From:
Henry Baker Tristram
To:
[AB Hewetson]
Date:
19 September 1879
Source of text:
MM/21/18, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Johnson
Date:
24 Sept 1879
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:
Sends the requested signature,
with sympathy for HHJ’s state of health [see 12236].
Reports that HJ’s experiments on tension of parts are often quoted in German works and periodicals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
24 September 1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.41-42, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Sleigh
Date:
[before 26 Sept 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 93
Summary:
Asks correspondent to consider taking a position as his gardener.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham
Date:
26 Sept 1879
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Asks for a character reference for a former servant of correspondent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project