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DCP-LETT-12592

From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 314
Summary:

Fritz Müller’s daughter has committed suicide.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12593

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
28 Apr 1880
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 176–178)
Summary:

MS of Movement in plants in final stage. Fears it will displease many German physiologists. It is an attempt to bring all the diversified movements of plants under one general law or system.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12593F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
28 Apr [1880]
Source of text:
eBay (22 August 2019)
Summary:

Forgot he owned vol. 1 of Hermann Engelhard von Nathusius’s Vorträge über Viehzucht und Raßenkenntniss (Nathusius 1872–80). Please to send vol. 2 when convenient.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12594

From:
Thomas Meehan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 113
Summary:

There has been talk in American papers of CD’s admitting he was wrong about hybrid sterility. TM has presented CD’s views in the New York Independent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12594F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Herod Dailey Garrison
Date:
29 Apr 1880
Source of text:
Spike Tyson (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks for the interesting case of inheritance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12595

From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 259
Summary:

F. V. Dickins feels hurt at CD’s censure of him over the Omori shell mound controversy [see Collected papers 2: 222–3]. Dickins is well educated in science and long familiar with Japan, having been editor of the Japan Mail. In Japan, E. S. Morse is considered a charlatan, and American scientists, e.g., A. Agassiz, have a low opinion of him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13103A

From:
Jules (Saint Geniez) Rouquette
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 2 Apr 1880]
Source of text:
DAR pamphlet R339: 2
Summary:

Quote from letter to Rouquette in dedication of an essay to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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