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DCP-LETT-12537

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whitaker
Date:
16 Mar 1880
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Thanks for sending article on inheritance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12768

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Date:
20 Oct 1880
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

CD has arranged with Murray for CR to have woodcuts at cost for proposed French translation [of Movement in plants].

Has sent £10 to Mme Barbier.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12859

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
[after 25 Nov 1880]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Thanks for note. CD had had misgivings about Chatin but had assumed he was trustworthy [see Movement in plants, p. 389].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13054

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josef Popper (Josef Popper-Lynkeus)
Date:
15 Feb 1881
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Cannot help JP [with bird-powered flying machine].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13143

From:
Spencer Fullerton Baird
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1881
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Smithsonian Archives: Record Unit 33, Volume 111)
Summary:

Introduces Capt. George Montague Wheeler of the US Engineers, who has charge of the government expedition west of the 100th meridian.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13517F

From:
Asher & Co.
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Nov 1881
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

An enclosure for CD has arrived from the Academy of Sciences in Vienna: please can CD send a postal order for 4s.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13518

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asher & Co.
Date:
29 Nov [1881]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Instructions to send parcel to Orpington Station, S.E.R.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13526

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
3 Dec 1881
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Is delighted with JP’s article on vivisection ["Vivisection: its pains and its uses, No. 1", Nineteenth Century 10 (1881): 920–30]. CD is "boiling over with indignation on the subject".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13596

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
2 Jan [1882]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Thanks VOK for a photograph and his New Year wishes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13725

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
12 Mar 1882
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Thanks for letter and promise to send pamphlet.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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