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From:
Ferdinand von Krauss
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
13 December 1879
Source of text:
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
John Fletcher Moulton, Baron Moulton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 279
Summary:
Herbert Spencer, though not the scientific thinker he sees himself to be, was extremely important in conditioning the generation’s acceptance of evolution. Compares Spencer and Robert Chambers as teachers, rather than discoverers, of new ideas.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Thomas William Bland
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
15 December 1879
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 74-75
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 76-81
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
15 Dec [1879]
Source of text:
Nature , 1 January 1880, p. 207
Summary:
CD has repeated a test of whether hybrids of the common and Chinese goose are fertile inter se. Reports his success, and comments on its significance for the theory of descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Edwin Birchall
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 December 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 82-83
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Arabella Burton Buckley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 366
Summary:
On Wallace’s need for a regular income. He has been rejected as Superintendent of Epping Forest. Thinks men such as Lubbock, Hooker, and CD might help.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[16 December 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 216
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Arabella Burton Fisher (née Buckley)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 December 1879
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 160: 366
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
16 Dec 1879
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (130a)
Summary:
Thanks for AG’s trouble about the seeds. Is curious to see their germination and the early seedling growth.
Asks for cotton seeds, as he observes odd movements of the cotyledon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
16 Dec 1879
Source of text:
Nature , 8 January 1880, p. 237
Summary:
Reports information sent by E. Schulte [12254] on the colours of the male Diadema bolina.
Discusses extent to which consciousness came into play in the origin of certain instincts, including sexual display.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
17 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 143: 180
Summary:
Discusses possibility of Government pension for Wallace.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Fisher (née Buckley)
Date:
17 December 1879
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 143: 180
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 December 1879
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 95: 491-3
Summary:
About Miss Buckley's concerns for ARW's ill-health and his desire to obtain regular partially outdoor work, or indoor work that can be partially done from home. Darwin suggests to Hooker that they might advocate for ARW to receive a government pension given ARW's scientific achievements.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 95: 491–3
Summary:
Miss Arabella Buckley’s letter on Wallace’s poor health and finances leads CD to seek JDH’s aid in getting a Government pension.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 104: 136–7
Summary:
Argues against pension for Wallace because of his spiritualism; the underhanded way he brought about discussion of spiritualism at BAAS; his pocketing money from a bet on the sphericity of the earth; his lack of absolute poverty.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 December 1879
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 104: 136-7
Summary:
Hooker argues against Darwin's suggestion that ARW receive a government pension.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Arabella Burton Buckley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 367
Summary:
Thanks CD for acting on her suggestion about getting Wallace an income; acknowledges the difficulty. Is not sure Wallace would accept government money for doing nothing in return.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
19 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 143: 181
Summary:
Has discussed with Hooker possibility of Government pension for Wallace. Hooker is pessimistic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Fisher (née Buckley)
Date:
19 December 1879
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 143: 181
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 December 1879
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 95: 494-5
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project