From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B48
Summary:
German edition of Erasmus Darwin will not appear until next year.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Ball
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 36
Summary:
Thanks CD for noticing some difficulties in his hypothesis. Concedes that there is no proof that higher plants are more intolerant of carbon dioxide than lower plants. Argues that the main difference between the lowlands and the high mountains in Palaeozoic times would be the much greater climatic fluctuations that would occur on the mountains. Discusses carbon dioxide diffusion in the Palaeozoic atmosphere. Thinks that the large number of species and genera peculiar to high mountains favours the assumption that "their diffusion must date from a geologically remote period" [see ML 2: 20–2].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
28 November 1879
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 55, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 104: 134–5
Summary:
Congratulations on Erasmus Darwin; likes CD’s part better than Ernst Krause’s.
Received false notice of Asa Gray’s death.
Gray and JDH engaged in comparing widely separated but floristically similar regions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 Nov 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 81
Summary:
Erasmus thinks CD should give a copy of Erasmus Darwin to Henry Parker.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
