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.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
5 Feb 1880
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.571)
Summary:
On GJR’s work on mental evolution in animals. Emphasises "love" among animals.
Comments on stimulation of plants.
On pleasure and pain.
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From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 99: 133–134
Summary:
Since CD has decided not to answer S. Butler’s charge, WSD will not reply either.
Will look over Francis Darwin’s lecture ["Climbing plants"] with a view to publishing it in Popular Science Review [19 (1880): 213–29].
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From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B53
Summary:
Thinks CD has no need to reply to Samuel Butler’s hostile article [in the Athenæum]. Offers to reply himself.
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From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1880
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 95
Summary:
Thinks Herbert Spencer has done little service to science but a great service to thinking.
Thinks importance of mathematics overestimated [by J. F. Moulton] in criticising Spencer.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
[12 Dec 1880]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36203)
Summary:
CD is pleased that EK will answer Butler. Thinks Butler is half insane.
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From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B54
Summary:
Returns [Butler’s] attack, which he forgot to send yesterday.
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From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 166: 76
Summary:
Sends birthday wishes.
Discusses work on Medusae.
Recalls visit to Down.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
9 Feb 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36201)
Summary:
CD advises EK on his proposed letter answering Butler.
Considering the favourable reviews, sale of Erasmus Darwin has been poor.
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From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B55
Summary:
Birthday greetings.
Regrets Butler’s malicious attack.
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From:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 160: 294
Summary:
Describes formation of student nature study club at the University of Jena. Sends birthday greetings from the club.
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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 162: 218
Summary:
Sends birthday greetings
and the good news of a subvention for the Zoological Station received from the German government. There are now 20 naturalists working at the Station.
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From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 144: 486
Summary:
It might be possible to borrow £500 [for potato experiments]. Variety of "The Champion" spreading over the Kingdom. Champion lately less able to produce.
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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].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
12 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/51 [A 9905])
Summary:
Thanks for his very kind letter.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
13 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:
CD thanks RLT for his two notes, a newspaper article, and a copy of RLT’s address honouring him.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
13 Feb 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36202)
Summary:
Thanks EK for kind letter.
CD’s date on epitaph is a dreadful mistake. CD often overlooks errata.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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- Cooke, R. F.36
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