From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Apr 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 209.6: 203
Summary:
Germination and root of Ipomoea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
-4-1880
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.49, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 178: 164
Summary:
Is keeping down his expenditure; has some landowners growing potatoes for him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
David Gill
To:
Warren de la Rue
Date:
2 April 1880
Source of text:
MM/12/96, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
S. M. Herzfeld
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 166: 191
Summary:
Impoverished German doctor asks for money.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jules (Saint Geniez) Rouquette
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 201: 33
Summary:
Sends a poem he has composed in honour of CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Georg Heinrich Schneider
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 177: 59
Summary:
Describes studies with Ernst Haeckel
and research on psychology of lower animals.
Sends book [Der thierische Wille (1880)] and describes his views on the subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jules (Saint Geniez) Rouquette
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 2 Apr 1880]
Source of text:
DAR pamphlet R339: 2
Summary:
Quote from letter to Rouquette in dedication of an essay to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Georg Heinrich Schneider
Date:
3 Apr 1880
Source of text:
Alfred S. Posamentier (private collection)
Summary:
CD thanks the author for the copy of Der thierische Wille.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adolf Ernst
Date:
4 Apr 1880
Source of text:
State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8973)
Summary:
Thanks for interesting letter; is sure it would be worth while to test fertility of illegitimate offspring of heterostyled plants.
Would welcome any information on occurrence of bloom-covered leaves on dry plains.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 209.6: 204–6
Summary:
Encloses a letter from Volney Rattan of California.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
S. M. Herzfeld
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 166: 192
Summary:
Thanks for cheque.
Wants to see CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
5 [Apr 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 156
Summary:
Discusses a book
and the "splendid news about the elections".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Apr [1880]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 81)
Summary:
Is beginning Geikie’s Ice age. Describes flints found on the common. Comments on exciting election.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Faulds
Date:
7 Apr 1880
Source of text:
Faulds [1912?], pp. 22–3
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
7 Apr 1880
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/24)
Summary:
Encloses letter [see 12488] and circular from Henry Faulds [regarding thumb impressions]. Anthropology Institute may care about it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Valentine Ball
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 160: 37
Summary:
Has received CD’s acknowledgment, through Ernest De La Rue, for the copy he sent of Jungle life [in India (1880)].
Offers to collect material for CD on his return to India.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Woodd Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 172
Summary:
W. D. Fox’s sufferings have ended; he died that morning.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 105: A103
Summary:
Will see what can be done about getting thumb impressions, to see if the markings are persistent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Woodward
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 181: 151
Summary:
Seeks testimonial, as he is applying for the Keepership of Geology at the British Museum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Addressee
- Abbot, F. E.1
- Airy, George Biddell1
- Carus, J. V.1
- Cooke, R. F.1
- Darwin, C. R.24
- Darwin, Horace1
- Darwin, W. E.1
- Ercolani, G. B.1
- Ernst, Adolf1
- Faulds, Henry1
- Fox, C. W.1
- Frankland, Edward1
- Galton, Francis1
- Garrison, H. D.1
- Gray, Asa1
- Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine), Lady Hyacinth4
- Huxley, T. H.1
- John Murray1
- Krause, Ernst1
- Morse, E. S.1
- Nature1
- Newton, William1
- Rue, Warren de la3
- Schneider, G. H.1
- Tearle, William1
- Thiselton-Dyer, W. T.1
- Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner1
- Unidentified1
- Williams & Norgate1
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