From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Crier
Date:
Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 37
Summary:
Discusses matters relating to Great Western Railway Company stock.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Denison Roebuck
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 130
Summary:
Sends the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union’s publications prior to the visit to Down of its deputation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alice Gordon
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
3 November 1880
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
3 November 1880
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 292-293
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP6/4/1
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 307-308]
- Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [p. 232]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Volney Rattan
Date:
3 Nov 1880
Source of text:
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library (BANC MSS 74/78 z)
Summary:
Thanks for seeds of Megarrhiza and for information in letter to Asa Gray.
Will send copy of Movement in plants in which Megarrhiza is discussed [see pp. 81–2].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Denison Roebuck
Date:
3 Nov 1880
Source of text:
Leeds University Library Special Collections (SC MS 429/89)
Summary:
Thanks for address honouring him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
3 Nov 1880
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434 ff. 292–3); Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Wallace Papers WP/6/4/1)
Summary:
High praise for Island life; ARW’s "best book". Encloses notes of comments and criticism. Hooker pleased by dedication.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 510
Summary:
If every copy [of Movement in plants] is sold at 15s, CD will lose about £50.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Florence Caroline (Florence) Douglas; Florence Caroline (Florence) Dixie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 183
Summary:
Thanks CD for his reply to her letter.
Offers to send him a copy of her book on her expedition to Patagonia [Across Patagonia (1880)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 511
Summary:
Six hundred copies of Movement in plants were wanted [at Murray’s annual sale] – a good start.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
5 Nov 1880
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 344)
Summary:
Has read THH’s review of Sir Wyville Thomson’s [Introduction to the] Voyage of the "Challenger".
Sends a draft of a letter for Nature [Collected papers 2: 223–4]. He particularly asks THH to decide whether he should include a certain paragraph [see ML 1: 389].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
5 Nov [1880]
Source of text:
Nature , 11 November 1880, p. 32
Summary:
Sir Wyville Thomson misunderstands natural selection when he says the theory "refers the evolution of species to extreme variation guided only by natural selection". CD demurs at the "extreme variation" and the "only". No one has said evolution depends only on natural selection. CD has adduced many facts on the effects of use and disuse and on the direct action of the environment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Nov 1880
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 99–100
Summary:
Lectured on mental evolution in Newcastle.
Has conducted interesting research on locomotor systems of echinoderms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
5 Nov 1880
Source of text:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Summary:
Refers correspondent to Descent for some information on marriage arrangements, and on the mental and moral nature of monkeys.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
James Thomas Knowles
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
6 November 1880
Source of text:
Imperial College Archives, London: Huxley Collection, 1K/20.49
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
George Maw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 106
Summary:
He has observed several instances of animals’ tails lying to the left in rigor mortis. Is this a general rule?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Richard Hill Norris
Date:
6 November 1880
Source of text:
Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham: US41/7/22/61
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Arabella Burton Buckley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 160: 370
Summary:
Has spoken to Wallace to see if reluctant to accept a Government pension. He would accept if CD and Huxley believe it justified. Encloses details of Wallace’s efforts to obtain a position as naturalist and his claims for a pension.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Arabella Burton Fisher (née Buckley)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 November 1880
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 160: 370
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 91: 91-94
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
William Clowes & Sons
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 8 Nov 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 180
Summary:
Explains delay in printing proofs [of Movement in plants?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project