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DCP-LETT-11873

From:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 159: 43
Summary:

Has sent copy of his new book, Colour-sense [1879]; in anticipation of criticism, he justifies his reliance on recorded observations rather than experiments, by the heavy demands of his career as a journalist.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11871F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
Nate D. Sanders Auctions (dealer) (14 December 2017, lot 74)
Summary:

Encloses HWB’s Royal Society certificate with seven signatures, which CD thinks is ample.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11854

From:
Friedrich Theodor Karl (Karl) Beger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 12 Feb 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 121
Summary:

Birthday wishes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11874F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
N. N. Christophe
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (item 26009)
Summary:

Thanks for birthday greetings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11875

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Avery Crawley
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 143: 302
Summary:

Can give no information. Has never read works of Aristotle, but has unbounded respect for him as observer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11877

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arnold Dodel-Port
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms. Z VIII 417.2)
Summary:

Thanks AD-P for the gift of part of his Atlas [see 11039].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2388

From:
Henry Theophilus Finck
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
12 February 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 5-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11879

From:
Greiz College
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 94r
Summary:

Send 70th birthday congratulations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11872

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/46 [A 9900])
Summary:

Thanks for kind letter.

Has not yet read EH’s article in Kosmos ["Einstämmiger und vielstämmiger Ursprung", 4 (1878–9): 360–76].

Rudolf Virchow affair lamentable. Virchow’s conduct inexplicable.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-79-02-12

From:
John Thurston
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
12 February 1879
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.`MS found with a specimen of Cyathea propinqua (MEL 2292789)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11871

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library (John Robert Crouse autograph collection)
Summary:

Thanks for honour of latest number of Kosmos.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11876

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
12 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 440
Summary:

Has just heard that HM has been treated shamefully by his Government. What has happened?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11878

From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 312
Summary:

Seventieth birthday greetings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11874

From:
Naples Zoological Station
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 172: 2
Summary:

Seventieth birthday greetings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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