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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
[1 Mar 1879?]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/26)
Summary:

Can FG come to lunch on Monday?

Sorry FG has not been well and is soon going abroad.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 59
Summary:

Astonished at circular and will risk revolutions to invest. Describes Blidah, Algeria.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 73
Summary:

Thanks CD [for his increased allowance?].

Writes of his tour [in Algeria].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 172–4
Summary:

Sends family news;

describes what remains of his "menagerie" and tells of his interest in the framework of his son’s German badger-hound.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
3 March 1879
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 50, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Norman (Norman) Lockyer
Date:
4 and 6 Mar [1879]
Source of text:
University of Exeter Library Special Collections (EUL MS 110)
Summary:

Encloses a letter [from Fritz Müller, see 11839] which "eminently deserves to be published in Nature". Discusses the form and illustration needed. Spelling problems to be referred to Robert McLachlan.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albert Ripley Leeds
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 230: 73
Summary:

CD elected an honorary member of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
4 Mar 1879
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 48)
Summary:

Has sent FM’s letter on caddis-fly to Nature ["On a frog and caddis-flies", Nature 19 (1879): 462–4].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Léo Abram Errera
Date:
5 Mar 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.561)
Summary:

Thanks LAE for publication [Errera and G. Gevaert, Sur la structure et les modes de fécondation des fleurs, 1ère partie (1878)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
5 March 1879
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 51, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
5 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 148: 367
Summary:

Discusses ASW’s discovery of error in Russian belief about wheat varieties. Suggests that he publish paper in Journal of Royal Agricultural Society. [Results actually published in Gard. Chron. n.s. 11 (1879): 622–4.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 92: B2; DAR 105: B105, B110
Summary:

Has read Krause’s "Life of Erasmus Darwin" [Kosmos 4 (1879): 397–424]; thinks it very interesting to anyone interested in "Darwinismus" – everybody.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
9 Mar 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36175)
Summary:

CD and his brother Erasmus have read EK’s article on Erasmus Darwin. Asks whether EK would object to a translation by W. Dallas, to be offered to Fortnightly Review or to be published at CD’s expense as a book.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
C. H. Browning
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 333
Summary:

Is reading Origin on inheritance. Reports case of a man who went bald through illness, whose three sons, all born later, also became bald.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Walter White, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society
Date:
10 March 1879
Source of text:
MM/14/41, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
10 Mar [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 163)
Summary:

Thanks for second edition of Duchartre.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 105: 108–9
Summary:

Suggests CD send Kosmos to W. S. Dallas as Krause will surely give his permission for translation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Sweetland Dallas
Date:
12 Mar [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 39
Summary:

Asks whether WSD would be interested in translating Ernst Krause’s article on Erasmus Darwin [Kosmos 4 (1879): 397–424] into English.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alexander Dick-Cunyngham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 161: 279
Summary:

Report of wild ass crossed with tame one in India.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B15–16
Summary:

Glad CD is pleased by his "Erasmus Darwin". Was not able to obtain book by Anna Seward [Memoirs of the life of Dr Darwin (1804)]. Could CD check relevant passages for errors? Would be great honour if CD could arrange English translation. Wants to enlarge essay into book.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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