From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 136
Summary:
Comments on the branchiate trichopteran specimen from Fritz Müller sent previously.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 24
Summary:
Forwards a letter [missing] from her cousin relating to Dr Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 144–5
Summary:
Thanks CD for the engraving, which has arrived.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp (Wilhelm) Pfeffer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 187
Summary:
In response to CD’s query, discusses sleep movements of plants. Recommends papers on subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 209.9: 111
Summary:
Oliver says Oxalis colorata is O. floribunda.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 183
Summary:
Regrets he has not given Zoonomia the attention it deserves. Informs CD that Erasmus Darwin may have anticipated a discovery about paralysis of vessels by exposure to heat [see Erasmus Darwin, p. 109].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 73); DAR 177: 254
Summary:
There is a hyacinth growing upside down in Hankinson’s garden. Sends picture of it. Leslie Stephen knows of no worthwhile sources of information on Dr Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 135
Summary:
Will see CD in Worthing next week.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 178: 152
Summary:
Has had an account of his experiments published. Sends CD some specimens of seedlings and tubers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 178: 153
Summary:
Describes one of his varieties of potato in its third and fourth years. [CD notes his observations on this variety grown at Down, July 1879.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 May 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 74
Summary:
Encloses some references [missing] to information on Dr Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 164: 92
Summary:
Is struck by the amazing variations of the hardy Primula varieties.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 75
Summary:
Sends CD an article on Dr Erasmus Darwin [from Monthly Magazine, see 12028].
Tells of a "discovery" he has made about taking observations of the sun. Does not know yet whether it is new.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen; Edward Enfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 6 May 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 64.1: 48v
Summary:
Invitation to the University College Hospital festival and dinner
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B22–3
Summary:
Sends first part of MS of Erasmus Darwin.
Has found useful criticism of Anna Seward in J. G. Lockhart’s Life of Sir Walter Scott.
CD should regard MS as a draft and correct anything that seems incorrect or questionable. Asks biographical questions about Dr Darwin. Can CD give information about origin of family name?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 102–3
Summary:
Has received the enlarged MS for Erasmus Darwin from E. Krause.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 186: 35
Summary:
Has been trying unsuccessfully to weigh something for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 104–5
Summary:
Has difficulty with E. Krause’s orthography and quotations.
Asks CD to lend him Anna Seward’s biography [Memoirs of the life of Dr Darwin (1804)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Fordyce
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 164: 152
Summary:
Compatibility of evolution and theism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B24–5
Summary:
Will wait for CD’s preliminary essay before proceeding with German edition [of Erasmus Darwin]. Regards CD’s essay as the principal attraction. Would like to finish German edition by end of July.
Contributor:
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