From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Crier
Date:
Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 37
Summary:
Discusses matters relating to Great Western Railway Company stock.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
3 November 1880
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 292-293
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP6/4/1
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 307-308]
- Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [p. 232]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Volney Rattan
Date:
3 Nov 1880
Source of text:
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library (BANC MSS 74/78 z)
Summary:
Thanks for seeds of Megarrhiza and for information in letter to Asa Gray.
Will send copy of Movement in plants in which Megarrhiza is discussed [see pp. 81–2].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Denison Roebuck
Date:
3 Nov 1880
Source of text:
Leeds University Library Special Collections (SC MS 429/89)
Summary:
Thanks for address honouring him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
3 Nov 1880
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434 ff. 292–3); Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Wallace Papers WP/6/4/1)
Summary:
High praise for Island life; ARW’s "best book". Encloses notes of comments and criticism. Hooker pleased by dedication.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
5 Nov 1880
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 344)
Summary:
Has read THH’s review of Sir Wyville Thomson’s [Introduction to the] Voyage of the "Challenger".
Sends a draft of a letter for Nature [Collected papers 2: 223–4]. He particularly asks THH to decide whether he should include a certain paragraph [see ML 1: 389].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
5 Nov [1880]
Source of text:
Nature , 11 November 1880, p. 32
Summary:
Sir Wyville Thomson misunderstands natural selection when he says the theory "refers the evolution of species to extreme variation guided only by natural selection". CD demurs at the "extreme variation" and the "only". No one has said evolution depends only on natural selection. CD has adduced many facts on the effects of use and disuse and on the direct action of the environment.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
5 Nov 1880
Source of text:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Summary:
Refers correspondent to Descent for some information on marriage arrangements, and on the mental and moral nature of monkeys.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
8 Nov [1880]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 378–9)
Summary:
Thanks RC for telling him about sale of 600 copies [of Movement in plants]. He had expected less, so loss will not be as heavy as he feared. Asks whether he should not have 250 more copies printed and what it would cost to have the type kept up.
Instructions for presentation copies.
The index is the worst ever published.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Maw
Date:
8 Nov 1880
Source of text:
Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/18)
Summary:
Believes the flexure in GM’s dead animals must result from the greater strength of the muscles on the left side. Thinks his son George once tested the strength of each leg of a group of boys, and CD could get his notes if wanted.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
9 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 143: 183
Summary:
Thanks for information about Wallace. Is preparing memorial to be submitted to Government [seeking pension for Wallace].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Fisher (née Buckley)
Date:
9 November 1880
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 143: 183
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
13 November 1880
Source of text:
Imperial College Archives, London: Huxley Collection, 1D/5.346
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
13 Nov 1880
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 346)
Summary:
Sends draft of memorial for a pension for Wallace with suggested names of signers. Asks THH’s help.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Mackintosh
Date:
13 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 146: 334
Summary:
Comments on DM’s ["The Moel-Tryfan shelly deposits", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 37 (1881): 351–69].
Comments on cause of earthquakes.
Believes formation of ice lowered level of sea.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
14 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 143: 184
Summary:
Comments on her new book [Life and her children (1880)]. "… you have treated evolution with much dexterity and truthfulness".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Johnson
Date:
14 Nov 1880
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:
Thanks for information on the slope of ground at Worcester.
CD’s passion now is worms.
Sends Movement in plants. While correcting proof, CD remembered an old article by HHJ, which he regrets not including.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
14 Nov 1880
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.5703/31)
Summary:
Surprising thought that diseases of plants should illustrate human pathology.
Will recommend A. B. Frank’s article in a German encyclopedia, on diseases of plants, to Francis Darwin.
Gives JP a good case of regeneration in plants – the radicle of the common bean. That plants have little power of regeneration is not difficult to understand by anyone who believes in Pangenesis, "if such a man exists … There is reason to think that my imaginary gemmules have small power of passing from cell to cell."
Refers to early experiments in which he tried to produce galls in plants by injecting poisons.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
14 Nov [1880]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.574)
Summary:
Comments on hybridisation; cites authorities. Sends book by Wilhelm Olbers Focke [Die Pflanzen-Mischlinge (1881)].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
15 Nov 1880
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.575)
Summary:
Comments on GJR’s article on hybridisation.
Recommends his article ["Fertility and hybrids from the Chinese and common goose", Collected papers 2: 219–20].
Discusses crosses of Lythrum.
Contributor:
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