From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 210.11: 19
Summary:
Murray’s must reprint Descent. Does CD want to make any corrections in the plates?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander Randall Carrington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 161: 50
Summary:
ARC found a frog in New Zealand; contradicts CD [in Origin, 6th ed. (1872), p. 350.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 177: 313
Summary:
Wonders whether CD can explain why white muscat grapes growing between two black grapevines have started turning black on ripening but retain the muscat flavour.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Crawford Williamson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 181: 110
Summary:
Thanks CD for receiving the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union’s deputation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Nov 1880
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 98–9
Summary:
Thanks for copy of W. O. Focke [Die Pflanzen-Mischlinge (1881)].
Has nearly finished paper on locomotor system in echinoderms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 87
Summary:
Comments on CD’s book [Movement in plants].
Continues with his experiments with ripple-marks.
Is in despair about his astronomy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Baruch Jakob Placzek
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 174: 47
Summary:
Behaviour of pigeons is now different from that described in Beresbith Raba, a 3d century gloss on Genesis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 161: 114
Summary:
Some sheets [of Movement in plants] are missing. Is delighted with its "lesson of methods of observation patience and thought".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 144
Summary:
Thanks for Movement in plants.
Condolences on S. E. Wedgwood’s death.
Contributor:
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From:
Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 211–12
Summary:
A laudatory reference in the Times [19 Nov 1880, p. 4] impels her to write after many years. Hopes to see him.
Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 106: B149
Summary:
Thanks for book [Movement in plants].
Contributor:
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From:
Daniel Mackintosh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 11
Summary:
The use of earthquakes as a geological cause in his previous letter was careless.
Shelly beach deposits over considerable distance from Ireland to Scotland seem better explained by high sea-level than low land.
Only CD seems to have reported shattered rocks under the Moel Tryfan drift.
Contributor:
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From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 21 Nov 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 98
Summary:
Wishes to see CD.
He has been proposed as Professor of Geology at the University of Moscow.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 104: 142–5
Summary:
Praise for Movement in plants, lately arrived.
Praise for Wallace’s Island life
and astonishment that he could be a spiritualist.
Differs with Wallace on age of SW. Australian flora. JDH ascribes its peculiarities to isolation by an inland sea.
Contributor:
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov [1880]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 83)
Summary:
Thanks CD for copy of Movement in plants and says he is enjoying it. Is pleased that a full article appeared in the Times. Will go to Beaulieu soon for worm casts. His gardener calls worms “our civil engineers”. Promised to tell Frank how to make plants bend.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Oliver Alexander Ainslie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 159: 11a (fragile)
Summary:
Has learned of death of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood, former proprietor of Tromer Lodge, and writes about his deceased father’s earlier attempts to purchase this property. Requests information on any future transfer of it.
Contributor:
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From:
Frederick McDermott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 201: 22
Summary:
Wishes to read CD’s books; will not do so without an assurance of CD’s faith in the New Testament.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel Newington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 172: 37
Summary:
He has proved that heat is generated by the exudation of oxygen from roots, and that there is continuous electrical action from leaves to roots.
Contributor:
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From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 161: 26
Summary:
Finds CD was correct in Variation: hybrid bees tend to sting more often than pure-bred bees.
Preparing a second edition of the chapter on the origin of cultivated plants in his Géographie botanique. The work done since 1855 confirms his opinions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 23 Nov 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 105
Summary:
CD may not mean same thing as WTT-D by absorbent pegs in Abronia.
F. O. Bower’s paper on Welwitschia [germination] [Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 21 (1881): 15–30] will appear in January.
Has observed earthworms for CD: they do not draw Robinia leaves into burrows by the petioles.
Contributor:
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