From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 95: 502–3
Summary:
Responds, with some embarrassment, to JDH’s caution on Frank’s F.R.S. prospects.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
2 Dec [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 164
Summary:
Gives instructions to WED about looking for earthworm activity at Brading.
Mentions James Geikie’s excellent book [Prehistoric Europe (1881)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 95: 504–5
Summary:
Thanks for agreeing to propose Frank as F.R.S.
Would have enjoyed discussing Island life.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
9 Dec [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 101
Summary:
The Kovalevskys have been to lunch.
Madame Kovalevsky is greatly interested in GHD’s papers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton
Date:
13 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 185: 25
Summary:
CD and Emma enjoyed SH’s visit to Queen Anne Street and would like her to come to Down. When he next comes to London, he hopes to call on Fanny Biddulph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Murdoch (James) Geikie
Date:
13 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 144: 334
Summary:
Comments on Prehistoric Europe.
Asks JG’s opinion of Daniel Mackintosh’s paper ["Results of a systematic survey of erratic blocks", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 35 (1879): 425–53].
Comments on loess.
Feels uneasy about streams of stone of Falkland Islands.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
13 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 124
Summary:
Thanks for report [on potato experiments].
Still has subscription money for JT’s experiments. How much does he need?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermann Vöchting
Date:
16 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 197
Summary:
Comments on HV’s Über Organbildung im Pflanzenreich: über Wachstumsursachen und Lebenseinheiten [pt 1, 1878].
Mentions paper by his son [Francis Darwin, "The theory of the growth of cuttings, illustrated by observations on the bramble, Rubus fruticosus", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 18 (1881): 406–19].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George James Allman
Date:
17 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 143: 18
Summary:
Asks GJA to sign memorial [petitioning Government for pension for Wallace].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
17 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 144: 130
Summary:
Asks Flower to sign document [application for pension for Wallace].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
19 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 125
Summary:
Does JT require part or all of £90 that CD holds from subscribers for his experiments?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 95: 507–8
Summary:
On Wallace’s pension and Frank’s F.R.S.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otto Hahn
Date:
20 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 251: 3334
Summary:
Thanks for his letter and magnificently illustrated book.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
25 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 126
Summary:
Suggests JT make public his letter to W. E. Gladstone [on results of potato experiments]; thinks post office would object to JT’s plan of distribution.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
27 Dec [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 68
Summary:
FD’s abstract ["Physiology of plants", Nature 23 (1880): 178–81] is excellent, and as clear as daylight.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Douglas Campbell, 8th duke of Argyll
Date:
[before 27 Dec 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 23
Summary:
Encloses a memorial for Wallace which he hopes the Duke will read. Asks that he inform Gladstone of the memorial.
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:
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
