From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Buckley Litchfield
Date:
2 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 146: 56
Summary:
Thanks RBL for advice [concerning dispute with Samuel Butler]. Notes reaction of family.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
3 Feb 1880
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.570)
Summary:
Says it is not likely he will be able to criticise GJR’s work.
Recommends Jean-Henri Fabre, Souvenirs entomologiques [1879].
Encloses letters from J. F. Moulton [12350 and 12356].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
4 Feb [1880]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 338)
Summary:
Greatly relieved by THH’s letter [advising against a reply to Samuel Butler].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
4 Feb 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36200)
Summary:
Samuel Butler’s fierce attack on CD and EK in Athenæum. CD’s sentence saying that EK had altered his Kosmos article was accidentally omitted from second proofs. Butler insinuates that EK’s attack on his book was suggested by CD or interpolated by him in EK’s text.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Zaccheus Seddon
Date:
4 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 147: 461
Summary:
Comments on colours of races of man. Wishes WZS "or anybody else" could account for them.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
5 Feb 1880
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.571)
Summary:
On GJR’s work on mental evolution in animals. Emphasises "love" among animals.
Comments on stimulation of plants.
On pleasure and pain.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
9 Feb 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36201)
Summary:
CD advises EK on his proposed letter answering Butler.
Considering the favourable reviews, sale of Erasmus Darwin has been poor.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
12 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/51 [A 9905])
Summary:
Thanks for his very kind letter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
Date:
13 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 143: 143
Summary:
Thanks society of students at Jena for birthday congratulations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
13 Feb 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36202)
Summary:
Thanks EK for kind letter.
CD’s date on epitaph is a dreadful mistake. CD often overlooks errata.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
13 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:
CD thanks RLT for his two notes, a newspaper article, and a copy of RLT’s address honouring him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
13 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 370
Summary:
Thanks for articles by ASW in Gardeners’ Chronicle [see 12404]. Agrees with him.
Asks about growth of rootlets from knobs caused by fungus on roots of Cruciferae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
14 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 144: 100
Summary:
Torbitt too poor to go on with [potato] experiments. If anything is to be done it must be by Government.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
14 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 147: 535
Summary:
Would be glad to see RLT at Down if he thinks it fit to come there to deliver the address honouring CD.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Date:
15 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 704)
Summary:
Thanks AD and the naturalists at the Station for their birthday congratulations.
CD has been awarded the Bressa prize of the Accademia delle Scienze in Turin, and it occurs to him that if the Station wanted some apparatus costing about £100, he would like to pay for it.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
16 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830-1884, GEB/1/3: f. 722)
Summary:
CD pleased to be of use to GB. He remembers his own work on orchids with pleasure. Thinks GB will be able to improve CD’s terminology for orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otago University
Date:
[16 Feb 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 43
Summary:
Testimonial for S. B. J. Skertchly, stating CD’s high opinion of his work.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
[after 16 Feb 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 19v
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for a gift of books.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Cole
Date:
17 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Essex Naturalists Field Club MLDA/10)
Summary:
Thanks for the honour conferred upon him by the Epping Forest Field Club.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
17 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (128)
Summary:
Seed germination.
Strange that his plants [of Megarrhiza] behaved differently from AG’s [see 12455].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project