From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 178: 84
Summary:
Asks if CD would like to subscribe to a reprint of Edward Blyth’s Field articles on cranes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Walter White, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society
Date:
18 March 1879
Source of text:
MM/14/42, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hendrik Weyenbergh
Date:
18 Mar 1879
Source of text:
Academia Nacional de Ciencias, Argentina
Summary:
Acknowledges the diploma [of the Academia Nacional de Ciencias, Argentina].
Sends his photograph and a copy of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
19 Mar 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36177)
Summary:
Sends copy of a lecture [by John Dowson, see 11949] published in 1861.
Has not yet found a copy of Anna Seward’s biography for EK. It is a wretched, inaccurate book. To contradict Anna Seward’s version, CD intends to write a short preface to the translation of EK’s essay. Doubts that it will be worth translating into German.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
[before 20 Mar 1879]
Source of text:
Nature , 20 March 1879, pp. 462–3
Summary:
Comments on a letter from Fritz Müller [11839] and particularly on the subject of the disappearance of certain structures in organisms. FM’s explanation deserves serious consideration.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Decaisne
Date:
20 March 1879
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de l'Institut de France, Paris
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Munro
Date:
20 March 1879
Source of text:
RBG Kew, filed with Herbarium specimen Gramineae, Phragmites australis
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
20 Mar 1879
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
CD agrees to subscribe to reprint of Blyth’s Field articles on cranes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Richard Holt Hutton
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
21 March 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 16
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
22 Mar 1879
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/25)
Summary:
Describes plans to publish English edition of Krause’s work on Erasmus Darwin.
Will correct Anna Seward’s calumnies [in Memoirs of the life of Dr Darwin (1804)].
Asks about family letters.
Doubts some stories about Erasmus Darwin [in Christiana C. Hankin, ed., Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck (1858)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp (Wilhelm) Pfeffer
Date:
23 Mar 1879
Source of text:
Tenri Central Library, Tenri University, Nara
Summary:
Seeks clarification of statements on sleep movements on p. 29 of WFPP’s work [Die periodischen Bewegungen der Blattorgane (1875)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1879
Source of text:
The late Mrs Vivien Kindersley (private collection)
Summary:
Can CMCD provide a photograph of Elston, the birthplace of Erasmus Darwin, with permission to have it reproduced in Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B19–20
Summary:
Thanks for sketch of Erasmus Darwin by John Dowson [see Erasmus Darwin, p. iv]; would like to incorporate this information into MS. Previous biographers of Erasmus Darwin had insufficient knowledge of what appeared in his works.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
24 Mar 1879
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 166–8)
Summary:
Wants a Cassia identified
and several plants and seeds for experimental purposes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Léo Abram Errera
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 163: 29
Summary:
Sends his photograph as requested.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Sophia Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 15
Summary:
Notes and a copy of a letter written by ESG to John Dowson of Whitby. Expresses her opinion of the biographies of Erasmus Darwin written by Mrs Schimmelpenninck and Anna Seward.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick King
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 169: 20
Summary:
Cattle and sheep varieties removed from their native soils degenerate rapidly.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 16
Summary:
Regrets she has none of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s letters. Relates some anecdotes concerning her grandfather.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
John Brown
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
26 March 1879
Source of text:
RB MSS M59, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
26 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 148: 304
Summary:
Discusses information about Dr Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project