From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[before 16 Sept 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 168
Summary:
Wants some more rubber bands for his wrist.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 508
Summary:
Has CD made arrangements with D. Appleton for Movement in plants? CD’s instructions about the index have been forwarded.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Crawford Williamson
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
2 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 181: 109
Summary:
Asks whether CD would object to a deputation from the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Horace Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 64.1: 34–5
Summary:
Observations on earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ralph Price Hardy
Date:
7 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 64
Summary:
Thanks RPH for the trouble he has taken on behalf of the Down Friendly Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Horace Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 and 12 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 64.1: 36–7
Summary:
Reports evidence of earthworm activity.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
10 Sept [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 162
Summary:
Writes about worm-castings; tells WED not to bother with samples from Beaulieu Abbey.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 160: 29
Summary:
Thanks for letter, which made up for difficulty of his speech [at BAAS meeting, Swansea].
Has met Horace Darwin and wife;
climbed Matterhorn.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Adolf Theodor Wilhelm (Wilhelm) Viëtor
Date:
16 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 194a
Summary:
Improvement in orthography would be national benefit, but cannot contribute to WV’s paper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Sept 1880
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 78)
Summary:
Sends four wrist bands, and advice on putting them on. George is well. Can easily get worm castings. Lilly and Mlle Wild arrived in a storm to stay the night. Is much amused by Sedgwick’s ferocious letter about Vestiges.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 159: 107
Summary:
Would be glad to have a set of plates for Movement in plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 161: 113
Summary:
Will be happy to translate CD’s new book [Movement in plants]. Asks how large the book will be.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Horace Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[18 Sept 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 73
Summary:
Found worm-casts atop a 2555–foot hill.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
Date:
21 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 143: 144
Summary:
Comments on WB’s paper ["Über Variabilitäts-Erscheinungen an den Blüthen von Primula elatior und eine Anwendung des biogenetischen Grundgesetzes", Bot. Ztg. 38 (1880): 577–80].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Mellard Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 176: 30
Summary:
Sends his paper ["Oceans and continents", Geol. Mag. 7 (1880): 385–91].
Thinks John Murray of Edinburgh goes out of his way to deny an elevation/subsidence view of coral reefs ["On the structure and origin of coral reefs and islands", Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh 10 (1878–80): 505–18].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Josiah Mason
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 22 Sept 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 64.1: 49
Summary:
Invitation to an address by T. H. Huxley at Josiah Mason's Science College in Birmingham.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 166: 129
Summary:
Supervising French translation of Movement in plants. Why does not CD consider spontaneous movements of flower parts, which EMH sees also as circumnutation?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 104: 140–1
Summary:
Can Alphonse de Candolle see CD?
Asa Gray at Kew; will meet JDH in Italy in December.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles James (Charles) Layton; D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 159: 106, 108
Summary:
Encloses statement of U. S. sales of CD’s works to 1 Aug 1880 and a cheque for the balance due to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott Keltie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 105
Summary:
Asks whether CD would care to preface the letter of Burt G. Wilder which he forwarded for publication ["Two kinds of vivisection", Nature 22 (1880): 517–18].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
