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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reginald Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 153: 96
Summary:

The "great book" [presumably Dr Erasmus Darwin’s commonplace book, see Erasmus Darwin, p. iii] arrived safely.

Can RD supply a photograph of [Breadsall] Priory?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 172: 52
Summary:

Asks CD to join W. H. Flower and Huxley in signing a memorial in support of Dr Coues. He is a U.S. Army surgeon who has been working on an ornithological bibliography and needs support to complete his work in England.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
1 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 169)
Summary:

Thanks for the plants for heliotropic experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Osmond Fisher
Date:
1? April 1879
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Reginald Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 150–1
Summary:

Will try to find an engraving of [Breadsall] Priory.

Offers a photograph of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s house in Derby.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Sophia Galton
Date:
2 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/3/4/3)
Summary:

Parcel of drawings and MS arrived safely.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
2 Apr 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36179)
Summary:

CD agrees entirely with EK’s proposal. Has collected a good deal of material. Useless to hunt for correspondence between Dr Darwin and Samuel Johnson. They met only once and hated one another. Dr Darwin is said to have taken Henry Brooke, who published a poem entitled "Universal beauty", as a model.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Nicolai Mengden, Baron von Mengden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 151
Summary:

NvM is 17 years old. Confused by reading CD’s works and Ernst Haeckel’s Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte [1868]. Can a believer in CD’s theory believe in God?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
2 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/64)
Summary:

"I have signed the enclosed with pleasure."

Thanks AN for his kind expression about Frank [Darwin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elliott Coues
Date:
[after 2 Apr 1879]
Source of text:
Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club 4: 176–8
Summary:

Memorial in support of EC travelling to Europe to research his bibliography of ornithology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 176: 83
Summary:

Sends a sample of seeds of Onobrychis sativa and Poterium muricatum, plants that show mimicry.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
3 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 172)
Summary:

Thanks for WTT-D’s trouble.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reginald Darwin
Date:
4 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 153: 97
Summary:

Has been "deeply interested by the great book" [see 11966]. Asks permission to publish extracts.

Did Dr Darwin go to Edinburgh when his son, Charles, died? Asks whether RD has ever heard a story about Dr Darwin that had been told to CD by the Galtons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Violetta Harriot Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 20
Summary:

Is interested to hear of CD’s life of Dr Erasmus Darwin. There is no photo of Breadsall Priory, but she would be happy to make a drawing of it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 135
Summary:

Sends specimens from F. Müller.

Criticises A. R. Wallace’s review of Grant Allen’s The colour-sense [Nature 19 (1879): 501–5].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Odoardo Beccari
Date:
5 April 1879
Source of text:
University of Florence, Science Library: Botany, Archives, Beccari 12/32
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 230: 74
Summary:

CD made an ordinary member of the Royal Danish Academy. [See 11984.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin
Date:
6 Apr 1879
Source of text:
The late Mrs Vivien Kindersley (private collection)
Summary:

Sends details of the progress of his researches for Erasmus Darwin.

His son Leonard will photograph Elston and Cleatham. He has found an early drawing of Elston.

Asks for a letter of introduction for Leonard Darwin to CMCD’s tenant at Elston.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Reginald Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 21
Summary:

Is glad CD has found interest in "the old book" [Dr Erasmus Darwin’s commonplace book].

Discusses Erasmus Darwin and his belongings, which RD has inherited.

Owns a portrait of Erasmus Darwin by Joseph Wright of Derby.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 176: 84
Summary:

Suggests that mimicry of sainfoin by burnet plants is an adaptation against farmers’ weeding.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project