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:
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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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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:
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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:
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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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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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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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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
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:
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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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Tearle
Date:
16 Apr 1880
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.572)
Summary:
Comments on concept of revelation.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Newton
Date:
17 Apr 1880
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Unable to comment on F. Lloyd’s criticism of Francis Galton’s Hereditary genius [?A scientific view of Mr Galton’s theories of heredity (1876)].
Sorry about Lloyd’s health.
Does not care much about abuse or fame, an advantage of age.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
19 Apr 1880
Source of text:
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library (BANC MSS 74/78 z)
Summary:
Thanks for the letter from Volney Rattan [see 12553].
Discusses protective adaptation of seedlings from frost.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
20 Apr [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 8
Summary:
Gives advice regarding a house.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
20 Apr 1880
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (Frankland Collection)
Summary:
May CD’s son send some bottles of water, in which Pelargonium leaves have been immersed, for more precise analysis of the potassium or other soluble ash? Can EF recommend a professional analyst to take on further experiments?
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
21 Apr 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36205)
Summary:
Glad to receive the German edition of Erasmus Darwin. Hopes sales will be good. Favourable review has appeared in the United States, in the Nation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
23 Apr [1880]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 366–7)
Summary:
His family shake heads in dismal manner at his proposed title for his MS: "The Circumnutating Movements of Plants". Makes several other suggestions [none of which was adopted].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
27 Apr 1880
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (July 1986)
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for writing, "but such malconformations, as you mention, are not very rare & therefore do not possess much novelty".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project