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 ? 23 November 1881
Summary
Sends copies of Variation, Descent, and Journal of researches from "the library of my late brother".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 23 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | Charles Hamilton (dealer) (29 January 1970) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13507 |
To John Lubbock 12 November [1881]
Summary
JL’s sentence about glaciation will do excellently. Is glad JL thought about dimorphism of butterflies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 12 Nov [1881] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11743F |
From W. R. Browne [20–2] November [1881]
Summary
Announces intention to hold a private conference with the Archbishop of Canterbury with the aim of encouraging men of science to reaffirm their religious beliefs and also to publish a series of articles in the Contemporary Review on the state of the various sciences.
Author: | Walter Raleigh Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [20–2] Nov [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 334 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12789 |
To Francis Darwin [9 November 1881]
Summary
Tells some of his observations on root cells. Has thought of three good experiments to oppose Julius von Wiesner.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [9 Nov 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13065 |
From W. E. Darwin 1 November 1881
Summary
Requests a list of CD’s trust securities; he and Sara have finished Worms; asks what he should do with dividend warrant.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 95) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13445F |
From F. B. Zincke 1 November 1881
Summary
Has found prehistoric tools in his orchard that he believes have been buried by the action of earthworms.
Author: | Foster Barham Zincke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 184: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13448 |
From L. J. Jones 1 November [1881]
Summary
Points out an error in Earthworms.
Author: | Lawrence John Jones, 4th baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Nov [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13449 |
To S. H. Vines 1 November 1881
Summary
Asks SHV about nature of granular matter formed in root cells of Euphorbia peplus which have been placed in solution of ammonium carbonate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Sydney Howard Vines |
Date: | 1 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13450 |
To Archibald Geikie 11 November 1881
Summary
Interested in the fossil scorpions found by AG in the Lower Carboniferous strata of Scotland. Hopes further searches will yield more land animals and offers to subscribe funds to such a search if it falls outside the Geological Survey’s work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Archibald Geikie |
Date: | 11 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 134 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13451 |
To L. J. Jones 2 November 1881
Summary
Thanks LJJ for informing him of error [in Earthworms].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Lawrence John Jones, 4th baronet |
Date: | 2 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.599) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13452 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 2 November 1881
Summary
Encloses his review of Earthworms.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13453 |
To J. V. Carus 2 November 1881
Summary
Sends corrections ("two bad errata & a blunder") in Earthworms, which is selling well in England.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 2 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 193–194) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13454 |
From S. H. Vines 2 November [1881]
Summary
On the action of ammonium carbonate on plant cells. "Aggregation" of protoplasm.
Author: | Sydney Howard Vines |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Nov [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 180: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13455 |
To C.-F. Reinwald 2 November 1881
Summary
Errata discovered in Earthworms are listed. Large sales in England, but this is no indication for France. [See 13510.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
Date: | 2 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | David Schulson (dealer) (Catalogue 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13455A |
To F. B. Zincke 3 November 1881
Summary
CD thinks the celts [prehistoric tools] on the pan could not have been buried wholly by worms.
As for large size of Arctic mammals, CD suggests it is an advantage in retaining warmth.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Foster Barham Zincke |
Date: | 3 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13456 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 3 November 1881
Summary
Thanks for the review [of Earthworms].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 3 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13457 |
From J. F. Simpson 4 November 1881
Summary
Relates some of his observations on the behaviour and activity of earthworms.
Author: | James Frederick Simpson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13459 |
To S. H. Vines 4 November 1881
Summary
Thanks SHV for his letter [13455] in answer to his questions about the action of ammonium carbonate on the root cells of Euphorbia peplus. Suggests further observations.
Has read J. Sachs [Textbook of botany, English translation (1875)] and H. A. De Bary [Vergleichende Anatomie (1877)] on milk-tubes. He believes that tubes he has observed in germinating roots of Euphorbia myrsinites are modified milk tubes. Will send a paper on the subject to the Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Sydney Howard Vines |
Date: | 4 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13459A |
To L. J. Jones 6 November 1881
Summary
Explains source of error [in Earthworms].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Lawrence John Jones, 4th baronet |
Date: | 6 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.600) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13462 |
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Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (46) |
Vines, S. H. | (5) |
Darwin, Francis | (3) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (3) |
Brunton, T. L. | (2) |