From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
1 September 1880
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.19, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 508
Summary:
Has CD made arrangements with D. Appleton for Movement in plants? CD’s instructions about the index have been forwarded.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Crawford Williamson
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
2 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 181: 109
Summary:
Asks whether CD would object to a deputation from the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
[before 4 Sept 1880]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017)
Summary:
Requests a list of books.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Maitland Balfour
Date:
4 Sept 1880
Source of text:
National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/2)
Summary:
Praises FMB’s BAAS address [on embryology, Rep. BAAS 50 (1880): 636–44]. Recent progress of embryology splendid.
In work on plants, astonished at sensitivity of radicle and its power to transmit stimuli to adjoining part; such general sensitivity should be considered in genesis of nervous system.
Feels "malicious" pleasure at FMB’s criticism of Herbert Spencer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Horace Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 64.1: 34–5
Summary:
Observations on earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ralph Price Hardy
Date:
7 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 64
Summary:
Thanks RPH for the trouble he has taken on behalf of the Down Friendly Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
8 September 1880
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.68, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH informs Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer [WTTD] that he is going to visit his children in Malvern before Asa & Jane Gray arrive for their visit. JDH updates WTTD on the current business of the gardens before he leaves. He reports that there have been a lot of Ward's cases to deal with, [John] Smith will reform the King of Hanover's grounds, Burt is improving, the Macrozamia is recovering, the Welwitschias are dying under [William] Watson's care, the Narras are also dead so the Doom palm [Hyphaene thebaica] & Balfour's things are to be cared for differently. Smith will leave soon, [George] Nicholson has returned. JDH has kept an eye on the museum & advised Jurd[?] about the pipes, they are now plastering. The fern house have been repaired. JDH has cleared a large paper cabinet some of which he will use for palms. [Charles] Flahault & Balfour are at RBG Kew, as is [Alfred] Coginaux studying Melastomads. JDH asks WTTD to start populating the palm house. He has cleared the tomato plants from the herbarium ground's walls where necessary. He askes WTTD to select some economic[?] plants for the walls of the new range house. Thanks WTTD for letter about his travels, wishes he has urged WTTD to cross the Monte Moro. The De Candolles will call later in the month to see the Grays. JDH thinks that Smith is right about the author of the RICHMOND TIMES articles being [James] Britten.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Horace Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 and 12 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 64.1: 36–7
Summary:
Reports evidence of earthworm activity.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
10 Sept [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 162
Summary:
Writes about worm-castings; tells WED not to bother with samples from Beaulieu Abbey.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adolf Ernst
Date:
11 Sept 1880
Source of text:
State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8974)
Summary:
Thanks for seeds of Cobaea;
was much interested in AE’s article ["On the fertilisation of Cobaea penduliflora", Nature 22 (1880): 148–9] opposing G. E. M. Bonnier’s view ["Les nectaires", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 6th ser. 8 (1879): 6–212].
Case of Lisianthus is an excellent one of structure and movement of parts adapted to cross-fertilisation.
Asks whether worm-castings are found in the area.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 160: 29
Summary:
Thanks for letter, which made up for difficulty of his speech [at BAAS meeting, Swansea].
Has met Horace Darwin and wife;
climbed Matterhorn.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
14 Sept 1880
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 179–180)
Summary:
Sends sheets of Movement in plants for translation, if JVC sees fit. It has some value and novelty, CD believes, but is very dull.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Howard Grubb
To:
William Huggins
Date:
15 September 1880
Source of text:
MM/12/131, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
William Huggins
To:
Warren de la Rue
Date:
15 September 1880
Source of text:
MM/12/130, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[before 16 Sept 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 168
Summary:
Wants some more rubber bands for his wrist.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartlett Downs Wrangham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 16 Sept 1880]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 72756)
Summary:
An extract from a life of Kepler about the motions of Mars.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Sept 1880
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 78)
Summary:
Sends four wrist bands, and advice on putting them on. George is well. Can easily get worm castings. Lilly and Mlle Wild arrived in a storm to stay the night. Is much amused by Sedgwick’s ferocious letter about Vestiges.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Adolf Theodor Wilhelm (Wilhelm) Viëtor
Date:
16 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 194a
Summary:
Improvement in orthography would be national benefit, but cannot contribute to WV’s paper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartlett Downs Wrangham
Date:
16 Sept 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 72756)
Summary:
Thanks for sending him a copy of the striking passage from Kepler.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project