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:
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:
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:
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:
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Theodor Heinrich Hermann (Theodor) von Heldreich
Date:
1 July 1880
Source of text:
DAR 145: 10
Summary:
Thanks for essay.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry William Jackson
Date:
9 [July 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 26(ii)
Summary:
CD would be happy to receive the members of the Lewisham and Blackheath Scientific Association at Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry William Jackson
Date:
15 July 1880
Source of text:
DAR 146: 3
Summary:
Thanks HWJ for his kind note. If the weather had been better CD could have made the visit [of the Lewisham & Blackheath Scientific Association] more agreeable.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Cornelis Leendert van der Burg
Date:
[after 15 July 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 107v
Summary:
Thanks for the honour of election.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
16 July [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 86
Summary:
Is honoured by RLT’s announcement, and offers a contribution to the Birmingham scientific fund.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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- Cambridge University Library
- Huntington Library4
- American Philosophical Society2
- Natural History Museum and Archives2
- The British Library2
- J. A. Stargardt (dealers)1
- Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque centrale1
- National Library of Scotland1
- Princeton University Library1
- Taylor Library, Shrewsbury School1
- University Library of Uppsala1