From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 159: 104
Summary:
Statement of U.S. sales of CD’s works.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Potonié
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 174: 59
Summary:
Cites evolutionary passages by Alexander Braun in English edition of Braun’s Verjüngung [1853].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Maston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 88
Summary:
A stonemason who has read Origin and Descent and defends CD’s theory against theological prejudice, would like to read CD’s other books but is too poor to afford them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 258
Summary:
Sends regards from Capt. Charles Owen, who had collected beetles for CD.
Owen’s son is going to Oregon with Wallis Nash.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 134
Summary:
Has arranged for publication of his translation of Weismann.
S. H. Scudder article on sexual dimorphism in butterflies [Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 12 (1877): 150–8].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leopold Würtenberger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 181: 186
Summary:
£100 has arrived and LW will set to work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 175
Summary:
GH no longer believes in the value of cross-fertilisation in plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 72
Summary:
Sends birthday wishes.
Comments on progress of CD’s theory in Germany. Mentions opposition of Rudolf Virchow and his reply Freie Wissenschaft und freie Lehre [1878].
Describes research trip to Brittany and Normandy.
Research on Challenger Radiolaria.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Karl Alberts
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 95
Summary:
Birthday congratulations from the editors of Kosmos. They will mark the occasion with a special number of Kosmos.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Alberts
Date:
[after 9 Feb 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 95v
Summary:
Thanks KA and the other editors of Kosmos for the issue published in honour of his birthday. Sees there is much in it that will interest him greatly.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B14
Summary:
Birthday greetings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henslow
Date:
11 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR (CD Library - G. Henslow 1888)
Summary:
Disagrees with GH over the value of cross-fertilisation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 159: 43
Summary:
Has sent copy of his new book, Colour-sense [1879]; in anticipation of criticism, he justifies his reliance on recorded observations rather than experiments, by the heavy demands of his career as a journalist.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Naples Zoological Station
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 172: 2
Summary:
Seventieth birthday greetings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Avery Crawley
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 143: 302
Summary:
Can give no information. Has never read works of Aristotle, but has unbounded respect for him as observer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
12 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 440
Summary:
Has just heard that HM has been treated shamefully by his Government. What has happened?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 312
Summary:
Seventieth birthday greetings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Greiz College
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 94r
Summary:
Send 70th birthday congratulations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arthur Mellersh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 149
Summary:
Birthday wishes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
14 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 30 (EH 88205968)
Summary:
Has been asked to contribute to W. K. Clifford memorial fund. Asks JT’s advice on how much the committee hopes to raise. Would like to give handsomely but feels bound "with such a lot of children, not to be extravagant".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Document type
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- Cambridge University Library
- American Philosophical Society2
- Archives of the New York Botanical Garden1
- Christie’s (dealers)1
- Geological Society of London1
- Huntington Library1
- Kobunso (Mr Sorimachi, bookseller)1
- Lawrences Auctioneers (dealers), Crewkerne1
- Linnean Society of London1
- Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library1
- Royal College of Physicians of London1