From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
13 Feb 1879
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 5)
Summary:
Discusses heliotropism in plant cotyledons. Asks for information.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Woodward
Date:
13 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Blacker-Wood Manuscript Collection, Woodward Collection of Autographs v. 3)
Summary:
Has signed a paper [unspecified];
thanks HW for his interesting letter and kind expressions about himself and his son.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 313
Summary:
HM’s teaching methods and his ideas are under attack in Germany along with the works of Ernst Krause.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
14 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 30 (EH 88205968)
Summary:
Has been asked to contribute to W. K. Clifford memorial fund. Asks JT’s advice on how much the committee hopes to raise. Would like to give handsomely but feels bound "with such a lot of children, not to be extravagant".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Carl August Lindvall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 170: 4
Summary:
Outlines his theory to explain the form of certain Swedish sandhills and puts forward his ideas regarding the geological history of the earth.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Ludwig
Date:
16 Feb 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Sends thanks to the Masters for congratulations on his birthday, saying "the approbation & sympathy of one’s fellow-workers in the acquisition of knowledge is the highest possible reward which any man ought to desire".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Walter Butler Cheadle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 161: 136
Summary:
Second request that CD sign a Cambridge memorial [i.e., petition]. The heading has been amended to include graduates who have formerly studied medicine.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carlos Ribeiro
Date:
17 Feb 1879
Source of text:
Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia (Records of the Portuguese Geological Commission 1857–1918)
Summary:
Thanks for having sent prehistoric remains.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
17 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 31 (EH 88205969)
Summary:
Thanks JT for his information. Sends £50 to the W. K. Clifford memorial fund.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 389
Summary:
Requests testimonial from CD for position of Assistant Keeper, Zoological Dept, British Museum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anton Heinrich (Anton) de Bary
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 162: 133
Summary:
Since he was innocent of sending the Botanische Zeitung to CD, he inquired of the editor, who informs him that it is sent every week by post by order of Williams and Norgate.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander Bruce, 2nd Earl of Kincardine
To:
Robert Moray
Date:
20 February 1879
Source of text:
MM/14/45, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
Date:
20 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 71)
Summary:
"I do not know whether the enclosed will be of any use to you.– I can say nothing of your fitness for the desired office, as I know nothing whatever of its duties.
I am sincerely sorry to hear of Mr F. Smith’s death."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
Date:
[before 21 Feb 1879]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Read GA’s book [The colour-sense] with "great interest". Makes criticisms and suggestions.
Cannot believe in GA’s theory of the origin of pleasure and pain.
Is glad he defends sexual selection;
CD finds A. R. Wallace’s explanations "mere empty words" and for many years he has "quite doubted [ARW’s] scientific judgment".
Considers the possible effect of environmental colour on the colour tastes of animals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 44
Summary:
Thanks for criticisms of Colour-sense.
Clarifies his views that actions desirable for species result in development of nervous organs capable of pleasurable stimulation.
Believes that all "tastes" occurring in nature are explicable with reference to ancestral habits and that none is purely arbitrary.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
British Museum
Date:
21 Feb 1879
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 17)
Summary:
Letter of recommendation for Richard Bowdler Sharpe, ornithologist.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
21 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 153
Summary:
Circular about the distribution of the overplus of his income and advice on investment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
21 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 50
Summary:
Is increasing FD’s allowance.
Has begun his chapter on sleep of plants [for Movement in plants].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles William Hamilton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 91
Summary:
Encloses a press clipping [missing] of his observations [on stem structure?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Karl Höchberg
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 227
Summary:
Describes health-related arguments for vegetarianism. Notes arguments that anthropoid apes are vegetarians. Asks whether man is sufficiently adapted to mixed diet so that meat is not harmful?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project