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DCP-LETT-11870

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henslow
Date:
11 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR (CD Library - G. Henslow 1888)
Summary:

Disagrees with GH over the value of cross-fertilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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

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

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

DCP-LETT-11880

From:
Arthur Mellersh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 149
Summary:

Birthday wishes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11881

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
13 Feb 1879
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 5)
Summary:

Discusses heliotropism in plant cotyledons. Asks for information.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12474

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Woodward
Date:
13 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Blacker-Wood Manuscript Collection, Woodward Collection of Autographs v. 3)
Summary:

Has signed a paper [unspecified];

thanks HW for his interesting letter and kind expressions about himself and his son.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11883

From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 313
Summary:

HM’s teaching methods and his ideas are under attack in Germany along with the works of Ernst Krause.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11882

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
14 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 30 (EH 88205968)
Summary:

Has been asked to contribute to W. K. Clifford memorial fund. Asks JT’s advice on how much the committee hopes to raise. Would like to give handsomely but feels bound "with such a lot of children, not to be extravagant".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11885

From:
Carl August Lindvall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 170: 4
Summary:

Outlines his theory to explain the form of certain Swedish sandhills and puts forward his ideas regarding the geological history of the earth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11884

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Ludwig
Date:
16 Feb 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Sends thanks to the Masters for congratulations on his birthday, saying "the approbation & sympathy of one’s fellow-workers in the acquisition of knowledge is the highest possible reward which any man ought to desire".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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