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From:
Charles Valentine Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1879]
Source of text:
DAR 69: A61–2
Summary:

Notes on reefs in the SW Pacific and the Indian Ocean.

Contributor:
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From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1879?]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 151
Summary:

Has found no [potato] variety whose foliage can resist the parasite, except when grown under glass.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Marius Koch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 169: 48
Summary:

A young disciple wishes to know if reports of people with tails in New Guinea could be true.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Jung
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 168: 94
Summary:

Young Austrian woman asks for CD’s autograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Carl (Charles) Kraus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 169: 104
Summary:

A supporter of "the presumptive connection between socialism and evolution through natural selection" sends essays of Carl Vogt and requests CD to comment on them publicly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 70)
Summary:

Sends figures on increase in value of North Western Railway stocks. Says consol stock considered much more secure for bankers. Does not think his own bank is in danger of a run. Is glad to see the Emperor of Prussia has confirmed CD’s appointment to Academy. Is snowing at Bassett.

Contributor:
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From:
Leopold Würtenberger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 181: 184
Summary:

Asks about possibility of securing grant in England in order to complete work on ammonites. Describes progress. Could CD recommend him to a foundation? Describes personal background.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Harrison Blackley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 194
Summary:

Relates anecdote about a provincial girl’s reaction to being told men descended from monkeys.

Contributor:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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:
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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:
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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:
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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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