To R. F. Cooke 10 April 1881
Summary
Asks for quick decision on publication [of Earthworms]. Does not care whether it is published on commission or on usual terms, but wants it published in a hurry. Cannot guess at sales.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 10 Apr 1881 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 383–4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13110 |
To the Darwin children 3 January 1881
Summary
About the distribution of [surplus income] funds among the children.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 169 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12972 |
To Francis Darwin 16 and 17 May 1881
Summary
Some papers have arrived for FD.
Comments on the work of Phillipe van Tieghem who evidently knows nothing of insectivorous plants.
Leslie Stephen’s visit to Down went off well.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 16 and 17 May 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13159 |
To Francis Darwin 22–3 May 1881
Summary
Is sending chapter [of Earthworms] for FD to look over.
Comments on FD’s work on movements of mould.
Is glad to hear about Julius von Sachs and the circumnutation theory.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 22–3 May 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 75 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13170 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 10 June and 17 June 1881; F. Darwin 1881b appeared in Botanische Zeitung , 29 July 1881. Elfving 1881 was published in Botaniska Notiser , September 1881. See letter from Francis …
- … Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880. Sterne, Carus, pseud. (Ernst Krause. ) 1881a. Charles Darwin’s neue Beobachtungen über das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen. Die Gartenlaube 27: 228–30, 285–7. Wortmann, Julius. 1881. Ein Beitrag zur Biologie der Mucorineen. Botanische Zeitung , 10 …
To Francis Darwin 8 July 1881
Summary
Comments on the response to Movement in plants, which seems to have been successful.
Is going over revises of Earthworms.
Is investigating further his notion that leaves align themselves in the rain so as to shoot off drops of water.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 8 July 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 85 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13237 |
To Fritz Müller 19 December 1881
Summary
Waxy secretion or "bloom" on leaves.
FM’s article on Crotalaria.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 19 Dec 1881 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 57) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13564 |
To G. J. Romanes 17 [December 1881]
Summary
Asks him to visit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 17 [Dec 1881] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.606) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13556 |
To W. E. Darwin 19 February [1881]
Summary
Uncle Erasmus is ill.
Thanks WED for his trouble about the cottages.
He has signed the note to Higgins.
CD has used WED’s Rhododendron case in Earthworms [p. 69].
Is using paper triangles in experiments on intelligence of worms.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Feb [1881] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13058 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 October 1881
Summary
Profuse thanks for plants.
Specifies which euphorbs he wants. Euphorbs’ alternate rows of ammonium carbonate reactive/non-reactive cells are worth more study.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 542–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13442 |
To W. E. Darwin 8 February [1881]
Summary
Thanks WED for sending leaves and making observations on how earthworms drag them into their burrows.
Doubts justice of fierce review against J. Geikie’s book [Prehistoric Europe (1881)] in Nature [by W. B. Dawkins, 23 (1881): 309–10], but if reindeer and hippopotamus have really been found in close contact in same bed – "it tells horribly against interglacial periods".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Feb [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 176 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13042 |
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- … Francis Darwin may have been deciding how to invest the money he had received from CD in January (see letter to the Darwin children, 3 January 1881 ). Sara Darwin , William’s wife. A scathing review by William Boyd Dawkins of James Geikie ’s Prehistoric Europe: a geological sketch ( J. Geikie 1881 ) was published in Nature , 3 February 1881, pp. 309–10. …
To Francis Darwin [16 June 1881]
Summary
Describes seeds sent by George Payne [see 13205]. Is surprised that they bury themselves.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [16 June 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 98v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13206 |
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- … 10 and 17 June 1881. CD had evidently read the first part, in which Wortmann described experiments with Phycomyces nitens that demonstrated the movement of sporophores away from moisture. In Wortmann 1881 , pp. 373–4, Wortmann had cited Theophil Ciesielski ’s paper on roots bending away from water ( Ciesielski 1872 ). See letter to Francis Darwin, …
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