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DCP-LETT-12647F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
June 1880
Source of text:
Roundell 1880 , pp. 10–11
Summary:

Supporting the abolition of clerical headships and fellowships at Oxford and Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12623

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Bellyse Baildon
Date:
9 June 1880
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Thanks for gift of Spirit of nature (1880).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12624

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
9 [June 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 159
Summary:

Sends Asa Gray’s lectures on Natural science and religion [1880].

Greatly enjoyed their stay at Bassett.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12626

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Johnson
Date:
9 June 1880
Source of text:
Torquay Museum Society (AR471)
Summary:

Thanks for enclosures.

Remembers Edward Vivian.

Glad to hear of flint tools.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12625

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
9 June 1880
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 368–9)
Summary:

Asks JM to provide Quarterly Journal of Science with five woodcuts from Climbing plants to illustrate an article, based on that work, by Francis Darwin [see 12462].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12628

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
11 June [1880?]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 94
Summary:

Some essays have arrived for GHD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12628F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
11 June 1880
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

Asks John Murray to allow R. F. Charles to quote Journal of researches passages in a school text-book [Relfe Brothers model reading-books … in prose and verse (1880–3)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12629

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Vivian
Date:
11 June 1880
Source of text:
Torquay Museum Society (AR472)
Summary:

"The enclosed, evidently intended for you, has by a mistake been addressed to me."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9491

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
13 June [1880]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 ff. 60–1)
Summary:

Letter of introduction for R. B. Litchfield.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12637

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
16 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 121
Summary:

Offers advice concerning letter to [William Edward?] Forster requesting Government aid [for potato experiments].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12619F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
16 June [1880]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 9897)
Summary:

Ordering a copy of a book for his research on vegetable mould [presumably Werner Hoffmeister 1845 (Die bis jetzt bekannten Arten aus der Familie der Regenwürmer: als Grundlage zu einer Monographie dieser Familie.].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12638

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
17 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 261.9: 11 (EH 88205984)
Summary:

Notes on worm action, and CD’s questions concerning source of nutriment for worms in ACR’s courtyard [see Earthworms, pp. 192–3].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12639

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
18 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 160
Summary:

Wants WED to collect some worm-castings from Beaulieu Abbey.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12640

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Carmichael McIntosh
Date:
18 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 146: 351
Summary:

Asks for information about worms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12641

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Burnett Tylor
Date:
19 June [1880]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 50254: 96–8)
Summary:

Discusses animals’ ability to learn to recognise danger, especially poisonous herbs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12642F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of Derby
Date:
25 June 1880
Source of text:
Liverpool Record Office, Liverpool Central Library (920 DER (15) 43/89/21/2)
Summary:

Sending EHS (Lord Derby) information about the Niagara affair.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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