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DCP-LETT-12338

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Dec [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 193–4)
Summary:

Movement of cotton plant cotyledons.

Thanks JDH for his praise of Erasmus Darwin.

Delighted that JDH is thinking about geographical distribution, wishes he would go over the New Zealand flora again.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12339A

From:
Ambrosius Arnold Willem Hubrecht
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1879
Source of text:
Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Research
Summary:

Expresses his gratitude for CD’s criticism and advice relating to his unripe hypothesis [see 12200]. His new results regarding the anatomy of different genera of Nemerteans, especially the discovery of a central nervous system.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12339

From:
Edmund Rogers Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 177: 148
Summary:

Describes bearded horses seen on island of Sark.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12342

From:
Robert Christison, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 161: 146
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of Erasmus Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12340

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edmund Rogers Shaw
Date:
4 Dec 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.568)
Summary:

Thanks ERS for information about variation in horses.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12341

From:
Edward Lewis Sturtevant
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 177: 270
Summary:

Observations on maize.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12343

From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 186
Summary:

Thanks for copy of Erasmus Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12345

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
5 Dec 1879
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:

Were the hybrid geese FBG sent to CD brother and sister from the same hatch? CD intends to send a letter on their breeding to Nature [Collected papers 2: 219–20].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12344

From:
Albert Henry Payne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 174: 32
Summary:

Asks CD to express his opinion on vivisection to help the anti-vivisection cause in Germany.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12346F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 Dec 1879]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 72)
Summary:

Returns Guthrie. Comments at length on Guthrie’s critique of Spencer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12346

From:
Francis Burges Goodacre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 165: 69
Summary:

The hybrid geese FBG sent to CD were brother and sister from the same hatch. Would greatly value a copy of Nature containing CD’s letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12347

From:
John Wesley Judd
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 168: 85
Summary:

Sorry he was out when CD came to visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC680

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
9 December 1879
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 56, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-12350

From:
John Fletcher Moulton, Baron Moulton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 278
Summary:

At CD’s request he has read Malcolm Guthrie’s book [On Mr Spencer’s formula of evolution (1879)], which is a critique of First principles. He finds it a helpful clarification of Spencer’s views; however, it is as pseudo-scientific as the book it criticises.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12348

From:
Emma Gisborne; Emma Nixon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 189–90
Summary:

Thanks for Erasmus Darwin.

Violetta Darwin is near death.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12349

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albert Henry Payne
Date:
10 Dec 1879
Source of text:
Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms gb-00523)
Summary:

Gives his opinion on vivisection. CD detests cruelty but believes that physiology "is one of the most important sciences" and that it cannot progress without experiments on living animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12353

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
11 [Dec 1879]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983)
Summary:

Sends M. Guthrie’s book [On Mr Spencer’s formula of evolution (1879)], although HEL may not care to read it having seen Moulton’s letter [12350].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12351

From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 139
Summary:

Sends subscription form for English edition of Weismann’s Studien.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12352

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
11 Dec [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 197–8)
Summary:

Wants some apheliotropic plants for experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12354

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
12 Dec [1879]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Would like to subscribe to English edition of Weismann.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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