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DCP-LETT-12196

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fiske
Date:
17 Aug [1879]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 8268)
Summary:

Thanks JF again for his Essays, which he has now read.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12197

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 118–19
Summary:

WSD sent MS of his translation of Erasmus Darwin on 6 August. Hopes CD received all of it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12198

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
19 Aug [1879]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36192)
Summary:

CD is relieved by EK’s response to his criticisms. Will attend to all his instructions and will not print his preface until EK has seen it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12200

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ambrosius Arnold Willem Hubrecht
Date:
25 Aug 1879
Source of text:
Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Research
Summary:

Thanks for essay. Doubts AAWH’s theory concerning modifications in first- and last-born offspring.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12199

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Victor Alexander Ernest Garth (Victor) Marshall
Date:
25 Aug 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD expresses the pleasure the Darwins had in the courtesies extended them by the Marshalls at Coniston.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12201

From:
Edward Sylvester Morse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 246
Summary:

Sends proofs [of "The shell mounds of Omori, Japan", Tokyo Univ. Mem. 1 (1879)], which may interest CD for the changes between ancient and modern forms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12202

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 120–1
Summary:

He has no cause to complain at CD’s suppression of parts of his translation. Will do his best to correct and improve the proofs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12203

From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 21
Summary:

Requests a letter of introduction to Prof. Jowett for his son, who is entering Balliol College.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12203A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Magnus Gustaf (Gustaf) Retzius
Date:
28 Aug 1879
Source of text:
Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (Gustaf Retzius arkiv, Inbundna serien, Engelsmän I, s 35)
Summary:

CD is honoured to receive the magnificent work Finska Kranier (1878).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12204

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
29 Aug 1879
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:

What should CD do with the geese? One gander chases and frightens his grandchild. Does FBG intend to publish his results?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12205

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 75
Summary:

Accepts invitation to visit Down.

Describes travel plans in Scotland.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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