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DCP-LETT-12458

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
4 Feb [1880]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 338)
Summary:

Greatly relieved by THH’s letter [advising against a reply to Samuel Butler].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12459

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
4 Feb 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36200)
Summary:

Samuel Butler’s fierce attack on CD and EK in Athenæum. CD’s sentence saying that EK had altered his Kosmos article was accidentally omitted from second proofs. Butler insinuates that EK’s attack on his book was suggested by CD or interpolated by him in EK’s text.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12460

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Zaccheus Seddon
Date:
4 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 147: 461
Summary:

Comments on colours of races of man. Wishes WZS "or anybody else" could account for them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12462

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 99: 133–134
Summary:

Since CD has decided not to answer S. Butler’s charge, WSD will not reply either.

Will look over Francis Darwin’s lecture ["Climbing plants"] with a view to publishing it in Popular Science Review [19 (1880): 213–29].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12461

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
5 Feb 1880
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.571)
Summary:

On GJR’s work on mental evolution in animals. Emphasises "love" among animals.

Comments on stimulation of plants.

On pleasure and pain.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12463

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B53
Summary:

Thinks CD has no need to reply to Samuel Butler’s hostile article [in the Athenæum]. Offers to reply himself.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12464

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1880
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 95
Summary:

Thinks Herbert Spencer has done little service to science but a great service to thinking.

Thinks importance of mathematics overestimated [by J. F. Moulton] in criticising Spencer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12466

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B54
Summary:

Returns [Butler’s] attack, which he forgot to send yesterday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1739

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
7 February 1880
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.17, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-12467

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 166: 76
Summary:

Sends birthday wishes.

Discusses work on Medusae.

Recalls visit to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12468

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
9 Feb 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36201)
Summary:

CD advises EK on his proposed letter answering Butler.

Considering the favourable reviews, sale of Erasmus Darwin has been poor.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001149

From:
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
To:
Isaac Newton
Date:
9 February 1880
Source of text:
MM/17/14, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-12470

From:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 160: 294
Summary:

Describes formation of student nature study club at the University of Jena. Sends birthday greetings from the club.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11352

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 209.7: 159
Summary:

"Dia" [as a prefix] means "through, across".

WED’s wife would like to meet the Huxleys.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000765

From:
David Gill
To:
Warren de la Rue
Date:
10 February 1880
Source of text:
MM/12/97, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-12469

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B55
Summary:

Birthday greetings.

Regrets Butler’s malicious attack.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12471

From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 162: 218
Summary:

Sends birthday greetings

and the good news of a subvention for the Zoological Station received from the German government. There are now 20 naturalists working at the Station.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1490

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
11 February 1880
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.299-300, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-12474F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
12 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/51 [A 9905])
Summary:

Thanks for his very kind letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12472

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 144: 486
Summary:

It might be possible to borrow £500 [for potato experiments]. Variety of "The Champion" spreading over the Kingdom. Champion lately less able to produce.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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