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WCP3769

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
7 January 1881
Source of text:
  • Imperial College Archives, London: Huxley 5: 356
  • Huxley, L. (1913). In: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley. Vol. 2. London: Macmillan & Co. [p. 282]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP1988

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
7 January [1881]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 302-304
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 305
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 202: 98
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 313-314]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12987

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
7 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44468: 11)
Summary:

CD expresses his great pleasure at WEG’s letter informing him that Wallace has been granted a pension.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12990

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel
Date:
7 Jan [1881?]
Source of text:
Barbara and Robert Pincus (private collection)
Summary:

Sends photograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12986

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
7 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 356)
Summary:

Success of the memorial for Wallace. Sends letter from Gladstone.

Congratulates THH on appointment as Inspector of Fisheries.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12983

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Cecilia Elizabeth Gore; Cecilia Elizabeth Meetkerke
Date:
7 Jan 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25)
Summary:

CD thanks correspondent for her "very elegant work" – a book on nature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12985

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

Informs ARW of favourable reception by Gladstone of memorial respecting ARW’s services to science, and the establishment of a pension for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1479

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
7 January 1881
Source of text:
  • Linnean Society of London: MS 140a-24
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 125-126
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/279
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 34-35]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12991

From:
Walter Raleigh Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 7] Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 335
Summary:

Announces the resolution passed by the Archbishop of Canterbury’s conference of 7 Jan 1881.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12992

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
8 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 9: 203)
Summary:

Congratulates CD on success of Wallace memorial.

Butler has attacked again.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP3772

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 January 1881
Source of text:
Imperial College Archives, London: Huxley Collection, 1D/9.203
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12993

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 92: B62
Summary:

CD may choose where to publish EK’s reply to Butler. Would prefer Athenæum. Thinks it better that CD not reply himself.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12995

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 178: 172
Summary:

Report on the progress of his experiments with potatoes; some varieties spoilt by an apparently hereditary disease.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12994

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 106: B150–1
Summary:

Appreciation of CD’s efforts in recommending him for pension. Asks about proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1989

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 January 1881
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B150-151
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 306
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 314]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12996

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 99: 217–20
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s offer of assistance after flood damage.

Comments on Movement in plants. Discusses sleep movements and paraheliotropism of Maranta and other plants.

Describes the fertilisation of figs by Hymenoptera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12999

From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 343
Summary:

Sends proofs of lectures he intends to reprint as a book [The Bible and science (1881)]; asks CD if he would check one for errors.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1990

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
10 January 1881
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 307-308
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 315]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13004

From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Leslie Stephen
Date:
[10 Jan 1881]
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature (MSS Stephen)
Summary:

Suggests an errata slip for preface to Erasmus Darwin would correct the inaccurate statement regarding publication of Butler’s Evolution old and new.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-81-01-10

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Linnean Society of London
Date:
10 January 1881
Source of text:
Linnean Society, London, Certificates of Fellows, Foreign Members and Associates 1877-82
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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