Search: Darwin, C. R. in correspondent 
1880-1889::1880::06 in date 
No in transcription-available 
Sorted by:

Showing 2130 of 30 items

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Carmichael McIntosh
Date:
18 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 146: 351
Summary:

Asks for information about worms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Burnett Tylor
Date:
19 June [1880]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 50254: 96–8)
Summary:

Discusses animals’ ability to learn to recognise danger, especially poisonous herbs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Burnett Tylor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 178: 206
Summary:

Learning by experience of others: birds being killed by telegraph wires when first set up; sheep in Australia eating poisonous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of Derby
Date:
25 June 1880
Source of text:
Liverpool Record Office, Liverpool Central Library (920 DER (15) 43/89/21/2)
Summary:

Sending EHS (Lord Derby) information about the Niagara affair.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 June [1880]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 82)
Summary:

Asks whether CD will forward enclosed to Lord Derby, and offers to send him a copy of the New York state survey. Will go to Beaulieu in the early autumn. Tells story about gallenes raised by hens being attacked.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Spallanzani Monument Committee
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 177: 222
Summary:

Printed circular from the committee to set up a monument to Lazzaro Spallanzani in Scandiano.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
June 1880
Source of text:
Roundell 1880 , pp. 10–11
Summary:

Supporting the abolition of clerical headships and fellowships at Oxford and Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 19
Summary:

Further details of pavement that sank from action of earthworms. There were plenty of castings, which first led him to think worms were involved.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
13 June [1880]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 ff. 60–1)
Summary:

Letter of introduction for R. B. Litchfield.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 505
Summary:

Matters related to Climbing plants

and reprint [1880] of Forms of flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project