From:
William Crawford Williamson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 181: 107
Summary:
Sends a seedling Drosera capensis.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jabez Hogg
Date:
14 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Maggs Brothers (dealers) (catalogue 1453, 2011)
Summary:
CD’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, must have published on arsenic, as his father never published on medical subjects.
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From:
Daniel Mackintosh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 9
Summary:
The violent stranding of floating ice as first mentioned in CD’s article ["Ancient glaciers of Caernarvonshire", Collected papers 1: 163–71] is the most remarkable of the Moel Tryfan phenomena.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
15 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 41
Summary:
Sends copy of Kosmos [containing Krause’s article on Erasmus Darwin].
Believes he can spare an Erasmus Darwin letter.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
15 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 199–200)
Summary:
Thanks for cotton seeds.
Germination of Megarrhiza.
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From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B52
Summary:
What are functions of "yeomen of the armoury" on p. 1? Who is "old Hooker" on p. 34? Needs to explain them in annotations [to Erasmus Darwin].
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From:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 99: 208
Summary:
Send CD a present of a fur coat.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
17 [Jan 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 1
Summary:
Thanks his children for their present of a fur coat.
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From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 213–214
Summary:
The Birmingham Philosophical Society proposes to celebrate CD’s birthday and make him their first Honorary Member. RLT will draft the address.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
18 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 201–2)
Summary:
Suspects WTT-D is the author of a good review of Erasmus Darwin in Nature [21 (1880): 245–7].
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From:
Hermann Welcker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 181: 88
Summary:
Sends publications.
Discusses comparative anatomy and evolutionary implications of several ligaments.
Thinks effects of Chinese foot-binding are inherited.
Criticises article on Darwinism in Brockhaus’ Lexikon.
Mentions forthcoming book on mammalian vertebrae.
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From:
Charles Dixon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 228
Summary:
Sends seed attached to breast feathers of a heron that had been shot.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
19 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (126)
Summary:
Describes the germination and early growth of Megarrhiza about which AG has been misinformed. The tubular petioles act functionally like a root.
Ipomoea did not germinate.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
19 Jan 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36199)
Summary:
Replies to EK’s queries about German translation of CD’s preface to Erasmus Darwin.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
20 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (127)
Summary:
Germination of Delphinium and Megarrhiza.
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From:
Samuel Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B67
Summary:
SB has decided to lay the matter [the subject of 12393 and 12396] before the public and has written to the Athenæum stating the facts. [Athenæum 31 Jan 1880.]
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
21 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/50 [A 9904])
Summary:
Thanks EH for copy of book [Das System der Medusen (1879)].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
27 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 203–4)
Summary:
Asa Gray wants seeds of a variety of cotton known as vine cotton.
Contributor:
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Jan 1880]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 80)
Summary:
Thanks CD for giving money to the children. Is going to give money to Bessy, but not invest it until she is really rich. Returns Butler’s letter. Thinks Butler is looking for a grievance to write an article about.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
29 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 90
Summary:
Sorry to hear of his illness.
On his visit to J. F. McLennan, GHD might tell him that CD thinks A. R. Wallace would work up McLennan’s materials conscientiously.
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- Darwin, W. E.77
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- Torbitt, James38
- Cooke, R. F.36
- John Murray36
- Huxley, T. H.34
- Farrer, T. H.26
- Müller, Fritz19
- Wallace, Alfred Russel17
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- Sulivan, B. J.15
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