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DCP-LETT-12963

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
1 and 6 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Institut Mittag-Leffler (Sophie Kowalevski collections, box 3)
Summary:

Thanks VOK for the Russian tea.

Rejoices at his prosperity and appointment at Moscow [Associate Professor, Moscow University, 1880–3].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12964

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 271.6: a6
Summary:

ARW’s view of migration of plants from mountain to mountain gains support from case described in Nature [23 (1880): 125–6] by J. G. Baker. Identical species of alpine plants found in African mountains and Madagascar.

Contributor:
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WCP1986

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 January 1881
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 271.6a: 6
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 298
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 148/462
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 311-312]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5000

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
1 January 1881
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP1987

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
2 January 1881
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 299-301
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 312-313]
  • Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [p. 233]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12395

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 96
Summary:

Concerning subscriptions raised for Torbitt’s experiments on potato disease.

Comments on CD’s latest book [Movement in plants].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12969

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 92: B61; DAR 221.2: 27
Summary:

Encloses reply to Butler [Kosmos 8 (1881): 321–2]. Has also written a reply intended for English reader. Will have it translated for Popular Science Review if CD thinks suitable.

Report of Jäger accident was an error.

Kosmos has been purchased by Eduard Koch in Stuttgart and will continue as in the past.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12968

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
2 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

On land migration of plants. The case in Nature is striking but CD doubts that seeds of plants could be blown from mountains of Abyssinia to mountains of Madagascar.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1478

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
2 January 1881
Source of text:
  • Linnean Society of London: MS 140a-23
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 123-124
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/278
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12970

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
3 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Alarm over Wallace’s memorial; asks HWB if he has received it and forwarded it to Hooker. Wanted to get it to Gladstone before Parliament met.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12974

From:
James Caird
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 161: 6
Summary:

JC and Farrer are impressed with Torbitt’s papers. Will continue financial support.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP7160

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
3 January 1881
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library: Robert M. Stecher collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12972

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
3 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 169
Summary:

About the distribution of [surplus income] funds among the children.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12973

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
3 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 170
Summary:

Thanks WED for some earthworm observations.

Discusses investments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12971

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 9: 202)
Summary:

Returns [Wallace] memorial.

Hopes to be able to send classification paper soon. [See 12935.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP3771

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 January 1881
Source of text:
Imperial College Archives, London: Huxley Collection, 1D/9.202
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12977

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
4 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434); DAR 143: 185
Summary:

Memorial for Wallace pension dispatched to W. E. Gladstone.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP7155

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Fisher (née Buckley)
Date:
4 January 1881
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 143: 185
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP6868

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
[4?] [January] [1881]
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 196: 3.1
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 91: 95-98
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 202: 58
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12975

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
[4 Jan 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 58
Summary:

Covering letter to enclose a memorial [petitioning for a civil list pension for Wallace].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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