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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Würtenberger
Date:
15 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Helmut Würtenberger (private collection)
Summary:

Is sorry that LW’s circumstances interfere with his scientific work. Does not think any English scientific society can help.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 177: 37
Summary:

Sends his photograph; asks for CD’s.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Karl Höchberg
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 226
Summary:

Points out comment by Grant Allen supporting his theory of the origin of colour sense. Is English translation of his essay possible?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Kitchen Parker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 174: 21
Summary:

Sends CD a book on science and scriptures written by a clergyman friend [unidentified].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
18 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 333)
Summary:

Has read Hume with great pleasure, but found parts very stiff reading.

George Darwin has visited Anthony Rich.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[18 Jan 1879]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.558)
Summary:

Notes advertisement of Tito Vignoli, Fundamentalgesetz der Intelligenz im Thierreiche [1879].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
Date:
19 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks GdeS for his photograph; sends his own. Glad to hear GdeS’s work [Le monde des plantes (1879)] is popular in France.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
20 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Sends the Fritz Müller article from Kosmos.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
Date:
20 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 11)
Summary:

Thanks for HNM’s [Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger" (1879)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Jan 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 260
Summary:

H. N. Moseley says [in "Notes on plants collected and observed at the Admiralty Islands", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 15 (1877): 77] pigeons eject seeds in fit state for germination. He regards pigeons as providing most efficient means of transport in Malayan Archipelago.

CD’s collected notes on geographical distribution would make a good book.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 257
Summary:

Thanks CD for accepting dedication.

Asks CD to support his candidacy for position as Registrar of the University of London by talking to Sir John Lubbock, one of the most influential members of the Senate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Nature , 20 March 1879, pp. 463–4
Summary:

Has lately found frog that has eggs on its back.

Pupae of caddis-flies living on rocks have lost fringe of hairs on their feet. In species that live in the water these are used for swimming.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Melchior Neumayr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 172: 16
Summary:

Respects Leopold Würtenberger’s work. Will initiate inquiry if CD wishes. LW’s work suffers from his limited circumstances. Will assist him if he asks.

Mentions his own forthcoming work ["Zur Kenntniss der Fauna des untersten Lias in den Nordalpen", Abh. K.-K. Geol. Reichsanst. 7 (1874–82), vol. 5].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 162: 28
Summary:

Suggests references that might answer CD’s [unidentified] request for information about coral islands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emil Heinrich (Emil) Du Bois-Reymond
Date:
23 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of diploma.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
Date:
23 and 30 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 12)
Summary:

Has told John Lubbock how highly he thinks of HNM’s work, and has heard that HMN’s claims will be fully considered.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Jan [1879?]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Orders a sheet of gold-beater’s skin for plant experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Melchior Neumayr
Date:
24 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 147: 184
Summary:

Has offered Leopold Würtenberger money to aid in his work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 94
Summary:

F. Galton and others suggest that he go in for Fellowship [of Royal Society]. Asks that CD propose him. If he is unable to do so HWB will not be hurt to wait another year.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
25 Jan [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–1881: ff. 153–6)
Summary:

Movements in Oxalis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project