To Nature 16 December 1879
Summary
Reports information sent by E. Schulte [12254] on the colours of the male Diadema bolina.
Discusses extent to which consciousness came into play in the origin of certain instincts, including sexual display.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 16 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | Nature, 8 January 1880, p. 237 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12359 |
To Nature 15 December [1879]
Summary
CD has repeated a test of whether hybrids of the common and Chinese goose are fertile inter se. Reports his success, and comments on its significance for the theory of descent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 15 Dec [1879] |
Classmark: | Nature, 1 January 1880, p. 207 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12391 |
To Nature [before 27 March 1879]
Summary
In reply to a query [in Nature 19 (1879): 433] CD reports that vessels full of water were kept on the deck of a ship to discourage rats from gnawing holes in the ship’s water casks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | [before 27 Mar 1879] |
Classmark: | Nature, 27 March 1879, p. 481 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8826 |
To ? 9 January 1879
Summary
Thanks correspondent for the copies of his engraving. "The work seems to be, though I cannot pretend to be a judge, a vy fine production".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 9 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | Dr Mirko Majer (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11823 |
To ? 23 January [1879?]
Summary
Orders a sheet of gold-beater’s skin for plant experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 23 Jan [1879?] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11841 |
To Nature [before 20 March 1879]
Summary
Comments on a letter from Fritz Müller [11839] and particularly on the subject of the disappearance of certain structures in organisms. FM’s explanation deserves serious consideration.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | [before 20 Mar 1879] |
Classmark: | Nature, 20 March 1879, pp. 462–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11945 |
To ? 21 April 1879
Summary
Thanks for letter and articles: gratifying to hear that agriculturalists attend to his works.
Cannot decipher German writing so has stuck the address from the letter on the envelope.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 21 Apr 1879 |
Classmark: | RR Auction (dealers) (July 2006) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12006F |
To ? 5 June 1879
Summary
Unable to accept invitation.
Looked at leaves and saw no sign that animal matter was absorbed. Believes insects were caught only accidentally.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 5 June 1879 |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (5 December 2013) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12089 |
To ? 23 October 1879
Summary
Is obliged for the note about Wallis Nash’s death, but he has since heard that the report was false.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 23 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | Ronald T. Raines (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12268F |
From Jan van Bolhuis [13 November 1879]
Author: | Jan van Bolhuis |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 Nov 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 236 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12315 |
From Ernst Krause 14 November 1879
Summary
Thanks for English edition [of Erasmus Darwin]. John Murray has not answered letters of German publisher. Questions CD about persons mentioned in book, in order to annotate German edition.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B49–50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12316 |
To Newman Marks 14 November [1879]
Summary
Returns the memorial, signed, expressing concern about proposed renovations at St Mark’s in Venice.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Newman (Newman) Marks |
Date: | 14 Nov [1879] |
Classmark: | The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (Venice Memorial); The Times, 19 November 1879, p. 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12316F |
To Francis Galton 14 November [1879]
Summary
Returns completed questionnaire concerning visualising faculty [see LL 3: 177–9]. Thinks age important. Recalls faces of school friends but cannot remember those of people recently met.
Comments on his part [of Erasmus Darwin].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 14 Nov [1879] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/28) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12317 |
From Anthony Rich 14 November 1879
Summary
Thanks for Erasmus Darwin.
Author: | Anthony Rich |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12318 |
From W. S. Dallas 14 November 1879
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 131–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12319 |
From G. W. Norman 15 November 1879
Author: | George Warde Norman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 191 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12320 |
From Newman Marks 15 November 1879
Summary
Thanks CD for signing a memorial.
Author: | Thomas Newman (Newman) Marks |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12321 |
From James Torbitt 15 November 1879
Summary
Encloses latest report on his new potatoes. Believes the plants should be grown from seed every fourth year to preserve yield and disease-resistance.
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 52: E4; DAR 178: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12322 |
From Reginald Darwin 17 November 1879
Summary
Sends a book on shorthand
and a paper, probably by Erasmus Darwin, entitled "Moral and physical hermeneutics", on the subject of temperance.
Author: | Reginald Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 164–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12323 |
To Ernst Krause 17 November 1879
Summary
Answers EK’s questions. Sorry to report Erasmus Darwin sold only 600 copies at advance sale.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 17 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36197) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12324 |
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