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DCP-LETT-12481

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
14 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 147: 535
Summary:

Would be glad to see RLT at Down if he thinks it fit to come there to deliver the address honouring CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12482

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 160: 171
Summary:

Has been at work on Orchideae for Genera plantarum and has found CD’s Orchids wonderfully useful. Comments on some problems of botanical terminology.

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FL-0502

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[15 February 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 135
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-12486

From:
William Henry Flower
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 142
Summary:

Enjoyed his visit to Down.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12484

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B56
Summary:

Agrees not to reply to Butler.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12492

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otago University
Date:
[16 Feb 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 43
Summary:

Testimonial for S. B. J. Skertchly, stating CD’s high opinion of his work.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12487

From:
Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 121
Summary:

Asks CD to telegraph a testimonial for him.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12505

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
[after 16 Feb 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 19v
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for a gift of books.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12490

From:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 181: 116
Summary:

On clubroot fungus of cultivated Cruciferae.

Will give Russian wheat varieties another trial.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12493

From:
Jean-Henri Casimir (Jean-Henri) Fabre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 2
Summary:

On instinct in insects. Intends to experiment as CD proposes.

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FL-1314

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
19 February 1880
Source of text:
DAR 258: 588
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-12495

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
20 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 371
Summary:

Speculates on origin of habit [of insects?] of laying eggs on plants of certain families.

Contributor:
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FL-1356

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Farrer, T. H.
Date:
21 February 1880
Source of text:
DAR 258: 665
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-12496

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
21 [Feb 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 91
Summary:

Nature [21 (1880): 382] has an item about tremors and earth movements in Japan.

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DCP-LETT-12497

From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 162: 219
Summary:

Thanks CD for his offer. Suggests it be used to start a fund to pay travel expenses of English naturalists who want to come to the Station.

Contributor:
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FL-0593

From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[24 February 1880?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.6: 12
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-0862

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
25 February 1880
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 222
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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FL-1337

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Ida
Date:
26 February 1880
Source of text:
DAR 258: 627
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-12500

From:
George Moultrie Salt
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
[26? Feb 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 9
Summary:

Wishes EAD to sign some road bonds and then forward them to CD so that they may be paid off. [EAD note to CD enclosed, saying he does not know where the money will go.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12502

From:
Henry William Crosskey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 160: 187
Summary:

Forwards, on behalf of the Birmingham Philosophical Society, an address offering CD the first honorary membership of the Society. Encloses formal record of this meeting.

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