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:
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 Harrison Tindal
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 227.7: 11–13, 16, 18, 25, 128
Summary:
Encloses extracts from the correspondence of [the Ven. Robert] Clive concerning Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 75)
Summary:
Discusses possible investments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B65–6
Summary:
Asks CD for reference to the edition of Kosmos that contains the original of Ernst Krause’s article on Dr Erasmus Darwin. There are serious differences between the translation by W. S. Dallas and the Feb [1879] article by Krause on which CD, in the preface to Erasmus Darwin, says it was based. SB notes in particular that the concluding sentence of the translation, which is clearly aimed at [SB’s] Evolution, old and new, is not in the original. Since readers will assume the text of Erasmus Darwin was written before his book appeared, SB asks for an explanation.
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:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 96
Summary:
Concerning subscriptions raised for Torbitt’s experiments on potato disease.
Comments on CD’s latest book [Movement in plants].
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:
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:
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
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 106: B142–3
Summary:
Gratified by CD’s praise.
Describes plan of his new book [Island life (1880)].
Efforts to secure a post.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 99: 197–8
Summary:
Thanks CD for Erasmus Darwin. Comments on it.
News of Violetta Darwin’s death.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 165: 201
Summary:
Sends some cotton seeds for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
