From:
James Edmund Harting
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May [1880?]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 112
Summary:
Wild cat gestation is twelve days longer than domestic cat, a fact not mentioned in Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Dixon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 162: 185
Summary:
Corrects CD’s statement [Descent 1: 19] that the platysma myoides muscle cannot be brought into voluntary action. He can move every one of his facial muscles.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 157
Summary:
Writes regarding an [unspecified] election at a university. JL wonders whether William Darwin would speak to two Southampton men about it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 166: 352
Summary:
Hopes CD does not think his faith in natural selection is weak because he omitted mention of it in his lecture.
Is working on dogs. They will make a case for "Darwinismus".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 178: 165
Summary:
Has planted six, as opposed to eleven acres last year, to keep within expenditure. Must pollen be used immediately? Fourteen landowners are growing potatoes for JT.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 159: 6
Summary:
Thanks for money for further subscription to Index; FEA soon to step down as editor.
On CD’s solid reputation in America among rising men of science.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
J. Harris
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 198: 87
Summary:
Can CD explain why apes still exist, now that humans have evolved.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B112
Summary:
Thanks for two pamphlets;
Otto Zöckler’s [Darwin’s Grossvater (1880)] he thinks worthless.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel Tolver Preston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 174: 61
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s comments on his paper ["On a point relating to brain dynamics", Nature 22 (1880): 29–30].
Contends that self-interest as a motive for conduct is more salutary than is generally thought, and should be considered in the evolution of morality.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 177: 311
Summary:
Thanks CD for the loan of a book;
discusses his family’s health and other domestic affairs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Spottiswoode
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 177: 238
Summary:
S. M. Hersfeld [Herzfeld] has applied to WS for financial assistance in order to retrieve some books and apparatus from a carrier. He has previously been aided by CD, so WS seeks his advice.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Spottiswoode
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 177: 239
Summary:
Since CD supplied Herzfeld with money to retrieve his goods from the carrier, but he did not use it for that purpose, WS sees no way of helping him except to send him home as "a distressed Austrian subject".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25–7 May 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 65
Summary:
Hopes CD got telegram about Convolvulus. Is measuring plants every four hours. Will go to Brittany by boat from Southampton on Monday night.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 84
Summary:
Writes of a Mrs Noel, who is annoyed with CD’s neglect of Erasmus Darwin’s brother, W[illiam] A[lvey] D[arwin I], [in Erasmus Darwin].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
