To Nature [before 6 April 1882]
Summary
Reports observations of W. D. Crick [see 13705, 13715, and 13721] and Frank Norgate [see 13079]. They leave no doubt that living bivalves are often carried from pond to pond.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | [before 6 Apr 1882] |
Classmark: | Nature 25 (1882): 529–30; Collected Papers 2: 276 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13760 |
From Henry Groves 1 April 1882
Summary
Has forwarded some plants of Nitella opaca. Has observed their struggle for existence for several years in the gravel-pit pools at Mitcham.
Author: | Henry Groves |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Apr 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 236 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13751 |
From Joseph Fayrer 2 April 1882
Author: | Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Apr 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13752 |
To P. L. Sclater 3 April 1882
Summary
Encloses paper [by W. Van Dyck] for publication by the Zoological Society ["On Syrian street dogs", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1882): 367–70].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 3 Apr 1882 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.618) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13753 |
To Henry Groves 3 April 1882
Summary
Thanks HG for specimen of Mitella.
CD has tried effects of carbonate of ammonia on chlorophyll grains, but his observations are hardly trustworthy. He finds stooping over the microscope affects his heart.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Groves |
Date: | 3 Apr 1882 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46917: 66) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13754 |
To Adolf Ernst 3 April 1882
Summary
Edmond Perrier of Paris would be pleased to receive earthworms collected in Venezuela.
CD fears that he exaggerated the importance of worms in forming ledges on hillsides [see Earthworms, p. 278 ff.].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adolf Ernst |
Date: | 3 Apr 1882 |
Classmark: | State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8975) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13755 |
From J. L. Ambrose 3 April 1882
Summary
Reminds CD of three cards JLA sent in February for CD to sign and date and write his good wishes on.
Author: | James L. Ambrose |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13756 |
To W. T. Van Dyck 3 April 1882
Summary
Very anxious that WTVD’s essay [on Syrian street dogs, see 13710] should be published. Has sent it to Zoological Society with a few introductory remarks [see 13753].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Thomson Van Dyck |
Date: | 3 Apr 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 15 (EH 88206067) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13757 |
To Federico Philippi 3 April 1882
Summary
Thanks for his Catalogue of the Chilean plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Federico Enrique Eunom (Federico) Philippi |
Date: | 3 Apr 1882 |
Classmark: | Yudilevich Levy and Castro Le-Fort eds. 1996, p. 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13757F |
To Margaret Hadley 4 April 1882
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Margaret Hadley |
Date: | 4 Apr 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 367 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13758 |
From H. N. Moseley 5 April 1882
Summary
Solicits CD’s subscription to the Rolleston Memorial Fund, which will be used for a post-graduate prize at Oxford and Cambridge.
Author: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Apr 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 264 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13759 |
To Margaret Hadley 6 April [1882]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Margaret Hadley |
Date: | 6 Apr [1882] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 368 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13761 |
To W. E. A. Axon 7 April [1882]
Summary
Cannot contribute article to new journal [Field Naturalist and Scientific Student]. Writes only to communicate new facts.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Edward Armytage Axon |
Date: | 7 Apr [1882] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13762 |
To H. N. Moseley 7 April 1882
Summary
Adds to his previous subscription for the Rolleston Memorial Fund.
Hopes HNM’s position at Oxford is satisfactory.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Date: | 7 Apr 1882 |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 16) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13763 |
From H. N. Moseley 8 April 1882
Summary
Thanks CD for contribution to Rolleston Fund
and for congratulations on his Professorship at Oxford.
Author: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 265 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13764 |
From A. N. Hopkins 9 April 1882
Author: | Alfred Nind Hopkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Apr 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 267 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13765 |
To J. E. Todd 10 April 1882
Summary
Requests seeds of Solanum rostratum.
Fritz Müller believes that in plants with anthers of different colours, bees collect from one set alone.
Suggests JET send copy of paper ["Flowers of Solanum rostratum and Cassia chamaecrista", Am. Nat. 16 (1882): 281–7] to Müller.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Edward Todd |
Date: | 10 Apr 1882 |
Classmark: | Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas (KU MS C78) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13766 |
From William Ogle 12 April 1882
Summary
A friend once "caught" an oyster while fishing, which confirms CD’s note ["On the dispersal of freshwater bivalves", Collected papers 2: 276–8].
Author: | William Ogle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Apr 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13767 |
From C. V. Naudin 15 April 1882
Summary
Sends more Trifolium resupinatum.
In France as in England there is indignation at the insults Decaisne suffered in the last years of his life.
Charles Martins has lost his Professorship at Montpellier.
Author: | Charles Victor Naudin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Apr 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13768 |
To J. L. Ambrose 15 April 1882
Summary
Remembers signing cards but they must have been lost in the post. Sends signature.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James L. Ambrose |
Date: | 15 Apr 1882 |
Classmark: | Josh B. Rosenblum (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13768F |
letter | (22) |
Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
Moseley, H. N. | (2) |
Ambrose, J. L. | (1) |
Fayrer, Joseph | (1) |
Groves, Henry | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
Hadley, Margaret | (2) |
Ambrose, J. L. | (1) |
Axon, W. E. A. | (1) |
Ernst, Adolf | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
Moseley, H. N. | (3) |
Ambrose, J. L. | (2) |
Groves, Henry | (2) |
Hadley, Margaret | (2) |