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DCP-LETT-11853

From:
Coe Finch Austin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 159: 130
Summary:

Encloses Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, with account of a fungus that exhales chlorine;

relates his discovery in 1852 of a flowering plant that had "perfectly formed beetles" in the place of anthers.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11855

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:
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DCP-LETT-11856

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

DCP-LETT-11859

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

DCP-LETT-11860

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

DCP-LETT-11861

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:
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DCP-LETT-11863

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

DCP-LETT-11864

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:
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DCP-LETT-11866

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:
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DCP-LETT-11865

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:
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DCP-LETT-11868

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B14
Summary:

Birthday greetings.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11873

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:
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DCP-LETT-11854

From:
Friedrich Theodor Karl (Karl) Beger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 12 Feb 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 121
Summary:

Birthday wishes.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11879

From:
Greiz College
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 94r
Summary:

Send 70th birthday congratulations.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11878

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

DCP-LETT-11874

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

DCP-LETT-11880

From:
Arthur Mellersh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 149
Summary:

Birthday wishes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11883

From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 313
Summary:

HM’s teaching methods and his ideas are under attack in Germany along with the works of Ernst Krause.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11885

From:
Carl August Lindvall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 170: 4
Summary:

Outlines his theory to explain the form of certain Swedish sandhills and puts forward his ideas regarding the geological history of the earth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11887

From:
Walter Butler Cheadle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 161: 136
Summary:

Second request that CD sign a Cambridge memorial [i.e., petition]. The heading has been amended to include graduates who have formerly studied medicine.

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