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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
8 September 1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.62, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
9 Sept 1879
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 360–1)
Summary:
Pleased that JM will allow two-thirds profits [on Erasmus Darwin] for he wants Krause to receive some profit.
He and his son [Francis] are preparing a large botanical work [Movement in plants], dry as dust, which he must publish on commission. He will be lucky to lose only £100.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
10 Sept [1879]
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:
Has sent some geese.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Date:
11 Sept 1879
Source of text:
University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 64)
Summary:
Has sent remaining sheets for proposed French translation of Erasmus Darwin. Edmond Barbier should consider the pages from Seward’s Life that have been cut from the English edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
11 September 1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.63, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH writes to Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer about a recent trip to Edinburgh, where he had lunch with [John Hutton] Balfour, Isaac [Bayley Balfour], [Alexander] Dickson & [John] Sadler. He reports that Balfour is as ill as normal & speculates as to whether he will get his pension whilst retaining the Regius keepership of Botany at Edinburgh University. Dickson, his successor as Chair of Botany at the university is pleased to have given responsibility for the Edinburgh Botanic Garden & arboretum to the Curator [John] Sadler. JDH briefly discusses the funding & layout of the new arboretum & praises the condition of the garden. JDH stayed with Isaac Anderson-Henry in his villa. It is well known that [Malcolm] Dunn has ambitions to succeed John Smith as Curator of RBG Kew, JDH does not hear good reports of his character or skills as a gardener. JDH has seen Lord Melville's grounds & garden at Lasswade, which are kept up by a conscientious gardener. At the flower show in Edinburgh JDH met RBG Kew's ex orchid man, Russell & the gardener from Drumlanrig Castle, David Thomson. JDH ignored Dunn & McKinley[?]. The nature of Sir Wyville Thomson's illness is not known, there are no rumours about his resignation or appointing a successorship so JDH deduces that Lankester's actions are not known except to Allman, & in London. JDH hopes it is not too late to draw Montbretia pottsi. He is delighted about River's interest in the Teak & sorry that WTTD has had trouble with the Colonial Office, JDH will write to [Robert Henry] Meade about it. He explains that he could not leave a carriage for Harriet Thiselton-Dyer as their horse was worn out & the state of their job master uncertain. He discusses alterations to the museum building at RBG Kew & mentions the state of door lintels in the orchid houses. Bad weather will prevent JDH going to the Trossachs with his son Reggie [Reginald Hawthorn Hooker].
Contributor:
Hooker Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Victor Alexander Ernest Garth (Victor) Marshall
Date:
14 Sept 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CD responds to VM’s desire to plant a tree in his honour by offering three choices.
Again expresses his pleasure in Coniston.
Acknowledges that Ruskin was right about his feeling "a deep and tender interest about the brightly coloured hinder half of certain monkeys".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
14 Sept [1879]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.567)
Summary:
Thanks GJR for gift of game.
Contributes to [Naples] Zoological Station.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
15 Sept 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36194)
Summary:
Agrees to EK’s proposals [for publishing Erasmus Darwin]. Will send sheets to Paris, but is not sure there will be a French translation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Alberts
Date:
16 Sept 1879
Source of text:
Erbengemeinschaft Alberts (private collection)
Summary:
Explains his arrangements with Messrs Reinwald in France and Appleton in America, if they were to publish his work on Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
16 September 1879
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 53, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Alfred Newton
To:
AB Hewetson
Date:
17 September 1879
Source of text:
MM/21/17, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project