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From:
John Innes Rogers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 176: 200
Summary:

Responds to article in Nature on the sexual colours of butterflies [Collected papers 2: 220–2].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
13 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

The honour RLT proposes [Darwin Festival] is a great one, "but would it not be better to wait until I am in my grave?"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Mansfield Ingleby
Date:
13 January 1880
Source of text:
Folger Shakespeare Library: C.a.26 (33)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Henry Buckley
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 January 1880
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 ff. 52-53
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Theobald Morell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 January 1880
Source of text:
Folger Shakespeare Library: C.a.26 (35)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
14 January 1880
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 58, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, Ida
Date:
15 January [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 564
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
15 January [1880]
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 f. 93
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
19 January 1880
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 131
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters