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DCP-LETT-12479

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
14 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 144: 100
Summary:

Torbitt too poor to go on with [potato] experiments. If anything is to be done it must be by Government.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12481

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
14 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 147: 535
Summary:

Would be glad to see RLT at Down if he thinks it fit to come there to deliver the address honouring CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12482

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 160: 171
Summary:

Has been at work on Orchideae for Genera plantarum and has found CD’s Orchids wonderfully useful. Comments on some problems of botanical terminology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0502

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[15 February 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 135
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-12483

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Date:
15 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 704)
Summary:

Thanks AD and the naturalists at the Station for their birthday congratulations.

CD has been awarded the Bressa prize of the Accademia delle Scienze in Turin, and it occurs to him that if the Station wanted some apparatus costing about £100, he would like to pay for it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2585

From:
Clement Mansfield Ingleby
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
15? February 1880
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 195-196
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12485

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
16 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830-1884, GEB/1/3: f. 722)
Summary:

CD pleased to be of use to GB. He remembers his own work on orchids with pleasure. Thinks GB will be able to improve CD’s terminology for orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12488

From:
Henry Faulds
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1880
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/22, 23)
Summary:

Asks CD’s help in obtaining data on finger-prints – both of ancient impressions in pottery and of living men of all races. Suggests a comparative study with similar markings of lemuroid monkeys might yield results of value about man’s origin. Gives the practical utility of prints in identification in criminal and legal studies and investigations. Encloses a form.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-80-02-16

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Ferdinand von Krauss
Date:
16 February 1880
Source of text:
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-80-02-16a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Royal Geographical Society
Date:
16 February 1880
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society, London, Archives, Certificates of Candidates for Election
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-12486

From:
William Henry Flower
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 142
Summary:

Enjoyed his visit to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12484

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B56
Summary:

Agrees not to reply to Butler.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12492

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otago University
Date:
[16 Feb 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 43
Summary:

Testimonial for S. B. J. Skertchly, stating CD’s high opinion of his work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12487

From:
Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 121
Summary:

Asks CD to telegraph a testimonial for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12505

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
[after 16 Feb 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 19v
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for a gift of books.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12491

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Cole
Date:
17 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Essex Naturalists Field Club MLDA/10)
Summary:

Thanks for the honour conferred upon him by the Epping Forest Field Club.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12489

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
17 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (128)
Summary:

Seed germination.

Strange that his plants [of Megarrhiza] behaved differently from AG’s [see 12455].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2586

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
17 February 1880
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 197-200
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12490

From:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 181: 116
Summary:

On clubroot fungus of cultivated Cruciferae.

Will give Russian wheat varieties another trial.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-80-02-18c

From:
Carl Groener
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
18 February 1880
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 297.Receipt enclosed in M to J. Hooker, 16 March 1881. See M to C. Chantre, 9 June 1880 and M to J. Hooker, 4 December 1880
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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