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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

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-12998

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
10 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36212)
Summary:

All his advisers agree that CD ought not to take notice of Butler’s attack.

F. M. Balfour has offered to translate EK’s reply to Butler and to send it to Nature. [The letter was published in Nature 23 (1881): 288.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13000

From:
Montagu Lubbock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 109
Summary:

Wants a letter of introduction to Joseph Fayrer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13002

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lawrence Ruck
Date:
10 Jan 1881
Source of text:
M. G. Hamer (private collection)
Summary:

Asks whether sheep and cattle grazing on a steep slope move across the slope horizontally or ascend it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12997

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

On the proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13001

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
Date:
[after 10 Jan 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 109v
Summary:

Letter of introduction for Montagu Lubbock.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13006

From:
Arabella Burton Buckley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 369
Summary:

Thanks for news about Wallace memorial; excellent names on it give hope of success.

Mentions Alfred Haddon, an acquaintance of hers who might call on CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP7162

From:
Arabella Burton Fisher (née Buckley)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 January 1881
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 160: 369
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13005

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leslie Stephen
Date:
11 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:

Discusses allegation [about Erasmus Darwin] made by Samuel Butler. Will value LS’s verdict highly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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