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
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
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:
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
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:
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
11 May 1880
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 342); Janet Huxley (private collection)
Summary:
Comments on natural selection. Sometimes he can persuade himself that it is of quite subordinate importance, but so many structures have been explained by it that he can also persuade himself that every structure developed through it. Cites H. G. Bronn’s list [of structures not explicable by natural selection].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fiske
Date:
14 May [1880]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 8269)
Summary:
Invites JF to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
16 May [1880]
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:
Lends BJS Titus Coan’s Adventures in Patagonia [1880].
Thanks him for copies of the missionary journal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Giovanni Canestrini
Date:
17 May 1880
Source of text:
The estate of Sandro Onestinghel (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks GC for having sent his book [La teoria di Darwin criticamente esposta (1880)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
J. Harris
Date:
21 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 145: 5
Summary:
Cannot precisely explain conditions of existence of any organism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Tolver Preston
Date:
22 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 147: 250
Summary:
Discusses ethics of risking one’s life to save another.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
28 May 1880
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks for AdeC’s Phytographie [1880]. CD finds in it a number of "philosophical" remarks new to him. The work would have been invaluable to him in dealing with puzzles when writing his cirripede monographs.
Describes his system of keeping notes on separate pieces of paper filed in several scores of large portfolios.
Has just sent MS of Movement in plants to the printer. Thinks he has suceeded in showing "that all the more important great classes of movements are due to the modification of a kind of movement common to all plants from their earliest youth".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
30 May [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 93
Summary:
Discusses GHD’s genealogical researches
and his health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
