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DCP-LETT-12826

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

DCP-LETT-12383

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[before 16 Sept 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 168
Summary:

Wants some more rubber bands for his wrist.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12392

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
1 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 185: 6
Summary:

Arrangements regarding HD’s allowances.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12397

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Prestwich
Date:
3 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 147: 253
Summary:

JP is right; CD gave up [Glen Roy theory] when he read T. F. Jamieson ["On the parallel roads of Glen Roy", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 19 (1863): 235–58].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12399

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
3 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 147: 515
Summary:

Returns BJS’s Christmas good wishes.

The progress of Tierra del Fuego is almost as wonderful as that of Japan.

Is sorry to hear about Mellersh.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12405

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vincent, Teja & Co.
Date:
5 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 68
Summary:

Requests that they receive, on his behalf, an award of 12000 lira [lire!?] from the Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin, and transmit it to the Union Bank, London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12405F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Harrison Tindal
Date:
5 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 185: 118
Summary:

Thanks for the information about Dr Erasmus Darwin and his parents.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12411

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
8 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 369
Summary:

Glad ASW has solved puzzle of outer seeds.

Quite agrees about great improbability of sudden transformations.

Asks for copy of report from Gardeners’ Chronicle [see 12404].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12415

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
11 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 7
Summary:

Sends enclosure [missing], which HD is to forward to W. E. Darwin, as everyone else has seen it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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-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:
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DCP-LETT-12453

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Buckley Litchfield
Date:
2 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 146: 56
Summary:

Thanks RBL for advice [concerning dispute with Samuel Butler]. Notes reaction of family.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12460

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Zaccheus Seddon
Date:
4 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 147: 461
Summary:

Comments on colours of races of man. Wishes WZS "or anybody else" could account for them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12473

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
18 July 1880
Source of text:
DAR 146: 441
Summary:

Enjoyed HM’s castigation of Gaston Bonnier ["Gaston Bonniers angebliche Widerlegung der modernen Blumentheorie", Kosmos 7 (1880): 219–36].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12477

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
Date:
13 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 143: 143
Summary:

Thanks society of students at Jena for birthday congratulations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12478

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
13 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 370
Summary:

Thanks for articles by ASW in Gardeners’ Chronicle [see 12404]. Agrees with him.

Asks about growth of rootlets from knobs caused by fungus on roots of Cruciferae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12479

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
14 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 144: 100
Summary:

Torbitt too poor to go on with [potato] experiments. If anything is to be done it must be by Government.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12481

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
14 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 147: 535
Summary:

Would be glad to see RLT at Down if he thinks it fit to come there to deliver the address honouring CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12492

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otago University
Date:
[16 Feb 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 43
Summary:

Testimonial for S. B. J. Skertchly, stating CD’s high opinion of his work.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12495

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
20 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 371
Summary:

Speculates on origin of habit [of insects?] of laying eggs on plants of certain families.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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