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DCP-LETT-11927A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert McLachlan
Date:
12 Mar [1879]
Source of text:
Superior Galleries (dealers) (28–31 January 1990)
Summary:

Asks RMcL to correct the proper names in enclosed proof of a letter from Fritz Müller to be published in Nature. CD has no book with names of Trichoptera. [See 11930.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11931

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
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DCP-LETT-11928

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Léo Abram Errera
Date:
13 Mar 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.562)
Summary:

Comments on book by LAE and Gustave Gevaert [see 11916].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11938

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
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DCP-LETT-11930

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

DCP-LETT-11929

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
13 Mar 1879
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 165)
Summary:

Thanks for seeds and for kindness to Frank Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11935

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:
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DCP-LETT-11932

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
14 Mar 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36176)
Summary:

Pleased to hear that EK agrees to CD’s request to have article on Erasmus Darwin translated. Will wait for EK’s enlargement. Has decided submission to Fortnightly Review would be useless.

Warns against Anna Seward’s biography of Dr Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11934

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Ward Richardson
Date:
14 Mar 1879
Source of text:
Royal College of Physicians of London (ALS/D10)
Summary:

Remembers that BWR had planned to write a life of Erasmus Darwin. Ernst Krause now intends to enlarge his Erasmus Darwin; would welcome any information or material.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11937

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:
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DCP-LETT-11939

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 Mar [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 481–2
Summary:

Frank’s reasons for not accepting the Cambridge Examinership.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11942

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).

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DCP-LETT-11940

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

RS-MM-000833

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Walter White, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society
Date:
18 March 1879
Source of text:
MM/14/42, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-11943

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hendrik Weyenbergh
Date:
18 Mar 1879
Source of text:
Academia Nacional de Ciencias, Argentina
Summary:

Acknowledges the diploma [of the Academia Nacional de Ciencias, Argentina].

Sends his photograph and a copy of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11944

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
19 Mar 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36177)
Summary:

Sends copy of a lecture [by John Dowson, see 11949] published in 1861.

Has not yet found a copy of Anna Seward’s biography for EK. It is a wretched, inaccurate book. To contradict Anna Seward’s version, CD intends to write a short preface to the translation of EK’s essay. Doubts that it will be worth translating into German.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11945

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
[before 20 Mar 1879]
Source of text:
Nature , 20 March 1879, pp. 462–3
Summary:

Comments on a letter from Fritz Müller [11839] and particularly on the subject of the disappearance of certain structures in organisms. FM’s explanation deserves serious consideration.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11946

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
20 Mar 1879
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

CD agrees to subscribe to reprint of Blyth’s Field articles on cranes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11947

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
22 Mar 1879
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/25)
Summary:

Describes plans to publish English edition of Krause’s work on Erasmus Darwin.

Will correct Anna Seward’s calumnies [in Memoirs of the life of Dr Darwin (1804)].

Asks about family letters.

Doubts some stories about Erasmus Darwin [in Christiana C. Hankin, ed., Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck (1858)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11948

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp (Wilhelm) Pfeffer
Date:
23 Mar 1879
Source of text:
Tenri Central Library, Tenri University, Nara
Summary:

Seeks clarification of statements on sleep movements on p. 29 of WFPP’s work [Die periodischen Bewegungen der Blattorgane (1875)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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