From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
7 February 1880
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.17, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 166: 76
Summary:
Sends birthday wishes.
Discusses work on Medusae.
Recalls visit to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
John Brown
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
9 February 1880
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:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
9 Feb 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36201)
Summary:
CD advises EK on his proposed letter answering Butler.
Considering the favourable reviews, sale of Erasmus Darwin has been poor.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
To:
Isaac Newton
Date:
9 February 1880
Source of text:
MM/17/14, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Mansfield Ingleby
Date:
9 February 1880
Source of text:
Folger Shakespeare Library: C.a.26 (34)
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 160: 294
Summary:
Describes formation of student nature study club at the University of Jena. Sends birthday greetings from the club.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 209.7: 159
Summary:
"Dia" [as a prefix] means "through, across".
WED’s wife would like to meet the Huxleys.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
David Gill
To:
Warren de la Rue
Date:
10 February 1880
Source of text:
MM/12/97, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
Text Online
From:
Philip Henry ("Henry") Gosse
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
10 February 1880
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London: 914-1-2-593-6-GOSSE
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B55
Summary:
Birthday greetings.
Regrets Butler’s malicious attack.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 162: 218
Summary:
Sends birthday greetings
and the good news of a subvention for the Zoological Station received from the German government. There are now 20 naturalists working at the Station.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
11 February 1880
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.299-300, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
12 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/51 [A 9905])
Summary:
Thanks for his very kind letter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 144: 486
Summary:
It might be possible to borrow £500 [for potato experiments]. Variety of "The Champion" spreading over the Kingdom. Champion lately less able to produce.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
Date:
13 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 143: 143
Summary:
Thanks society of students at Jena for birthday congratulations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
13 Feb 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36202)
Summary:
Thanks EK for kind letter.
CD’s date on epitaph is a dreadful mistake. CD often overlooks errata.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
13 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:
CD thanks RLT for his two notes, a newspaper article, and a copy of RLT’s address honouring him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
13 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 370
Summary:
Thanks for articles by ASW in Gardeners’ Chronicle [see 12404]. Agrees with him.
Asks about growth of rootlets from knobs caused by fungus on roots of Cruciferae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Cole
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 19
Summary:
At the inaugural meeting of the Epping Forest & Essex Naturalists’ Field Club, CD was elected an Honorary Member.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
