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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[c. 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 799
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 209.7: 159
Summary:
"Dia" [as a prefix] means "through, across".
WED’s wife would like to meet the Huxleys.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 308
Summary:
Repeats extracts of a letter received from Bishop Stirling’s daughter containing anecdotes and observations of the Fuegian natives.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 15 Dec 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 62
Summary:
Will stay until London until after the Linnean Society meeting unless CD wants anything. Asks to send abstracts of papers. Has made short abstracts of papers for Nature.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Clowes & Sons
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 8 Nov 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 180
Summary:
Explains delay in printing proofs [of Movement in plants?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[18 Mar 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 52: E15
Summary:
On the disease-resisting qualities and yield of certain potatoes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Oliver Alexander Ainslie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2[5] Nov 188[0]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 11b
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s letter, and further discussion of the sale of Tromer Lodge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
1 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 185: 6
Summary:
Arrangements regarding HD’s allowances.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Prestwich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 174: 66
Summary:
Having reviewed the history of the Glen Roy debate ["On the origin of the parallel roads of Lochaber, and their bearing on other phenomena of the glacial period", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 170 (1880): 663–776], JP wishes to know whether it is accurate to say CD has abandoned the marine theory.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Prestwich
Date:
3 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 147: 253
Summary:
JP is right; CD gave up [Glen Roy theory] when he read T. F. Jamieson ["On the parallel roads of Glen Roy", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 19 (1863): 235–58].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jean-Henri Casimir (Jean-Henri) Fabre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 1
Summary:
Sends a copy of his Souvenirs entomologiques [1879].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
3 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 147: 515
Summary:
Returns BJS’s Christmas good wishes.
The progress of Tierra del Fuego is almost as wonderful as that of Japan.
Is sorry to hear about Mellersh.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Wallis Nash
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 172: 4
Summary:
Reports on the comfortable life of an immigrant in Oregon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 181: 115
Summary:
Results of his second year of experiments with Russian wheat varieties will be published in Gardeners’ Chronicle [n.s. 13 (1880): 108, 172–3].
Observations on germination of wheat.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 79)
Summary:
Delighted by honour CD has received from Turin. Agrees with Horace that the money ought to be given to the Zoological Station at Naples.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vincent, Teja & Co.
Date:
5 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 68
Summary:
Requests that they receive, on his behalf, an award of 12000 lira [lire!?] from the Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin, and transmit it to the Union Bank, London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Harrison Tindal
Date:
5 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 185: 118
Summary:
Thanks for the information about Dr Erasmus Darwin and his parents.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B51
Summary:
Pleased by favourable English newspaper reviews of Erasmus Darwin. Charles Reinwald has not yet said whether he wants to use annotations intended for German readers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Burges Goodacre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 165: 70
Summary:
FBG greatly interested in CD’s article ["Fertility of hybrids from the Chinese and common goose"] but has not altered his opinion on the matter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
