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DCP-LETT-12210

From:
Francis Burges Goodacre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 165: 67
Summary:

Would like CD to write a paper on the results of geese experiments; hopes CD will not object to his doing the same despite the variance of their conclusions [see F. B. Goodacre, "Question of identity of Chinese and domestic goose", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1879): 710–12 and CD’s "Fertility of hybrids from the Chinese and common goose", Collected papers 2: 219–20].

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DCP-LETT-12211

From:
Otto Hahn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 82
Summary:

Sends copy of Die Urzelle [1879].

Clerical party in Germany rejoicing because science cannot explain all facts at once.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12208

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B37–8
Summary:

Acquaintances say principal contents of Seward book should be recounted in German edition of Erasmus Darwin.

Will CD check MS for errors?

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DCP-LETT-12213

From:
Hugo de Vries
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 180: 23
Summary:

Force of turgor is true cause of movement in plants. HdeV hopes to identify the substance which increases the cell’s water-absorbing power.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12215

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 74
Summary:

Arranges to visit Down.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12217

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 92: B12–13
Summary:

Likes CD’s memoir of his grandfather and offers to publish 1000 copies at his own risk, giving half the profits to CD.

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DCP-LETT-12219

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B5–6
Summary:

Murray’s offer to publish Erasmus Darwin. RC states terms and preliminary arrangements.

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DCP-LETT-12220

From:
Victor Alexander Ernest Garth (Victor) Marshall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 46
Summary:

VAEGM pleased CD enjoyed his stay at Coniston.

Reports some rude remarks about CD made by John Ruskin.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12221

From:
Francis Burges Goodacre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 165: 68
Summary:

Can dispose of CD’s geese if he wishes.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12223

From:
Hugo de Vries
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 180: 24
Summary:

Movement of tentacles of Drosera.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12226

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 502
Summary:

On cost of the portrait of Dr Darwin, for Erasmus Darwin.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12227

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B39–40
Summary:

Thanks for printed sheets and MS. Intends that German version should follow the English, but will add notes to clarify unfamiliar material for German readers.

Thanks for list of plant names.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12228

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 122
Summary:

Acknowledges proofs of Erasmus Darwin.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12232

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 and 16 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 123–4
Summary:

Sends his corrected proofs [of Erasmus Darwin] for CD’s approval, with questions and final arrangements.

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DCP-LETT-12233

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 178: 154
Summary:

Illness of his wife.

Potato crossing experiments; believes he has increased yield considerably.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12235

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 125–6
Summary:

Final decisions about the printing of Erasmus Darwin.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12234

From:
Melchior Neumayr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 172: 17
Summary:

Sends new publication [see 11838].

Plans major study of evolutionary palaeontology.

Comments on form series discovered by Joachim Barrande.

Has not heard from Leopold Würtenberger.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12236

From:
Henry Johnson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 168: 69
Summary:

Requests autograph for a friend.

Has retired to Ludlow because of angina pectoris.

He and his daughter, Mary, were present in the cave near Tenby when George Rolleston found so many antediluvial bones.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12238

From:
Henry Johnson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Sept [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 168: 70
Summary:

Thanks CD for his autograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12239

From:
E. Desrousseaux
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 162: 173
Summary:

ED is at work on a book to be called "Les grands phénomènes de la nature", which will furnish additional proof of CD’s doctrine.

Expounds his theory that all phenomena originate in movement.

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