From Fritz Müller 9 January 1881
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.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 217–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12996 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 18 January [1881]
Summary
Thanks for Movement in plants. Praises the terms CD introduces, but criticises CD’s use of the teleological word "purpose".
Outlines his efforts to study the inheritance of characters in his family. F. Galton overemphasises the inheritance of good qualities.
| Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Jan [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13017 |
From W. E. Darwin [16 January 1881]
Summary
Thanks CD for writing for papers to enter Geological Society. Will return Leslie Stephen’s letter. Has had a severe frost. Emma’s puppy died.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [16 Jan 1881] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 100) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13023F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11 January 1881 , and letter from Leslie Stephen, 12 January [1881] ). Leonard Darwin had suggested adding an errata sheet to unsold copies of Erasmus Darwin (see letter from Leonard Darwin to Leslie Stephen, [10 January 1881] ). Leonard was ill in London ( letter from Emma Darwin to Sara Darwin, [13 …
To W. E. Darwin 14 January [1881]
Summary
Discusses earthworm activity
and animal grazing on slopes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Jan [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 171 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13013 |
To W. E. Darwin 3 January [1881]
Summary
Thanks WED for some earthworm observations.
Discusses investments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Jan [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 170 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12973 |
Document type
| letter | (5) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
