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DCP-LETT-11843F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
Date:
23 and 30 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 12)
Summary:

Has told John Lubbock how highly he thinks of HNM’s work, and has heard that HMN’s claims will be fully considered.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11841

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Jan [1879?]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Orders a sheet of gold-beater’s skin for plant experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11844

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Melchior Neumayr
Date:
24 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 147: 184
Summary:

Has offered Leopold Würtenberger money to aid in his work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11846

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 94
Summary:

F. Galton and others suggest that he go in for Fellowship [of Royal Society]. Asks that CD propose him. If he is unable to do so HWB will not be hurt to wait another year.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-79-01-25

From:
George Day
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
25 January 1879
Source of text:
RB MSS M114, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11845

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
25 Jan [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–1881: ff. 153–6)
Summary:

Movements in Oxalis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11848

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
26 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

It will give CD real pleasure to propose HWB for F.R.S. Asks that he send him the necessary information for the certificate as well as a list of men he would like to sign it. He should not be disappointed if not elected first time. [Bates elected F.R.S. 2 June 1881.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11847

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 259, DAR 209.6: 207
Summary:

Oxalis seeds incorrectly named. H. N. Moseley says pigeons in Malaya eject seeds fit for germination.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2387

From:
Edmond Barbier
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 January 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 f. 4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11849

From:
Alexander Fedorovich Batalin (Александр Федорович Баталин)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 178
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s interest in his paper on plant movements ["Über die Ursachen der periodischer Bewegungen der Blumen und Laubblätter", Flora 56 (1873): 433–41, 449–55]. AFB concentrated on clear cases, though he knows there are others.

Experiments on function of movement: Mimosa leaves, held so they cannot move, die.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11851

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann August Georg Edmund (Edmund) Mojsisovics von Mojsvár
Date:
29 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 146: 384
Summary:

Comments on EM’s work in Dolomites [Die Dolomit-Riffe von Südtirol (1879)]. Had wondered whether ancient corals formed reefs.

Obliged for EM’s photograph. Sends his own.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC670

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
29 January 1879
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 48, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-11850

From:
Leopold Würtenberger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 181: 185
Summary:

Thanks CD for gift to support his research.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11852

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Butler Cheadle
Date:
31 Jan 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.559)
Summary:

Declines to sign petition concerning Professorship of Pathology at Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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