From:
Jules (Saint Geniez) Rouquette
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 201: 33
Summary:
Sends a poem he has composed in honour of CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Georg Heinrich Schneider
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 177: 59
Summary:
Describes studies with Ernst Haeckel
and research on psychology of lower animals.
Sends book [Der thierische Wille (1880)] and describes his views on the subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jules (Saint Geniez) Rouquette
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 2 Apr 1880]
Source of text:
DAR pamphlet R339: 2
Summary:
Quote from letter to Rouquette in dedication of an essay to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 209.6: 204–6
Summary:
Encloses a letter from Volney Rattan of California.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
S. M. Herzfeld
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 166: 192
Summary:
Thanks for cheque.
Wants to see CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Apr [1880]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 81)
Summary:
Is beginning Geikie’s Ice age. Describes flints found on the common. Comments on exciting election.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Valentine Ball
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 160: 37
Summary:
Has received CD’s acknowledgment, through Ernest De La Rue, for the copy he sent of Jungle life [in India (1880)].
Offers to collect material for CD on his return to India.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Woodd Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 172
Summary:
W. D. Fox’s sufferings have ended; he died that morning.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 105: A103
Summary:
Will see what can be done about getting thumb impressions, to see if the markings are persistent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Woodward
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 181: 151
Summary:
Seeks testimonial, as he is applying for the Keepership of Geology at the British Museum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Woodward
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 181: 152
Summary:
Thanks CD for his testimonial and congratulates him on "The coming of age of the ""Origin of Species""". [T. H. Huxley, Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 9 (1879–81): 361–8; Collected essays, vol. 2.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Tearle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 16] Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 201: 38
Summary:
Attempts to reconcile accounts of man’s creation in Origin and in Genesis, to both of which he is devoted.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Christopher Columbus Graham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 165: 82
Summary:
CD’s framed letter may be hung in a fireproof gallery in the State House, now being finished.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B58r
Summary:
Sends German edition of Erasmus Darwin.
[CD’s notes form part of a draft for 12586.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Fiske
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 127
Summary:
Is coming to England to lecture and would like to meet CD again.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1880
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 96
Summary:
Preparing his book, Animal intelligence [1882].
Spent an afternoon with a spiritualist but did not learn anything.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Pitman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 99: 195
Summary:
Would like more information about Erasmus Darwin’s shorthand writing for his series on "Shorthand writers of renown".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 504
Summary:
His publishers are as puzzled as CD about what the title of his new book [Movement in plants] should be. Sends a tentative one in proof [missing].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 314
Summary:
Fritz Müller’s daughter has committed suicide.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Meehan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 113
Summary:
There has been talk in American papers of CD’s admitting he was wrong about hybrid sterility. TM has presented CD’s views in the New York Independent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project