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DCP-LETT-12423F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jabez Hogg
Date:
14 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Maggs Brothers (dealers) (catalogue 1453, 2011)
Summary:

CD’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, must have published on arsenic, as his father never published on medical subjects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12424

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
15 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 199–200)
Summary:

Thanks for cotton seeds.

Germination of Megarrhiza.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12425

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
15 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 41
Summary:

Sends copy of Kosmos [containing Krause’s article on Erasmus Darwin].

Believes he can spare an Erasmus Darwin letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12429

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
17 [Jan 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 1
Summary:

Thanks his children for their present of a fur coat.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12431

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
18 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 201–2)
Summary:

Suspects WTT-D is the author of a good review of Erasmus Darwin in Nature [21 (1880): 245–7].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12433

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
19 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (126)
Summary:

Describes the germination and early growth of Megarrhiza about which AG has been misinformed. The tubular petioles act functionally like a root.

Ipomoea did not germinate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12434

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
19 Jan 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36199)
Summary:

Replies to EK’s queries about German translation of CD’s preface to Erasmus Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12436

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
20 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (127)
Summary:

Germination of Delphinium and Megarrhiza.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12437

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
21 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/50 [A 9904])
Summary:

Thanks EH for copy of book [Das System der Medusen (1879)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12440

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
27 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 203–4)
Summary:

Asa Gray wants seeds of a variety of cotton known as vine cotton.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12441

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
29 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 90
Summary:

Sorry to hear of his illness.

On his visit to J. F. McLennan, GHD might tell him that CD thinks A. R. Wallace would work up McLennan’s materials conscientiously.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12442G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermann Welcker
Date:
30 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Universitätsarchiv (Rep. 29, Nr. 715)
Summary:

Thanks for letter of 18th January 1880 and for present of Essays. Interested in Welcker’s investigation of the 'ligamentum teres', and his comment on the feet of the Chinese.

Will esteem it an honour if Welcker dedicates his next book to him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12443

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean-Henri Casimir (Jean-Henri) Fabre
Date:
31 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 144: 14; Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque centrale, Paris (Ms FAB 32)
Summary:

Comments on JHF’s book [Souvenirs entomologiques (1879)].

Discusses story told by Erasmus Darwin about a wasp cutting off wings of fly.

Sorry JHF is opposed to descent theory.

Suggests experiment concerning insects’ sense of direction.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12630

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Eugene Ferguson
Date:
12 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Indiana University, The Lilly Library (Ferguson MSS)
Summary:

Suggests CEF read Ernst Haeckel’s Evolution of man [1879] and Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1980

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 January 1880
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 286-288
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 304]
Summary:

Admiration for ARW’s paper, The origin of species and genera, Nineteenth Century (1880). Good use of Allen’s "admirable researches". Disappointment about the Epping Forest appointment. Farrer’s article in Fortnightly Review.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP6867

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry? Huxley?
Date:
[1880]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 91: 101
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP6871

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
[Thomas Henry?] [Huxley?]
Date:
[1880]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 91: 100
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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