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WCP4897

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
[December?] [1880?]
Source of text:
Dittrick Medical History Center of Case Western Reserve University
Summary:

Discusses the petition to get ARW a civil pension.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP7152

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis ("Frank") Darwin
Date:
[December?] [1880?]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 211: 69
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12880F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec [1880]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 84)
Summary:

Will soon manage to go to Beaulieu. Is glad the book is going off well. Is thinking of going to the Roman Villa at Brading on the Isle of Wight.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12880

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 95: 502–3
Summary:

Responds, with some embarrassment, to JDH’s caution on Frank’s F.R.S. prospects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12882

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
2 Dec [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 164
Summary:

Gives instructions to WED about looking for earthworm activity at Brading.

Mentions James Geikie’s excellent book [Prehistoric Europe (1881)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12881

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
2 Dec 1880
Source of text:
Elizabeth Margaret Elliott Lucas (private collection)
Summary:

Hensleigh Wedgwood has told CD that land JBI had inquired about will be sold at auction with the house [Trowmer [Tromer!?] Lodge].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12883

From:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 174: 72
Summary:

CD’s comment that certain instincts originate as variations of the brain, rather than as habits, is supported by Brown-Séquard’s and C. F. O. Westphal’s work on epileptiform movements.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12885

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Dec [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 111
Summary:

Description of remains of a Roman villa and the worm activity at the site.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12886

From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 174: 12
Summary:

Thanks CD for his note and his new book [Movement in plants].

Makes him feel "we must go beyond plants for a really elemental pathology".

Wishes he knew enough about crystals to work at them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12888

From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 166: 216
Summary:

Preoccupied by reorganisation of Botanic Garden.

Regards to Francis Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12887

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 104: 148–9
Summary:

Wants to propose Frank for F.R.S. now, with election in 1882.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12889

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 169: 111
Summary:

Comments on Pangenesis. Quotes long passage from article by Fritz Müller concerning regeneration of lost members among crustaceans.

Kosmos has been sold to Eduard Koch in Stuttgart; will be converted into a weekly. Science will be de-emphasised. Krause seeking new publisher to continue on old basis.

Gustav Jäger injured in train accident.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP5325

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 December 1880
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 95: 504-5
Summary:

Island Life.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12890

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 95: 504–5
Summary:

Thanks for agreeing to propose Frank as F.R.S.

Would have enjoyed discussing Island life.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12891

From:
Eduard Adolf (Eduard) Strasburger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 177: 266
Summary:

Thanks CD for a copy of his book [Movement in plants].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12892

From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 162: 157
Summary:

Thanks for Movement in plants; particularly supports indirect rather than direct action of light and gravity on plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP3767

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[7] [December] [1880]
Source of text:
Imperial College Archives, London: Huxley Collection, 1D/5.355
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12893

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[7 Dec 1880]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 355)
Summary:

Asks to see THH on Thursday or Friday to hear about the Wallace affair.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12895

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 166: 354
Summary:

THH will be at Kensington.

He has been so busy that he has let the Wallace business stand over.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP5557

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 December 1880
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 166: 354
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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