From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
29 May [1879]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:
Hearty thanks for the two bottles of pure water.
Contributor:
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From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Jan 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 260
Summary:
H. N. Moseley says [in "Notes on plants collected and observed at the Admiralty Islands", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 15 (1877): 77] pigeons eject seeds in fit state for germination. He regards pigeons as providing most efficient means of transport in Malayan Archipelago.
CD’s collected notes on geographical distribution would make a good book.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[after 25 Feb 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 76
Summary:
Frank [Darwin] has found a Trifolium remarkable for "bloom", but it was not in flower. If GHD knows where it grows, could he dig up the whole plant?
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
4 July [1879?]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 65–6)
Summary:
Thanks WTT-D for Drosophyllum seeds.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
3 June [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 25
Summary:
Asks whether canary grass and oats have chlorophyll in their cotyledons.
Has been working hard at circumnutation of leaves to see whether sleep movements are exaggerated circumnutation.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ann Marston
Date:
20 July [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 22
Summary:
Will not sign a petition, for he feels vivisection is essential to the progress of physiology.
Contributor:
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From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1879?]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 151
Summary:
Has found no [potato] variety whose foliage can resist the parasite, except when grown under glass.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[4 Feb – 8 Mar 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 49
Summary:
Requests some seeds.
Believes the leaves of Phyllanthus sleep like those of Cassia.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
1 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:
Thanks AG for his kind note and returns his good wishes.
Contributor:
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From:
Marius Koch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 169: 48
Summary:
A young disciple wishes to know if reports of people with tails in New Guinea could be true.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
4 [June] 1879
Source of text:
DAR 148: 366
Summary:
Mentions wheat varieties sent by Governor General of Turkestan.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
4 Jan [1879]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (Frankland Collection)
Summary:
Fears that the promised bottle of pure water may have been despatched or stolen in passage. [See 11768a.]
Contributor:
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From:
Mary Jung
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 168: 94
Summary:
Young Austrian woman asks for CD’s autograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Carl (Charles) Kraus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 169: 104
Summary:
A supporter of "the presumptive connection between socialism and evolution through natural selection" sends essays of Carl Vogt and requests CD to comment on them publicly.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
9 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Dr Mirko Majer (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for the copies of his engraving. "The work seems to be, though I cannot pretend to be a judge, a vy fine production".
Contributor:
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 70)
Summary:
Sends figures on increase in value of North Western Railway stocks. Says consol stock considered much more secure for bankers. Does not think his own bank is in danger of a run. Is glad to see the Emperor of Prussia has confirmed CD’s appointment to Academy. Is snowing at Bassett.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
10 Jan [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 152
Summary:
G[eorge] has visited A[nthony] R[ich] at Worthing.
Contributor:
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From:
Leopold Würtenberger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 181: 184
Summary:
Asks about possibility of securing grant in England in order to complete work on ammonites. Describes progress. Could CD recommend him to a foundation? Describes personal background.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Jung
Date:
11 Jan 1879
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 681, 28–9 June 2005)
Summary:
Suggests MJ does not worry about the differences in opinion between ecclesiastics and scientists.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Harrison Blackley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 194
Summary:
Relates anecdote about a provincial girl’s reaction to being told men descended from monkeys.
Contributor:
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- Darwin, C. R.
- Krause, Ernst46
- Darwin, Francis31
- Thiselton-Dyer, W. T.24
- Darwin, G. H.22
- Dallas, W. S.20
- Darwin, Reginald19
- Hooker, J. D.18
- Torbitt, James14
- Meldola, Raphael11
- Farrer, T. H.10
- Galton, E. A.10
- Galton, Francis10
- Wheler, E. A.10
- Goodacre, F. B.9
- Haeckel, Ernst9
- Darwin, W. E.8
- Hacon, W. M.8
- Darwin, C. M. C.7
- Darwin, V. H.7
- Rich, Anthony7
- Vries, Hugo de7
- Allen, Grant6
- Brunton, T. L.6
- Cooke, R. F.6
- Galton, E. S.6
- John Murray6
- Marshall, Victor6
- Buckley, A. B.5
- Darwin, Leonard5
- Fisher (née Buckley), Arabella Burton5
- Moseley, H. N.5
- Unidentified5
- Alberts, Karl4
- Bary, Anton de4
- Butler, A. G.4
- Darwin, E. A.4
- Ffinden, G. S.4
- Fiske, John4
- Garrison, W. P.4
- Höchberg, Karl4
- Murray, John (b)4
- Nature4
- Neumayr, Melchior4
- Paget, James4
- Reinwald, C.-F.4
- Schulte, Eduard4
- Sulivan, B. J.4
- Wilson, A. S.4
- Würtenberger, Leopold4
- Bates, H. W.3
- Burdon Sanderson, J. S.3
- Darwin, Horace3
- Errera, L. A.3
- Frankland, Edward3
- Gray, Asa3
- Johnson, Henry (a)3
- Mackintosh, Daniel3
- Mengden, Nicolai3
- Müller, Hermann3
- Pitman, H. A.3
- Retzius, Gustaf3
- Richardson, B. W.3
- Romanes, G. J.3
- Asher, G. M.2
- Ball, John2
- Batalin, A. F.2
- Behrens, Wilhelm2
- Blackley, C. H.2
- Cheadle, W. B.2
- Chester, J. L.2
- Collings, E. J.2
- Darwin, Caroline2
- Darwin, H. E.2
- Dixon, R. W.2
- Dodel-Port, Arnold2
- Fordyce, John2
- Gaertner, Albin2
- Gladstone, W. E.2
- Henslow, George2
- Hubrecht, A. A. W.2
- Huxley, T. H.2
- Jung, Mary2
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- Reeks, Henry2
- Saporta, Gaston de2
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- Tegetmeier, W. B.2
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- Wedgwood, Caroline2
- White, Francis Buchanan2
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- Wright, E. P.2
- Zeuthen, H. G.2
- Alston, Emily1
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- British Museum1
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- Edinburgh University1
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