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DCP-LETT-12660

From:
Edward William Badger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 July 1880
Source of text:
DAR 160: 14
Summary:

Gives history of the Union; explains plan to encourage original work by offering an annual "Darwin Prize". Asks CD’s permission to use his name.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13143

From:
Spencer Fullerton Baird
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1881
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Smithsonian Archives: Record Unit 33, Volume 111)
Summary:

Introduces Capt. George Montague Wheeler of the US Engineers, who has charge of the government expedition west of the 100th meridian.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12712

From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 160: 29
Summary:

Thanks for letter, which made up for difficulty of his speech [at BAAS meeting, Swansea].

Has met Horace Darwin and wife;

climbed Matterhorn.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12786

From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 Nov 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 27
Summary:

Thanks for copy of Movement in plants; CD’s discovery of a "nervous system without nerves" will have important bearing on origins of animal nervous system.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13011

From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 28
Summary:

Will gladly translate Krause’s letter for Nature; denounces Butler’s book attacking CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13240

From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 30
Summary:

Thanks for suggesting that a spare copy of his book [Treatise on comparative embryology (1880–1)] be sent to Fritz Müller.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12566

From:
Valentine Ball
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 160: 37
Summary:

Has received CD’s acknowledgment, through Ernest De La Rue, for the copy he sent of Jungle life [in India (1880)].

Offers to collect material for CD on his return to India.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2628

From:
James William Barclay
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
4 December 1881
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46440 ff. 30-33
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13125

From:
Katherine W. Savage (Kate) Barnes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 43
Summary:

Announces CD’s election as an Honorary Corresponding Member of the Club.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13718

From:
Jules Henri (Jules) Barrois
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 13
Summary:

The French government plan to set up an international laboratory at Villefranche; JB wonders whether CD would express support for the scheme.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13486

From:
Robert Smith Bartleet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 52
Summary:

Has read Earthworms.

Wonders if CD has studied gnats; inquires about their apparently useless hovering over one spot for hours.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-88-01-10

From:
Bayley Balfour
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
10 January 1888
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-13651

From:
Herbert Morton Walker Baynes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 160: 99
Summary:

Reports remarkable case of inheritance of one of his habits by his infant son.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1336

From:
William James Beal
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
26 October 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/148
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP7092

From:
Frank Evers Beddard
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1880s?
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1889). In: Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection With Some of its Applications . London & New York: Macmillan & Co. [p. 292]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP2188

From:
Frank Evers Beddard
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 April 1886
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 171-172
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-81-12-08

From:
Benedetto Scortechini
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
8 December 1881
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-83-01-01d

From:
Benedetto Scortechini
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
1 January 1883
Source of text:
RB MSS M127, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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WCP2182

From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
3 March 1886
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 160-161
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace 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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