From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Crawford Williamson
Date:
18 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 221.4: 247
Summary:
Receiving deputation gave CD pleasure.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Crier
Date:
Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 37
Summary:
Discusses matters relating to Great Western Railway Company stock.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
9 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 143: 183
Summary:
Thanks for information about Wallace. Is preparing memorial to be submitted to Government [seeking pension for Wallace].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Mackintosh
Date:
13 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 146: 334
Summary:
Comments on DM’s ["The Moel-Tryfan shelly deposits", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 37 (1881): 351–69].
Comments on cause of earthquakes.
Believes formation of ice lowered level of sea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
14 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 143: 184
Summary:
Comments on her new book [Life and her children (1880)]. "… you have treated evolution with much dexterity and truthfulness".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
20 Nov [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 98
Summary:
Glad GHD goes on with ripple-marks; if he makes out a theory of ripples, they might give important information about the most ancient deposits.
CD has been wonderfully glorified in the Times [review of Movement in plants, 20 Nov 1880].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton
Date:
22 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 185: 24
Summary:
Thanks SH for her kind letter; would like to see her again.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 95: 496–9
Summary:
Admires Wallace’s Island life.
Criticises: 1. His view of similar plants on distant mountains – CD prefers previous low-land connections to Wallace’s summit–summit dispersal;
2. Source of warmth for ancient Arctic climate;
3. Origin of S. Australian flora.
CD’s favourite cases in Movement in plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
23 Nov [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 99
Summary:
Discusses GHD’s ripple theory. Asks him how they are formed.
Delighted to hear that light is dawning in GHD’s eyes on the planetary system.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
23 [Nov 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 153: 137
Summary:
Asks WED to observe whether worms consistently draw acacia leaves into their burrows with a particular end first.
Will soon know whether he will need worm-castings from Beaulieu.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Giovanni Ettore Mengozzi
Date:
[after 24 Nov 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 112v
Summary:
Asks GEM to thank La Scuola Italica for the honour conferred upon him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[27 Nov 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 100
Summary:
Thanks to Times review, Murray needs 500 more copies [of Movement in plants].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
27 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 146: 442
Summary:
Has heard of flood from which Fritz Müller escaped. Has he lost books, microscope, apparatus? Offers £50 or £100.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
27 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 147: 270
Summary:
Will send copy of Movement in plants.
Encloses copies of articles [unspecified].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Murdoch (James) Geikie
Date:
27 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 144: 333
Summary:
Thanks JG for his magnificent book [Prehistoric Europe].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Nov [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 500–1
Summary:
Wants to see Frank become F.R.S. before he dies.
Pities Wallace and wants a pension for him very much.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
30 Nov [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 163
Summary:
Asks whether WED can collect some worm-castings from Beaulieu Abbey.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
