From W. E. Darwin [27 February 1882]
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27 Feb 1882] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 113) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13347F |
From Fritz Müller 1 January 1882
Summary
In answer to CD’s query, FM thinks the seeds he sent were those of the sensitive Mimosa.
Reports his observations of movement of leaves of Bauhinia grandiflora and B. brasiliensis. They do not "sleep" in hot weather.
Sends some seeds of Pontederia he had fertilised.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: C19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13593 |
From Arthur de Souza Corrêa 2 January 1882
Summary
Thanks CD for letter for Villa Franca. Would be happy if CD published the Baron’s observations in an English scientific journal.
Author: | João Arthur (Arthur) de Souza Corrêa |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 284 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13595 |
From H. C. Sorby 3 January 1882
Summary
Reports the inconclusive results of some experiments he has been doing for CD [related to plant colouring material?].
Author: | Henry Clifton Sorby |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 220 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13598 |
From W. E. Darwin 4 January 1882
Summary
Has sold London & South Western Railway stock and has purchased Great Western stock.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 105) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13599F |
From J. F. Simpson 7 January 1882
Summary
Has read Earthworms; discusses parts and encloses a list of errata. Writes of worm-castings, describing his observations; speculates on the variation in their distribution under different conditions.
Author: | James Frederick Simpson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 170 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13601 |
From J. W. Judd 8 January 1882
Summary
Praises G. H. Darwin’s letter ["On the geological importance of the tides", Nature 25 (1882): 213–14] which criticises the use made of George Darwin’s views by Robert Ball ["A glimpse through the corridors of time", Nature 25 (1881): 79–82, 103–7]. JWJ argues from the fineness of Cambrian sediments against Ball’s intensification of geological forces. Massive Carboniferous river deltas also contradict Ball’s excessively high tides.
Author: | John Wesley Judd |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13604 |
From J. H. Gilbert 9 January 1882
Summary
Thanks CD for Earthworms.
Discusses the problem of accounting for difference between nitrogen in permanent grassland and ordinary arable soil. Finds castings of earthworms rich in nitrogen. Asks CD if his observations enable him to explain the source. If from below top-soil, it would be a considerable manuring.
Author: | Joseph Henry Gilbert |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13605 |
From Gottlieb Haberlandt 9 January 1882
Summary
Sends his paper on the comparative anatomy of the assimilatory tissue systems of plants [Jahrb. Wiss. Bot. 13 (1882): 74–188]. This work has made clear to him how CD’s principles produce rich results when applied to plant anatomy.
Also sends a paper on the difficult problem of the gulf between cryptogamic and phanerogamic plants in the evolutionary development, in order to present another proof of the continuity of the phylogenetic development of the plant kingdom.
Author: | Gottlieb Haberlandt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13606 |
From Raphael Meldola 11 January 1882
Summary
Wishes to borrow Weismann’s pamphlet on the Daphnidae [ "Ueber die Schmuckfarben der Daphnoiden", Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie 30 (Supp.)]. Is preparing an essay on "alternation of generations".
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 141 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13609 |
From J. D. Hooker 12 January 1882
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 175 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13613 |
From Leslie Stephen 12 January 1882
Summary
Discusses a lectureship at Aberdeen
and a recent visit to Down.
Author: | Leslie Stephen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 256 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13614 |
From F. B. Sanborn 12 January 1882
Summary
Sends CD some of the [American Social Science] Association’s publications; asks if they may enrol him as a corresponding member. They have printed CD’s letter to Mrs Talbot
and also his paper from Mind (1877) ["Biographical sketch of an infant"].
Author: | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13615 |
From William Trelease 14 January 1882
Summary
Sends article on dimorphism in Oxalis violacea [Am. Nat. 16 (1882): 13–19].
Author: | William Trelease |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 180 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13618 |
From J. F. Simpson 15 January 1882
Summary
Encloses an extract (from the Bayswater Chronicle [missing]), which is part of an ongoing disagreement in which JFS is involved.
Has read some references to CD’s hypothesis on music and offers a MS by himself which deals with the subject.
Author: | James Frederick Simpson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 171 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13619 |
From W. E. Darwin 16 January [1882]
Summary
Has ordered a tin of Somerset Mixture snuff for CD.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan [1882] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 106) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13619F |
From William Ogle 17 January 1882
Summary
Sends a translation of Aristotle’s De partibus animalium and imagines that if the old teleologist were alive CD would convince him of his errors.
Author: | William Ogle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13621 |
From Michael Foster 18 January 1882
Summary
Responds to CD’s query about the sensitivity of plants in light and darkness and Julius Wiesner’s assumptions [in Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)].
Author: | Michael Foster |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: D20–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13623 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 18 January [1882]
Summary
Trying to get some Darwinians into the Institut de France.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan [1882] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13624 |
From J. D. Hooker 19 January 1882
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 176–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13625 |
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Darwin, W. E. | (11) |
Crick, W. D. | (5) |
Cupples, George | (5) |
Meldola, Raphael | (4) |
Blyth, Edward | (3) |