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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
26 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

It will give CD real pleasure to propose HWB for F.R.S. Asks that he send him the necessary information for the certificate as well as a list of men he would like to sign it. He should not be disappointed if not elected first time. [Bates elected F.R.S. 2 June 1881.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 259, DAR 209.6: 207
Summary:

Oxalis seeds incorrectly named. H. N. Moseley says pigeons in Malaya eject seeds fit for germination.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander Fedorovich Batalin (Александр Федорович Баталин)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 178
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s interest in his paper on plant movements ["Über die Ursachen der periodischer Bewegungen der Blumen und Laubblätter", Flora 56 (1873): 433–41, 449–55]. AFB concentrated on clear cases, though he knows there are others.

Experiments on function of movement: Mimosa leaves, held so they cannot move, die.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann August Georg Edmund (Edmund) Mojsisovics von Mojsvár
Date:
29 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 146: 384
Summary:

Comments on EM’s work in Dolomites [Die Dolomit-Riffe von Südtirol (1879)]. Had wondered whether ancient corals formed reefs.

Obliged for EM’s photograph. Sends his own.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
29 January 1879
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 48, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Leopold Würtenberger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 181: 185
Summary:

Thanks CD for gift to support his research.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Butler Cheadle
Date:
31 Jan 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.559)
Summary:

Declines to sign petition concerning Professorship of Pathology at Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Coe Finch Austin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 159: 130
Summary:

Encloses Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, with account of a fungus that exhales chlorine;

relates his discovery in 1852 of a flowering plant that had "perfectly formed beetles" in the place of anthers.

Contributor:
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From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 159: 104
Summary:

Statement of U.S. sales of CD’s works.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Henry Potonié
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 174: 59
Summary:

Cites evolutionary passages by Alexander Braun in English edition of Braun’s Verjüngung [1853].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
2 February 1879
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 49, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
3 Feb 1879
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 158–9)
Summary:

Heliotropic movements. Is giving up experiments until the spring.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[4 Feb – 8 Mar 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 49
Summary:

Requests some seeds.

Believes the leaves of Phyllanthus sleep like those of Cassia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
Date:
4 Feb 1879
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 13)
Summary:

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

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Maston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 88
Summary:

A stonemason who has read Origin and Descent and defends CD’s theory against theological prejudice, would like to read CD’s other books but is too poor to afford them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 258
Summary:

Sends regards from Capt. Charles Owen, who had collected beetles for CD.

Owen’s son is going to Oregon with Wallis Nash.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 134
Summary:

Has arranged for publication of his translation of Weismann.

S. H. Scudder article on sexual dimorphism in butterflies [Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 12 (1877): 150–8].

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

Wishes to subscribe to RM’s translation of Weismann.

Has seen Scudder’s article.

A. R. Wallace’s article ["Animals and their native countries", Nineteenth Century 5 (1879): 247–59] is excellent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leopold Würtenberger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 181: 186
Summary:

£100 has arrived and LW will set to work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
8 Feb 1879
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (Frankland Collection)
Summary:

Gives results of the experiments: the leaves in most cases make the water alkaline. It cannot be ammonia. He and his son, Francis, suspect potash, which is valued as a manure. Will be grateful for the analysis EF has offered.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project