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
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
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:
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
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
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
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
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Mar [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 92: B1
Summary:
Sends suggestions for CD’s preface to Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 104: 125–7
Summary:
Urges Frank to reconsider his refusal of Cambridge Examinership.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert McLachlan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 2
Summary:
Returns to CD a corrected proof [of "Fritz Müller on a frog having eggs on its back", Nature 19 (1878–9): 462–4].
Discusses adaptations of the pupae of, and Fritz Müller’s work on, Trichoptera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 99–100
Summary:
Offers to translate [E. Krause’s] "Erasmus Darwin" for £10.
Thanks CD for signing his certificate for the Royal Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 101
Summary:
Repeats his willingness to translate E. Krause’s "Erasmus Darwin".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B17–18
Summary:
Had doubts about excerpt from Anna Seward’s book [Life of Dr Darwin]. Sends slightly enlarged version of his "Erasmus Darwin". Includes footnote denouncing Seward’s book.
Finds that part 2 of ED’s Botanic garden, 2d ed. (1790), appeared before part 1 (1791).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 178: 84
Summary:
Asks if CD would like to subscribe to a reprint of Edward Blyth’s Field articles on cranes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B19–20
Summary:
Thanks for sketch of Erasmus Darwin by John Dowson [see Erasmus Darwin, p. iv]; would like to incorporate this information into MS. Previous biographers of Erasmus Darwin had insufficient knowledge of what appeared in his works.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Léo Abram Errera
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 163: 29
Summary:
Sends his photograph as requested.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Sophia Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 15
Summary:
Notes and a copy of a letter written by ESG to John Dowson of Whitby. Expresses her opinion of the biographies of Erasmus Darwin written by Mrs Schimmelpenninck and Anna Seward.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick King
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 169: 20
Summary:
Cattle and sheep varieties removed from their native soils degenerate rapidly.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project