From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
[before 4 Sept 1880]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017)
Summary:
Requests a list of books.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Maitland Balfour
Date:
4 Sept 1880
Source of text:
National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/2)
Summary:
Praises FMB’s BAAS address [on embryology, Rep. BAAS 50 (1880): 636–44]. Recent progress of embryology splendid.
In work on plants, astonished at sensitivity of radicle and its power to transmit stimuli to adjoining part; such general sensitivity should be considered in genesis of nervous system.
Feels "malicious" pleasure at FMB’s criticism of Herbert Spencer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ralph Price Hardy
Date:
7 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 64
Summary:
Thanks RPH for the trouble he has taken on behalf of the Down Friendly Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
10 Sept [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 162
Summary:
Writes about worm-castings; tells WED not to bother with samples from Beaulieu Abbey.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adolf Ernst
Date:
11 Sept 1880
Source of text:
State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8974)
Summary:
Thanks for seeds of Cobaea;
was much interested in AE’s article ["On the fertilisation of Cobaea penduliflora", Nature 22 (1880): 148–9] opposing G. E. M. Bonnier’s view ["Les nectaires", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 6th ser. 8 (1879): 6–212].
Case of Lisianthus is an excellent one of structure and movement of parts adapted to cross-fertilisation.
Asks whether worm-castings are found in the area.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
14 Sept 1880
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 179–180)
Summary:
Sends sheets of Movement in plants for translation, if JVC sees fit. It has some value and novelty, CD believes, but is very dull.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[before 16 Sept 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 168
Summary:
Wants some more rubber bands for his wrist.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Adolf Theodor Wilhelm (Wilhelm) Viëtor
Date:
16 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 194a
Summary:
Improvement in orthography would be national benefit, but cannot contribute to WV’s paper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartlett Downs Wrangham
Date:
16 Sept 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 72756)
Summary:
Thanks for sending him a copy of the striking passage from Kepler.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
Date:
21 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 143: 144
Summary:
Comments on WB’s paper ["Über Variabilitäts-Erscheinungen an den Blüthen von Primula elatior und eine Anwendung des biogenetischen Grundgesetzes", Bot. Ztg. 38 (1880): 577–80].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
21 Sept 1880
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 181–182)
Summary:
CD is ashamed of length of Movement in plants – with index, nearly 600 pages. JVC will be awfully sick of ch. 1.
In intervals of correcting proofs, he is writing on the formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms. It will be a curious little book [Earthworms].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah Mason
Date:
22 Sept 1880
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Manuscripts and Archives Division. (Montague Collection of historical autographs: Series 1, box 2, Darwin folder)
Summary:
Sends formal regrets that he cannot accept luncheon invitation or attend Huxley’s address [at opening of Mason College, Birmingham].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Mellard Reade
Date:
22 Sept 1880
Source of text:
University of Liverpool Library (TMR1.D.7.6)
Summary:
Obliged for paper ["Oceans and continents" (1880)].
Agrees that John Murray’s view [of coral reefs] is far-fetched.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Keltie
Date:
[after 24 Sept 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 105v
Summary:
Writes a sentence with which to preface B. G. Wilder’s letter [see 12726]. [Not used by and, perhaps, not sent to Nature.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George King
Date:
29 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 249: 89
Summary:
Grieved to hear of John Scott’s death.
Could GK visit Down?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
29 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 122
Summary:
Rejoices at good news. Will let T. H. Farrer hear the result. Cannot see why some of new varieties should not endure fungus-proof for years.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project