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:
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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Keltie
Date:
[after 24 Sept 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 105v
Summary:
Writes a sentence with which to preface B. G. Wilder’s letter [see 12726]. [Not used by and, perhaps, not sent to Nature.]
Contributor:
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From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 178: 168
Summary:
Has raised about 500 varieties out of the crop of the second generation comprising about 1500 varieties. Growers report immense yield and no disease. Doubts if variety free of disease will live for ever. New varieties must be continually coming into existence.
Contributor:
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From:
George King
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 169: 21
Summary:
Sends two preserved pigs (showing some hereditary phenomenon) that the late John Scott intended for CD.
King has all of Scott’s papers.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George King
Date:
29 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 249: 89
Summary:
Grieved to hear of John Scott’s death.
Could GK visit Down?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project