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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
1 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 185: 6
Summary:

Arrangements regarding HD’s allowances.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Huggins
To:
Warren de la Rue
Date:
c.1880
Source of text:
MM/12/133, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Warren de la Rue
To:
William Huggins
Date:
c.1880
Source of text:
MM/12/134, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 January 1880
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.180, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
1 January 1880
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.66, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH asks Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer [WTTD] about the schemes of [Sir George Christopher Molesworth] Birdwood and the India Office. He mentiosn Baddely. He advises WTTD on how to manage [John Reader] Jackson. JDH speculates on the amount of work it will take to accession the India Museum collections into the RBG Kew museums including the constrcution of new buildings: museum number 1 & museum number 2. He appreciates WTTD's zeal on the matter but warns him that these things usually move slowly thanks to 'indifferent masters'. JDH will take some work off WTD's hands when he returns, JDH cannot spend all his time working on the GENERA PLANTARUM & FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA, he must take on some of the less pleasant duties as well. He reminds WTTD that the fruit of all his labours can be seen in the [Annual Kew] Report. JDH has written to [John] Smith about RBG Kew staff changes & reassignment of gardening duties, specifically regarding Martin, Trueman, Sharpe & the latter's dereliction of number 4 greenhouse. JDH's health has deteriorated again but he will return to RBG Kew any way.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Archibald Smith
Date:
1880
Source of text:
MM/15/7, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Harrison Tindal
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 227.7: 11–13, 16, 18, 25, 128
Summary:

Encloses extracts from the correspondence of [the Ven. Robert] Clive concerning Erasmus Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B65–6
Summary:

Asks CD for reference to the edition of Kosmos that contains the original of Ernst Krause’s article on Dr Erasmus Darwin. There are serious differences between the translation by W. S. Dallas and the Feb [1879] article by Krause on which CD, in the preface to Erasmus Darwin, says it was based. SB notes in particular that the concluding sentence of the translation, which is clearly aimed at [SB’s] Evolution, old and new, is not in the original. Since readers will assume the text of Erasmus Darwin was written before his book appeared, SB asks for an explanation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Prestwich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 174: 66
Summary:

Having reviewed the history of the Glen Roy debate ["On the origin of the parallel roads of Lochaber, and their bearing on other phenomena of the glacial period", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 170 (1880): 663–776], JP wishes to know whether it is accurate to say CD has abandoned the marine theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 308
Summary:

Repeats extracts of a letter received from Bishop Stirling’s daughter containing anecdotes and observations of the Fuegian natives.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Butler
Date:
3 Jan 1880
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 34486 D ff. 84–5)
Summary:

Krause altered the MS [of his essay on Erasmus Darwin] considerably before sending it to be translated. This is a common practice, but CD now regrets he did not state in his preface that the article had been modified. The translation had been arranged before SB’s book [Evolution, old and new] was announced.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Jean-Henri Casimir (Jean-Henri) Fabre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 1
Summary:

Sends a copy of his Souvenirs entomologiques [1879].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Prestwich
Date:
3 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 147: 253
Summary:

JP is right; CD gave up [Glen Roy theory] when he read T. F. Jamieson ["On the parallel roads of Glen Roy", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 19 (1863): 235–58].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
3 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 147: 515
Summary:

Returns BJS’s Christmas good wishes.

The progress of Tierra del Fuego is almost as wonderful as that of Japan.

Is sorry to hear about Mellersh.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Wallis Nash
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 172: 4
Summary:

Reports on the comfortable life of an immigrant in Oregon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ercole Ricotti
Date:
4 Jan 1880
Source of text:
www.ornithomedia.com/magazine/art_mag441_alberto_masi.pdf (accessed 1 December 2011)
Summary:

Thanks for awarding him the Bressa prize. Has sent an order to receive the 12,000 lira.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adolf Ernst
Date:
5 Jan 1880
Source of text:
State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8972)
Summary:

Has read AE’s paper in Nature [21 (1880): 217] on Melochia, a new family of heterostyled plants, and suggests some crosses to be carried out to determine the fertility of illegitimate seedlings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
5 Jan 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36198)
Summary:

The reviews of Erasmus Darwin are mainly favourable.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Harrison Tindal
Date:
5 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 185: 118
Summary:

Thanks for the information about Dr Erasmus Darwin and his parents.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vincent, Teja & Co.
Date:
5 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 68
Summary:

Requests that they receive, on his behalf, an award of 12000 lira [lire!?] from the Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin, and transmit it to the Union Bank, London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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