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:
George John Romanes
Date:
20 Dec 1880
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.576)
Summary:
Comments on papers by Francis Darwin.
Suggests methods for growing seedlings for experiments involving light.
Comments on GJR’s observations on monkey.
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:
Patrick Geddes
Date:
20 Dec 1880
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.10521)
Summary:
Gives permission to copy figures from Insectivorous plants for article in Encyclopaedia Britannica [by PG, 9th ed., vol. 13, pp. 134–40].
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:
Daniel Mackintosh
Date:
21 Dec 1880
Source of text:
Christie’s, New York (dealers) (9 June 1999)
Summary:
The recipient is thanked for his "interesting letter".
CD sends an article received from [James Geikie?]. "You will see that it is important to know whether the laminae of slate have ever been bent up-hill."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Raleigh Browne
Date:
22 Dec 1880
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 7385)
Summary:
Believes the conference will be of no value because individuals can only decide for themselves on the truths of science and religion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
22 Dec [1880]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:
Anxious that AG should consider a memorial [for A. R. Wallace]. Makes arrangements to avoid delay.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Luther Hawkins
Date:
23 Dec 1880
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:
Thanks for information about cats avoiding certain species of mice.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
23 Dec 1880
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
CD is familiar with cases of prepotency that are so strong that a cross has no effect.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[29 Dec 1880]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 363)
Summary:
Has asked Hooker to sign the Wallace memorial and send it on to THH.
Read splendid lecture by THH on evolution in the Times ["On the application of the laws of evolution to the arrangement of the Vertebrata and more particularly of the Mammalia", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1880): 649–62].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Maurice Herbert
Date:
25 Dec [1880]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.577)
Summary:
Recalls student days at Cambridge and microscope JMH gave him.
Discusses his children, health, and work.
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:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
26 Dec 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36210)
Summary:
CD’s sons tell him that Samuel Butler in Unconscious memory states that some passages in Erasmus Darwin were taken from his Evolution, old and new. Their unprejudiced view is that the passages do come from Butler. CD hopes EK will give a clear explanation if he writes on the matter in Kosmos.
CD is taking no public notice of Butler’s attack on himself.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
27 Dec 1880
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 354)
Summary:
Has obtained signatures for the memorial. Wonders whether Gladstone would see a deputation and offers to write to Gladstone instead. Asks THH’s advice.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
27 Dec 1880
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 723)
Summary:
Asks GB to sign certificate for Francis Darwin [candidate for Royal Society].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
27 Dec 1880
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:
Sends memorial [for A. R. Wallace] for AG to sign. Asks whether AG will forward it to Owen; CD cannot send it as he has not spoken to him for 20 years.
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
