From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
10 Jan [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 152
Summary:
G[eorge] has visited A[nthony] R[ich] at Worthing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Höchberg
Date:
13 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 145: 129
Summary:
Thanks for essay on origin of taste for music. Will send to Edmund Gurney.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Melchior Neumayr
Date:
15 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (13 December 2017)
Summary:
Asks MN about trustworthiness of Leopold Würtenberger. Would like to aid LW financially in his work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Melchior Neumayr
Date:
24 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 147: 184
Summary:
Has offered Leopold Würtenberger money to aid in his work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann August Georg Edmund (Edmund) Mojsisovics von Mojsvár
Date:
29 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 146: 384
Summary:
Comments on EM’s work in Dolomites [Die Dolomit-Riffe von Südtirol (1879)]. Had wondered whether ancient corals formed reefs.
Obliged for EM’s photograph. Sends his own.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[4 Feb – 8 Mar 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 49
Summary:
Requests some seeds.
Believes the leaves of Phyllanthus sleep like those of Cassia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Alberts
Date:
[after 9 Feb 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 95v
Summary:
Thanks KA and the other editors of Kosmos for the issue published in honour of his birthday. Sees there is much in it that will interest him greatly.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henslow
Date:
11 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR (CD Library - G. Henslow 1888)
Summary:
Disagrees with GH over the value of cross-fertilisation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Avery Crawley
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 143: 302
Summary:
Can give no information. Has never read works of Aristotle, but has unbounded respect for him as observer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
12 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 440
Summary:
Has just heard that HM has been treated shamefully by his Government. What has happened?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
14 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 30 (EH 88205968)
Summary:
Has been asked to contribute to W. K. Clifford memorial fund. Asks JT’s advice on how much the committee hopes to raise. Would like to give handsomely but feels bound "with such a lot of children, not to be extravagant".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Ludwig
Date:
16 Feb 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Sends thanks to the Masters for congratulations on his birthday, saying "the approbation & sympathy of one’s fellow-workers in the acquisition of knowledge is the highest possible reward which any man ought to desire".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
17 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 31 (EH 88205969)
Summary:
Thanks JT for his information. Sends £50 to the W. K. Clifford memorial fund.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
21 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 153
Summary:
Circular about the distribution of the overplus of his income and advice on investment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
21 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 50
Summary:
Is increasing FD’s allowance.
Has begun his chapter on sleep of plants [for Movement in plants].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[before 25 Feb 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 12
Summary:
CD cannot find his pincers and other tools for microscopical dissection. Does FD know where he should look?
Hopes FD will feel better after "so complete a change" [trip to North Africa].
Sends his love to George.
Bernard gets more charming every day.
CD has been put on a committee for a memorial fund for W. K. Clifford.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[after 25 Feb 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 76
Summary:
Frank [Darwin] has found a Trifolium remarkable for "bloom", but it was not in flower. If GHD knows where it grows, could he dig up the whole plant?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
5 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 148: 367
Summary:
Discusses ASW’s discovery of error in Russian belief about wheat varieties. Suggests that he publish paper in Journal of Royal Agricultural Society. [Results actually published in Gard. Chron. n.s. 11 (1879): 622–4.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Sweetland Dallas
Date:
12 Mar [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 39
Summary:
Asks whether WSD would be interested in translating Ernst Krause’s article on Erasmus Darwin [Kosmos 4 (1879): 397–424] into English.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 Mar [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 481–2
Summary:
Frank’s reasons for not accepting the Cambridge Examinership.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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- Cambridge University Library
- American Philosophical Society1
- Archives of the New York Botanical Garden1
- Christie’s (dealers)1
- Huntington Library1
- Kobunso (Mr Sorimachi, bookseller)1
- Lawrences Auctioneers (dealers), Crewkerne1
- Linnean Society of London1
- Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library1
- Royal College of Physicians of London1