To ? 17 June 1881
Summary
Thanks correspondent for sending paper on molluscs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 17 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.591) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13208 |
To G. J. Romanes 24 June [1881]
Summary
Discusses possible case of inherited memory involving Pompilus. Cites similar example of electric eel.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 24 June [1881] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.530) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10813 |
From Wilhelm Breitenbach [before 20 June 1881]
Summary
Arrived in Brazil three months ago. Studying insects and plants, but work suffers from lack of scientific literature.
Fritz Müller has written to him to observe relations between ants and plants.
Writing popular articles about evolution for German newspaper in Brazil.
Sends paper from Kosmos.
Expects to spend several years in Brazil.
| Author: | Wilhelm Breitenbach |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 20 June 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12962 |
To Alexander Agassiz 1 [June] 1881
Summary
Thanks AA for letter on coral reefs. "I used to think … that areas of elevation and of subsidence must – as a general rule be separated by a single great line of fissure, or rather of several".
Suggests that AA urge again his views on reappearance of old characters.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Agassiz |
| Date: | 1 [June] 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12965 |
To Wilhelm Breitenbach 20 [June] 1881
Summary
Glad WB has arrived in Brazil. Suggests study of insects and study of fertilisation in Melastomataceae. Want of books is not a serious evil.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Wilhelm Breitenbach |
| Date: | 20 [June] 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 145 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13021 |
To C. E. Norton 1 June 1881
Summary
No Benjamin Franklin letters to Erasmus Darwin preserved.
Was inaccurate about Franklin’s nephews [in Erasmus Darwin].
Recounts story about Franklin at court of France.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Eliot Norton |
| Date: | 1 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1599) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13187 |
From James Paget 1 June 1881
Summary
Asks CD to lunch to meet the Prince of Wales.
| Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 116 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13188 |
To James Paget 3 June 1881
Summary
Is honoured by, and accepts JP’s invitation for 3 August.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 3 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | Francisco Ayala (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13191 |
To James Dawson [3 June 1881]
Summary
Thanks JD for his book [Australian aborigines (1881)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dawson |
| Date: | [3 June 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 116v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13192 |
From Francis Darwin [before 4 June 1881]
Summary
Encloses letter from Elfving (not found). Should he publish on false circumnutation?
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 4 June 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 75 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13192F |
To Francis Darwin 4 [June 1881]
Summary
Has taken almost all FD’s corrections for chapter six [of Earthworms]. Is glad FD approves of the book.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 4 [June 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13193 |
To Francis Darwin [c. 6 June 1881]
Summary
Has accepted FD’s correction to chapter seven [of Earthworms].
Weather is bad; sky like lead and the lake as black as ink.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 6 June 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 81 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13194 |
From Leopold Sirk 5 June 1881
Summary
Austrian correspondent on proverbs, philosophy, and politics.
| Author: | Leopold Sirk |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 201: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13195 |
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 |
To G. H. Darwin 8 June [1881]
Summary
Discusses a letter [not found] from R. S. Ball that has quite delighted him.
Describes events at Patterdale.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 8 June [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13197 |
To J. H. Gilbert 8 June 1881
Summary
Regrets that he has not strength enough to visit [Rothamsted].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Henry Gilbert |
| Date: | 8 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | Rothamsted Research (GIL13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13198 |
From G. H. Darwin [9 June 1881]
Summary
Has nearly finished his mathematical paper.
Is not sure when he will go to Patterdale.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [9 June 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 88 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13199 |
From R. A. Blair 9 June 1881
Summary
Mentions Mastodon remains that he has seen.
Praises CD and his work.
| Author: | Reuben Almond Blair |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 201: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13200 |
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 Anthony Rich 13 June 1881
Summary
The Huxleys have visited; CD may come soon.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 149 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13202 |
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| Blair, R. A. | (1) |
| Breitenbach, Wilhelm | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
| Darwin, Francis | (4) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Edwards, Edward James | (1) |
| Geikie, Archibald | (1) |
| Gilbert, J. H. | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Hannay, J. B. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Lloyd, R. M. | (1) |
| Paget, James | (1) |
| Payne, George | (1) |
| Rich, Anthony | (1) |
| Sirk, Leopold | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
| Darwin, Francis | (5) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (49) |
| Darwin, Francis | (9) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (3) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (3) |
