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From:
William Cole
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 19
Summary:

At the inaugural meeting of the Epping Forest & Essex Naturalists’ Field Club, CD was elected an Honorary Member.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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
From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 160: 171
Summary:

Has been at work on Orchideae for Genera plantarum and has found CD’s Orchids wonderfully useful. Comments on some problems of botanical terminology.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Date:
15 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 704)
Summary:

Thanks AD and the naturalists at the Station for their birthday congratulations.

CD has been awarded the Bressa prize of the Accademia delle Scienze in Turin, and it occurs to him that if the Station wanted some apparatus costing about £100, he would like to pay for it.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B56
Summary:

Agrees not to reply to Butler.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
16 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830-1884, GEB/1/3: f. 722)
Summary:

CD pleased to be of use to GB. He remembers his own work on orchids with pleasure. Thinks GB will be able to improve CD’s terminology for orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 121
Summary:

Asks CD to telegraph a testimonial for him.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Henry Faulds
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1880
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/22, 23)
Summary:

Asks CD’s help in obtaining data on finger-prints – both of ancient impressions in pottery and of living men of all races. Suggests a comparative study with similar markings of lemuroid monkeys might yield results of value about man’s origin. Gives the practical utility of prints in identification in criminal and legal studies and investigations. Encloses a form.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
17 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (128)
Summary:

Seed germination.

Strange that his plants [of Megarrhiza] behaved differently from AG’s [see 12455].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 181: 116
Summary:

On clubroot fungus of cultivated Cruciferae.

Will give Russian wheat varieties another trial.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Cole
Date:
17 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Essex Naturalists Field Club MLDA/10)
Summary:

Thanks for the honour conferred upon him by the Epping Forest Field Club.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Jean-Henri Casimir (Jean-Henri) Fabre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 2
Summary:

On instinct in insects. Intends to experiment as CD proposes.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean-Henri Casimir (Jean-Henri) Fabre
Date:
20 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque centrale, Paris (Ms FAB 32)
Summary:

Discusses sense of direction of cats and other animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
21 [Feb 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 91
Summary:

Nature [21 (1880): 382] has an item about tremors and earth movements in Japan.

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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 162: 219
Summary:

Thanks CD for his offer. Suggests it be used to start a fund to pay travel expenses of English naturalists who want to come to the Station.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 138–9
Summary:

The debt of plant geography to voyages may be JDH’s topic at BAAS meeting [at Swansea].

Photographs from New Zealand forwarded.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
A. Gapitche
Date:
24 Feb 1880
Source of text:
ML 2: 444–5
Summary:

No one can prove death is inevitable, but the evidence in favour of this belief is overwhelming. It is in the highest degree improbable that man should cease to follow the general law of evolution, and evolution implies successive generations, which implies death.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Date:
27 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 705)
Summary:

Leaves decision as to use of his gift to AD.

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