3].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
9 Apr [1880]
Source of text:
Nature , 15 April 1880, p. 561
Summary:
Forwards a letter from E. S. Morse on Omori shell mounds refuting F. V. Dickins’ review [Nature 21 (1880): 350] of Morse’s memoir ["The shell mounds of Omori", Mem. Sci. Dep. Univ. Tokyo 1 (1879) pt 1].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Woodd Fox
Date:
10 [Apr] 1880
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-13)
Summary:
Condolences upon the death of CWF’s father, William Darwin Fox.
[Wrongly dated March by CD.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Woodward
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 181: 152
Summary:
Thanks CD for his testimonial and congratulates him on "The coming of age of the ""Origin of Species""". [T. H. Huxley, Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 9 (1879–81): 361–8; Collected essays, vol. 2.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
11 [Apr] 1880
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 340)
Summary:
Sorry he missed THH’s lecture ["The coming of age of The origin of species", Royal Institution, 9 Apr 1880]. Has read press notices and heard from his children of its great success.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Giovanni Battista Ercolani
Date:
14 Apr 1880
Source of text:
Biblioteca Comunale dell’Archiginnasio, Bologna (Collezione degli autografi, XXIII, 6543)
Summary:
Thanks GBE for his great work on the placenta [Nuove ricerche sulla placenta nei pesci cartilaginosi e ne mammiferi (1880)]. The relationship between placental structure and mammalian classification has always seemed interesting to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
15 Apr 1880
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 205–6)
Summary:
Wants Ipomoea seeds for observing germination.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
Date:
15 Apr 1880
Source of text:
Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Letter, C. R. Darwin to F. E. Abbot (15 April 1880), in folder Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101)
Summary:
Thanks FEA for copy of a review of a book on evolution by "an ignorant lawyer".
Sends £5 for Index subscription.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Tearle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 16] Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 201: 38
Summary:
Attempts to reconcile accounts of man’s creation in Origin and in Genesis, to both of which he is devoted.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Tearle
Date:
16 Apr 1880
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.572)
Summary:
Comments on concept of revelation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Newton
Date:
17 Apr 1880
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Unable to comment on F. Lloyd’s criticism of Francis Galton’s Hereditary genius [?A scientific view of Mr Galton’s theories of heredity (1876)].
Sorry about Lloyd’s health.
Does not care much about abuse or fame, an advantage of age.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Christopher Columbus Graham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 165: 82
Summary:
CD’s framed letter may be hung in a fireproof gallery in the State House, now being finished.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
19 Apr 1880
Source of text:
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library (BANC MSS 74/78 z)
Summary:
Thanks for the letter from Volney Rattan [see 12553].
Discusses protective adaptation of seedlings from frost.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B58r
Summary:
Sends German edition of Erasmus Darwin.
[CD’s notes form part of a draft for 12586.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
20 Apr [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 8
Summary:
Gives advice regarding a house.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Fiske
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 127
Summary:
Is coming to England to lecture and would like to meet CD again.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
20 Apr 1880
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (Frankland Collection)
Summary:
May CD’s son send some bottles of water, in which Pelargonium leaves have been immersed, for more precise analysis of the potassium or other soluble ash? Can EF recommend a professional analyst to take on further experiments?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
21 Apr 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36205)
Summary:
Glad to receive the German edition of Erasmus Darwin. Hopes sales will be good. Favourable review has appeared in the United States, in the Nation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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- Alfred S. Posamentier (private collection)1
- American Philosophical Society1
- Archives of the New York Botanical Garden1
- Bancroft Library, University of California1
- Biblioteca Comunale dell'Archiginnasio1
- Cambridge University Library31
- Harvard University Archives1
- Huntington Library1
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives, Imperial College1
- John Murray Archive, National Library of Scotland1
- John Wilson Manuscripts Limited (dealer), Painswick Lawn, 7 Painswick Road1
- Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney2
- Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library1
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond12
- Royal Society4
- Spike Tyson (private collection)1
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz1
- State Darwin Museum1
- State Library of South Australia2
- Te Papa Archives, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa1
- The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester1
- UCL Library Services1
- University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections1
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