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From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 175
Summary:

GH no longer believes in the value of cross-fertilisation in plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Karl Alberts
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 95
Summary:

Birthday congratulations from the editors of Kosmos. They will mark the occasion with a special number of Kosmos.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 72
Summary:

Sends birthday wishes.

Comments on progress of CD’s theory in Germany. Mentions opposition of Rudolf Virchow and his reply Freie Wissenschaft und freie Lehre [1878].

Describes research trip to Brittany and Normandy.

Research on Challenger Radiolaria.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Alberts
Date:
[after 9 Feb 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 95v
Summary:

Thanks KA and the other editors of Kosmos for the issue published in honour of his birthday. Sees there is much in it that will interest him greatly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B14
Summary:

Birthday greetings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anton Heinrich (Anton) de Bary
Date:
11 Feb 1879
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A 45)
Summary:

Thanks ADeB for sending him Botanische Zeitung, but asks him to send it no more, as CD takes it regularly and has procured the volumes from the beginning.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henslow
Date:
11 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR (CD Library - G. Henslow 1888)
Summary:

Disagrees with GH over the value of cross-fertilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 159: 43
Summary:

Has sent copy of his new book, Colour-sense [1879]; in anticipation of criticism, he justifies his reliance on recorded observations rather than experiments, by the heavy demands of his career as a journalist.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
Nate D. Sanders Auctions (dealer) (14 December 2017, lot 74)
Summary:

Encloses HWB’s Royal Society certificate with seven signatures, which CD thinks is ample.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich Theodor Karl (Karl) Beger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 12 Feb 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 121
Summary:

Birthday wishes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
N. N. Christophe
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (item 26009)
Summary:

Thanks for birthday greetings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Avery Crawley
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 143: 302
Summary:

Can give no information. Has never read works of Aristotle, but has unbounded respect for him as observer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arnold Dodel-Port
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms. Z VIII 417.2)
Summary:

Thanks AD-P for the gift of part of his Atlas [see 11039].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Greiz College
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 94r
Summary:

Send 70th birthday congratulations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/46 [A 9900])
Summary:

Thanks for kind letter.

Has not yet read EH’s article in Kosmos ["Einstämmiger und vielstämmiger Ursprung", 4 (1878–9): 360–76].

Rudolf Virchow affair lamentable. Virchow’s conduct inexplicable.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library (John Robert Crouse autograph collection)
Summary:

Thanks for honour of latest number of Kosmos.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
12 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 440
Summary:

Has just heard that HM has been treated shamefully by his Government. What has happened?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 312
Summary:

Seventieth birthday greetings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Naples Zoological Station
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 172: 2
Summary:

Seventieth birthday greetings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arthur Mellersh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 149
Summary:

Birthday wishes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project