To G. H. Darwin 25 November [1881]
Summary
Last issue of Nature has made him "awfully proud". [See R. S. Ball, "A glimpse through the corridors of time", Nature 25 (1881): 79–82.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 25 Nov [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13511 |
To W. E. Darwin 13 September [1881]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 182 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13334 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 and 4 September [1881]
Summary
Praises JDH’s York address.
S. B. J. Skertchly has paralleled Axel Blytt’s work in Cambridgeshire fens.
JDH too cautious on southern glacial period.
Is Kew interested in Azores plants collected by Arruda Furtado, a local inhabitant and an evolutionist?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 and 4 Sept 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 532–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13316 |
To W. E. Darwin 14 January [1881]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 171 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13013 |
To Nature 7 November [1881]
Summary
Summarises letter of William Nation [13350]. The facts given strongly support the conclusion that there is some close connection between the parasitic habits of birds that lay their eggs in others’ nests and the fact of their laying eggs at "considerable intervals of time".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 7 Nov [1881] |
Classmark: | Nature, 17 November 1881, p. 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13471 |
To W. E. Darwin 3 January [1881]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 170 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12973 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 August 1881
Summary
Responds to JDH’s outline history of plant geography.
Considers Humboldt the "greatest scientific traveller who ever lived".
Discusses the origin and rapid radiation of angiosperms in Cretaceous period.
Comments on importance of work of Alphonse de Candolle, Saporta, Axel Blytt.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 518–23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13277 |
To Fritz Müller 23 February 1881
Summary
CD interested by FM’s facts on movement of plants; has sent some to Nature ["Movement of leaves", Collected papers 2: 228–9]. Greatly admires FM’s work. Suggests an experiment to investigate movement in Phyllanthus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 23 Feb 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 49) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13064 |
To Fritz Müller 20 March 1881
Summary
FM’s view on meaning of two-coloured stamens in many flowers; CD has been looking through his old notes on dimorphism for supporting evidence. Intends to send extract of FM’s letter to Nature or to Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 20 Mar 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 50) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13091 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11, letter to Hermann Crüger, 25 January [1863] , and letter from Hermann Crüger, 23 April 1863 . Crüger noted that in all cases he observed the bee came only for pollen. CD began writing Earthworms in the autumn of 1880 (see Correspondence vol. 28 (Appendix II)). CD made new observations on Monochaetum ensiferum and Centradenia floribunda in April 1881 (DAR 205.8: 21, 43) and on Clarkia elegans between July 1881 and March 1882 (DAR 67: 82–3, 112–13). …
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