From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 140
Summary:
Wants information on Fritz Müller’s papers bearing on Weismann’s work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Giovanni Ettore Mengozzi
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 112
Summary:
Announces proposal to make CD an Honorary Member of La Scuola Italica.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp (Wilhelm) Pfeffer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 174: 37
Summary:
Thanks for Movement in plants.
Describes work [on Pflanzenphysiologie, 2 vols. (1881)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 174: 71
Summary:
Sends his book [Naturwissenschaftliche Thatsachen und Probleme. Populäre Vorträge (1880)].
Anxious to receive Movement in plants because CD’s methods may be applicable to his experiments on the earliest movements of animal embryos.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 87
Summary:
Praise for Movement in plants.
He thinks G. A. Chatin, whom CD quotes [p. 389], is mistaken about movement of conifer leaves. Cites his own paper ["Relations between morphology and physiology in the leaves of certain conifers", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 17 (1880): 547–52].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Nov 1880
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 349)
Summary:
Huxley has persuaded JDH that the Wallace memorial may not be hopeless; JDH still has misgivings about Wallace’s spiritualism but will follow CD’s and Huxley’s decision.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Nov [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 110
Summary:
Observations on worms’ pulling leaves into their burrows.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 513
Summary:
Five hundred more copies of Movement in plants must be printed immediately. Asks CD to send any corrections to printer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 169: 110
Summary:
Thanks CD for copy of Movement in plants. It will be reviewed in Kosmos [8 (1880–1): 258–71] by Hermann Müller.
Kosmos will probably cease publication. Publisher has decided to sell.
Fritz Müller has suffered from flood.
Müller’s latest letter contains a polemic against Wagner’s migration theory,
and some interesting observations on Crustacea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 317
Summary:
Movement in plants has shown him CD’s research method: 1. Find a fundamental idea of great generality (circumnutation); 2. Pursue it everywhere with observations and experiment; 3. Conduct special observations which undo any doubt of generality.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 104: 146–7
Summary:
Quality of Frank’s work merits F.R.S., but quantity could defer speedy election. Will advise best strategy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 167: 38
Summary:
Has heard that land may be available for parsonage at Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Florence Caroline (Florence) Douglas; Florence Caroline (Florence) Dixie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Nov [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 184
Summary:
Sends CD a copy of her book [Across Patagonia (1880)],
together with a privately printed "tragedy" written at the age of 14.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Ferguson McLennan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 26
Summary:
Thanks for reference [to Lorimer Fison and A. W. Howitt, Kamilaroi and Kurnai (1880)].
Irate against L. H. Morgan.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 316
Summary:
Fritz Müller suffered moderate damage in Brazilian flood.
Continued praise for the universal importance for botany of Movement in plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 November 1880
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B149
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 297
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 311]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 November 1880
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B145-148
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 294-296
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 308-311]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 November 1880
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 104: 142-5
Summary:
Island life. Expresses amazement that ARW should be a Spiritualist.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 November 1880
Source of text:
Imperial College Archives, London: Huxley Collection 5.349
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 November 1880
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 166: 353
- Huxley, L. (1913). In: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley. Vol. 2. London: Macmillan & Co. [p. 282]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project