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DCP-LETT-12541

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
20 Mar [1880]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (Walter Deane Autograph Collection)
Summary:

Asks AG to confirm whether Ipomoea leptophylla "makes a great tuber as big as a mangel-wurzel".

Petioles of Cotyledons behave partly like those of Megarrhiza.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12539

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
20 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 117
Summary:

Thanks for letter and documents [about potato experiments]. Will send testimonial letter to James Caird to be circulated among possible financial supporters of JT’s work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12543

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
23 Mar 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36204)
Summary:

Regrets delay of photographs [for German edition of Erasmus Darwin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12546

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Caird
Date:
24 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 52: E7a, E9–14, E16v
Summary:

Encloses a statement regarding the progress of Torbitt’s potato experiments, and discusses the handling of the fund CD holds for Torbitt.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12545

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
24 Mar [1880]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (130)
Summary:

Thanks for Megarrhiza seeds and information. Has been greatly interested by Megarrhiza germination.

Samuel Butler has attacked CD over Erasmus Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12552

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
28 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 118
Summary:

"[James] Caird seems satisfied with what I have said of your method and the results hitherto attained." Can now promise to send £90 in the autumn.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12554

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Woodd Fox
Date:
29 Mar 1880
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-12)
Summary:

Grieves with CWF at the approaching death of his father, W. D. Fox. Remembers how they breakfasted together every day at Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12555

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
30 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 119
Summary:

Encloses letter about JT’s potato experiments sent to T. H. Farrer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12560F

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

DCP-LETT-12561

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

DCP-LETT-12564

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:
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DCP-LETT-12564F

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

DCP-LETT-12565

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

DCP-LETT-12570

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Sylvester Morse
Date:
9 [Apr] 1880
Source of text:
Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11)
Summary:

[Copy erroneously dated March.]

Has forwarded ESM’s letter to Nature ["Omori shell mounds", Collected papers 2: 222–3].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12571

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
9 Apr [1880]
Source of text:
Nature , 15 April 1880, p. 561
Summary:

Forwards a letter from E. S. Morse on Omori shell mounds refuting F. V. Dickins’ review [Nature 21 (1880): 350] of Morse’s memoir ["The shell mounds of Omori", Mem. Sci. Dep. Univ. Tokyo 1 (1879) pt 1].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12572

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Woodd Fox
Date:
10 [Apr] 1880
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-13)
Summary:

Condolences upon the death of CWF’s father, William Darwin Fox.

[Wrongly dated March by CD.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12574

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
11 [Apr] 1880
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 340)
Summary:

Sorry he missed THH’s lecture ["The coming of age of The origin of species", Royal Institution, 9 Apr 1880]. Has read press notices and heard from his children of its great success.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12575

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Giovanni Battista Ercolani
Date:
14 Apr 1880
Source of text:
Biblioteca Comunale dell’Archiginnasio, Bologna (Collezione degli autografi, XXIII, 6543)
Summary:

Thanks GBE for his great work on the placenta [Nuove ricerche sulla placenta nei pesci cartilaginosi e ne mammiferi (1880)]. The relationship between placental structure and mammalian classification has always seemed interesting to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12577

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
Date:
15 Apr 1880
Source of text:
Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Letter, C. R. Darwin to F. E. Abbot (15 April 1880), in folder Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101)
Summary:

Thanks FEA for copy of a review of a book on evolution by "an ignorant lawyer".

Sends £5 for Index subscription.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12576

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
15 Apr 1880
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 205–6)
Summary:

Wants Ipomoea seeds for observing germination.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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