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DCP-LETT-12452

From:
William Zaccheus Seddon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 177: 126
Summary:

WZS, 12-year-old pupil, asks where he can find answer to question of what causes different shades of colour in inhabitants of earth.

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FL-1212

From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
3 February 1880
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1412
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12455

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 209.6: 201
Summary:

Germination of Megarrhiza. AG’s observations at variance with CD’s.

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DCP-LETT-12457

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B82–3
Summary:

Has read Butler’s letter and CD’s draft reply and Litchfield’s letter. Has no hesitation in saying CD should take no notice. Litchfield’s advice is judicious.

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DCP-LETT-12456

From:
Richard Buckley Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B79–80
Summary:

Thinks Huxley’s judgment on answering S. Butler’s charges would be trustworthy, though THH is horribly pugnacious and would naturally be for fighting.

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FL-0501

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
4 February 1880
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 133, 134
Summary:

No summary available.

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DCP-LETT-12460

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Zaccheus Seddon
Date:
4 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 147: 461
Summary:

Comments on colours of races of man. Wishes WZS "or anybody else" could account for them.

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DCP-LETT-12462

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 99: 133–134
Summary:

Since CD has decided not to answer S. Butler’s charge, WSD will not reply either.

Will look over Francis Darwin’s lecture ["Climbing plants"] with a view to publishing it in Popular Science Review [19 (1880): 213–29].

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DCP-LETT-12463

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B53
Summary:

Thinks CD has no need to reply to Samuel Butler’s hostile article [in the Athenæum]. Offers to reply himself.

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DCP-LETT-12466

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B54
Summary:

Returns [Butler’s] attack, which he forgot to send yesterday.

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DCP-LETT-12467

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 166: 76
Summary:

Sends birthday wishes.

Discusses work on Medusae.

Recalls visit to Down.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12470

From:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 160: 294
Summary:

Describes formation of student nature study club at the University of Jena. Sends birthday greetings from the club.

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DCP-LETT-11352

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 209.7: 159
Summary:

"Dia" [as a prefix] means "through, across".

WED’s wife would like to meet the Huxleys.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12469

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B55
Summary:

Birthday greetings.

Regrets Butler’s malicious attack.

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DCP-LETT-12471

From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 162: 218
Summary:

Sends birthday greetings

and the good news of a subvention for the Zoological Station received from the German government. There are now 20 naturalists working at the Station.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12472

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 144: 486
Summary:

It might be possible to borrow £500 [for potato experiments]. Variety of "The Champion" spreading over the Kingdom. Champion lately less able to produce.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12477

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
Date:
13 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 143: 143
Summary:

Thanks society of students at Jena for birthday congratulations.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12478

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
13 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 370
Summary:

Thanks for articles by ASW in Gardeners’ Chronicle [see 12404]. Agrees with him.

Asks about growth of rootlets from knobs caused by fungus on roots of Cruciferae.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12480

From:
William Cole
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 19
Summary:

At the inaugural meeting of the Epping Forest & Essex Naturalists’ Field Club, CD was elected an Honorary Member.

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DCP-LETT-12479

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
14 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 144: 100
Summary:

Torbitt too poor to go on with [potato] experiments. If anything is to be done it must be by Government.

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