From T. L. Brunton 17 October 1881
Summary
Thanks CD for a copy of Earthworms.
| Author: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 345 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13408 |
From R. B. Carter 17 October 1881
Summary
Requests interview to get CD’s views on stages in evolution of the eye for a talk he is to give at a health congress. [Address to working men & women, 17 December 1881.] in Transactions of the Brighton health congress
| Author: | Robert Brudenell Carter |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13409 |
From J. H. Chamberlain 17 October 1881
Summary
Has read Earthworms and suggests, as an architect, that leaf linings protect worm burrow from the worm’s rapid movements.
| Author: | John Henry Chamberlain |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 130 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13410 |
To Francis Darwin 17 October 1881
Summary
Has been reading Julius von Wiesner’s book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. Comments that it is "an excellent book, but he vivisects me in the most grievous terms, but most effectively".
Has been experimenting on aggregation of chlorophyll but with little success.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13411 |
| letter | (4) |
| Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
| Carter, R. B. | (1) |
| Chamberlain, J. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
| Carter, R. B. | (1) |
| Chamberlain, J. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
John Lort Stokes
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John Lort Stokes, naval officer, was Charles Darwin’s cabinmate on the Beagle voyage – not always an enviable position. After Darwin’s death, Stokes penned a description of their evenings spent working at the large table at the centre, Stokes at his…
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