From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ann Marston
Date:
20 July [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 22
Summary:
Will not sign a petition, for he feels vivisection is essential to the progress of physiology.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 July [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 485–8
Summary:
At work on Movement in plants.
Discusses John Ball’s, G. de Saporta’s, and his own theories of higher plant origin. Their rapid development remains an "abominable mystery".
Frank is working in Würzburg.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Carl Hensgen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 147
Summary:
CH, a chemist interested in zoology, asks CD’s opinion of research programme described on enclosed memorandum. Programme involves investigation of ability of molluscs to build shells out of other carbon compounds in absence of calcium carbonate.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
23 July 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.566)
Summary:
Contributes to subscription for Grant Allen.
Regrets GJR and wife could not visit.
Encloses paper [not identified] by Thomas Meehan, a very inaccurate observer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Ewart Gladstone
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 165: 51
Summary:
Sends CD his collection of Homeric epithets on motion, which "indicate ideas of motion more precise and scientifically adjusted than … any other author".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Titus Munson Coan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 161: 185
Summary:
Sends CD his article on causes of decline of Hawaiian population.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 194
Summary:
Regrets that he cannot send the promised volume [Biographie médicale, 7 vols, 1820–5, biographical appendix to Dictionaire des sciences medicales]. Offers to have his son make an abstract of the biography [of Erasmus Darwin].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 104: 128–30
Summary:
JDH criticises John Ball’s theory of origin of higher plants in Carboniferous highlands, where low carbon dioxide levels permitted survival.
Contributor:
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From:
Samuel Wilks, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 181: 103
Summary:
Sends an oration he delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in CD’s presence.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
[after 26] July [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 180–1)
Summary:
Has failed with his experiments on aerial roots.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 176: 137
Summary:
Best wishes for CD’s trip to Cumberland.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Wilks, 1st baronet
Date:
27 July 1879
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 December 1967: 489)
Summary:
Thanks SW for text of his oration
and an [unspecified] article on parrots.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 112–13
Summary:
Difficulties with Krause’s handwriting and the time required to correct his sources have delayed the translation [of Erasmus Darwin].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 31 July 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 56
Summary:
Discusses Müller-Thurgau’s work on heliotropism. Will start on Thursday for Heidelberg and Strassburg.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[31 July 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 88
Summary:
Asks GHD to send name and address of tailor from whom he got the [LL.D.] gown to W. B. Richmond.
Contributor:
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Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Darwin, Francis8
- Darwin, G. H.6
- Krause, Ernst5
- Thiselton-Dyer, W. T.3
- Chester, J. L.2
- Dallas, W. S.2
- Darwin, Leonard2
- Darwin, Reginald2
- Haeckel, Ernst2
- Hooker, J. D.2
- Paget, James2
- Rich, Anthony2
- Wilks, Samuel2
- Blake, C. C.1
- Carus, J. V.1
- Coan, T. M.1
- Darwin, E. A.1
- Dohrn, Anton1
- Gladstone, W. E.1
- Hensgen, Carl1
- Hill, George Birkbeck1
- Innes, J. B.1
- Lankester, E. R.1
- Marchand, Felix1
- Marston, Ann1
- O’Callaghan, E. H.1
- Reichardt, H. W.1
- Romanes, G. J.1