To Alphonse de Candolle 24 January 1881
Summary
Thanks AdeC for interesting letter. CD has been annoyed by the multitude of new terms lately invented in all branches of biology in Germany. What AdeC says about the word "purpose" made CD vow not to use it again, but it is difficult to cure oneself of a vicious habit and difficult to avoid for anyone who tries to make out the use of a structure.
Francis will write about the diagram [see 13642].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Date: | 24 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13026 |
From C. V. Riley 18 December 1881
Summary
Concurs in CD’s criticism of Thomas Meehan [see 13360].
| Author: | Charles Valentine Riley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Dec 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 158 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13559 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 June 1881
Summary
CD complains of discomfort, but has not the strength for a project that would let him forget it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 513–15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13207 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 [February 1881]
Summary
Island life continues to stimulate: Wallace ignores effects of glaciers on alpine flora and generally exaggerates those of débâcles and wind dispersal. CD encourages JDH to prepare a geographical address including history of geographical distribution.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26 [Feb 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 509–12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13067 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 9 July 1881
Summary
AdeC thinks Monographiae phanerogamarum may be of some use to CD for the most nearly correct names to adopt.
| Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 July 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13239 |
From C. E. Norton 17 May 1881
Summary
Thanks CD for R. W. Darwin’s memoranda respecting Franklin. Would be grateful for copies of any Franklin letters that exist among Dr Darwin’s papers.
| Author: | Charles Eliot Norton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 May 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 77; Sparks ed. 1836–40, 6: 410–11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13160 |
From J. H. Gilbert 5 June 1881
Summary
Invites CD to visit Rothamsted. The experimental plots are at their best "as illustrating the vast influence of external conditions on the character and results of the struggle between the numerous components of an established mixed herbage".
| Author: | Joseph Henry Gilbert |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 44 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13196 |
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- … Bibliography Gray, Jane Loring, ed. 1893. Letters of Asa Gray. 2 vols. London: Macmillan …
- … Asa and Jane Loring Gray and Hyacinth and Joseph Dalton Hooker had travelled to Italy in the spring of 1881 (see letter …
- … Asa Gray were available, we should ask him and Sir J. Hooker for the Saturday , but should keep the party very limited, unless you felt that it would not be more fatiguing, and that it would be agreeable to meet other naturalists on the ground? This would be arranged entirely as you might prefer. Or what other day in the following week would suit you better? I am, My Dear Sir, Yours sincerely— | J. H. Gilbert Top of letter : ‘ …
From Asa Gray 27 January 1881
Summary
Apologises for his silence when Francis Darwin’s paper was read at the Linnean Society.
AG’s review of Movement in plants [Nation 32 (1881): 17–18].
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 203 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13028 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 October 1881
Summary
Visiting his son Horace.
Studying action of carbonate of ammonia. Finds similar looking Euphorbia root cells react differently.
Intrigued by Dischidia rafflesiana, whose pitchers manufacture manure-water that nourishes adventitious roots. Does JDH know histologist for detailed study?
Julius von Wiesner’s criticism of Movement in plants "vivisects" CD in "a most courteous but awful manner" [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 538–41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13420 |
From J. D. Hooker 12 June 1881
Summary
Has struggled for months with complexity of structure and distribution of palms for Genera plantarum.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 150–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13201 |
From J. D. Hooker 4 August 1881
Summary
Outlines address to York BAAS meeting on history of geographical distribution. Organising theme: advancement in this science based on ideas enunciated by scientific voyagers. Asks CD’s advice.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Aug 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 154–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13272 |
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- … 1858–9 ; see Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Asa Gray, 7 January [1860] ). Hooker had …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, [24 July 1866] ). For Hooker and CD, the Silurian period comprised what would now be termed the Ordovician and the Silurian periods. Hooker discussed the importance of CD’s theory of descent and described him as the ‘latest and greatest lawgiver’ of the science of geographical distribution ( Hooker 1881 , p. 733). Asa Gray ’ …
From J. D. Hooker 27 October 1881
Summary
On plants CD requested.
Frank should work on Dischidia.
Work on palms.
Overloaded with reading.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 170–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13435 |
To R. F. Cooke 5 October 1881
Summary
Glad book [Earthworms] will soon be published.
G. J. Romanes has copy and often writes reviews for Nature. Probably did not know it was incorrect to publish it prematurely.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 5 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 295 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13372 |
To Asa Gray 29 January 1881
Summary
Thanks for AG’s reviews [of Movement in plants] in the Journal and Nation [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 21 (1881): 245–9 and Nation 32 (1881): 17–18], especially for AG’s comment about Frank Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 29 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (130b) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13031 |
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- … Gray had written to Francis Darwin about a paper he had read at the Linnean Society on 16 December 1880 ( F. Darwin 1880b ; letter from Asa …
- … Gray’s review reads: ‘First let us congratulate the scientific community, no less than the author, that Mr. Darwin’s experimental researches are seconded, and are we hope long to be continued, by the son whose name appears upon the title-page, and whose independent papers already published approve his worthiness for that honour’ ( American Journal of Science 3d ser. 21 (1881): 245). See letter from Asa …
From E. J. Loomis [19 March 1881]
Summary
Describes light-stimulated movement in fronds of the fern Asplenium.
| Author: | Eben Jenks Loomis |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [19 Mar 1881] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Loomis-Wilder Family Papers (MS 496A) Series 2, Box 6, folder 19) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13090 |
To E. J. Loomis 4 April 1881
Summary
CD is familiar with EJL’s work [on Asplenium movements]; finds Asplenium an unusual case.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Eben Jenks Loomis |
| Date: | 4 Apr 1881 |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Loomis-Wilder Family Papers (MS 496A) Series 2, Box 6, folder 19) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13107 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 October 1881]
Summary
Pleasure in reading Earthworms.
Buying land to build a cottage.
Finishing palms for Genera plantarum after three years’ work.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Oct 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 164–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13424 |
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 T. H. Farrer 28 August 1881
Summary
More on W. Graham’s book, The creed of science. Chance and design. Happiness.
E. A. Darwin’s death [26 Aug 1881].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 28 Aug 1881 |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/33) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13299 |
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- … letter from T. H. Farrer, 27 August 1881 and n. 3. In Variation 2: 430–2, CD did not use the word ‘chance’, but he described the appearance of variations in relation to their specific use as ‘accidental’, and compared them to all the differently shaped fragments of stone gathered by a builder to make a great edifice. CD’s remarks were directed against Asa Gray ’ …
From F. J. Myers 20 January 1881
Summary
Gives an account of the Syracuse Botanical Club and its activities.
| Author: | Frances J. Hough; Frances J. Myers |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 526 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13020 |
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- … letter to Henry Johnson, 28 December [1880] and n. 3). The Syracuse Botanical Club was founded in 1879 ( Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 6 (1879): 330); the president was Mary Olivia Rust . Climbing plants 2d ed. and Structural botany, or, organography on the basis of morphology ( A. Gray 1879 ). Asa …
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Darwin in Conversation exhibition
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Meet Charles Darwin as you have never met him before. Come to our exhibition at Cambridge University Library, running from 9 July to 3 December 2022, and discover a fascinating series of interwoven conversations with Darwin's many hundreds of…
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- … 9 July – 3 December 2022 Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University …
