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DCP-LETT-12645

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[before 1 Aug 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 64
Summary:

Are there old furrowed fields on hillsides in N. Wales, if so can FD look for earthworm activity?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12676

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
3 Aug 1880
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD sends thanks for further instructions for making a solution, which will be followed as soon as Francis [Darwin] returns.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12677

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow
Date:
4 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 53
Summary:

Sends a statement of the assets of the Down Friendly Society. Asks for advice on consulting an actuary.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12679

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
5 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 66
Summary:

Discusses corrections [to Movement in plants]. Has dispatched chapter nine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12680

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ralph Price Hardy
Date:
6 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 62
Summary:

Asks RPH [an actuary] to act on behalf of the Down Friendly Society whose members wish the rates of benefits to be raised.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12683F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Eduard Adolf (Eduard) Strasburger
Date:
8 Aug 1880
Source of text:
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, Handschriftenabteilung (NL Strasburger I)
Summary:

Thanks for his book on the formation and division of cells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12686

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
11 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 67
Summary:

Dispatches a chapter [of Movement in plants] for FD to look over.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12685

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ralph Price Hardy
Date:
11 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 63
Summary:

Discusses matters relating to the Down Friendly Society.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12681

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ralph Price Hardy
Date:
[after 11 Aug 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 67v
Summary:

Forwards some tables on behalf of the Down Friendly Society and discusses the changes in benefits requested by the members.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12688

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Wesley Judd
Date:
[15 Aug 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 9
Summary:

Invites him to lunch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12689

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
16 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Joseph Halle Schaffner collection, box 1, folder 2)
Summary:

Believes A. S. Packard is in error on some points. Refers to his own observations on slave-making ants in Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12691

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Hugh Higgins
Date:
18 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
Bedfordshire Archives and Records Service (HG12/8/3)
Summary:

Thanks HHH for essay.

Describes disposition of cirripede specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12693

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Crawford Williamson
Date:
18 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 221.4: 246 (photocopy)
Summary:

WCW’s specimens are interesting, but CD thinks the slowness of the change might have been expected.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13289A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
18 Aug [1880?]
Source of text:
Harvard University, Department of Psychology
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for information on a plant. It is too late for his present work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12697

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
23 [Aug 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 96
Summary:

Asks GHD to decipher a letter [in German] he has received with a book: The Bible in science.

Enjoyed his stay in Cambridge extremely.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12695

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas McKenny Hughes
Date:
23 Aug 1880
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 43)
Summary:

Honoured by offer of medal from Chester Natural History Society, but if he is expected to attend in person to receive it he regrets he must decline. Asks TMH to decide for him.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12696

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
23 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

JBI’s "barnacles" would have been extraordinary, but they are hard lichens.

Has revisited Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12700

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Wesley Judd
Date:
25 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 10
Summary:

Explains how to reach Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12701

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas McKenny Hughes
Date:
26 Aug 1880
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 8)
Summary:

CD is sorry for the trouble TMH has had. Fully approves of the rule [that the medal be awarded to a local worker?]. The knowledge that the Chester Natural History Society wished to honour him is the real gratification, which he will never forget.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12673

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Othniel Charles Marsh
Date:
31 Aug 1880
Source of text:
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
Summary:

Has received OCM’s Odontornithes memoir. Believes his work affords the best support to evolution that has appeared in the last 20 years.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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