From:
Charles Eugene Ferguson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 201: 10
Summary:
Asks for a list of books on evolution relating to man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
27 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 148: 110
Summary:
Glad to hear about vines.
Hopes JT will be able to continue work without Government aid. "It is enough to sicken one to see how politicians waste their time squabbling and neglect doing any good."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Michele Lessona
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 170: 2
Summary:
The Academy of Sciences of Turin has awarded CD a 12000 franc prize for his work during the past four years.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 176: 140
Summary:
New Year greetings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Antonio Mendola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 150
Summary:
Reports from an Italian baron that a calf’s horn that was buried in a field set roots; mule’s hairs incubated in water come alive.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Pole
To:
Secretary of the Royal Society
Date:
29 December 1879
Source of text:
MM/21/76, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Ercole Ricotti
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 230: 78
Summary:
CD awarded a prize of 12,000 lire in recognition of his recent research on plant physiology.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Harrison Tindal
Date:
29 Dec 1879
Source of text:
Bonhams, New York (dealers) (19 October 2009)
Summary:
Thanks for MS as it shows many of Erasmus Darwin’s ideas were formed 20 years before he published Zoonomia. Would like to publish last letter if there is a second edition of his little book. MS will be returned registered post.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emil Witte
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 181: 134
Summary:
Relates case of selective immunity to rinderpest.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
30 Dec [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 368
Summary:
Package of wheat varieties from Russia lost in transit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 26
Summary:
WMH’s agent is coming to Down for CD to sign transfer of £5000 North Eastern Railway stocks. Horace is coming to his office to execute the marriage-settlement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
31 December 1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.65, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH writes to Sir Wiliam Turner Thiselton-Dyer about their mutual poor health. His own health is improving although he still has rheumatic pains & trouble breathing outside. He is keen to get back to work at RBG Kew. JDH is glad that Hubble is gone. He criticizes [John] Smith's tendency to give new untried [RBG Kew] staff the same salary as the experienced men they replace & blames it on his class. JDH is going to wtie to Smith about some other staff: Sharpe, Martin & Masters. He thinks that they need better management of their foremen & suggests [William] Watson. JDH thinks the qualities needed are an outdoor gardener who knows ornamental horticulture, will notice his subordinates deficiencies, which Smith does not, & who will oversee expenditure on labour, materials & plants. Such a man would be worth a good salary. Though JDH fears they would be too qualified & ambitious to remain a foreman. JDH refers to [John Hutton] Balfour selecting a man [to be his successor as Her Majesty's Botanist?]. JDH asks if [Philip Henry Wodehouse] Currie has replied to his letter, JDH forgot to send Currie the promised box of seeds for Cyprus.
Contributor:
Hooker Project