From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
24 November 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.39, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25–7 Nov 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 41
Summary:
He has had no success with horse or Spanish chestnuts.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
25 Nov [1878]
Source of text:
Institution of Engineering and Technology Archives (SC MSS 003/B/1/048)
Summary:
CD sends his preface [to RM’s translation of August Weismann, Studies in the theory of descent (1882); Collected papers 2: 280–1].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 132
Summary:
Thanks for preface. When RM’s translation is complete, would like CD to expand it slightly to refer to overlap between Weismann’s observations and CD’s theories.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
26 Nov [1878]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:
Regrets he cannot compare his work with Weismann’s in his preface as he feels “an author is never a fit judge of his own work”. [Appended note explains that RM wished CD’s work to be fully acknowledged, which was frequently not the case in continental writings.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
Date:
26 Nov [1878]
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 10)
Summary:
Thanks for HNM’s offer to dedicate book [Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger" (1879)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Gottfried Semper
Date:
26 Nov [1878]
Source of text:
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf (slg 60/Dok/59)
Summary:
Discusses views of Moritz Wagner on modification of species. Two different cases: one in which a species is modified in the same country and cases in which a species splits. Glad CGS is taking up subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 501
Summary:
Sends report on annual trade sale [missing]. New printings of Journal of researches and Descent are needed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
27 Nov [1878]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
CD disappointed in Pusey’s sermon against evolution [Un-science, not science, adverse to faith (1878), sermon read by H. P. Liddon at St Mary’s, Oxford, on 3 Nov 1878]. Does not agree that religion and science can be kept as distant as Pusey desires. Geology and biology must deal with history of earth and of man. But that is no reason for bitter hostility.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
[after 27 Nov 1878]
Source of text:
Christie’s, New York (dealers) (October 1996)
Summary:
Thanks for his translation of [Anton] Kerner [Flowers and their unbidden guests: the translation revised and edited by W. Ogle (1878)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Nicholas Ridley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 28 Nov 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 119
Summary:
Wishes to defend CD from the attacks E. B. Pusey made in his sermon [see 11763]. Raises specific questions on CD’s theological views in order to refute Pusey’s accusations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Decaisne
Date:
28 November 1878
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de l'Institut de France, Paris
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
28 November 1878
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 225-6
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Laureano Figuerola Ballester
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 230: 69
Summary:
As an honorary professor of the Free Institution of Enseñanza [see 11321a] CD is sent the discourse pronounced by the Rector at their opening session with a number of the Ilustracion Española y Americana with portraits of the members of the executive committee of the Institucion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Nicholas Ridley
Date:
28 Nov 1878
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Letters to H. N. Ridley CLE–GUR, 1878–1951, HNR/2/1/2: f. 42)
Summary:
Does not think sermon by E. B. Pusey [see 11763] is worth a reply. HNR may quote CD as saying that Pusey is "mistaken in imagining that I wrote the Origin with any relation whatever to Theology". Pusey’s attack will be powerless to retard belief in evolution.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, S. P.
Date:
29 November [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 128
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
29 November [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 31
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Frederick Bailey
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
29 November 1878
Source of text:
RB MSS M5, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Gottfried Semper
Date:
30 Nov 1878
Source of text:
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf (slg 60/Dok/60)
Summary:
Discusses effect of isolation on species modification and the views of Moritz Wagner on the subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project