Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[May 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 239
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
James Edmund Harting
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May [1880?]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 112
Summary:
Wild cat gestation is twelve days longer than domestic cat, a fact not mentioned in Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
Date:
2 May 1880
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 14)
Summary:
Invites HNM to Down on 9 May.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Paul Ascherson
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
3 May 1880
Source of text:
RB MSS M75, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
3?-5-1880
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 60, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
3 May [1880]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017)
Summary:
Requests a copy of Ray Lankester’s lecture or essay on degeneration (Lankester, E. Ray. 1880. Degeneration: A chapter in Darwinism. London: Macmillan.).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Jane Fox; Frances Jane Hughes
Date:
5 May 1880
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.573)
Summary:
Still remembers FJH. Thinks no scientific journal would publish her essay on Genesis and science.
Regrets death of her brother [W. D. Fox].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 May 1880
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 107-108
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
6 May 1880
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 269
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Ray Lankester
Date:
6 May [1880]
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:
Hopes that Lankester will come stay next Sunday. Clark, Galton and Moseley will also be there.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Dixon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 162: 185
Summary:
Corrects CD’s statement [Descent 1: 19] that the platysma myoides muscle cannot be brought into voluntary action. He can move every one of his facial muscles.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Maurice Holtze
Date:
7 May 1880
Source of text:
GRG 19/391, State Records of South Australia, Adelaide
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[7 May] 1880
Source of text:
DAR 145: 289; Janet Huxley (private collection)
Summary:
Expresses his delight with and admiration for THH’s "Coming of age [of The origin of species]" in Nature [22 (1880): 1–4].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dixon
Date:
8 May 1880
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 6604: 17)
Summary:
Thanks for information.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
8 May 1880
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 270
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Arthur Hobhouse
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 May 1880
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 ff. 54-55
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[9 May 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 157
Summary:
Forwards John Lubbock’s letter and hopes WED might influence the men "for the sake of science".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 157
Summary:
Writes regarding an [unspecified] election at a university. JL wonders whether William Darwin would speak to two Southampton men about it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
9 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 120
Summary:
Cannot offer any assistance in urging Government to aid JT’s experiments. Thinks best chance through [William Edward?] Forster. William Carruthers reported to Royal Agricultural Society that JT’s attempt was hopeless.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 166: 352
Summary:
Hopes CD does not think his faith in natural selection is weak because he omitted mention of it in his lecture.
Is working on dogs. They will make a case for "Darwinismus".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Addressee
- Bailey, Frederick1
- Barry, Redmond1
- Candolle, Alphonse de1
- Canestrini, Giovanni1
- Darwin, C. R.14
- Darwin, G. H.2
- Darwin, W. E.1
- Dixon, James1
- Fiske, John1
- Fox, F. J.1
- Gill, David2
- Gray, Asa2
- Harris, J.1
- Holtze, Maurice1
- Hooker, Joseph3
- Hughes, F. J.1
- Huxley, T. H.2
- Kippist, Richard1
- Lankester, E. R.1
- Litchfield, H. E.8
- Moseley, H. N.1
- Mueller, Ferdinand von6
- Preston, S. T.1
- Rue, Warren de la1
- Sulivan, B. J.1
- Tepper, Otto1
- Thiselton-Dyer, William1
- Torbitt, James1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel2
- Williams & Norgate1
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