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DCP-LETT-12575

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Giovanni Battista Ercolani
Date:
14 Apr 1880
Source of text:
Biblioteca Comunale dell’Archiginnasio, Bologna (Collezione degli autografi, XXIII, 6543)
Summary:

Thanks GBE for his great work on the placenta [Nuove ricerche sulla placenta nei pesci cartilaginosi e ne mammiferi (1880)]. The relationship between placental structure and mammalian classification has always seemed interesting to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12577

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
Date:
15 Apr 1880
Source of text:
Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Letter, C. R. Darwin to F. E. Abbot (15 April 1880), in folder Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101)
Summary:

Thanks FEA for copy of a review of a book on evolution by "an ignorant lawyer".

Sends £5 for Index subscription.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12576

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
15 Apr 1880
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 205–6)
Summary:

Wants Ipomoea seeds for observing germination.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12579

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Tearle
Date:
16 Apr 1880
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.572)
Summary:

Comments on concept of revelation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12580

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Newton
Date:
17 Apr 1880
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Unable to comment on F. Lloyd’s criticism of Francis Galton’s Hereditary genius [?A scientific view of Mr Galton’s theories of heredity (1876)].

Sorry about Lloyd’s health.

Does not care much about abuse or fame, an advantage of age.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12582

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
19 Apr 1880
Source of text:
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library (BANC MSS 74/78 z)
Summary:

Thanks for the letter from Volney Rattan [see 12553].

Discusses protective adaptation of seedlings from frost.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12584

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
20 Apr [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 8
Summary:

Gives advice regarding a house.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12585A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
20 Apr 1880
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (Frankland Collection)
Summary:

May CD’s son send some bottles of water, in which Pelargonium leaves have been immersed, for more precise analysis of the potassium or other soluble ash? Can EF recommend a professional analyst to take on further experiments?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12586

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
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DCP-LETT-12588

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
23 Apr [1880]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 366–7)
Summary:

His family shake heads in dismal manner at his proposed title for his MS: "The Circumnutating Movements of Plants". Makes several other suggestions [none of which was adopted].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12591

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
27 Apr 1880
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (July 1986)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for writing, "but such malconformations, as you mention, are not very rare & therefore do not possess much novelty".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12593

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
28 Apr 1880
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 176–178)
Summary:

MS of Movement in plants in final stage. Fears it will displease many German physiologists. It is an attempt to bring all the diversified movements of plants under one general law or system.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12593F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
28 Apr [1880]
Source of text:
eBay (22 August 2019)
Summary:

Forgot he owned vol. 1 of Hermann Engelhard von Nathusius’s Vorträge über Viehzucht und Raßenkenntniss (Nathusius 1872–80). Please to send vol. 2 when convenient.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12594F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Herod Dailey Garrison
Date:
29 Apr 1880
Source of text:
Spike Tyson (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks for the interesting case of inheritance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12594H

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

DCP-LETT-12595J

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

DCP-LETT-12596

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

DCP-LETT-12596F

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

DCP-LETT-12597

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

DCP-LETT-12599

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
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