From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 389
Summary:
Requests testimonial from CD for position of Assistant Keeper, Zoological Dept, British Museum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anton Heinrich (Anton) de Bary
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 162: 133
Summary:
Since he was innocent of sending the Botanische Zeitung to CD, he inquired of the editor, who informs him that it is sent every week by post by order of Williams and Norgate.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 44
Summary:
Thanks for criticisms of Colour-sense.
Clarifies his views that actions desirable for species result in development of nervous organs capable of pleasurable stimulation.
Believes that all "tastes" occurring in nature are explicable with reference to ancestral habits and that none is purely arbitrary.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles William Hamilton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 91
Summary:
Encloses a press clipping [missing] of his observations [on stem structure?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Karl Höchberg
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 227
Summary:
Describes health-related arguments for vegetarianism. Notes arguments that anthropoid apes are vegetarians. Asks whether man is sufficiently adapted to mixed diet so that meat is not harmful?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anton Stecker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 177: 251
Summary:
Has not been able to complete Bohemian edition of Origin because of trip to Africa.
Is collecting zoological evidence for CD’s theory.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugo de Vries
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 209.3: 336
Summary:
Did not wish to imply that some leaves are insensitive to light, only that he could not measure their sensitivity. Contraction of roots seems common.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 25 Feb 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 60
Summary:
Directs CD where to find tools in his room. Has been looking at agave and aloe flowers. Thanks family for their letters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 71)
Summary:
Thanks CD profusely for the circular which detailed his and Emma Darwin’s plans to increase their children’s income. Thinks a few hundred really makes the difference for feeling really rich, especially as he now knows how important it is for bankers to have available personal savings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Perceval Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 181: 176
Summary:
Is applying for the Chair of Botany at Edinburgh and asks CD for a testimonial.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick King
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 169: 19
Summary:
A founding member of the Royal Agricultural Society sends information on the specificity of sheep varieties to soil types.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 181: 114
Summary:
Sends results of the first year’s experiments with the Russian wheat varieties sent by CD [see 11483].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander Fedorovich Batalin (Александр Федорович Баталин)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 179, 180
Summary:
Sleep movements in Oxalis acetosella.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 59
Summary:
Astonished at circular and will risk revolutions to invest. Describes Blidah, Algeria.
Contributor:
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 73
Summary:
Thanks CD [for his increased allowance?].
Writes of his tour [in Algeria].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 172–4
Summary:
Sends family news;
describes what remains of his "menagerie" and tells of his interest in the framework of his son’s German badger-hound.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albert Ripley Leeds
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 230: 73
Summary:
CD elected an honorary member of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 92: B2; DAR 105: B105, B110
Summary:
Has read Krause’s "Life of Erasmus Darwin" [Kosmos 4 (1879): 397–424]; thinks it very interesting to anyone interested in "Darwinismus" – everybody.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
C. H. Browning
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 333
Summary:
Is reading Origin on inheritance. Reports case of a man who went bald through illness, whose three sons, all born later, also became bald.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 105: 108–9
Summary:
Suggests CD send Kosmos to W. S. Dallas as Krause will surely give his permission for translation.
Contributor:
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