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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
1 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Thanks AG for his kind note and returns his good wishes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
4 Jan [1879]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (Frankland Collection)
Summary:

Fears that the promised bottle of pure water may have been despatched or stolen in passage. [See 11768a.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
9 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Dr Mirko Majer (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for the copies of his engraving. "The work seems to be, though I cannot pretend to be a judge, a vy fine production".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
10 Jan [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 152
Summary:

G[eorge] has visited A[nthony] R[ich] at Worthing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Jung
Date:
11 Jan 1879
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 681, 28–9 June 2005)
Summary:

Suggests MJ does not worry about the differences in opinion between ecclesiastics and scientists.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Höchberg
Date:
13 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 145: 129
Summary:

Thanks for essay on origin of taste for music. Will send to Edmund Gurney.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Harrison Blackley
Date:
14 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Formerly in the private collection of Dr T. B. Robinson
Summary:

Thanks CHB for his anecdote about a provincial girl’s reaction to being told men descended from monkeys.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Melchior Neumayr
Date:
15 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (13 December 2017)
Summary:

Asks MN about trustworthiness of Leopold Würtenberger. Would like to aid LW financially in his work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Würtenberger
Date:
15 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Helmut Würtenberger (private collection)
Summary:

Is sorry that LW’s circumstances interfere with his scientific work. Does not think any English scientific society can help.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
18 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 333)
Summary:

Has read Hume with great pleasure, but found parts very stiff reading.

George Darwin has visited Anthony Rich.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[18 Jan 1879]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.558)
Summary:

Notes advertisement of Tito Vignoli, Fundamentalgesetz der Intelligenz im Thierreiche [1879].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
Date:
19 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks GdeS for his photograph; sends his own. Glad to hear GdeS’s work [Le monde des plantes (1879)] is popular in France.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
20 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Sends the Fritz Müller article from Kosmos.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
Date:
20 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 11)
Summary:

Thanks for HNM’s [Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger" (1879)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emil Heinrich (Emil) Du Bois-Reymond
Date:
23 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of diploma.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
Date:
23 and 30 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 12)
Summary:

Has told John Lubbock how highly he thinks of HNM’s work, and has heard that HMN’s claims will be fully considered.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Jan [1879?]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Orders a sheet of gold-beater’s skin for plant experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Melchior Neumayr
Date:
24 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 147: 184
Summary:

Has offered Leopold Würtenberger money to aid in his work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
25 Jan [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–1881: ff. 153–6)
Summary:

Movements in Oxalis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
26 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

It will give CD real pleasure to propose HWB for F.R.S. Asks that he send him the necessary information for the certificate as well as a list of men he would like to sign it. He should not be disappointed if not elected first time. [Bates elected F.R.S. 2 June 1881.]

Contributor:
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