From:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 181: 116
Summary:
On clubroot fungus of cultivated Cruciferae.
Will give Russian wheat varieties another trial.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Cole
Date:
17 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Essex Naturalists Field Club MLDA/10)
Summary:
Thanks for the honour conferred upon him by the Epping Forest Field Club.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otago University
Date:
[16 Feb 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 43
Summary:
Testimonial for S. B. J. Skertchly, stating CD’s high opinion of his work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jean-Henri Casimir (Jean-Henri) Fabre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 2
Summary:
On instinct in insects. Intends to experiment as CD proposes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean-Henri Casimir (Jean-Henri) Fabre
Date:
20 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque centrale, Paris (Ms FAB 32)
Summary:
Discusses sense of direction of cats and other animals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
20 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 371
Summary:
Speculates on origin of habit [of insects?] of laying eggs on plants of certain families.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
21 [Feb 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 91
Summary:
Nature [21 (1880): 382] has an item about tremors and earth movements in Japan.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 162: 219
Summary:
Thanks CD for his offer. Suggests it be used to start a fund to pay travel expenses of English naturalists who want to come to the Station.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 138–9
Summary:
The debt of plant geography to voyages may be JDH’s topic at BAAS meeting [at Swansea].
Photographs from New Zealand forwarded.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
A. Gapitche
Date:
24 Feb 1880
Source of text:
ML 2: 444–5
Summary:
No one can prove death is inevitable, but the evidence in favour of this belief is overwhelming. It is in the highest degree improbable that man should cease to follow the general law of evolution, and evolution implies successive generations, which implies death.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Moultrie Salt
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
[26? Feb 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 9
Summary:
Wishes EAD to sign some road bonds and then forward them to CD so that they may be paid off. [EAD note to CD enclosed, saying he does not know where the money will go.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Date:
27 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 705)
Summary:
Leaves decision as to use of his gift to AD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry William Crosskey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 160: 187
Summary:
Forwards, on behalf of the Birmingham Philosophical Society, an address offering CD the first honorary membership of the Society. Encloses formal record of this meeting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry William Crosskey
Date:
[4 Mar 1880]
Source of text:
Birmingham Daily Post , 21 April 1882, p. 4
Summary:
Thanks HWC and the Birmingham Philosophical Society for their address in his honour.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adolf Ernst
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 163: 21
Summary:
Plants in Venezuelan plains.
Observations on Turnera: heterostyly, leaf-base glands’ secretion eaten by ants.
Observations on role of leaf secretions in fertilisation of Marcgravia and Passiflora.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
[after 16 Feb 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 19v
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for a gift of books.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Lemuel Chester
Date:
2 Mar 1880
Source of text:
James Innes (private collection) (Sold at Bonhams, 13 March 2002)
Summary:
Thanks JLC for his letter, pedigree, and MS of the history of the Darwin family.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 503
Summary:
Three hundred copies of Erasmus Darwin remain from the 1000 printed. Demand is small.
Should 250 copies of Forms of flowers be printed before type is distributed?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Mar 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 160
Summary:
Potatoes will be lost unless JT has immediate authority to proceed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 162: 220
Summary:
Thanks CD for his cheque for £100. Has told Secretary of BAAS Committee [for the Station], so that he may report it. [See O. J. R. Howarth, The British Association (1931), pp. 196–7.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project