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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Ida; Darwin, Horace
Date:
[4 January 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 625
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Wallis Nash
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 172: 4
Summary:

Reports on the comfortable life of an immigrant in Oregon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ercole Ricotti
Date:
4 Jan 1880
Source of text:
www.ornithomedia.com/magazine/art_mag441_alberto_masi.pdf (accessed 1 December 2011)
Summary:

Thanks for awarding him the Bressa prize. Has sent an order to receive the 12,000 lira.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
5 January 1880
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 January 1880
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 286-288
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 304]
Summary:

Admiration for ARW’s paper, The origin of species and genera, Nineteenth Century (1880). Good use of Allen’s "admirable researches". Disappointment about the Epping Forest appointment. Farrer’s article in Fortnightly Review.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adolf Ernst
Date:
5 Jan 1880
Source of text:
State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8972)
Summary:

Has read AE’s paper in Nature [21 (1880): 217] on Melochia, a new family of heterostyled plants, and suggests some crosses to be carried out to determine the fertility of illegitimate seedlings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
5 Jan 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36198)
Summary:

The reviews of Erasmus Darwin are mainly favourable.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Harrison Tindal
Date:
5 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 185: 118
Summary:

Thanks for the information about Dr Erasmus Darwin and his parents.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vincent, Teja & Co.
Date:
5 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 68
Summary:

Requests that they receive, on his behalf, an award of 12000 lira [lire!?] from the Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin, and transmit it to the Union Bank, London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 Jan 1880
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434 ff. 286–8)
Summary:

Admiration of ARW’s ["The origin of species and genera", Nineteenth Century (Jan 1880)]. Good use of Allen’s "admirable researches".

Disappointment about the Epping Forest appointment.

Farrer’s article in Fortnightly Review.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 181: 115
Summary:

Results of his second year of experiments with Russian wheat varieties will be published in Gardeners’ Chronicle [n.s. 13 (1880): 108, 172–3].

Observations on germination of wheat.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Cole
Date:
6 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archivess (Essex Naturalists Field Club MLDA/9)
Summary:

Regrets he is unwilling to join [Epping Forest Field Club], but encloses a guinea to aid with their preliminary expenses.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Eugene Crowell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 January 1880
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 189-192
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 79)
Summary:

Delighted by honour CD has received from Turin. Agrees with Horace that the money ought to be given to the Zoological Station at Naples.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean-Henri Casimir (Jean-Henri) Fabre
Date:
6 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque centrale, Paris (Ms FAB 32)
Summary:

Thanks JHF for copy of his Souvenirs entomologiques [1879].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Thomas Murray
Date:
6 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 3069)
Summary:

Thanks JM for sending Drosera specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Burges Goodacre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 165: 70
Summary:

FBG greatly interested in CD’s article ["Fertility of hybrids from the Chinese and common goose"] but has not altered his opinion on the matter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B51
Summary:

Pleased by favourable English newspaper reviews of Erasmus Darwin. Charles Reinwald has not yet said whether he wants to use annotations intended for German readers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
8 January 1880
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 253
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Joseph Paul Christopher Hatton
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 January 1880
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 86-87
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project